How delicious Tianjin twist flowers are, only Tianjin people know

If you choose the most recognizable specialty for Tianjin, it can only be-

Big twist

Who hasn't been struck by the giant twist flowers that are green and colorful?

How delicious Tianjin twist flowers are, only Tianjin people know

Although some people praise and some people scold, Tianjin people still have a little pride in their hearts to make such a complicated and unique multicolored large noodle stick art.

Until, Tianjin full of sisters in the public number brushed, on the highways across the country, with the "Tianjin cannabis flower" signboard glass cabinet pickup truck -

What the heck? Tianjin twist flowers have counterfeits?

It is said that a knife is dozens of times larger, and the thief is not eatable? No, this is too tarnished the reputation of Tianjin cannabis flower.

Tianjin Full Sister decided to let everyone see the real Tianjin twist flower and defeat magic with magic.

If there is no recent report, I don't know how many people still have illusions about this glass cabinet "Tianjin twist".

There are also some people who have put their fantasies into practice, and as a result, they shed tears of regret in front of the unit price of dozens of knives.

What has never been seen is false rumors, and the shouts of deception that have never been seen before are unreasonable business logic, so that everyone is full of speculation about its truth.

Someone remembered the legend of the old Peking lotus leaf cake vendor who abducted and sold children, and deduced an imaginary large-scale criminal organization.

Others, based on their mysterious whereabouts of wandering around, blackening car windows, and never staying in the store, make up a pair of eyes in the dark that spy on national security.

But when you stop and take a closer look, you will find that these small trucks are uniformly hung with the word "Anhui" license plate.

Yes, these people who hold the lifeblood of the national Tianjin cannabis flower logistics are actually from Anhui.

To be precise, they are all from Huangba Township, Yingshang County, Fuyang City, Anhui Province.

In the past, Huangba Township was poorly located and natural disasters were frequent, and the people lived in poverty.

In order to give the peasant brothers and sisters a job opportunity, the local Huangba Township Fried Food Association was established, and every family pushed up a cart to sell fried hemp flowers.

In terms of brand promotion, the twist managers in Huangba Township have encountered difficulties. Since in the public perception, the twist flower belongs only to Tianjin, in order to rub a heat, the Huangba people hung the sign of "Tianjin Cannabis Flower" on the truck, concealed their origins, and began a national tour of fried.

But on this twisted road of touring "flower roads", it does not include a place called Tianjin.

After all, coming to Tianjin to sell twist flowers, to borrow the words of Guo Degang, a Tianjin native, is equivalent to digging coal from Pingding mountain to sell to Datong, which belongs to the standard Yu Qian's father's behavior.

Even if it really comes, it will be difficult to go on three rounds in the "pan road" where Tianjin people deal with kicking pavilions.

In the eyes of Tianjin people, this kind of giant twist flower that has nothing but noodles and sugar is a stupid big one.

"Eight hundred pounds of shou peach - a large waste snack", and Tianjin twist flower, can never be a waste snack.

The appearance of Tianjin dim sum will always be the most peculiar existence in the Chinese food industry.

Compared to dim sum elsewhere? Su-style pastries, crispy jade crumbs like snow, flower cakes as colorful as spring, twenty-four solar terms a year, fresh and never repeat.

Lingnan Tea House, Mala Cake Lunjiao Cake Char Siu Bun, looks unremarkable, pure and sweet but reassuring.

As for Beijing dim sum, advocating the heat of nomadism and the simplicity of the commoners, not to mention the appearance of donkey rolling and pea yellow, even Daoxiang Village, which comes from the south, is also infected by the atmosphere.

Tianjin dim sum, unlike them, always adheres to its own aesthetic:

Big red and green, flowers and branches, never skimp on green and red silk, sesame seeds, syrup, Beijing cake strips and food coloring, how to see how festive, how happy.

However, the complexity and vividness are not golden and jade on the outside, the inner stuffing is always hidden in the chest, the jujube mud bean paste is five kernels and hundreds of fruits, and the eighteen kinds of hands can be taken.

Let's put it this way, in Tianjin, dim sum seems to be able to say crosstalk.

