Today, I want to introduce you to the coconut stew cup, which is known as the "first cup in Qiongzhou". This hot summer should have been remembered by many people, but this special food has almost been forgotten. Coconut stew cup, formerly known as "Dragon and Phoenix Soup", is stewed with sea snakes (dragons) and Wenchang chicken (phoenix) as the main ingredients.
Hainan coconut cup has a long history. Before liberation, Hainan men went to Nanyang to make a living, and before leaving, their wives did their best to cook for their husbands. Limited to conditions, only coconut can be used to make a stew cup. They choose the best fresh old coconut, peel the brown, leave the inner shell, saw a round block at the top fifth, filter the coconut juice for later, put in the fattest and most delicious small piece of bone-bearing Wenchang chicken (the first of the four famous dishes in Hainan), the sea snake with rheumatism and the five flavors of Chinese herbal medicine (dang ginseng, goji berries, lotus seeds, red dates, Huaishan), and then add clean coconut juice according to the amount, cover the lid and put the porcelain bowl into the cage, simmer slowly for two or three hours, and add salt and condiments as needed after leaving the cage. The soup is milky white, and the soup noodles float with golden chicken fat and red dates dotted with red dates, which are not only beautiful, but also pin their wives' feelings and wishes. When overseas Chinese return to their hometowns and taste coconut cups, they often have mixed feelings.
This delicacy, later, some people used fresh coconut cups, selected suckling pigeon as the main food, with goji berries, ginseng, dates and other tonics as accessories, after several hours of slow simmering to make a delicate dish. As early as 1988, he won a gold medal award at the Second National Culinary Technology Competition.
The pigeon meat is tender, the soup is milky white, the coconut is fragrant, and it is smooth to eat, which is endlessly evocative.
Others stew with black chicken, or Wenchang chicken. With white fungus, red dates, goji berries, lotus seeds, guiyuan and other accessories. In the summer, come to a bowl, it is very sweet and refreshing.
In the past, such a stew cup, in the stew shop on Bo'ai South Road, you can also find some stew cup figures. But those stew cups are made of ceramics, without the original umami taste of coconut stew cups. Prices range from 5 yuan to 30 yuan.
This kind of coconut shell with fresh meat as a stew cup preserves the umami taste of the soup, can absorb the tonic, and is full of flavor.
It is said that in stewing this soup, coconuts should be selected to be older, such coconuts, its coconut milk and coconut oil ingredients are relatively large, and the stewed soup is fragrant and highly nourishing.
Such a traditional specialty food is almost gone in the world of foodies!
In Haikou, which street can you still find such a delicious coconut stew cup? Let's dig together