Cakes, cold noodles – a unique korean cuisine
Some people say that Koreans can't do without kimchi, in fact, the xian people are inseparable from cakes and cold noodles. Cake is a sticky food that both Manchus and Koreans like, and it has developed into being accepted and loved by the Han people in the northeast region. Cold noodles are purely the preserve of the Koreans. Cake is one of the indispensable foods in the daily life of the Korean people, and it must be carefully made during the New Year's Festival, weddings and funerals, and banquets for guests. It can be said that punching cakes is as important to the xian people as dumplings are to the Han people in the north, not only the whole family eats together, but also the whole family makes them together.
The process of making cakes is more complicated, first by the family of Ama ni (old mother) or Azhi Ma ni (sister-in-law) to wash the rice (that is, glutinous rice), and then soaked in water for half a day, and then fished out sprinkled with a little brine, steamed on the pot and then taken out and put into a special large wooden or stone trough. The two masters each carried a huge special hardwood hammer or iron hammer to the side of the trough, and each station picked up the hammer and took turns pounding the cooked rice in the trough, while the women stood by and poured some water into the trough continuously. Until the rice grains in the trough are crushed into a cake ball. The women then cut the beaten cake into thin slices and sprinkled it with red adzuki beans, bean paste or soybean noodles.
In the whole production process, some children help adults, some play around the adults, the kind of family reunion, happy and harmonious scene, no less than the warm atmosphere of our family sitting together to make dumplings. The cake is soft and sweet to eat, intriguing and evocative, and those who have eaten it have a deep memory. If eaten with sugar or honey, the taste is even more unusual.
The Manchus not only used cakes as daily food, but also used them for sacrifices, and the raw materials used were not limited to rice, sticky sorghum and large, small yellow rice. It can also be made into sweet and delicious cakes, which have a different taste.
Cold noodles are a unique food of the Korean people, and their preparation and taste are unique in the world. When making, first mix soba or wheat noodles with potato noodles in proportion and form a dough, and then use special tools to roll the noodles directly into the boiling water pot, cook them and then fish them out and put them in cold water to cool, so that the noodles are smooth and smooth. Put the noodles into a bowl, pour them with pre-boiled and skimmed off the oil slick, cold beef broth or chicken broth that has long been dried, add sesame oil, pepper noodles, soy sauce, vinegar, with beef slices, shredded eggs, cut half of the boiled eggs, a bowl of sweet and sour, cool Korean cold noodles are ready. If the bowl is served with sliced apples or pear slices, the taste is even more delicious. Sometimes they also add Chinese herbs such as licorice when they boil soup, so that the cold noodles have a medicinal fragrance and increase nutrition.
For Koreans, cold noodles are not only a food that can be satisfied, but also have important folk cultural significance. The shape of the cold noodles is endless, and koreans believe that it has the meaning of longevity and happiness. Therefore, every year at noon on the fourth day of the first lunar month, every household of the Korean people eats cold noodles, which is called "longevity noodles" in order to "live a long life and a hundred years", not only to eat cold noodles at the time of festivals and celebrations, but also to welcome guests with cold noodles whenever they visit. Due to the unique flavor of cold noodles, the method of making them has been widely spread!
Nowadays, you can basically eat cakes and cold noodles in most parts of the country. Especially in the northeast region, the production methods of cold noodles are various, and other new ways of eating have been derived, such as baked cold noodles, fried cold noodles, etc. ..., and for cakes, there are similar foods in other parts of China, such as "donkey rolling" in Beijing, and the traditional "rice cake" in the south, whose taste and production method are roughly similar to the fresh people's cakes.
