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Speaking of the food of Hohhot, it is certainly impossible to avoid the grassland lamb, the breakfast of Hohhot people is many people from the lamb to start, some people get up early two or two lamb is slightly beautiful, some people have a bowl of hot haggis and beef tongue roasting, and some come to a bowl of lamb dumplings.
Haggis
It can be said that the cuisine of Hohhot is closely related to the grassland lamb. Today, let's talk about the early morning, that bowl of hot haggis is a good start for how many people start their day's work and study life.
Haggis is an authentic dish from Hohhot, like the boiled pork in Beijing and the lamb steamed bun in Xi'an. When haggis appeared in Hohhot, it is impossible to verify. It is said that the Manchus have a traditional snack called Amazun meat, also commonly known as Nurhaci golden meat, which has a history of 400 years.
Haggis roasted
According to the "Hohhot Historical Materials", the Qing Taizu Nurhaci will sacrifice all soldiers and major events. "Cook the pork belly, arrange them according to the head, tail, shoulders, ribs, lungs, and hearts of the pigs, take a little of each, cut them into cubes, and put them in a large copper bowl, called Amazun meat." Legend has it that in the Qing Dynasty, some people were inspired by Amazun's meat, used local materials, selected the head hooves of sheep in Qingcheng and cooked them, scooped soup with spoons in large copper bowls, and sold them in the downtown area of the old city in the early morning.
According to the "Hohhot Folk Customs", the haggis of Hohhot occupies a supreme position among the snacks of Hohhot, paying attention to "three ingredients", "three soups" and "three flavors".
Haggis three reds and three whites
The three materials are divided into the main three materials and the secondary three materials. The main three materials are heart, liver and lungs, also known as "three reds"; the secondary three materials are belly, intestines, head and hoof meat, also known as "three whites". Cut into long strips or filaments when the three ingredients are cooked. The three soups are "original soup offal", "clear soup offal", and "old soup offal". Original soup offal: Wash the haggis, cook well, and taste the soup together, the taste is delicious and light. Clear soup offal: first wash the washed haggis, the soup is poured out, and then the offal is steamed and cut well, and then the pot is added with water and seasoned to boil, and the taste is in the slow chewing. Old soup offal: old soup is a pot of soup as thick as oil, color as sauce often boiled haggis soup, with this soup boiled haggis, its taste mellow and long, all in the soup. The three flavors are simple to say, and the dinner table specializing in haggis in Van Hohhot city is lined with these three flavors: coriander minced, Tuoxian pepper and salt. Diners can mix themselves according to their taste.
Toh County Chili Noodles
30 years ago, in Hoshi No. 8 Middle School, one day a blizzard, classmates took me to eat a meal of haggis in the Muslim restaurant on the roast, the taste of that incense, still unforgettable, is not the same as the taste made at home, and dare not tell my mother, afraid of unhappiness.
Later, in the middle school, he often went to the old haggis shop at the north gate of the old city with his classmates to eat haggis. What the taste of each house is basically clear, and haggis is not expensive at that time.
Sheep soup
In 2000 in Qinhuangdao, I heard that there was a sheep soup restaurant next to the Minzu Road mosque where locals lined up to eat, went to eat several times, the way of eating is completely different from us, can only be called sheep soup, because there is less offal, but also add eggs, on the oil cake to eat. I still miss the haggis in Hohhot.
Although there are many legends of haggis in Hohhot, the story told by the owner of an old shop is particularly interesting, like haggis.
Legend has it that in the early years, there was a rich man in the high-gate compound in the old city, who came back from abroad, saw a beggar living in a hut built against the wall outside his family's courtyard, and was immediately angry, wanted to humiliate him and make him leave, so he shouted to eat the whole sheep mat, ordered his family to kill a sheep, threw the hooves of the sheep out of the wall, and smashed the beggar's hut at once. The beggar ran out the door but was overjoyed, and he was worried about not eating, but he did not expect that food had fallen from heaven, so he immediately washed and cut the five organs of the sheep's hooves and threw them into the pot. When the meat was intoxicating, a bowl was filled and eaten beautifully. The rich man smelled the scent, looked up at the wall and asked, "What do you eat?" The beggar replied, "Eat the whole sheep," and the rich man was very angry: "Nonsense, the whole sheep is boiled in my pot!" The beggar looked at the rich man and said, "You eat the outer whole sheep, just such a taste, I eat the inner whole sheep, the five organs and five tastes!" The rich man returned home angrily, sniffed the smell of lamb that had just been opened, ran outside the courtyard to sniff the smell wafting from the side of the wall, and yelled violently: "Mother, kill another one, chop up all the miscellaneous things in the sheep's stomach, and eat the inner lamb today." ”
Sheep in the water
The people of Hohhot, living at home, buy a pair of sheep's five organs, cook well in the pot, and even eat the soup with water and hot ground heat, which is called eating "original soup offal",
Haggis is made of a mixture of sheep's head, hooves, blood, liver, heart, intestines, stomach, etc., so it is also known as "haggis". Haggis is expensive in offal and crushed. It is not mixed or broken, and it is tasteless to eat. Haggis set sheep offal in a pot, a variety of colors, different meat quality, taste sour and spicy, no fishy, delicious soup, fresh in the mouth, rich in nutrition, in the cold climate of Hohhot to eat can withstand the cold and cold, eat often half a bowl before the belly, it is all over the body, a bowl of eating, then hot sweat. It is both affordable and easy to eat.
