Xuzhou people's breakfast
One by one buns, spicy soup, fritters
Original: Huan Ling
2021. Spring time
I say Xuzhou people's breakfast, not Xuzhou people's breakfast, here is the meaning of circumventing the elegant words, implying the boldness and simplicity of Xuzhou people.
Every morning, most people in Xuzhou eat breakfast at large and small catering points throughout the streets and alleys of the city. The mantra of Xuzhou people is: Go! Eat buns, fritters and drink spicy soup.
The main meaning of buns here is "fried buns". Wrap the dough skin with meat filling, neatly placed in a pan, then add water mixed with flour in the pot, cover the water and boil, when the water in the pot is basically dry, add oil and fry until the bottom of the bun appears golden brown.
Xuzhou spicy soup is similar to the peppery soup in the neighboring province of Henan. Henan's peppery soup is divided into meat and vegetarian, the main ingredients are beef, gluten, bean skin, etc., and the soup is thick. The name of The spicy soup in Xuzhou does not have the word "Hu" in front of it, but the soup does have a spicy taste, but this spicy taste does not come from chili, but pepper.
Xuzhou spicy soup is made by boiling pork bones and old hens, followed by adding shredded eel, gluten and frangipani.
Xuzhou's fritters are very ordinary, there are no tricks. But in Henan, it is not called fritters, but oil buns. Henan people have a very special ability to make oil buns, using two thick chopsticks to pick up the batter, pull it open, and go down to the oil pot. What is even more absolute is that Henan people can also make a hole in the half-cooked oil bun and pour in an egg, called the egg steamed bun. Because Henan and Xuzhou border, this way of eating eggs with fritters has also flowed into the breakfast table of Xuzhou people.
In addition to fried buns, spicy soup and fritters, Xuzhou people's breakfast also has hot porridge, "Zhen it" soup, ball soup, and the staple food is also fire, soup buns, meat boxes, vegetable horns, sugar cakes and so on.
The taste of food in various places is related to the eating habits of the locals, and the food taste in Xuzhou is spicy and salty, and this preference is also fully revealed in breakfast.