That trip to Jincheng, Shanxi, actually started with a bowl of instant noodles.
When I was still in Xinjiang, I didn't eat dinner one day, and I could only eat instant noodles in the hotel. A friend from Jincheng told me that their instant noodles were for breakfast, called Yuzhu instant noodles, which are the favorite of Jincheng people.
Baidu down, this Yuzhu instant noodles are obviously produced in Henan Jiaozuo, actually so hot in Jincheng, why is this? He said that instant noodles with beef balls are delicious.
So the bowl of instant noodles that could not be eaten became a thought. That time I could have flown back to Shanghai from Urumqi, but I had to change it to Urumqi to Fly to Zhengzhou, then take a car to Jincheng, and finally take a high-speed train back to Suzhou from Jincheng for more than six hours.
For a bowl of instant noodles, it's enough to toss!
Jincheng arrived that morning, we drove to eat instant noodles, small tables and small stools outside in the sun. There are no tourists, it is the locals in the neighborhood who are eating breakfast.
Look at the next price, instant noodle beef balls 8 yuan, beef balls instant noodles 6 yuan, this is a brain teaser? What is the difference of 2 yuan?
Jincheng in September, it is not hot at all, very suitable for summer escape. Looking at a large pot of steaming beef balls, I suddenly felt hungry.
I don't know if my friend ordered instant noodle beef balls or beef balls instant noodles, it was served like this! There are also two loaves, which are called "fires" here.
Pick up a chopstick, it is really instant noodles.
This Yuzhu instant noodle has been on fire in Jincheng for decades and is unique in the country. Nowhere do people get up in the morning to eat this.
It is said that in the 1990s, in Jincheng, a bowl of instant noodles and poached eggs that could be made in a few minutes was popular not only at home, but also at street food stalls.
Although this instant noodle is not a local product of Jincheng, every Jincheng person outside treats Yuzhu as a local product. An obscure Henan instant noodle has had such a profound impact on a region's food memory.
It is said that the popularity of this meatball instant noodle in Jincheng is no less than that of Shanghai's soybean milk fritters and Beijing's soybean juice, and the most authentic way to eat it comes from such street stalls.
However, this beef ball really can't eat the taste of beef, instant noodles are good, not soaked, it is boiled, and the taste is good.
Jincheng traditional snack shop: the old three, is also a small shop on the street, ordinary people often eat. Over oily meat, sweet and sour slip balls, wood ear (ge) shellfish is the same as the old three. Both were my first time eating and very special.
Inside the fungus (ge) shell, did you not see the fungus? Isn't that cool powder? Multurm shellfish is a traditional famous food with a history of hundreds of years in Jincheng, and is the first dish in the "Ten Bowls" banquet.
It turns out that the most important thing about this dish is to make a powder lump, add mung bean flour, black fungus, egg white and lard to cold water, and heat the powder lump over a warm heat.
After the powder is beaten, put the slices in a bowl and steam in a steamer for 15 minutes. Once out of the pan, add the egg skin, pour the chicken broth and add the coriander.
The palate is very light.
This is over-oiled meat. Hey, how does oily meat look like this?
Originally, this "over-oil meat" originated in Pingding County, Yangquan City, Shanxi Province, and is the most famous traditional dish in Shanxi Province, known as "Three Jins and One Taste", and "Shanxi Over-Oil Meat" has also been rated as one of the top ten classic dishes in Shanxi.
After eating oily meat, eat it with rice that has just come out of the pot.
As for the sweet and sour pill, it is actually sweet and sour. The taste is weird and not very habitual.
This is a clear soup dumpling (hé le), which is an ancient and unique traditional soup noodle in northern China.
If you drive on the road to Jincheng, you will find dumpling shops all over the place. Jincheng people love to eat dumplings. Clear soup dumplings, sauerkraut dumplings, hot pot dumplings, casserole dumplings, miscellaneous sauce dumplings... Every taste.
The bird uses a bird bed (a wooden or iron tool with many round eyes) to press the face out through the round eye, forming a small round strip.
I asked my friend, what do you usually eat at home? A: What a bird!
This noodle is called Gao Pingli Scratch.
"LiYuan grasp" is the transliteration of the Zezhou dialect, "圪" is a word between dialects, and "li 圪抓" means to grasp inside, which is the title of its practice description.
The first time I ate the inside of the crunch, there are vermicelli inside, oily but not greasy, and have a different flavor.
Shanxi people are inseparable from vinegar and a bowl of noodles, I remember I went to the Balkan Peninsula with my friends, to eat in Chinese restaurants, the first sentence is whether there is noodles.
Here's a fried knife cut noodle:
In the ancient town of Daiyang in Jincheng, I also ate another kind of noodle, called zhuan noodles. Dayang Ancient Town really likes, less quiet, no commercial taste, next time I will share alone.
Steamed noodles is a long-standing traditional noodle dish in Dayang Town, Zezhou County, Jincheng City, Shanxi Province, which can only be eaten in Dayang Town, and nowhere else.
The representative inheritor of the third batch of Shanxi provincial intangible cultural heritage projects: Fan Suoxi, opened an old Fan noodle shop in Dayang Ancient Town, just passing by.
The cauliflower noodles here are not the kind of cauliflower we are talking about. The cauliflower here is made by shredding and watering with beans, garlic moss, kelp, oil tofu, carrots and other ingredients.
This ancient skill, the local government of Dayang successfully applied for noodles as a provincial cultural heritage.
Probably I was hungry, this big bowl of noodles, ate a bottom to the sky, really good. If you go to the daiyang ancient town of Jincheng, you must not miss it.
There are many, many memories about Jincheng, and I will talk about it slowly. Four days and three nights of Jincheng, for a bowl of instant noodles travel, there are too many surprises.
Late at night at this moment, looking at these pictures, I think of the night in the White Horse Temple Forest Park overlooking the city, and I think of Jueshan and Qinglian Temple that hurriedly bid farewell.
I don't know if he went to see one of the four famous places in Jincheng, "Jueshan Tuyue", last Mid-Autumn Festival?
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