In the West, afternoon tea + dim sum is a popular way of life. Many people know that coffee should be served with freshly baked muffins, and drinking English is to eat snacks in order from top to bottom. Chinese drink tea with refreshments, which has a very long history.
The word "dim sum", the word out of the Tang Dynasty, drinking tea accompanied by dim sum, became popular in the Tang Dynasty; during the Song and Yuan Dynasties, various tea shops and leisure tea houses sprung up, refreshments were more diversified, and noodles sang the protagonist; and in the Ming and Qing dynasties, the loose tea brewing method began to become popular, drinking tea became more convenient and popular, and almost all dim sum can be called refreshments.
And there are so many teas in China, how to match the refreshments? In my impression, the first to make refreshments into a brand is Taiwan Tianfu Tea, so far its mung bean cake, muffins and other refreshments, are on my snack list, on the list, the list.
Single-bush tea, which belongs to the semi-fermented oolong tea, has a taste between green tea and black tea. When tasting, the tea soup is slowly born through the throat, and it is accompanied by salty and fresh snacks, which can retain the aroma of tea without destroying the original taste. Therefore, tasting single bush tea, choosing refreshments, can not be too sweet, can not be too salty, and Chaozhou has a century-old famous snack - curd cake, is definitely the best choice.
Teochew is a world-famous food town and a haven for foodies. Soaked in Chaozhou for many years, traveled all over the country, returned here is still a dish and a soup, one taste, the most delicious and most concerned. Even the snacks in the street shops here are also the delicacies of the world.
Mr. Zhou Zuoren once said in "Beijing Tea Food": "We look at the sunset, look at the autumn river, see the flowers, listen to the rain, smell the incense, drink wine that does not quench thirst, and eat snacks that do not seek fullness, all of which are necessary for life." ”
——Refreshments, in the eyes of some old tea worms, seem to be useless decorations, but finding refreshments that suit their taste is also the icing on the cake.
Inside the Chaoshan specialty, the Chaozhou curd cake must not fall. Teochew Curd Cake is definitely the best in cake food, its small shape, with a unique smell of southern milk, garlic and wine, the aroma is strong, fragrant and delicious, sweet but not greasy.
The ingredients for curd cake are peculiar and diverse. It is made from fine flour to make a crust. In the pie filling, the curd milk block 2.5%, the famous wine contains 2%, the white pork is selected and cut into diced meat, accounting for 18.2%, the powder sugar content is 27.5%, and the garlic head, etc., the total number of ingredients is more than fourteen. In the production is also very elaborate, the feeding is orderly, and the baking is also methodical. In this way, the crust is thin and not cracked, the pie filling is full but not exposed, and it is dry and moist without burning.
Teochew curd cake comes from a legend:
It is said that at the end of the Qing Dynasty, there was a Ding monopoly owner in Chaozhou who was very harsh on the workers he hired, and often did not pay for them. One year is coming, a teacher who works in a cake workshop, thinking that he has not been paid for many months, the new year is coming, I am afraid that by the end of the year I will not get a penny, the more I think about it, the more Angry, after an evening of work, the teacher Fu will put all the raw materials for making cakes in the workshop, peanuts, sesame seeds, white pork, garlic, milk, flour, sugar oil, wine, etc., put away the ancient brain, poured into a large vat, and stirred vigorously, and then packed up and angrily left the rich man's house.
A few days later, The rich man Ding could not find this teacher everywhere, and the wife of the rich man Ding opened the door of the workshop and suddenly smelled a special fragrance, which actually came from the teacher Fu in order to vent his anger and pour the raw materials into the tank as garbage, and the wife of the rich man Ding made the raw materials in the tank as stuffing and made cakes to sell, and the business was very prosperous. Later, the Ding rich man's family made a pie according to the ingredients of the raw materials in the tank, because the taste of the southern milk made was particularly prominent, so this kind of cake was called curd milk cake (southern milk was also called red curd milk and red tribute rot in Chaozhou).
Some friends will say that Chaozhou curd cake is not similar to the chicken cake in Guangzhou? Unlike that, the chicken cake is crisp and fragrant, while the curd cake is soft and fragrant, sweet with a special fragrance.
The taste of curd cake, it not only has a unique southern frankincense aroma, but also has a little mellow wine flavor, and also has a rich filling and sweet but not greasy taste.
Curd cake is also a very resistant food to storage, while drinking tea, eat a curd cake, is the favorite of many Teochew people, but also the local people drink single bush tea standard.
In Chaozhou City, there are several particularly famous local bakers, and curd cakes are more famous - Bushu Street Cake Shop, Chaozhou Hu Rongquan, Thick Knife Cake House, Quan Ji Cake Food and so on.
In this leisurely thousand-year-old city of Chaozhou, a brew of old cong single bush tea and another piece of fragrant curd milk cake will definitely make you salivate.