Eating sticky rice for breakfast is not a patent of Wenzhou people. I was born in Hangzhou, Hangzhou used to have that kind of breakfast car, there is a special glutinous rice, put a big rice bucket in the car, and then there are some feeding areas on the car, but the final choice is nothing more than sweet and salty.
The sweet ones are chopped fritters + sticky rice + sugar, while the salty ones can be squeezed vegetables or pickles and chopped fritters. By high school, sticky rice had been upgraded, and salty sticky rice could be stuffed with cabbage, shredded pumpkin or tenderloin, and I thought it was already delicious.
However, it wasn't until I went to Wenzhou in college that I learned that the rivers and lakes of sticky rice are also hidden dragons and crouching tigers. After eating Wenzhou sticky rice, I had a good feeling for the city.
Of course, although Wenzhou snacks are not as famous as Shaxian and Shengzhou snacks, if you go to Wenzhou, you will know that in fact, the snacks in this place are very distinctive, and many things you eat in Wenzhou are rare in other cities. Such as fish cakes, knocking fish noodles, lean meatballs...
Today, I would like to seriously recommend to you my favorite of four years in college: Wenzhou sticky rice.
In 2008, that year I went through the college entrance examination. At the moment of volunteering, I didn't know what I wanted. By chance, I took my luggage and took a 5-hour car ride to Wenzhou Chashan Higher Education Park.
Wenzhou in my impression is a very special city, some people will compare it with Chaoshan and some places in Fujian, because the dialect of Wenzhou naturally separates locals and foreigners, and such a city usually has a deeper clan concept, the family is more united, and marriage is more to accept their own people. They can endure hardships, dare to break in, will go to all parts of the world, and families can always unite to make the business bigger.
Unlike some big cities, the emphasis may be more on the self, the individual, so doing business is another model. There are many bosses in Wenzhou, but if there is no contact, people may still think of street stalls, put: Jiangnan Tannery closed, the boss ran away, all sold cheaply.
After coming to Wenzhou, I found that Wenzhou really did not only hear the story of "Jiangnan Leather Factory closed down" heard by the outside world... If you open the city in the name of food, you will find that it is wonderful, where you can eat the taste of the sea, the taste of time, and many local snacks are very unique and have a regional label.
"China on the Tip of the Tongue 3" has made a name for Wenzhou cuisine, such as Wenzhou specialties such as dwarf muffins, long-term wontons, white snake roast cakes, Wenzhou pine candy, elephant raw sydney pears, etc...
Since then, the taste of Wenzhou has become a taste that I can't quit in my life, in order to eat, I also have to run Wenzhou once a year. There are fly houses and seafood feasts, so you can find a place to go, whether you're true to the original or a fan of heavy taste.
Because of eating, I also kind of liked this place in Wenzhou.
On the breakfast table of Wenzhou people, the highest status is glutinous rice. No matter how rich Wenzhou people are, they can't pass the pass of sticky rice, and at the simple table of sticky rice, whether it is middle-aged, the elderly or young students will sit down and slowly taste. Of course, it includes a lot of Wenzhou bosses.
Wenzhou people have a deep-rooted nostalgia, called glutinous rice (also called cooking rice), which is one of the labels of Wenzhou's well-being life. It is a delicious breakfast that countless Wenzhou people will never forget.
"What's to eat this morning?"
"Sticky rice, salty!"
The boss was able to pick it up, "Okay, the soup should be added more, and then another cup of sweet soy milk!" ”
This is the daily life of Wenzhou glutinous rice breakfast shop, many of the people who come to eat are old customers, familiar with the road, almost every three forks and five to come over.
Wenzhou glutinous rice is also divided into sweet and salty, but because I love salty too much, so we will say salty glutinous rice first.
Mainstream salty glutinous rice is usually served in a stainless steel bowl, the grains are crystal clear and chewy white glutinous rice, add crisp and delicious, fragrant fritters, drizzled with salty and moderately fat but not greasy minced meat soup, and sprinkled with a little green onion, combined into a bowl of Wenzhou glutinous rice with unique flavor. Coupled with a bowl of steaming soy milk, it has become a delicious breakfast that countless Wenzhou people will never forget.
I used to study, and there was a family opposite the back door of Wenda, and every time I ate it, I was very touched and tired of eating.
Why is Wenzhou sticky rice so delicious? Locals will tell you because of the broth.
Originally, sticky rice was just sticky rice, but after sucking the soup, each grain of rice became fragrant.
Any spoonful is wrapped in fragrant fritters, which is not only crispy and tempting, but also clicks when eaten, and it will not become soft even after dipping in broth.
