Pork head meat is now the most popular dish in appetizers. Not only the common people like it, but even the literati who have lived in Beijing like it. Mr. Lao She has written more than once about his favorite pork head meat, saying that "the pig head meat of the wild tea house can make people drunk."
In the countryside, pork head meat is more popular. Every New Year's Festival, everyone can always see a large piece of marinated pork head meat on the desk, and it must be placed in the middle of the sacrifice desk to occupy the C position. In the southern Guangdong countryside, worship of gods and ancestors is frequent, and pigs are the main desk to show people's piety.
As the "next product" in pork, why is pig head meat so popular with rural people? This is probably because pigs are more commonly farmed in China and are simpler to process. Almost the entire pig's head can be eaten, and for rural people who lack food, pig's head meat can satisfy their appetites, so the status of pig's head meat has also quietly changed.
There is also a reason that the price of pork head meat is cheap. Although the price of pork head meat as an appetizer has already soared, a few decades ago, pork head meat was an ingredient that no one could afford, much cheaper than pork. Rural families have a large population, and a family needs several children to feed, and buying a pig's head meat can make the whole family eat the taste of pork.
The taste of pork head meat is also different from ordinary fatty meat. General fat meat, let alone take it with wine, is to eat two pieces in an empty mouth, it is already fat and greasy, so the pig fat meat is not used to refine oil, fried into lard residue, or stewed with the lean pork, removing the grease of the fat meat.
But pork head meat is completely different, can not be regarded as fat meat. The pig's head meat is more meaty and less meaty, and the part of the pig skin contains more collagen, which is not easy to eat. The fat pig skin is rich in gum, which is refreshing to eat, and after a few bites, the mouth will produce a sticky feeling, just like a pig's trotter.
Pig head meat can also be subdivided, divided into face, mouth strips, pig brain, arch mouth, in addition to the pig tooth gum, in the Sichuan-Chongqing region called pig ladder, this is also something that can be eaten, the taste is different, the cooking method is also slightly different, the taste is even more wide. What people didn't expect was that these ingredients came out of a pig's head.
Nowadays, in many parts of China, people like to eat pork head meat. The brine pig's head has also become a kind of brand surface, and the brine pig's head is red and beautiful on the table, so it has been upgraded from a scrap to a hard dish on the table. In addition, pork head meat is not as easy to eat as fat meat, and there are more people who like to eat, but it has become a representative dish.