Tianjin twist is like this - have you ever eaten a twist flower with filling?

This is the biggest difference between it and the fake twist flowers in the field, not only the skin is shiny, but there must also be something inside.

However, even the twist flowers are stuffed, and at first glance, it is somewhat frightening: who came up with the idea?

Many people believe that this comes from Gui Faxiang, a long-established brand in Tianjin known for its "Eighteenth Street Cannabis Flower".

It was the end of beiyang in 1927, and the streets and alleys were discussed, and it was the warlord Chu Yupu who occupied Jinmen and was directly subordinate to the government. However, on the eighteenth street of Hexi Donglou Village, a small snack that was "born at the wrong time" was spread out.

The owner of the shop, the founder of Gui Faxiang in the future, has a gourmet name - Liu Laoba.

Legend has it that Liu Laoba, who sold dim sum twist flowers, somehow became acquainted with an officer nicknamed "Hemp Company Commander". I don't know if this is the surname Ma, whether it is a face of hemp pit, or loves to eat twist flowers, anyway, it is called this name.

But what is certain is that Ma Lianchang is a foodie who can't be changed in eight lifetimes.

On that day, the commander of the Ma Company came to find Liu Laoba's restaurant, but Liu Laoba was not in the shop and did not come back after going out to run errands for half a day. Ma Company Commander waited for half a day hungry, and bought a few snacks in the shop.

Coincidentally, the commander of the hemp company took a bite of a snack, the stuffing was not cooked, just wanted to scold, a look at the oil pot next to the fried twist, ready-made, simply back to the pot to get it.

He put the snacks into the hot oil pot, and the people on the side said in their hearts, this person is probably a piece of ear and eye fried cake, and has become a fine - want to have fun, Chu Yupu's soldiers, those are all Shandong Xiangma wearing official clothes, playing around!

It just so happened that Liu Laoba came back, watching the commander of the hemp company nibbling on the fried puff pastry snack, he was inspired and decided to fill the twist flower with filling.

How to fill it in? Roll out the filling into crispy strips, twist it into strands with the twist flowers, and fry them together.

Pastry is a mixture of hot oil noodles and sugar, sesame seeds, peach kernels, ginger slices, melon seeds, green plums, osmanthus flowers, green red silk and flavor water, a twist flower, to prepare such three puff pastry strips.

Add six white noodles dipped in sesame seeds, three crispy strips and six hemp strips, roll them together, twist them into a twist shape and fry them.

The filling of puff pastry stuffed hemp flowers is fried by the rapid fire of sesame oil, and after the pot is red like a Chinese knot in xiangyun, it is permeated with a sense of auspicious wealth, and the layers of mixed fruits dotted on it also decorate the simple twist flowers with high-grade flavor.

Break a section of the entrance to taste, crisp twist and sweet fruit mixed in between, creating a rich oily sweet, assorted sandwich slightly salty, not only play a role in understanding the greasy effect, but also make the overall aftertaste of the twist more abundant.

This is much more elaborate than the glass cabinet twist that has nothing - they have learned nothing but their size.

However, this is also a later fur.

The earliest Tianjin twist flower, in fact, is not so big.

The Tianjin twist flowers we common today are roughly divided into three types:

One is sold at a roadside stall, one is long, one is twisted and one is taken after the alveo teeth are bitten, crispy and crispy, and the mouth is chewed and crunched.

One is large, thick and long, like an adult man's forearm, breaking off a piece and chewing it in his mouth.

There is also a kind of candy like bulk candy, tearing open the small wrapper, taking a bite just right, and chewing in the mouth crunching and crunching.

The first appeared earliest and most everyday; the second type of oversized gift twist, which was a variant of the later derivation; the third appeared more in tourist attractions for tourists to purchase.

The locals eat the least, naturally the biggest one: fancy and expensive, and wasteful when they can't eat snacks.

So why has Tianjin Twist become so big?

In 1971, Gui Faxiang hemp flower participated in a Guangzhou export commodity fair -

In that closed era, "Canton Fair" was a word that was admired by all. For the country, it is an important channel for displaying economic achievements and earning foreign exchange through exports, and in the eyes of the people, it is full of novelties that have never been seen before.

