In the bustling Guangji Street of West Avenue in Lianhu District, there is an antique Chinese time-honored beef and mutton shop. On the lintel hangs a plaque with gold characters on a black background, "The Old Boy's Home of the Slope". This is the prestigious Lao TongJia Lamb Shop, which operates the famous Sanqin Lamb.
Old boy's house
Beef and mutton are a good product to accompany meals and wines, high-quality gifts for relatives and friends, and are also ideal tourist food. The "Zhi Slope Brand" and "Phoenix Brand" Beef and Mutton beef and mutton produced by the old boy's "ZhiPo" old boy's beef and mutton shop were rated as high-quality products in Shaanxi Province in 1982 and won the title of high-quality famous food of the Ministry of Commerce in 1984. It has a history of more than 300 years. In the early years of the Qing Dynasty, it was created by the Xi'an Tong clan. At that time, there were more than ten shops in Xi'an that operated beef and mutton. The Tong brothers synthesized the strengths of famous artists and improved the preparation method, making the old Tong's beef and mutton widely loved.
Legend has it that in 1900 AD, during the Battle of Gengzi, the Eight-Nation Alliance invaded Beijing, and Empress Dowager Cixi fled with the Guangxu Emperor Cangchao and fled to Xi'an.
Once, when she was passing by the door of the old boy's house on the royal leg, she suddenly smelled a pungent smell of meat and couldn't help but stop drinking. The old boy's treasurer, the empress dowager, arrived and hurriedly offered the lamb, which Cixi praised after tasting it. In order to win the favor of the empress, Xing Tingwei, the teacher of Zhao Fuxiang, the shangshu of the bingbu, hand-wrote a gold plaque of "Zhi Zhi Po" and hung it at the head of the old boy's house. Since then, the reputation of "Ganzhi slope" bacon has risen and become a valuable food in Xi'an snacks.
Lao Tong's family is a devout Muslim, and the "Zhi Zhi Po" lamb is known for its fine workmanship, bright red color, crisp and delicious, pure halal and pure halal.
Sheep must be selected from the northern Beach sheep of Northern Shaanxi thousands of miles away, with a large tender meat, fat but not fat. The live sheep are slaughtered by the imam with a knife, rinsed and salted for seven days with more than ten spices and Salt from Qinghai Lake. Qinghai Lake salt contains nitrate and a variety of trace elements, and the marinated lamb is red in color and fragrant in smell. If it is marinated with general well salt or sea salt, the meat is black, the taste is not good, and it is not easy to store for a long time.
Preparation method
1
A marinade: large porcelain jar poured into the well water, lamb, fresh lamb with bones, the skin surface is folded relatively folded and placed, sprinkled with fine salt, glauber's salt, summer marinated for one to two days, spring and autumn marinated for three to four days, winter marinated for four to five days, marinated until the meat is red in color.
2
Pour how much old brine soup, pour how much water, supplement peppercorns, star anise, cinnamon, cumin as the material, high heat to boil, lamb under the pot, old and tender respectively, the skin face up, and then burn open salt, then cover, wu fire simmer for four or five hours until the meat is rotten.
3
Skim the oil slick, suppress the fire, simmer for half an hour until the soup temperature drops, use a long bamboo stick to pick the meat, and put it into a porcelain plate.
4
Place the skin on a flat plate, pour the original soup several times, and then carefully dry it with a clean cloth.
Many foreigners who come to Xi'an for the first time see the red color of the lamb and are afraid to buy it because of the dye, so it is a pity to miss the opportunity to taste this northwest cuisine.
Lamb has always been a great gift for relatives and friends. Since the reform and opening up, many Xi'an people with "overseas relations" will buy a few beautifully packaged lamb meat and mail them abroad during the New Year's Festival, conveying the distant thoughts of their relatives.
The elder of the Republic of China from Shaanxi, Yu Youren, liked to eat lamb meat before his death, and in his early years in Xi'an, he had to send people to the old boy's house almost every day to buy it. Later, when he went to Nanjing to serve as the president of the Supervision Yuan, the local specialties sent by the hometown people when they visited him must include lamb meat. When the mainland was liberated, the old gentleman went to Taiwan, and in his later years, Yu Youren lived a lonely and desolate life, missing his hometown and nostalgia for his relatives and friends on the mainland. On January 24, 1962 AD, in the face of the local specialties sent from Hong Kong by relatives on the mainland, the old man stayed up all night, and wrote a grief-stricken at dawn in the morning light, reciting the famous poem "Looking at the Mainland" at home and abroad: "Bury me on the high mountain, look at the mainland invisibly, only cry bitterly." Bury me on the top of the mountain, looking at the invisible hometown of the invisible, only self-inflicted wounds. The verses are deep, bleak, and tearful to read.
Address: Lianhu District North Guangji Street No. 162 (West Avenue and Qiaozikou Shizi North Road Intersection)
Per capita: 26 yuan