Three fresh bean skin is a famous snack in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, and one of the main foods for Wuhan people to eat breakfast (wuhan people call it "premature"); Three fresh bean skins are a combination of glutinous rice and bean skins, named after the filling with fresh meat, fresh eggs, and fresh shrimp (or fresh meat, fresh mushrooms and fresh bamboo shoots).
Originally a special festival dish made by Wuhan people during the New Year's Festival, it later became a common breakfast. The color is golden and translucent, bright and dazzling, the skin is thin and soft, moist and refreshing, delicious, containing shrimp, mushrooms and meat. Known for its unique flavor. The process of making bean skin requires "thin skin, clear pulp, and positive fire", so that the fried bean skin is crisp on the outside and soft on the inside, and the oil is not greasy.
Three fresh bean skin, which seems to be a snack that can be seen everywhere, looks unassuming, and if you want to really be delicious, you still have to work hard. A piece of high-quality Wuhan sanxian bean skin must meet the following criteria: "The shape of the bean skin must be square and thin; the color of the bean skin must be golden and yellow; the taste of the bean skin must be fragrant and drunk." ”
In Wuhan, the three fresh bean skins in Laotong City have the longest history and the most prestigious. "Lao Tong Cheng" is the name of a restaurant, founded in 1931, located in Hankou Zhongshan Avenue Dazhi Intersection, famous for operating three fresh bean skins, known as the "Bean Skin King". If you go to Wuhan without going to "Laotong City", it is difficult to think that you have tasted "Han wei" food.
The specific method of three fresh bean skins is: glutinous rice, mung beans, soybeans soaked in water, after grinding, pulping, blanching and other procedures, slowly poured into the pot, in the pot spread into a thin layer of skin. When the skin is white and yellow, beat an egg and brush it evenly over the skin. After frying the bean skin for a while, use a spatula to flip the whole bean skin over, then take the steamed glutinous rice, spread it on the bean skin, add fresh meat, fresh eggs, fresh shrimp and other fillings, and fry it in low heat. When the skin of the beans is golden and shiny, and the filling is cooked thoroughly, it is divided into small pieces of two inches square with a spatula.
History and celebrities were once the pride of the "Old Pass City". In 1958, Mao Zedong visited "Laotongcheng" twice, and after tasting the "three fresh bean skins", he said: "Bean skin is the flavor of Hubei, and we must maintain it", "You have created famous snacks for Hubei, and the people thank you." The celebrities who visited "LaoTong City" next were: Liu Shaoqi, Zhou Enlai, Zhu De, Deng Xiaoping, Dong Biwu, Li Xiannian and foreign heads of state Kim Il Sung and Sihanouk.
Ling Fox rushed north, and at dawn he arrived at a large town and walked into a restaurant. The most famous dim sum in Hubei is bean skin, which is made of bean flour and wrapped in dishes, which is very delicious. Ling Fox Chong exhausted the three plates in a row and paid the bill to go out. ”
In "Smiling Proud of the Rivers and Lakes", it is written that Ling Fox rushed to save Ren Yingying, and when passing through Hubei, the bean skin made a grand appearance. The hero ordered fox chong to save his sweetheart, at that moment it must be anxious, hungry on the way, and he could also eat three bowls of bean skins in a row, which shows that Jin Yong has a deep love for Hubei bean skins.
Go to Wuhan, did not taste these three fresh bean skins, then you are not really going to Hubei!