On the 105 National Highway west of the Fenghe River, under the signboard with white characters on a blue background hides the overlord of the Rice Pi circle in Qinzhen, Pi Ziba, and the owner Gao Tianmin carries this domineering signboard with his generational craftsmanship and an ancestral knife.
"Walk into Pi Zi Ba, you can walk the world!" It was a sentence that Gao Tianmin hung on his lips. Today, I will walk into this old shop in Qindu Town with Xiaobian and explore the secret of his travel all over the world.
Mipi is a taste memory belonging to xi'an people. The so-called nostalgia, the most intuitive manifestation is that according to the heart of the mouth of the mouth of the family, as long as a mouthful of spicy and sour rice skin under the belly, the Xi'an people's parting can be properly placed.
There are many types of cold skins in Shaanxi, such as hot rice peel in Han, rolling dough skin in Baoji, and cold skin with sesame sauce in Huifang, and the legend of rice peel begins from Qinzhen.
There are many theories about the origin of Mipi, the most common of which is that Mipi originated in Qin. During the reign of Qin Shi Huang, there was a great drought in Guanzhong in one year, and the people of Qin Town could not gather qualified tribute rice, so a man named Li XII invented the rice skin to pay tribute to Qin Shi Huang, and Qin Shi Huang was happy after eating, and set the rice pi as a tribute.
The production process of Qinzhen rice peel does not seem complicated, but the simple mixing process hides the secret of the changeable spice combination and steaming a good skin.
Select local high-quality rice, grind it into a pulp and blanch it in hot water. The delicate rice milk is evenly spread on the cage drawer, becoming soft but tough under the grinding of the high temperature.
What kind of knife is a knife? Large iron cutter. When Gao Tianmin was 20 years old, he took this sword that had been passed down from his father for generations and killed into the jianghu that belonged to Mipi in Qinzhen, and called himself the "hegemon" side in the endless journey.
Heavy cutters undulated on the board, and the rice peel was cut into evenly thin strips, like a rugged man carefully trimming the flowers in the bottle in the storm.
Spicy oil is the soul of the rice peel, and it is the absolute criterion for judging the quality of a bowl of rice peel. Each shop has a unique spicy oil recipe, which has been passed down from generation to generation and improved. Experienced diners have their favorite tastes and often drive tens of kilometers just for that sip of oil.
Dozens of spices combined with Shaanxi's local high-quality peppers have completed the transformation to the peak of life in piping hot rapeseed oil. One splash into the taste, two splashes excellent, point vinegar incense, after time precipitation, red and spicy spicy oil finally debuted in the C position, at this time, Fang knows that the world's human feelings are cold and warm in this spoonful of oil.
King vinegar is fragrant, bean sprouts are sweet, wheat celery is slightly bitter, red oil is spicy, and a spoonful of salt is added, corresponding to wood, earth, fire, gold, water. The harmony of the five flavors indicates the balance of the five elements, and the laws of change of all things in the universe are contained in this bowl.
A considerable number of traditional skills have been lost because of the self-cherishing of Tibetan skills, but Qinzhen Mipi does not have such a problem, most shops will openly recruit apprentices, the cost is low, and the package will be taught. Gao Tianmin was also one of them, and he was willing to pass on his secrets to the people who came to worship the master without reservation, so that Qin Zhen Mipi went all over the world.
Gao Tianmin said: "Hegemony is not a hegemony that bullies the market, it is a hegemony in brand and quality. Our skin is raw is a loose, cooked is a tendon, look is a fragrant, eat is a light, do not eat people's panic, perfect. ”