Luwang, June 2, "Good luck, eat chicken tonight?" "The buzzwords in the game, on this summer night, are accurately projected into the real world.
A history of catering, half a history of eating chicken. Looking at the land of Qilu, it can be fried chicken, marinated chicken, sauce chicken, grilled chicken...... The degree of subdivision of eating chicken is dizzying, and the stomach of gluttons supports the infinite "chicken" rivers and lakes of "chicken".
As the saying goes, "no chicken is no feast" and "every guest must have chicken". For thousands of years, chicken, duck and fish have been talked about, not meat, fish, chicken and duck, and the status of chicken in the catering industry can be seen. In the various tracks of the chicken category, there is never a shortage of players who smell the "chicken" dancing. In the small city of Xintai, people prefer the hot, piping hot, fragrant "fried chicken".
On the night of Mengxia, riding the east wind of the 2024 Tai'an Cultural and Tourism Industry High-quality Development Event, a gluttonous feast opened in Xintai, Shandong.
A "Gugu chicken", with stir-fried, burned, fried, fried, steamed, roasted, stewed and any other cooking methods, can collide with a unique Xintai flavor, even the humble offal chicken offal, can also make unexpected food, a hundred chickens and a hundred flavors, thousands of people and thousands of faces, the variety of patterns, the world.
"The ingredients we choose are the chicken that grows up drinking dew and eating insects, using the traditional fried chicken process, traditional but not old-fashioned, hoping to take the chicken cooking competition as an opportunity to let more people enter Xintai through the taste of fried chicken, and leave an impression of Xintai." Li Fulei, the inheritor of Xintai's intangible cultural heritage cuisine, said.
The 17 judges of the Cooking Chicken Competition focused on a series of strict scoring criteria such as taste, texture, perception, technology, nutrition and hygiene, and operation specifications, and selected 10 Golden Claw Awards, 15 Golden Wing Awards, and 8 Golden Crown Awards in the form of on-site tasting scoring.
The fragrant Loude pancakes, the crisp and fragrant fruit pickles, the sweet and sour Longting apricots, the appetizing Liu Du hawthorn, and the vivid "Eight Top Eight" banquet...... Everything highlights the characteristics of Xintai and the quality of Xintai. The exhibition and sale of special agricultural products, intangible cultural heritage products and special snacks were held at the same time at the site of the chicken cooking competition. A variety of special products brought by well-known enterprises, cooperatives, new farmers, and intangible cultural heritage inheritors have attracted much attention, attracting groups of customers to stop and taste and buy.
In front of the booth of Hongyuan (Shandong) Science and Technology Development Co., Ltd., tourists tasted the authentic "Liu Duhong" hawthorn pulp drink. "Relying on the thousands of acres of 'sweet red' hawthorn in our Liu Du Town, we have developed this NFC freshly squeezed juice." Chen Leshun, the person in charge of the enterprise, shook the bottle in his hand, and the rich juice was slightly hung on the wall, he introduced, "At present, the company has 4,000 tons of cold storage, 2,000 tons of fruit processed annually, and 1 million boxes of fruit drinks are produced, with an annual output value of about 30 million yuan." ”
Pleasing to the eye, sweet and delicate intangible cultural heritage "Taishan Flower Bun", soft and delicious Xintai Longting "Pine Resin Oil Cake", sweet but not greasy Yucun "Honey Three Knife...... The umami of the chicken cooking contest over there is fragrant and hearty, and the "noodles" of the noodle contest here are "noodles" to the future and "light" the taste buds. The conference also held the 2024 Tai'an "Skills Xingtai" Vocational Skills Competition "Characteristic Pastry" Competition.
At the pastry competition, 30 contestants from around Tai'an skillfully flipped and kneaded, kneading and twisting, all showing their skills, and all kinds of delicious pastries made people feast.
"Our Xintai's intangible cultural heritage 'Taishan Flower Bun', using stone-ground wheat flour, corn flour, glutinous rice flour as the main raw materials, sugar eggs, milk as ingredients, the product is lifelike, is a sacrifice, marriage, relocation, birthday, grasp the week and other folk activities must be good." Wang Judong, the inheritor of the intangible cultural heritage peasant girl Taishan flower bun, introduced.
In the past three years, Tai'an City has cultivated nearly 40,000 skilled talents, more than 2,000 people participated in pastry training, and 595 people obtained skill level certificates, of which 203 people became high-skilled talents, and 1,820 people were employed, with an employment rate of more than 90%. When it comes to the broad prospects of special pastries, Lou Xia, Secretary of the Party Group and Director of the Xintai Municipal Bureau of Commerce, is full of confidence.
No worries about employment and prosperity. As an important element of the conference, "special pastry" is like a long fragrance of noodles, which provides an inexhaustible impetus for the high-quality development of Tai'an's cultural and tourism industry.
The summer nights are sleepless, the catering consumption is hot, the chicken cooking competition ignites the "fireworks in the world", and the special pastries make the town full of joy and joy. "Face" to the future, Xintai "chicken" meets infinite. (Correspondent Xiao Xinxin)