And this pot of broth is usually made of minced meat and shiitake mushrooms. The broth should be selected pork belly chopped and chopped, shiitake mushrooms to the stalks cut into small cubes, the above two ingredients under the cold water under the pot to open the fire (water is a little more than the material can be), and then put in the appropriate amount: cooking wine, soy sauce, salt, a slice of ginger, after the soup is boiled, remove the foam, put into the pressure cooker to boil.
Be sure to stir before eating sticky rice, so that every bite can be full of flavor.
In addition to the broth, the glutinous rice can be exquisite, glutinous rice must be soaked in water for about 3 hours and then put into the steamer basket covered with white gauze to steam, this step is called "cooking", according to the amount, steamed with high heat, until steamed. Glutinous rice needs to be tough, but it is cooked thoroughly; it cannot be steamed over the head, so that the glutinous rice becomes soft and lying down.
Fritters, on the other hand, cannot use "double bubble fritters", meaning that they are not made by frying them twice. If it is fried twice, it will not be crispy.
In fact, after eating sticky rice once, you can understand the boss's process:
Rice is served first, and the glutinous rice is steaming after steaming. When cooking, the hands and feet should be numb and fast, so as not to be burned. It is best to soak the rice spoon and small bowl for cooking with boiling water first, so as not to be stuck by the glutinous rice;
Pour the broth. Depending on personal taste, the broth is more fragrant but also salty;
Put the end of the fritters;
Sticky rice for children who are not picky about onions will look better because of the green onions that dot it. The hostess moved very quickly, and in just a dozen seconds, a bowl of hot and fragrant sticky rice was made.
Remember, the best accompaniment to sticky rice is soy milk. Sweet soy milk or salted soy milk, as long as it meets glutinous rice, it is like Mars hitting the earth and hitting the tip of your tongue.
In addition to salty sticky rice, there are also sweet sticky rice in Wenzhou.
Sweet glutinous rice must be wrapped in rice balls to be delicious, and you can add white sugar or brown sugar to it and sprinkle sesame seeds on it. Sweet and sesame flavors can be interlined with each other.
Compared to salty glutinous rice, sweet glutinous rice will have fewer characteristics.
And in the hearts of every Wenzhou person, in fact, there is their own bowl of sticky rice. When they were young, on their way to school, their parents would often take them to eat, and at that time, sticky rice was only fifty cents a bowl. When you get to the store, find a place to sit down yourself, or move a chair to squeeze in. And you must eat it quickly, not because the glutinous rice is cold and hard, as long as it is like the kind of child who looks at the children who are slow to move, there will always be other people's parents frowning and holding the rice in one hand and pulling their own children in the "tut".
In Wenzhou, you can eat sticky rice in many places, even in our university canteen, but when I ask my classmates where the best food is, they often talk about the one on their way to study.
There is really no standard answer to what Wenzhou sticky rice should look like.
Some shops swap old fritters for soft fritters, some have small slices of fried beans and thin slices of sausage in the ingredients, some have a sweet taste in broth, and some can also add a handful of meat floss.
Of course, what remains unchanged is that the sticky rice must be steamed, the broth always has to cover the bottom of the bowl (some people also like to eat the soup less dry), the minced meat in the soup has been fried and fried with the taste of Wenzhou soy sauce, and the thick green onions sprinkled on the top of the sticky rice by those "love to eat onions".
I loved one of our university campuses, and the first time I ate it, it was really shocking.
In Wenzhou City, Hanzhong Cooking Rice is a store that is more popular among the people in Wenzhou in recent years, and has opened branches in many places in Wenzhou. For tourists, it is easier to find and more convenient, and you can choose nearby. In chain stores, it is relatively cost-effective.
And if you want to go to the old shop to experience the rhythm of life of the old Wenzhou people, eat something with emotional taste, then you can go to the rope alley. The sticky rice in Ta Rope Lane and the rice noodle shop on the same street are not known how many people in the second place have memories. The rice grains are crystal clear, and the soup is dripping and rich.
Out of Wenzhou, in fact, Hangzhou also has Wenzhou glutinous rice shop, and even takeaway can be called, but I eat it again, and I always feel that the taste of the soup base is not quite right.
Recently, I have not returned to Wenzhou for a long time, after all, the graduation time is getting longer and longer, and the annual agreement can no longer be done. The most recent time I saw the figure of Wenzhou sticky rice in "Breakfast China", although I am not a Wenzhou person, but as soon as I see sticky rice, I can arouse some of my youth memories.
After all, the best period of youth in life was "eaten" in Wenzhou.