To help Zibo's economy, the food that lags behind the publicity re-mentions "fried eight pieces"

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Fried eight pieces are considered to be one of the top ten dishes of Yu cuisine, and are not in the ranks of Lu cuisine. However, from the records of the literati in the Republic of China period, it can be found that the fried eight pieces are Shandong cuisine. Wang Zengqi also mentioned the words "Shandong fried eight pieces" in the text. Both Chen Mengjia and Hu Xiaoshi mentioned "Eight Pieces of Fried in Shandong" or something similar.

To fry eight pieces is to cut the chicken into eight pieces after the head is removed, wrapped in a jacket and fried, which is very simple and delicious. In 1998, when I first ate foreign fast food fried chicken, I didn't know how to make their fried chicken, and the waiter replied to me with the words "It's Shandong fried eight pieces!" ”。 But it is not to grab the ownership of this dish with Henan, perhaps Henan also has a traditional dish of chopping chicken into eight pieces and frying it to eat.

Zibo's fried eight pieces were not popular, but they were popular for a while around 2005. Looking at the size of the chicken nuggets, it should be cut down to twenty-eight pieces. A few pieces slightly larger than chess are wrapped in paste and fried until golden brown, packed in an oil-paper bag, sprinkled with pretzel and paprika. The waiter grabbed the bag and shook it up and down, and the chicken nuggets also hit the oil paper bag, which made people itch and saliva was about to drip.

In addition to the "fried twenty-eight pieces" like this, I only know one shop that actually makes fried eight pieces. On the east street of the old hospital in Tianzhuang Town, although the boss also sold "fried twenty-eight pieces" but "fried eight pieces" sold the best, a pickled white-striped suit chicken pressed to the board with one hand, and the knife fell from the middle to split the chicken from the middle, and then cut it to eight pieces. When I saw this scene as a teenager, it was inevitable that I would be associated with those martial arts masters in my mind. The boss's knife technique is extremely exquisite, cutting to eight pieces only uses seven knives, and one more knife will not be shown to you.

This fried eight delicious secret recipe in addition to the secret recipe for pickling, there is also batter. The batter is mixed with crushed peanuts and fennel and other condiments, and the crispy frying is not only the smell of the material on the dough itself. After the eight pieces are fried, a large piece of oil paper is wrapped up and tied with hemp rope, while the pepper and salt paprika and the like are wrapped in a separate small paper and are never sprinkled.

In addition to the eight pieces of fried, this family also sells fried tofu pages, lotus boxes, eggplant boxes, radish stuffing, radish balls, fried meat strips and other fried goods. Most of the diners who go to buy it also want to stock up on New Year goods or make stews. Zibo's tradition of using fried goods to stew soup dishes may be the method of preserving quality in the old days. Now in Zibo, it is difficult to find eight fried pieces to eat. If you want to use food to help Zibo's economy, the fried eight pieces that are about to disappear after backward propaganda should be revived.

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