In the new year, I suddenly want to eat the rice cake dumplings of Minghe Ancient Town, anyway, it is okay to stay at home, it is more than an hour away from Ningbo, then go to taste it, by the way to see the liveliness, feel the atmosphere of the Spring Festival. It was cloudy, a little rainy, and it was cold. But Minghe Ancient Town should have a lot of snacks and delicacies waiting for us.
Minghe Ancient Town is located in Cixi City, Ningbo City, is a thousand-year-old town, in addition to snacks, it is itself a historical and cultural town, the whole town is built according to Baiyang Lake. The ancient town is surrounded by mountains and streets, because there are temples on the side of Hecheng Town and town, and the people live by the pillow river.
In the winter, the ancient town of Minghe has its own sense of depression, the distant mountains are hidden, and the dry grass is reckless, like an ancient Chinese ink painting.
Entering Minghe Ancient Town does not need to buy tickets, it was built in the First Year of the Tang Dynasty and has a history of more than 1200 years. There were many descendants here to operate the chinese medicine trade, Tongrentang, Zhenyuantang, etc. have promoted the development of the traditional Chinese medicine industry in the province and even the whole country, and there is a Minghe Medicinal Materials Museum here, which records these histories for people to visit.
The ancient town retains the style of small bridges and flowing water people's homes, typical of Jiangnan ancient town, many buildings, ancient roads, old bridges are historical and cultural buildings built in the old times, and are still well preserved.
Shen Shixuan, a famous butcher shop in the town, specializes in bad chicken and bad meat, and asked about the price, bad meat is 180 yuan a barrel, bad chicken is 150 yuan a barrel.
After the chicken and pork belly are good, brine it with salt and put it in a jar, it takes two or three days to eat the taste before it tastes, steam it and eat it, fragrant! A lot of people buy it. Unfortunately, our New Year's chicken, duck and fish meat has not been eaten, so we did not buy it.
This bad chicken looks very good in color, quite tempting, and it is estimated that there must be a whole bucket.
There came the scent, in the fried radish mound, delicious as a child, 5 yuan for two, we bought two.
Crispy on the outside and soft on the inside.
The most famous rice cake dumplings in Minghe Ancient Town saw that while making handmade rice cakes, they also sold rice cake dumplings, filled with plum vegetables, pickles and squeezed vegetables, but we still had turnip mounds in our hands to eat, and the rice cake dumplings would be eaten later.
I used to like to buy these in the shop where bamboo weaving utensils were, but then I found that it was useless to take home, and there was no place to put them, we were used to the kitchen supplies bought from the supermarket, so take a look at it and take a picture.
Handmade rice cake 10 yuan 4 pounds, so the square stack is 10 yuan, not expensive, bought 4 pounds of rice cakes in the backpack, all the way back, go back to fry rice cakes, rice cake soup, when breakfast, when dinner, when lunch.
The street lights and signs on the small bridge are hung with red lanterns, reflecting the festive atmosphere.
The small five rooms are an ancient building, now changed to a tea house, arrived too early in the morning, and have not yet opened the door, so I have not been able to go in and visit.
Walking here, it is almost the end of the town, but you can still go around the river, and there are many shops for us to walk around.
Very early heard that Minghe Ancient Town has a more foreign snack called bayberry crisp, shop decoration is also very foreign, go in to take a look, is made after cooperation with Taiwanese, the owner is hospitable, cut a piece for us to try for free, the shape and taste is like a pineapple crisp, the pineapple filling inside is replaced by dark red, sweet and sour bayberry flesh filling. But a look at a small piece of 16 yuan, buy two into the 32 yuan, think it is a little expensive, and finally did not start to buy.
Along the way, I saw that there were roasted peanuts with bos, spiced peanuts often eaten, and boiled together with brine for the first time.
Fruit wine, which has arbutus, kumquat, roses, mulberries, etc., 18 yuan a small bottle, we looked fun, bought two bottles to take home, eat sweet, a bit like enzyme wine.
There are also tea eggs, marinated duck claws and spiced dried tofu.
We bought a bowl for 10 yuan, spiced dried tofu soaked in soup, very tasty, add some green onions on top, suitable for me to take pictures.
This is mung bean cake bar. In the morning in the ancient town, I saw a lot of snacks and snacks from the old bottom.
There are so many kinds of handmade sugar, the old man has been busy making sugar, the favorite of childhood, now do not dare to eat sweet.
There are rice cake slices in the pop, and I loved to eat this when I was a child.
10 yuan a bag, immediately bought a bag.
Inside the black is added sesame seeds, delicious!
See a Taishan stone dare to dang, the old time standing on the street corner, playing the role of exorcism, generally seen in some ancient towns, here again.
There are rural families in the hall to hold a banquet, lettuce and decorative flowers and leaves are put away, I don't know what kind of barbecue or what, count should have 15 tables. Guests have come one after another, and we sigh that it is still a lively Rural New Year.
Which homestay is still a tea house, quite the pattern of the old times, a branch of yellow plum sticks out of the wall, dark incense floating, very beautiful.
Finally see the rice cake balls again, look at this stuffing more water, dried cabbage, sesame sugar, capers minced meat, kohlrabi plum vegetables, salted bamboo shoots dried, we want a cabbage, a plum vegetables.
There are also pickle minced meat, dried bamboo shoots, squeezed vegetable minced meat, we simply have to pick the eye, and finally we want a dried bamboo shoot meat, a dried cabbage, 5 yuan a piece, a total of 10 yuan.
Dried winter shoots stuffed with cabbage, rice cake balls are soft and sticky, it is the taste of childhood, here is also called rice cake dumplings, made into a large dumpling shape.
Dried bamboo shoots and minced meat are more delicious, there are many fillings, so all the way to eat, we did not eat the meal, we have eaten the stomach full.
In the end, I didn't hold back, or bought a bucket of rotten meat to go home, steamed and eaten, and the meat for these two weeks was there!