Today to introduce a Sichuan famous snack - bowl bowl chicken, to Sichuan must eat one of the 6 kinds of food, a name to feel very novel, as a famous snack in Sichuan, from the Qing Dynasty has been handed down for hundreds of years.
The earliest bowl chicken is originated in Leshan eating method, is the boneless chicken slices added to a variety of spices after cold mixing, and then loaded into the pottery bowl, "bowl bowl" is actually a kind of pottery bowl, because of the container, so it is called "bowl chicken", this cold eating method of food is very suitable for summer eating.
With the change of the times, the improvement of people's living standards, influenced by another snack skewer in Sichuan, the ingredients of bowl chicken began to be enriched, from simple chicken to a variety of varieties. Some foreigners may ask why there is no chicken in the current bowl chicken, and the reason is that the original chicken has long been replaced by more variety and more convenient ingredients.
Leshan is a tourist attraction in Sichuan, in order to facilitate the reception of a large number of "delicious" tourists, bowl chicken sales method has been changed to using bamboo skewers to sell a variety of ingredients, as long as it is a delicious ingredient that can be strung into a string, it is convenient to make. After processing, various dishes are made with skewers, cooled and soaked in various flavors of ingredients, and eaten by themselves, which is simple, convenient and unique.
Sichuan people are more spicy, everyone knows, the most critical thing about bowl chicken is the preparation of the ingredients, the early bowl chicken is made of spicy taste, and later in order to cater to customers with different tastes, they also formulated sour and sweet, vine pepper flavor and so on. Red oil prepared with chili oil, pepper noodles and other accessories, the color is beautiful, the texture is tender and fresh, the spicy is fragrant, and it is very palatable.
Nowadays, the bowl chicken is no longer a unique snack of Leshan people, it has become an indispensable food on the street in the Sichuan-Chongqing area, customers dip in the store's carefully mixed ingredients, eat into the mouth spicy taste in the tongue flood, duck palm, county liver, lotus slices, fungus... The meat and vegetarian combination makes people can't help but string after string.