1, Beijing - bean juice
Bean juice is a unique traditional snack in old Beijing, and many foreign friends will think that it is similar to soy milk when they see the literal appearance of bean juice.
But in fact, bean juice is the product of the scraps used to make mung bean noodles. The juice produced by the old Beijingers by fermenting the remaining mung bean residue is the bean juice.
Bean juice has the effect of nourishing the stomach, detoxifying and clearing the fire. But the first time you drink bean juice, the swill-like smell makes it difficult to swallow, pinch your nose and drink it twice, the feeling is different. Some people can be addicted, looking for it everywhere, and they have to drink in line.
In the old days, the bean juice in Beijing was sold on a pickle, with bean juice on spicy pickles and scorched rings, and the poor would break the stickers and soak them in the bean juice, which was a meal. However, I personally recommend that foreign friends who are exposed to bean juice for the first time be cautious, and the taste of the first bite may be beyond your imagination.
2, Fuzhou - pot side paste
Pot side paste, also known as Dingbian paste, is a Fujian specialty snack that originated in Fuzhou, and is also a local breakfast product.
It is made of clam juice as a soup, boiled in the pot to take its umami taste, and then the ground rice milk is poured along the edge of the pot in a circle, the rice milk is blanched into a dry skin on the edge of the pot and scraped into the soup with a spatula, adding celery, green onion, dried shrimp, dried cooked fish, small intestine, flower clams, shiitake mushrooms, cabbage, etc. as condiments, after boiling, the pot is a pot of boiling hot "pot side paste".
From a point of view that northerners can understand, the pot side paste is very much like a bowl of seafood-flavored slice soup.
In addition to Fuzhou, Zhangzhou and Gutian also have local pot side paste, mainly because the soup and the ingredients in the soup are different.
3. Jinan - sweet foam
Sweet foam is a bean foam that originated in northern Henan and was later passed down to the traditional famous spot of Jinan, Shandong Province, a popular porridge cuisine, and one of the two monsters of Quancheng.
Sweet foam is a kind of salty porridge mainly boiled with millet noodles, and Jinan people also commonly call it "five-spice sweet foam". Among the many snacks in Jinan, sweet foam is the most distinctive "signature" famous snack.
To summarize simply, sweet foam is a kind of salty porridge, after the porridge is done, the owner will ask "add more", referring to the addition of vermicelli, vegetables, tofu shreds and other accessories, and later people harmonic into "sweet foam", so the taste of sweet foam is salty, not sweet. Tea soup is not tea, and rice aroma is more than tea. Sweet foam is not sweet, read all five flavors to get sweet.
Friends who go to Jinan for the first time, do not look forward to Wen Shengyi, and treat sweet foam as a dessert.
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