Hong Kong poet Leung Bingjun wrote in his short poem "Hong Kong Potted Vegetables": "Sit around the beach and eat / Never return to the old bells / Stay away from the glory of Gyeonggi / And try the wild food of the villagers." ”
This poem is based on a legend of the origin of bonsai -
In the last year of the Southern Song Dynasty, in order to escape the pursuit and killing of the Yuan soldiers, the fleeing Song Dynasty royal family arrived in Hong Kong, and the villagers could not entertain them, and in a hurry, they used their own reserves of pork and radishes, plus freshly caught fish and shrimp, filled with wooden basins, and filled with dishes to treat and comfort.
During the Southern Song Dynasty, potted vegetables were still fledgling game. Nowadays, under the meticulous work of Guangdong people, potted vegetables have long become a custom in guangdong coastal areas, Hong Kong and even Southeast Asia, and are essential festive dishes for the New Year's Festival, with the meaning of "perfect perfection", "beautiful and full", "reunion", "pot full of bowls full of business" and so on.
At the turn of the old and the new year, the industrious housewives of the Two Cantons will make potted dishes in advance. This is a big dish that is praised by many delicious guys as "standing on the top of the Chinese New Year's Eve", and the variety of ingredients in it can be as high as fifteen or sixteen, and there is no shortage of nobles.
truly! Seemingly simple village potted vegetables, in fact, it takes a whole day to make, and the materials used need to be fried, fried, burned, boiled, stewed, and then potted layer by layer. It can be described as a hundred dishes and a hundred flavors, and a furnace is smelted together. In Guangdong, like some restaurants to book potted dishes, there are more reservations three days in advance. It's not that the merchants are lazy, it's just that it's too much trouble.
When men, women and children gathered at a table, the meaning of reunion was written on everyone's face, and everyone moved their chopsticks and began to eat potted vegetables from top to bottom.
The placement of potted vegetables is like "stacked Luohan", which has the attention and balance of Cantonese people, which is a metaphysics. Seasonal seafood such as prawns, abalone, scallops, sea cucumbers, etc. are usually placed on the upper layer of potted vegetables. This is the enthusiasm and face of the host's family's guests, and at the same time, the seafood also provides a rich taste for the underlying ingredients. When eating the lowest layer, the bamboo radish and other ingredients are soaked with the soup soaked in the upper layer of ingredients, the entrance is plump and rich, raise a glass and say a few "good intentions", that is, the taste of home, the warmth of home.
Today, after the ups and downs of 2020, Wuhan has ushered in the year of the bull. As a small restaurant that adheres to authentic Cantonese cuisine and adds a valuable celebration to the Jiangcheng table, Shunyi Food Has hereby launched a customized version of the hearty pot dish, which is very rich in content, and added the lotus root of Honghu Lake, which has the feeling of Chu Yue family. The point is that you can also pack it up and take it away! Listen to me for these good ingredients!
Tao Tao Ju large pot dish ¥588 purchase
Yuanbao Fengpei (Yaozhu), Haina Baichuan (sea cucumber), All-inclusive (abalone), Luck in Hand (Pig Hand),
Phoenix New Year (white cut chicken), Golden Bull Jubao (all kinds of meatballs), Bamboo (contentment), Lotus root (Good Couple Tiancheng)...
As the saying goes,
Every ingredient has good intentions; taste and harmony, people, everything and everything.
A pot of dishes, a family reunion; full of wealth, happiness, and affection.
At the same time, in order to give back to the love of new and old customers, Shunyi traditional large pot dish has three stalls of choice, and everyone can choose their own "good intentions".
1. Welcome the spring and receive blessings
Lotus root, Chinese cabbage, white cut chicken, roast goose, beef balls, cuttlefish balls, fresh shrimp, shiitake mushrooms, broccoli, fish rot, marinated pork feet, fried bamboo, carrots.
2. Taurus Jubao
At the same time as doubling the portion size, fresh abalone, flower glue, conch, goose paw, fish rot, marinated pork knuckle and carrots were added to the "Spring Greeting Blessing".
3. Family fun
At the same time as doubling the portion size, dried scallops, sea cucumbers and iceberg mussels were added to the "Golden Bull Jubao".
If potted vegetables are the protagonists of the festival, then the red braised lamb pot and the flower clay chicken soup that can also be packed and taken away are the perfect supporting roles.
Red braised lamb pot, lamb stewed until soft rotten, no smell, but also add side dishes, one pot two eat, in the cold winter, let people have a warm spring experience.
Flower glue chicken soup, is still made of northern Guangdong native chicken slowly boiled, the addition of flower glue, so that this nourishing and healthy chicken soup, more youthful and beautiful afterglow.
Whether it is a family reunion, everyone shares Cantonese basin dishes together, happy and noisy; or stay in Wuhan for the New Year, thinking about the bright moon.
As long as there is a table of festive delicacies, everyone can have a bullish Spring Festival!
Author: Shu Huai
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