Many people asked me where to go to Wuhan for snacks, I said Hubu Lane, Wuhan local students listened, dismissive, said where the snacks are not authentic. In fact, if you are not a professional foodie, you have to run to Hankou and go to find Cai Linji's hot dried noodles, Lao Tongcheng's bean skin, four seasons of beautiful soup buns, Shunxiangju's roasted plums, Wufangzhai tangyuan, Xie Derong's noodle nest, Xiao Taoyuan simmered soup? And many old shops have been relocated, even if I have been in Wuhan for many years, now may not be able to find one by one, then it is better to go to Hubu Lane once to get it!
Hubu Lane is located in wuchang simen, just under the Wuchang bridge, the Yellow Crane Tower, although the legend is a street in the Qing Dynasty, in fact, it was only later that it was fired, where a lot of snacks gathered by Wuhan people "prematurely", so it is called "Han flavor early first alley", it is best to eat in the morning, every time you take friends from other places to eat Wuhan snacks here, they are eating and can't move before stopping.
The first is Cai Linji's hot dry noodles, when I was a child, my favorite is the hot dry noodles with the flavor of sesame sauce, I ate a bowl, I was not hungry for a day, so you went here to try hot dry noodles, it is best for two people to have a bowl, otherwise the Wuhan food behind you, you can't eat at all, you can only sigh with joy.
Xie Derong's noodle nest is the most famous, to be honest I don't know where Xie Derong's shop is, but Hubu Alley is everywhere, with millet, yellow rice ground into rice milk, plus a little green onion, sesame seeds, and then with a raised spoon in the middle, scoop a spoon into the oil pot, immediately float up a Chinese "donut", but salty, crunchy and delicious.
When I was a child, I often ate "bao noodles", and the inside of the dough was stuffed with a chopstick and a little meat stuffing, stacked into a very beautiful shape, the northern talent was called chaos, and Wuhan was called "bao noodles". This is purely the taste of eating soup, when I was a child, I remembered the deepest impression is that the pepper, shrimp skin and green onions in chaos are fragrant, as for what chaos is, there is no impression at all, if you want to be real, then eat dumplings.
Shrimp balls, spicy and fragrant, many people say that Hunan and other places are everywhere, but Wuhan shrimp balls are minus the head and tail of the shrimp, only the middle section, very real, eat more refreshing.
Everyone knows the three fresh bean skins of Wuhan Laotongcheng, Chairman Mao has eaten it four times, but unfortunately, after I left Wuhan, Laotongcheng has closed down in 2006. Bean skin is also a very full stomach delicacy, eat a few pieces, work have strength. But when I was a kid, my family rarely did this because it was too much trouble.
First mix mung beans, rice paddles, eggs and fry them into a golden skin, then put a layer of steamed glutinous rice on top, and then add ingredients, remember that it is usually diced meat, shiitake mushrooms, and squeezed vegetables.
After frying one side, you have to fry the other side in reverse, see? It is like this, and finally use the spatula to divide into four square pieces, more than four pieces on a plate.
Tianluo, from the countryside of southern China to the city to eat this thing, but the Hubei method is not what it is now, the whole look is too troublesome, more like the Guangdong way of eating. When we were young, we only ate screw meat, and we used "aphrodisiac grass" - leeks to fry and eat, and we could eat a plate in one breath, which was called an addiction, but it was not easy to digest.
Stinky tofu, my favorite, still like, to make the tofu pieces stink and turn black, then fried, and then dipped in fresh minced pepper sauce to eat, the outside is charred and tender, smells very smelly, and eats very fragrant. Of course, the same kind of food also has moldy thousands of sheets, stinky skin, moldy tofu residue, it is estimated that people can not eat now.
Burnt plum, when I was a child, I remembered to call it a roast sale, anyway, it is a thing, and now the online introduction says what the taste of black pepper is the most authentic, I laughed, I was sweet when I was a child, grandma said that when the feast can not be sold without burning. The heavy oil roasted plum of "Shun Xiang Ju" in Hualou Street in Hankou is the most authentic. Roasted plum is the fat pork, steamed buns, orange cakes, peanut rice, rock sugar, raisins, etc. cut into small cubes, slightly stir-fried, and then with osmanthus flowers, red and green silk, white sugar into a filling steamed, now the so-called black pepper salty taste, when I was a child really did not eat.
Stinky garlic, foreigners say sugar garlic, than stinky tofu, this is more love, is to use salt water plus sugar to bubble garlic head, remember when I was a child can eat a bowl at a time, but after eating the breath is too smelly, really dare not eat casually. This is a good thing, when you have acute gastroenteritis, eat more, absolutely anti-inflammatory.
These are all Hubei kimchi, in addition to stinky garlic, the most eaten sweet cabbage, artichoke, chicken feet and so on are Sichuan more, Hubei is really not much.
Rice dumplings, delicious, rice milk made of rice milk, get some raisins on top of the steamed, now many places are slightly fried, when I was a child only steamed, a sweet and sour taste, eat a lot in one breath is fine, appetizing.
