【Longshang this bowl of noodles】
Taste of Dunhuang: Donkey meat yellow noodles
Li Maojin
Donkey meat yellow noodles
Donkey plate intestines
Dunhuang is a famous city on the Silk Road. The exchange and mutual learning of Chinese and Western civilizations has created a unique charm of Dunhuang culture, and also bred a unique flavor of Dunhuang cuisine, Dunhuang donkey meat yellow noodles is one of the most popular local famous snacks.
As the saying goes, dragon meat in heaven, donkey meat on earth. Donkey meat is regarded by many gourmets as a taste of the world. Dunhuang's donkey meat yellow noodles, the donkey meat and yellow noodles into one, yellow bright and seductive ramen, poured with marinade or fried sauce, accompanied by donkey meat series of dishes, different, unique flavor, simply comfortable!
Tourists once said humorously that if they visited Dunhuang and visited the scenic spots, if they did not taste the donkey meat yellow noodles, it was like traveling to Beijing without eating Peking duck, which always made people feel that they were not in the united states. In the tourist season, you can often see such a scene: the donkey meat yellow noodle restaurant every day at noon and lunch, the guests are full, full of seats, and there is a long queue outside the door. A group of guests have not yet left the table, and a group of guests are already waiting, just to taste this special food on the Silk Road.
Speaking of donkey meat yellow noodles, it is naturally inseparable from yellow noodles. Yellow noodles, also known as lost noodles, are called yellow noodles because the finished product is smooth and yellow when cooked. It is called a loss of face, one is because the ramen is constantly thrown to the noodle case, that is, the meaning of "throwing"; the other is that the yellow noodles are pulled into a pot before the master's wrist is thrown and there is a "throw away" gesture. Yellow noodles in Dunhuang can be described as a long history. There are ramen murals in the Song Dynasty caves of Mogao Cave 256, which shows that as early as 1,000 years ago, there was a ramen handicraft in Dunhuang.
As the saying goes, one side feeds the other. After a long period of fireworks, the yellow noodles walked down the Dunhuang murals and into real life, the longer and longer, the more refined, the yellow bright smooth, flexible tendons, become authentic folk food.
The production method of yellow noodles is to first add high-quality flour with green ash water (boiling liquid) and noodles, after pounding with a fist, fold and knead with both hands, knead until the dough is kneaded, and then left and right (flinging strips), pulled to the right length, cut off the noodles and shake them into the boiling water pot, wait for the noodles to float up and roll a few times to fish out, put into the cool water basin to cool, fish out the control of clean water can be served.
The noodles served are bright yellow, naturally uniform and soft. Yellow noodles are eaten in two ways: dry noodles are poured with brine (made of pork belly slices or cooked meat slices, fungus, tofu slices, vermicelli, radish, cabbage, etc.); soup eats the yellow noodles into the prepared cheek soup (there are meat cheeks and vegetarian cheeks), eat noodles and drink soup, it is not pleasant. Whether eaten dry or soup, accompanied by a plate of traditional marinated meat (originally large meat, later turned into donkey meat), it is a tempting meal.
Yellow noodles and marinated vegetables (fried sauce) poured together, good taste, high nutrition, hunger relief, easy digestion, has always been a suitable noodle for all ages in Dunhuang. At that time, the old man had a birthday, the child had a birthday, and the wedding celebrations, they had to pull yellow noodles to entertain guests, accompanied by fragrant cheeks, making people salivate, eat a bowl and want a bowl. During the New Year's Festival, if you can eat a bowl of yellow noodles, it is really a feast.
After the reform and opening up, with the continuous heating up of Dunhuang tourism fever, folk snacks have also embarked on the big stage of food. On the basis of traditional marinated meat, the most representative ones, Shunzhang Yellow Noodles and Daji Yellow Noodles, have developed their own characteristics of donkey meat and sauce donkey meat to add color to the yellow noodles. As a result, there are Shunzhang brine donkey meat yellow noodles and Daji sauce donkey meat yellow noodles, with different characteristics and delicacies, to attract people's taste buds, well received by tourists.
Plates of yellow and smooth yellow noodles, plates of fragrant marinated meat, sauce meat, eat diners are full of taste, diners flock to endlessly. Gradually, Chinese and foreign tourists in Dunhuang were also attracted by this special delicacy. They carried long yellow noodles, ate beautiful donkey meat, and constantly made exclamations. Although the yellow noodles of donkey meat are in Dunhuang, the fragrance floats far away. This echoes the old saying that "wine is good and not afraid of deep alleys". What's more interesting is that some guests would rather not eat the star meal of the hotel, but also queue up on the street to buy a donkey meat yellow noodle and feast, which shows how popular it is among tourists.
Yellow-faced yellow, yellow-faced long, unusual to see with your own eyes. At the ramen scene, watching the ramen master perform is even more of an artistic enjoyment. I saw that the dough in the hands of the master seemed to be playing magic, and after repeated kneading and folding, a handful of noodles were fished out of the pot for a table of seven or eight people to eat. Because the noodles are very long and picky, people have to crouch on long stools to pick up noodles, and the scene is really lively. What's even more amazing is that when the ramen noodles are used, the master and the apprentice cooperate, one end presses the noodle head with a noodle knife, and the other pulls outward until it is pulled outside the kitchen door, the scene is really wonderful! Some tourists tried it on the spot under the guidance of the master, and they were particularly happy. The "donkey meat yellow face dragged outside the door" in "Dunhuang Eight Monsters" refers to this matter.
Donkey meat yellow noodles fragrant ancient city, Dunhuang cuisine is famous. Today, the vicissitudes of time are the icing on the cake. Dunhuang donkey meat yellow noodles are more and more refined, more and more stretched, love five continents and four seas, love Chinese and foreign guests. The exquisitely crafted yellow noodles, accompanied by a series of exquisite donkey meat with unique flavors, make the folk snacks of the past on the big stage of Dunhuang cuisine and bloom with full splendor. Shunzhang brine donkey meat yellow noodles and Daji sauce donkey meat yellow noodles, a hundred years of vicissitudes, five generations of inheritance, watching over the homeland nostalgia; a new, excellence, has become a famous Chinese snack. Tasting Dunhuang donkey meat yellow noodles, you are not only tasting Dunhuang cuisine, folk customs, but also the Silk Road culture and Chinese civilization on the thousand-year-old road.
The people take food as the sky, and food is named after beauty. For thousands of years, food has evolved into a special gastronomic culture. As an organic part of Dunhuang culture, Dunhuang food culture is also an important part of Chinese food culture. Think of the past, drink water and think of the source. Those creators and inheritors of Dunhuang cuisine are also innovators and promoters of Dunhuang culture.