Located at the junction of Shandong, Henan and Hebei provinces, Daming has been established as a county since 195 BC, which has lasted for nearly 2200 years, and is the seat of successive counties, prefectures, prefectures, prefectures, roads and Daozhi, and is the famous "Beijing DamingFu" in the history of the Song Dynasty, and also the city of Beijing in the "Water Margin".
Located along the Grand Canal, The Daming Mansion is very rich in products, and the merchant ships on the Grand Canal continue to bring cuisine from all over the country to the Daming Palace, so the Daming food culture absorbs the essence of various diets such as Beijing cuisine, Tianjin cuisine, Lu cuisine, Huaiyang cuisine, etc., and creates a canal food culture with unique characteristics.
Daimyo's three major cuisines
Guo Ba burned
Guo Zhizhong, the entrepreneur of Guo Bahuo, returned to Daming in 1887 to run a business of fire. Because he came from Suncheon Province to learn art, the first name of the hall took the word "Tian", and hoped to buy and sell Xinglong, and then took the word "Xing", so he set up a shop "Tianxing Fire Burning Shop". Guo Ba's fire layer is many and thin, the appearance is golden buttery, it is pomegranate-like, and it tastes crispy, caramelized, and has a unique flavor. The fire is golden in color and fragrant, and each sheet consists of twenty-five to thirty layers of paper-thin dough.
Grilled chicken
Ermao roast chicken was founded in the fourteenth year of Emperor Jiaqing of the Qing Dynasty (1809 AD), and this dish was recorded in the national history of "Cihai" and "Eight Local Flavor Cuisines". Ermao roast chicken production selection of fresh raw chicken, the process is strict, pay attention to the cooking time, complete ingredients, the finished product is tender and rotten, a mixture is scattered, eat fat but not greasy, delicious and rich.
Five hundred sausages
Wubaiju sausage is one of the "two five eight" traditional famous foods in Daming County and the "eight local flavors" in Handan area, which was founded in the first year of Daoguang. Five hundred sausages are very exquisite in production, the selection of materials is strict and fine, with fresh 60% lean meat and 40% fat meat bone peeling, casing fresh and not rotten. Its finished product is pure in color, fat and lean, not greasy, and does not rot or moth in the hot summer, which is a must-have for local people to welcome guests and give away relatives and friends.
Other specialties
Dumpling noodles
Soba noodle dumplings are traditional Snacks of the Hui people in Daming County. It is said that during the Ming Yongle period, it was rumored that during the Hui Eid al-Fitr, the mosque made dumplings to entertain Muslim believers, and the taste was delicious and mellow. It is a kind of slender round noodles made of soba noodles squeezed by a special wooden wonton bed, which is eaten and pressed directly into a pot of boiling water by the rolling bed, cooked and fished into a bowl, poured with lamb brine, with a unique flavor and a long reputation.
Beef marinated buns
The so-called steamed bun is to pour the thick "wheat kernels" with beef brine, soak it in steamed buns or burn it. To make a "bun", the peeled and good wheat kernels are first boiled into a thick thickness, so that it is sticky but not sticky, slippery and slippery, and then sautéed in a pot of beef brine that is fat but not greasy, and mixes the salty and transparent lamb soup. When eating, first fill half a bowl of boiled wheat kernels, then pour beef and mutton oil marinade, and finally soak in steamed buns or heated. Beef marinated pork has a high calorie, is most suitable for winter consumption, tastes delicious, relieves hunger and is resistant to hunger.
Air cloth bags
There are two types of Daimyo cloth bags, one is an egg cloth bag and the other is a meat cloth bag. The egg cloth bag is cut into rectangular pieces with the noodles of fried fritters, rolled flat with a rolling pin and fried, and then opens the mouth at the bottom, knocks the eggs into the dough pocket, continues to fry, and when the egg color is the same as the general fritter color of the fried, it can be fished out and eaten. The air cloth bag is simple to make, the outside is burnt and tender, and the eggs and fried noodle pockets are fragrant.
Sesame burnt cake
Sesame burnt cake is one of the flavor foods of Daming County. Round cake shape, two sides dipped in sesame seeds, now in order to meet the needs of consumers with different tastes, not only salty, sweet, but also developed a series of stuffing products such as bean paste and date paste. It is characterized by crispy entrance, fragrant mouth, burnt but not hard, fragrant but not greasy, suitable for all ages and gifts to relatives and friends of good quality and low-cost food. The sesame burnt cake was originally baked in a hanging oven, but now it is mostly baked in a baking oven.
Tofu skin roll dumplings
Tofu skin roll dumplings are one of the famous breakfasts, characterized by: thin skin and shiny skin, soft tendons, tender outside and tender inside, mellow taste. The tofu skin roll bun contains the tendons of the tofu skin, the crispness of the fruit, the deliciousness of the brine eggs, and the tender texture of the fried tofu on the outside, which is endlessly evocative to eat.
Take advantage of the autumn breeze and try these delicacies in Daming!
Source: Handan Cultural Tourism