It was almost the Dragon Boat Festival, and I suddenly remembered the Shantou Old Magong Rice Dumpling Ball and a rice cake called Qi Kun that I had eaten in Shantou.
About six years ago, I led the team and @ Dong Keping Teacher Dong went to Shantou to shoot a food documentary "Search for Fresh Memories", when I went it was a late summer afternoon, @ Zhang Xinmin Teacher Zhang took in Shantou to find delicious and shoot, walked through an old town, he said, there is an old mama palace dumpling ball shop nearby, it is worth trying.
So I went around, as if it was on a road called Shengping Road, which is an old street in the old town of Shantou, the houses on the side of the road are somewhat dilapidated, but they have a very old city flavor, there are very few people, there is a Chinese medicine shop and an old leather shoe shop that surprises tigers, and that kind of old-fashioned sign is rare now.
The Tianhou Temple that I went to see first, that is, the Old Mother's Palace as the common people said. Someone was praying incense, saw a painted tiger on the wall in the courtyard, and went to take a picture.
The shop of the old mother's palace rice dumpling ball is in a small alley next to it, and it is not easy to find it if you are not careful to find it. A wooden plaque is exactly a few buckles, which have been smoked yellow and yellow, and on it are pasted the sign of "Lao Ma Gong Zong Ball" and the word "famous".
A teacher, sitting in front of the store, placed the Chaoshan people's iconic three cups and one bowl of tea drinking tools, brewed strong tea, listened to the radio, and drank happily. Seeing that I was photographing him with a camera, I raised a glass to invite him, and I laughed very heartily.
The shop is not big, just one, and several masters are wrapped in rice dumplings in the house. Near the entrance of the shop a stainless steel cauldron full of boiling a pot of rice dumplings, at first glance, and the general rice dumplings are not very different, is oversized, bundled with edges and angles. The master who just drank tea told the tiger that this rice dumpling ball seems simple, but in fact, there is really exquisite inside, the glutinous rice should be washed and dried with water and then fried in lard, add fish sauce or what I forgot, and then fry, the rice grains should be crystal clear, after the oil is lubricated, wrapped with rice dumpling leaves and salty grass into a hexagonal ball.
There are several kinds of fillings, and I have eaten too much and too much support for eating various foods before shooting, so I only ate one kind of sweet, which seems to have the feeling of mung bean paste, and can eat the obvious aroma of lard, sweet and sticky. A friend who was traveling with him ate a salty one, saying that it seemed to have the taste of shiitake mushrooms and sausage shrimp rice.
Here I also saw something that I had never eaten before, called Qi Kang, teacher Zhang Xinmin told Tiger that in Shantou, the Qi Gong had been there for a long time, and the Chaoyang County Chronicle said: "Chaoyi Gong Is the FineSt Product of Powder Kang, and it was also offered to guests during the Qing Kangxi Dynasty." And pink kun is Tang Naizhi. ”
Horseshoe crab is a crustacean arthropod in the sea, the ancestor of the horseshoe crab appeared in the geological history period of the Paleozoic Devonian Period, when the dinosaurs have not yet risen, primitive fish have just appeared, with the passage of time, with its contemporaries or evolution or extinction, and only the horseshoe, from more than 400 million years ago to retain its original and ancient appearance, so there is a "living fossil" called.
Horseshoe crab, rounded in shape, hard in the tail, shaped like a whiplash. The horseshoe is also round, and one side protrudes like a peach, like a tailed horseshoe, so it is called "horseshoe", which is derived from the form. I suddenly remembered that I had seen a specimen of a "horseshoe" made a long time ago in Teacher Zhang's home, which was really an image.
The teacher who makes the horseshoe carp said that the most traditional way to cook the rice into a thin porridge to cool, and then mix the potato flour in proportion, now it is mostly ground into rice milk, and then mixed with the crab meat and the crab juice is mixed in the koji mold, in order to be more like the shape of the koji, so the koji mold is more peach-shaped, and then add fresh shrimp and minced meat, as well as fresh squid mushrooms, partridge eggs and other ingredients, steamed and then removed the mold, put into the oil pot and soaked in hot oil, until the heart is ripe, the kwayin noodles are golden and transparent.
Since the crab was listed as a protected organism by the state, the crab shrimp and clams are mostly used to make the stuffing of the crab shrimp and clams, but the practice of the horseshoe is retained, the flavor is not inferior to the meat, and the main food is the taste of the seafood.
After listening to it again, I saw a peach-shaped food fried in a frying pan at the door of the store, the color was golden and transparent, but I could see that there were shrimp, quail eggs, meat foam and so on, dipping sauce with sand tea sauce, soy sauce and hot sauce and other options, tasted a piece, the entrance was soft and tough, the inside was hot and tender, there was rice shrimp fragrant meat aroma, dipped in soy sauce and hot sauce, fresh, spicy, fragrant, salty, mixed up is fragrant and delicious.
After eating and leaving, I listened to Teacher Zhang say that in the old mother's palace dumpling ball shop, there was a glass plaque with the words "Food Determination and Zhengzhi", which means that only after eating and carefully tasting it can you really know its good taste. Due to the fame of the old mother's palace dumpling ball, these four words have also spread along. "Lao Ma Gong Zong Qiu - Food Ding Zheng Zhi" has become a colloquial saying of the Chaoshan people.
I didn't fail to pay attention when I was there, but looking back, this sentence really makes sense. This delicious koji and simple words seem to contain an extremely deep philosophy of life.
"Eating is right", it is really right. Food, so, life, why not?
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