At the meeting, Gui Faxiang posed a "Gui Faxiang" cannabis flower weighing three pounds. Ordinary marijuana flowers no more than two pounds, this one is an unprecedented giant.

When guests from more than 60 countries raved about it, they realized that twist flowers can become works of art.

Since then, Gui Faxiang has opened up an artistic twist flower based on modeling, increasing the size of the original finger to a foot long, and the craftsmanship of Tianjin craftsmen has been magnified and displayed, attracting more Chinese and foreign diners.

In 1999, the Guinness boom swept through China, and Gui Faxiang directly showed a 1.5564-meter-long and 24.98-kilogram cannabis flower, won the Guinness Trophy, and also seized a wave of heat.

Nowadays, this cannabis flower, which makes Gui Faxiang famous at home and abroad, is also enshrined as the treasure of the town store in the main store of Dagu South Road.

As the first souvenir of Jinmen, Tianjin people have witnessed cannabis flowers at important moments in their lives.

When I went to college, the best snack I brought to my roommates every time I returned to school after a vacation was cannabis flowers. Lying on the top bunk of the bedroom, a twist flower accompanied by a sleeping meeting, the sky south sea north chat is full of fragrant.

The boyfriend and girlfriend negotiated, went to the parents-in-law's house to meet relatives and friends, in addition to tobacco, alcohol and fruits, accompanied by two boxes of bright and festive assorted cannabis flowers. Although the elders said "don't spend money indiscriminately", their hearts were already happy to blossom, silently giving the future aunt +10 points.

Sitting on the train to visit relatives in other places, even if you squeeze your feet off the ground, the twist box in your hand must not let go. As soon as the heavy twist flower appeared, no matter how far away it was, it could be pulled closer by this crisp fragrance.

During the Spring Festival holiday, a pot of jasmine strong tea is served on the table, and the whole family eats a cannabis flower draped in red and green. The aroma of tea accompanies the unique fragrance of osmanthus flowers, and the hot air between the family is also condensed together like a twist flower.

In the various airport railway stations in Tianjin, as long as you see the red in everyone's hand, you know that this kind of unforgettable taste will not be scattered no matter where you go.

The only people who are afraid of this are gangsters and hooligans, and the thickness of tianjin cannabis flowers adds infinite danger to their night work.

Narrow roads meet, as long as the "snap" of the Tianjin twist bag is lit up, the other party knows that today's road is narrow - twist flowers and heads, today will cei one, you look at it.

However, the son once knew that the soldiers were ominous weapons and had to use them as a last resort, so the common people of The Capital were still closer to xiao twist flowers on weekdays.

▲ For example, the famous Tianjin native Zhonglong Feng Guo Deyou

When I was a child, as soon as I arrived at the festival, I looked forward to the welfare of my parents' unit. The little twists and flowers in the gift box will never know what the next one will taste. With excitement and curiosity, one by one let the little ones get enough teeth grinding addiction.

After graduation work, touching the fish in the office to touch the belly and play drums, half a crisp little twist flower not only relieves hunger and passes the time.

As long as the bite moves, it is difficult for a Tianjin person to separate from the small twist flower.

However, they will not show too much dislike for the gifts of "foreigners eating" like Beijingers for Nanluoguxiang and Chengdu people for wide and narrow alleys.

Cities with the highest obesity rate and the lowest suicide rate in the country, who have nothing to worry about.

There is still so much beauty in life, why not hug.

When the dog ignored the face and swept the floor, the ear and eye fried cake opened a large restaurant, the old brands have changed their appearance, and the people of Tianjin do not care ——

Anyway, there are twist flowers, close to the people, do not forget the original intention, even if it is larger, it is worth buying than the counterfeit goods in the glass cabinet.

A group of optimists who even have twist flowers filled in their fillings, their happiness is like three layers of sandwich noodle tea, ten-colored vegetable yards of noodles, mille-feuille crispy dim sum, full of fragrant stickers and boiled small fish, one bite at a time, never to eat the end.

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Author - hikaru

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EDIT - VJ

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