There is a food in Chongqing that is characterized by "strange", but Chongqing people like to eat, and often appear in everyone's dinner snack list, its taste is very hot, just like the straightforward personality of Chongqing people, guess what it is?
That's right, it's weird bean.
At the beginning of the 19th century, a couple in Beibei ran a stir-fry shop, only making soy products, and they developed knife beans, fried beans, fried peanuts and so on.
Because they are authentic Chongqing people, they mixed the six spices with Chongqing flavor of "sweet, spicy, fresh, salty, hemp and crisp", and used fried methods to make the beans taste very crisp, the taste of the beans is also extremely complex, and there is an indescribable feeling in the mouth, which is called the strange taste of the beans.
Such a complex taste, crispy taste of the bean was rare at that time, many surrounding residents were recommended by friends, came to buy and taste, so the reputation of the strange taste of beans gradually increased.
As business became more and more popular, Xiong Rongcheng and his wife founded the earliest brand of Chongqing's strange flavored beans "Butterfly Flower" in the early 1820s.
In addition to Chongqing, there are also strange flavored beans in other parts of the country, such as Shanghai's spiced beans and Zhejiang's fennel beans, but these two kinds of beans feel soft and soft to eat, there is no Chongqing strange flavor of beans crisp, you pin Xiaolu feels that it is still Chongqing's strange taste of beans is authentic!
At that time, strange flavored beans were also popular abroad, but because many places abroad were not suitable for growing beans, they could only be transported from Chongqing, and 2 tons were exported to the United States every year.
In order to understand what people think of the strange smell of beans now, Xiao Lu also interviewed some friends.
Is the weird bean really that popular? Xiao Lu believes that perhaps because its taste has mastered the essence of the taste buds of Chongqing people, when the six flavors of sour, sweet, spicy, salty and crisp are entangled at the same time, its "strangeness" is vividly displayed, which is why it has been able to develop until now.
@Jiajia: Generally eat strange flavored beans as a snack, and often eat them when watching TV at home.
@ is Lao Zhang: In addition to the New Year's Day, the family will buy strange beans as a snack, and usually rarely buy them.
@ Yan Yanmei: When I was in school, I often bought it as a snack in the afternoon, and occasionally ate it when I read in the dormitory in the evening, most of which was used to pass the boring time.
In this way, the strange taste of hudou is already a daily routine for Chongqing people, and this so-called "strange" is not only the embodiment of the fiery personality of Chongqing people, but also the integrity in the bones.
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