Miracle of taste buds - local specialties Hainan powder

Brief introduction

Hainan noodles are the most distinctive flavor snacks in Hainan, which have a long history and are commonly eaten among the residents of Haikou City, Ding'an County and Chengmai County in the north of Hainan Island, and are essential for festivals and festivals to symbolize auspicious longevity. At night, hotels, restaurants and temporary food stalls form a spectacular food street. Along the road, the fire is raging and the woks are steaming, attracting groups of diners who come for a late night snack. They sat around the table, or family, or friends, and ate while talking. It forms a major cultural landscape of Haikou City. The street stalls are unique, allowing people to enjoy the street scenery while tasting Hainan noodles. The hotel "Food Street" is clean, elegant, warm and thoughtful service, so that you feel harmonious and comfortable. Young couples join hands to eat Hainan noodles in the hotel's "food street", whispering while tasting, and feelings are endless.

Hainan powder is as white as snow and as thin as silk (compared with the well-known Guilin rice noodles and Yunnan bridge rice noodles, its slenderness is incomparable to the above rice noodles). Its food method, the northerners call it "cold mix", the Hainan people call it "pickled powder", that is, on the prepared rice noodles with fried peanuts, fried sesame seeds, bean sprouts, green onions, shredded meat, sesame oil, sauerkraut, coriander, bamboo shoots and so on. It is precisely because of the fineness of Hainan powder that the mixed ingredients can enter the taste, and after mixing, its taste is mellow and fragrant, and the aftertaste is endless. After eating, add a spoonful of conch clear soup cooked with conch or clear shallot soup cooked with chives, and the flavor is incomparable. You can also pour the soup into a bowl filled with Hainanese flour for a more delicious meal.

It is better to smell than to taste, Hainan powder is worthy of the name, chewed carefully, fragrant, mellow and fragrant, and the aftertaste is endless. After eating, it is full of mellow flavor, the more you eat, the more you love to eat, the more you eat, the more you want to eat, the more you eat, the more delicious you feel. The reason why Hainan flour is quite popular is not only its mellow and delicious, but also because it has a unique atmosphere, which is the core of a food culture. While tasting it, people look for the footprints of their ancestors and carry forward the Chinese national culture.

History and culture

Hainan flour is the originator of the Hainan rice noodle family. It is made by marinating rice noodles with more than a dozen unique seasonings. Hainan powder source began in Fujian Minnan. Legend has it that at the end of the Ming Dynasty, a resident surnamed Chen moved to the old city of Chengmai to process rice noodles. Due to the good business and many learners, Hainan powder is all over the island. The "Zhengde Qiongtai Zhi" records that at that time, there were 121 larger markets on the island, all of which had Hainan powder plus workshops and small stalls. People commonly known as Hainan flour is also called Haikou pickled powder.

There are two kinds of Hainan powder: one is semolina and the other is fine powder. Generally speaking, Hainan powder also includes Lingshan coarse powder (that is, Baoluo powder), Lingshui acid powder, Chengmai powder, Jiaji beef brisket powder and so on. The ingredients of semolina are relatively simple, only add hot sauerkraut beef soup in the semolina, sprinkle a little shrimp paste, tender peppers, green onions, fried peanuts and rice, etc., called "semolina soup", and fine powder is more exquisite, to use a variety of ingredients, flavors and sauce to be stirred and pickled to eat, called "pickle powder". Hainan flour usually refers to this kind of "pickled powder". [2]

In the past, Hainan noodles were a traditional snack in the Haifu area. Locals eat Hainan flour as breakfast and as a meal; eat it normally, eat it during festivals; eat it themselves and treat them to guests. Just like the people of Guangzhou who invite friends to their homes often say, "Come to my house and drink soup!" In the same way, what the Haifu people said was: "Go to my house and eat powder!" ”。

method

Rice noodles are made from rice and banz flour, and mixed with dark soy sauce, garlic paste, peanut oil, or sesame oil, cooked black bean sprouts, shredded beef, fried fish shreds, fried peanut rice, sautéed sesame seeds, crispy fried noodles, crushed coriander, bamboo shoots and sauerkraut and other accessories.