The Yunnan rescue that saved the emperor's life - fried bait blocks

Big Rescue is one of the most famous traditional snacks in Tengchong County, Yunnan. The Great Rescue is the snack of the Eighteen Monsters of Yunnan.

The prestigious imperial seal name eats the "big rescue drive" - Tengchong fried bait, and it is even more with its unique qualities of color, aroma, taste and shape and beauty. Tengchong people have refined rice into bait silk and bait blocks, which have a history of at least 300 to 500 years. Rice noodle bait block "big rescue driving", the name of the bait block only Yunnan has. Checking the character book, the "Urgent Article" has "cake bait wheat rice sweet bean soup", Yan Shigu annotated one: "Steamed rice noodles are bait"; the fifth generation of Xu Kai's "Biography of the Interpretation of The Character System" said that "flour rice steamed crumbs", rice is broken. The current practice is to soak the rice and steam it, and it is bait to scoop it through, of course, it can also be used by machine, but it is still steamed for rice to be done after meals, which is different from the rice noodles squeezed out by the rice first and the steamed roll powder. The raw material of the bait is rice and rice, if it is made of glutinous rice, it is "sticky rice", and the glutinous rice milling powder is made of rice cake, which is different from bait. Nowadays, in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, this thing is still in the countryside in the New Year's day to do, pinched into all kinds of tricks, in the city is made into each inch of the width of about five inches long strips sold in the vegetable market, but the name is called rice cake, mixed with glutinous rice products, lost its ancient meaning.

According to legend, at the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, Wu Sangui led the Qing army into Kunming, and the Yongli Emperor of the Ming Dynasty fled to western Yunnan, and the Qing army pursued it. Li Dingguo, the leader of the Great Western Army of the peasant rebel army, ordered the general Jin Tongwu to escort the Yongli Emperor to Tengchong, when it was late, and the group had walked for a day on the mountain road, exhausted and hungry. Finding a farmhouse, the owner stir-fried the best food in the family and made a dish of bait, ham, eggs, and greens. After eating it, the Yongli Emperor said approvingly: "The fried bait block saved the great driver of Yuan." Since then, Tengchong fried bait has an alias - "big rescue".