Oil cakes, which are found all over the country, are fried to a golden brown and are generally salty, similar to noodle nests.
It must be fried and eaten, and you can't eat it when you put it, so you often stand in front of a small stall and wait.
When I was a child, I often drank soy milk, cheap and nutritious, generally added sugar, and now they are all made of soy milk powder, the taste is far worse, soy milk must be eaten with fritters.
To add salt water, alkali, then fermented, cut into strips, fried, immediately expanded very large, crunchy and delicious, with a bamboo skewer to wear to eat, a mouthful of fritters a bite of soy milk, that is a delicious. Now the "scientists" always say that it is not good for fritters to eat with alkali, so I don't care about it, catch it once, always have to eat enough.
When I was a child, there were four snacks that I had to eat for the New Year, namely, the shortbread of Hubei Puchun and the hemp candy of Xiaogan, the hemp baking cake and the cloud cake. The dragon's whiskers are made into a shred of whiskers, the spring puff pastry is all small squares, and the hemp sugar, hemp baking cake and cloud cake of Xiaogan are all pieces.
Mung bean cake is one of my favorite sweets, Hubei traditional production of mung bean cake, mainly mung bean powder, pea powder, brown sugar, osmanthus flower, mung bean paste, etc., mung bean cake color light yellow or tender green, summer eat cool taste, sweet but not greasy.
Wuhan's famous soup bun of four seasons may also come from the north, but it is one of the top ten famous foods in Wuhan. Raw fried buns to eat is not much, after the transformation of Hualou Street, what is "Jianghan Road fried bun a must", when I was a child, I really did not know, the buns eaten at that time had watercress sauce and meat filling made, and the light sweetness of watercress sauce was delicious.
Chicken legs are rarely eaten, eat more pig's trotters, brine to eat, I remember an old man said, I rely on hooves to feed. Now people say what collagen is, at that time it was rare to eat once, no matter what collagen, is to think that brine taste delicious.
Sesame cake, the most famous at that time was the Hong Kong cake in Huangshi, Hubei Province, was generally baked and could be eaten for a long time, all of which were sweet, ten barrels.
Fried potatoes, seems to be foreign, when I was a child, this really did not eat much, must pass through Hubei is not a potato production area.
Xiao Taoyuan's simmering soup is somewhat famous, but I don't know if it is a snack, now Hubei is known as Xinzhou Wangji's chicken soup is the most famous, my mother is Xinzhou Liji's, Wangji's next door, asked, there is no such chicken soup, but also later famous.
Talk about the crab in Hubei, although it is not as famous as the hairy crab, in fact, Hubei is known as the province of a thousand lakes, crabs are very famous, much more delicious than the sea crabs in the sea. At that time, it was steamed, dipped in ginger, vinegar and soy sauce to eat together, many people said that the cold is heavy, can not eat more, remember to eat a dozen in one breath is fine.
When I was a child, I used to eat baked quiches, but there were no such shapes, they were all round cakes, crispy.
Many people have certainly not eaten shredded beans, shredded beans are mung beans or soybeans, rice, etc. as raw materials, ground into a pulp, spread into a skin in the pot, cut into silk, sun-dried for easy storage. The most eaten is the shredded beans cooked in soup, just like eating noodles, often eaten as a staple food, wuhan lao qianji is most famous for fried beef shredded beans.
I don't understand what this is called, anyway, the rice cake is cut into strips, when I was a child, I often ate fried rice cakes or soups boiled to eat, rarely eat such rice cakes, and rice dumplings can also be cut into strips and boiled to eat.
These barbecues do not seem to be authentic Hubei snacks, and going to Hubu Lane is negligible.
Never heard of these, saw the stinky tofu, couldn't help but take a picture.
When I was a child, Hubei never saw these seafood such as squid, and most of them ate peeled fish and striped fish.
Wuhan's cold noodles are really famous, a package is eaten in summer, more delicious, that is, cooked noodles with water, and then blown dry with a fan, when it is too late, often use cold boiling water lin again, noodles become precise, plus spices.
Whether the cold noodles are delicious, mainly seasoning, generally add green onions, diced radish, kelp shreds, soy sauce, vinegar or something, of course, but also add tahini.
There are many more snacks in Wuhan, such as Fuqinghe's beef rice noodles, Tian Qiheng paste soup powder, Chubao osmanthus red bean soup, osmanthus paste rice wine, Wufangzhai's osmanthus tangyuan, and Song Sister-in-law's fish soup, which was later famous. In fact, if I ask me what I want to eat most when I go to Wuhan now? Of course, it is stinky thousands of skins, sour and spicy lotus strips and jackal root soup, perhaps these are beyond the scope of snacks.
If you go to Wuhan to see the cherry blossoms, or to climb the Yellow Crane Tower, you must go to Hubu Lane once in the morning, no need to look for those snacks in wuhan, it is better to eat here at once, from morning to noon.
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