Tomorrow is the first working day of 2021, and I think many people will be sent off during the three-day holiday, attending a lot of parties and banquets.
Tianjin people are sometimes called Wei Zuizi, and one of the explanations is that the people of the city love to eat and eat, from festivals and family banquets to weddings and funerals, as long as the banquet is exquisite.
This elegance refers to the rules of the guests eating the table, and it is also the ceremony of the Host's family. And in this ceremony, people can see at a glance, it is a table of dishes "pressed table dishes".
The table press dish is not the pressed table dish of the cross-talk "reporting the name of the dish", the four dry, four fresh, four preserves, four cold meat, three sweet bowls, four snacks are all pre-dinner snacks, and the table pressure dish refers to the last big dish on this table.
In the late Qing Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty, Tianjin restaurant industry developed, the Chinese and Western banquets were divided into high, medium and low three grades, high-end banquets to grill shark fin as a representative dish, commonly known as Yan cuisine table; the mid-range banquet for grilled sea cucumber or grilled ginseng belly, which is the sea cucumber table; the main dish of these two banquets is before the staple food, so it is also called "head dish". The low-grade banquet is mainly fried shrimp, carp, fried hibiscus whole crab, crab yellow grilled cabbage, and the main dish on the large bowl, which is also a table dish, which can be eaten with staple food.
Specific dishes are large dishes, hot stir-fry, cold meat, dim sum, sugar bowls, pressed table rice and dried and fresh dishes.
The feast began to be served all the time, everyone drank and chatted, and after a dessert, such as almond tofu, walnut cheese, silk yam, banana and the like, it meant that the wine could stop and start to eat rice, at this time it was the "big bowl" table dish mentioned above - the wedding banquet in the 1980s still maintained such a serving rule.
Among the table dishes, Tianjin people prefer fish - pay attention to the "surplus" mouth color. Legend has it that the Qianlong Emperor went down to the south of the jiangnan via Tianjin Wei, the Wanshou Palace in the north of the city became a temporary palace, and the emperor's three meals a day were all arranged by Juqingcheng, who was separated by a street, and the meals were not the same. Chef Ju Qingcheng served a "roasted fish strip", which was eaten with great joy in Qianlong Dragon's heart, and the Jinkou Emperor gave "Official Grilled Fish", which is still a famous dish in Tianjin.
In the past, braised fish was changed to steamed, braised fish are generally crucian carp, silver carp, and steamed fish must be flounder, mandarin fish and the like, the grade is obviously improved.
However, children generally can't wait to eat fish, and generally get off the table and run wildly when dessert is made. And adults are also impatient to pick fish bones for half-grown children, so most of the main family will intimately put on a dish of four joy balls.
If you just eat it yourself, it can only be called "meatballs".
Fu, Lu, Shou, Jubilee, the four great joys of life. This makes this meatball dish particularly meaningful. Anyway, in my impression, there is no big happy event, and there is generally no feast.
In addition to children, drinking adults also like this dish, known as "balls cover cover" pressed wine.
Tianjin Wuqing District's greenhouse banquet table dishes are more distinctive, the most popular is not meat dishes, but the most traditional vegetarian stew.
The so-called vegetarian stew, is four courses of stewed vegetables, braised tofu, braised powder skin, braised dumplings, braised dumplings, these vegetarian dishes are also called four bowls, is the essence of the greenhouse. When simmering, put soy sauce tofu, soy sauce, coriander, minced garlic, etc.
Almost every household in Wuqing District will make this kind of vegetarian stew, but the taste is not the same, of course, the vegetarian stew on the greenhouse table is the best, of which braised tofu is the table dish of the greenhouse table, who does not have this braised tofu when they get married, this wedding banquet is not complete.
In the past, people loved to eat meat dishes with big oil and water, and enjoyed the lively greetings of neighbors and friends; now that people have more socializing, no matter how exquisite the table dishes are, they will become packed and folded, and they are afraid of making shallow remarks at the banquet, which is also the change of the times of the Tianjin people's banquet.