The old Chinese medicine doctor believes that this is fat but not greasy, and the red is transparent and green. Multi-flavored, nutritious haggis can supplement the five internal organs, refresh the spirit, open the spleen and warm the stomach, strengthen the bones and bones, and prolong life. Eat heart-warming stomach in winter, and eat bitterly in summer.
Ullange haggis
At present, there are also several flavors of haggis in Hohhot, according to taste, there are halal, pure belly; according to the region, Ulanhua, Bayannaoer and so on. The production process is much the same, the taste is slightly different, like the ulan flower haggis with potato chips, sheep intestines and lamb liver, others do not have these. The Bayannaoer Riverside District eats haggis but has to make rice.
A bowl of fine haggis is served, first look at the color, the bowl surface is floating with a layer of red oil, red oil bubbles, look at it is about to drool. Then smell it, the best haggis is odorless, some only have a full nose aroma. Take a sip of the soup, from the mouth to the abdomen suddenly heat up, the aroma begins to spread throughout the body, this time, you will feel that this day will be full of vitality.
Baked seeds
When it comes to haggis, I have to say another special snack in Hohhot- roasting, just like drinking coffee must be put in a partner, eating haggis must be accompanied by roasted.
The name baked is a solid, thick name, and it doesn't even look like the name of a food that can be eaten. Baked seeds are also a snack unique to the Hohhot region. There are white roasted seeds, salty roasted seeds, and sweet roasted seeds. Shapes include round, square, triangular, and cow's tongue-shaped. They are all made by fermenting white noodles and roasting them with alkali. The outside is crisp and soft on the inside, with a strong wheat noodle flavor. It is the most widespread and regular mainstream food in the early morning. It is also the best food for travel and is often eaten with pickles. Baking is three pure: the hand clean of the noodles, the net of the basin, and the net of the noodles.
We often use the noodle master of the bakery shop, kneading for a while, adding condiments from time to time, and then turning around and quickly moving the half-cooked baked seeds to the pot, the sound of the slapping of the noodles, the sound of the rolling stick, the rhythmic labor of the hands and feet, the original taste of the original taste, full of mouth.
Westerners are good at pasta, and there is an old saying that "it is better to eat rice than to eat noodles, and it is better to go to relatives than to live in a restaurant". Baked seeds are hungry, easy to carry, easy to digest and economical, not as expensive as cream desserts, "dog buns" and other foods, for the authentic public food. In fact, baking is a baking cake that is first set on a pan and then baked in a vertical oven. There are salty and sweet roasts, and there is also a kind of white roast. Sweet (salty) roasted seeds are mixed with sesame oil, salty salt (or sugar) and dry noodles, so the taste changes, and the oil is crisp and fragrant. White roasted seeds do not put anything, completely the original taste of the noodles, but with haggis just neutralize the taste, but also many people's favorite.
Many people in Hohhot eat haggis with salty roast or white roast, I love to eat it with beef tongue, break the roast into small pieces and pile them in a bowl, dip the soup and chili oil in the bowl to eat, this way of eating is a bit like Shaanxi lamb steamed buns. Therefore, baking is the best partner for eating haggis.
Muslim haggis
In Hohhot, you can see shops selling "haggis" in the streets and alleys. Some time ago, I went to Guanghua Street to see a Bell haggis, good guy, actually eat haggis in a long line. Can't help but be curious, also go to the queue to try it, the taste is good, worth recommending.
Eating haggis has become a habit of people in Hoshi, and some people don't eat haggis for a day or two, and they feel uncomfortable. When it's cold, I often walk into the haggis shop at the entrance of the neighborhood and ask for a bowl of haggis and a bake. Take a bite of roasted seeds. Deliberately blowing a breath, which red, which green duckweed wandered up.
Take a sip gently, the hot and spicy soup rolls back and forth in the mouth, the heat does not come out of the mouth, the tears come out, it is not easy to swallow this mouthful, a strong delicacy rises between the chest, as if drinking spirits, the heat of life immediately appears on my face ... , the thick fragrance echoes in every corner of my body.
Sometimes I think that the hard (ning) breakfast of Hohhot, like haggis, the US government should also be like Lanzhou beef noodles, but also limited to a price, which has risen a little expensive in recent years. Every day a meal, some can not stop, however, although the offal is good, according to medical theory, the animal's internal organs contain higher cholesterol, the elderly people still have to eat less Oh, although the offal is good, but also to stop, or to meat and vegetarian collocation, more conducive to health!