Hanzhong "Tofu Festival", some places called "bean blossom noodles"! Friends who are accustomed to eating big fish and meat during the Spring Festival, come to a bowl of "vegetable tofu festival", which is called a strong, especially soup, it is simply cool and crooked!
Vegetable tofu festival
First, the characteristics of the vegetable tofu festival:
Dip it while it is hot, fragrant and tender, appetite suddenly open, noodles are sturdy, bean blossoms are tender and smooth, and the dipping water is fragrant.
Second, the history of the vegetable tofu festival:
The Vegetable Tofu Festival is one of the most common Han Chinese noodles in Luoyang County, Shaanxi Province, like the dough skin of Hanzhong Chenggu, the spicy chicken of Ningqiang's walnut cake, and the bacon of Zhenba, which are favored by local residents. Vegetable tofu festival with soy milk boiled mixed with sizing water dishes to order out tofu, and then into the festival (a kind of short noodles made of corn flour with white noodles rolled out locally), made into a kind of rice, and served with garlic spicy seeds, kimchi and other side dishes, its taste is sweet and sour, delicious, fragrant and pleasant.
Coming to Luoyang without eating vegetables and tofu festivals is like not eating Quanjude roast duck in Beijing and not eating lamb steamed buns in Xi'an, which means that you have not really been to Luoyang. Because the vegetable tofu festival in Luoyang has long become a significant brand and synonym for Luoyang regional culture. Liuyang people have a deep complex of "pulling continuously and rationalizing it", "not eating acid for three days, walking and panting". It can be said that the local people's love and attachment to it have reached an indescribable point and degree, which is the most vivid description and summary of it, which shows people's deep attachment to it and the strong love of it.
Third, the practice of the vegetable tofu festival:
(1) Noodles: Using "wide knife noodles", using high-quality flour mixed with fresh eggs, and then adding a small amount of mustard and lye water, the finished noodles are wider and longer than ordinary noodles.
(2) Bean blossom: soybean grinding pulp is selected to make water tofu, and then cooked with soy milk, which is characterized by tender and soft sponge.
(3) The most important and necessary condition for the vegetable tofu festival is that the "dish" tastes good and there are more flower samples. The taste of "vegetable plates" is poor, there are fewer flower samples, and even the best vegetable tofu festivals are not popular and favored, because the vegetable tofu festival pays attention to this "eating method". Therefore, the shrewd and capable shopkeepers, in order to attract more urgent customers, pay great attention to the preparation and mixing of various side dishes. With the change of seasons and the listing of various vegetables, the "dish" carefully prepared by the owner of the shop is also changing, with a wide variety of varieties and everything available. Cold bean sprouts, kimchi, syrup, and shredded potatoes can be eaten all year round. With the change of the four seasons, you can also eat lettuce, beans, cucumbers, onions, leeks, zucchini, celery, cabbage shreds, radish shreds, eggplant shreds, shallots, etc., these small vegetable greens, green greens, purple purples, white whites, blue blues, red reds, placed together colorful, colorful, like a Picasso abstract oil painting, gorgeous and moving, seductive reverie. Let's say that spicy seeds are a kind of spicy seeds, which will be made into red garlic spicy seeds, green fried spicy seeds, green and green hot seeds, oily vegetables mixed with red spicy seeds and other styles to meet the needs of various tastes.
Fourth, the way to eat vegetables and tofu festivals:
Serve with cooked noodles in a bowl, cover with cooked bean blossoms and fill with soy milk. Mix well with 1 small dish of condiments. Use chopsticks to pick the noodles and bean blossoms into a small dish and eat them while dipping them in the seasoning.
Boiling noodles is also exquisite, to be cooked with soy milk, the taste is more delicious. Prepare a pot of clean soy milk for soup. When eating, you can choose to eat dry dipped in water, delicious, but also with a bowl of soy milk; you can also choose to have sugar, that is, the bean blossom noodles and soy milk are mixed, in the pouring of the prepared dipping water, it is also very delicious, the taste is adjustable, and it varies from person to person.