Create a Yu cuisine brand to inherit the classics of Yu cuisine
——Zhongyuan famous store "Ruyi Restaurant"
More than thirty years ago, there was such a restaurant, just want to simply make a good meal of Yu cuisine, there is such a person, fifteen or sixteen years old to follow his father to study Yu cuisine, just want to prove the charm of Yu cuisine. Over the years, this restaurant that only wants to do Yu cuisine has long become a well-known old Yu cuisine restaurant, and at the same time, a plate of "Ruyi Elbow" has also conquered many diners who love Tou cuisine, and also made Ruyi Elbow the only choice for diners to taste Yu cuisine.
Improvement is to better carry forward Yu cuisine
"Zhang Weidong is particularly studious..." "I started cooking Yu cuisine at fifteen or sixteen..." "I often study dishes day and night." "In his spare time, he often goes to many places to learn how to cook." In the mouth of friends around him, Zhang Weidong, the current head of Ruyi Restaurant, is diligent and studious, and has a lot of research on Yu cuisine.
"My research on Yu cuisine benefits from my father Zhang Ruyi, who has condensed a lot of my father's painstaking efforts. My goal now is that no matter how many difficulties I encounter, I must make sure that the brand cannot be poured. Zhang Weidong said that Ruyi Restaurant was created in 1986, which can be said to be an earlier restaurant in Pingdingshan, with good reputation, affordable dishes, and old brands... It is the reason why many diners choose Ruyi Restaurant.
In order to make Yu cuisine better develop, Ruyi Restaurant's dishes are improved on the basis of traditional Yu cuisine, and innovations are made from the aspects of ingredients, tableware, color, taste, plate, and portion. "There are many techniques, knife techniques and methods of traditional Yu cuisine that are worth inheriting, and the traditional techniques of simmering, burning and stewing should be inherited." However, traditional Yu cuisine also has problems such as large oiliness, heavy color, and traditional tableware, so we will work hard to improve in this regard. Zhang Weidong said.
So, now you go to Ruyi Restaurant to taste Yu cuisine, where there is not only the innovation of ingredients, but also the innovation of taste, the integration of cooking techniques... If you order a cashew shrimp, you will find that this dish is not only cashew nuts mixed with shrimp stir-frying, but also a well-laid steamed egg white, shaped like tofu, smooth and tender, coupled with the thick umami taste of shrimp, will make you look at this traditional dish differently... If you want to eat sweet and sour fish, ruyi restaurant's modified sweet and sour fish is not only beautiful in color, but also tastes better. There are also the most tested chef skills of the fried eight treasure rice, small red beans, preserved fruits, dates, lotus seed soup... The strong, fragrant, sweet taste is wrapped between the teeth so that you can't forget...
In Zhang Weidong's view, people are now paying more and more attention to eating, paying attention to nutritional safety and paying attention to meal collocation. Previously, Yu cuisine was developed on the basis of big fish and big meat, and the taste was heavy. Nowadays, people's tastes are changing, and Yu cuisine should also be better developed and improved. "All are characteristics equal to no characteristics, just as everyone has their own personality, each dish also has its own personality, only by making Yu cuisine with heart, can we really do Yu cuisine to the extreme and better carry forward Yu cuisine." Zhang Weidong said.
Unchanged, in order to inherit the Yu cuisine classic
In Ruyi Restaurant, some dishes have been well improved after Zhang Weidong's attempts, and some dishes have not changed so far. "In the process of making our Yu cuisine, some things are handed down from the ancestors and cannot be changed at will, which is the classic of Yu cuisine. For example, soft and sour fish baked noodles, fried grilled mackerel head and tail, fried purple lid..." Zhang Weidong said.
Among these Yu dishes that Zhang Weidong believes cannot be changed, he even mentioned his signature dish, Ruyi Elbow. "Ruyi Elbow was developed by my father Zhang Ruyi with a lot of painstaking efforts, and I only hope that I can inherit it better in the future, so that more people know Ruyi Elbow and taste Ruyi Elbow." Zhang Weidong said.
In ruyi restaurant, the good ruyi elbow into dishes such as mounds, color jujube red, plump shape, rotten and sticky meat, fat but not greasy, thin but not chai, mellow and delicious, food has a different flavor. A seemingly simple dish often involves an unusually simple preparation process, as does Ruyi Elbow. Ruyi elbow from cleaning processing to cooking out of the pot takes 11-12 hours, to make this dish needs to be paired with more than 40 kinds of ingredients, through boiling, frying, stewing, steaming four cooking techniques, the finished product can form a soft, fragrant, crispy, rotten taste. "Ruyi elbow is what we honor henan yucai king Zhang Ruyi developed, this dish contains more tendons, compact meat, suitable for all ages. The good ruyi elbow you use chopsticks to gently pinch the meat with the skin to clip down, when eating a little firewood, the taste is excellent, is a must order dish. An industry insider commented on Ruyi Elbow.
Elbows, in the past, were necessary foods for the people's traditional major festivals, and it is recorded in the Book of Poetry that every Lunar New Year, the people drink "spring wine", eat "full meals" and "bless" each other to greet the New Year. There is also a custom that eating elbows in the New Year heralds the arch of the fat pig and the blessing to the home, which is auspicious. Come to Ruyi Restaurant, whether it is to entertain relatives and friends, or to hold a wedding feast, how can you lack this "Ruyi Elbow"?
For this dish, the president of the Henan Cuisine Association once gave the words "Taste the Central Plains Culture, Eat Ruyi Elbow", this seemingly simple, delicate but quite meaningful words said that ruyi elbow occupies a deeper weight in Yu cuisine, but also let more people have a deeper understanding of Ruyi elbow.
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