In the countryside of Longsheng, Gongcheng and other places, it is often seen that the Yao family women are sitting together in groups of three or five, talking and laughing, while playing oil tea and drinking.
Oil tea is a kind of traditional snack with strong ethnic minority characteristics, which is extremely popular in Guilin, especially the masses in Gongcheng, Longsheng and Xing'an, almost every day have the habit of drinking oil tea, and playing oil tea has become a "way of hospitality", some people even take it as a way to make money, and the business is often very hot. Of course, the methods of making oil tea are different in different places, and the flavor of oil tea is also different.
Yao women beat rice dumplings and make a staple food that accompanies the drinking of oil tea
"In the past, the poor families in Dayao Mountain could not afford to buy oil and meat, and they used oil tea to eat and entertain guests, which was very shabby." Suqiao Mei, a villager in Pannei Village, said that especially in winter, the weather in the mountains was severely cold, and in the past, people did not eat meat, and if there was no oil and water in their stomachs, they could not withstand the cold. Yao compatriots use high valley rain tea, which is roasted and dried and stored for later use. When playing oil tea, first put the stove fire to burn, and then use a special small iron pot with a mouth on the stove, put in the appropriate amount of tea oil to cook, and then put the washed soaked tea leaves, the rotten ginger garlic rice into the pot together and stir-fry for a while, and then use the tea mallet to pound the condiments and crush it, and then add the appropriate amount of hot water, let it boil in the tea pot, when the tea juice is full of fragrance, add the appropriate amount of salt, and the pot of oil tea is ready to eat.
Drinking oil tea also has some exquisiteness, which needs to be accompanied by green onion coriander, fried peanuts, soybeans, fried rice made of glutinous rice, fried fruits, as well as a variety of rice dumplings, biscuit snacks, etc., which can be used for meals to fill hunger and can also be used for supper hospitality.
Divide the beaten oil tea into a porcelain bowl, put it on a wooden plate, and bring it to the table to entertain relatives and friends.
"Oil tea is a must-have drink for the Yao family for three meals a day, and drinking oil tea is as frequent as we drink boiled water." Suqiao Mei said that oil tea is even more indispensable for the New Year festival, and when guests visit, it has become the best food for Yao compatriots to entertain guests.
Among them, the fruit is an important condiment of oil tea. The berry is made from high-quality glutinous rice, locally produced, the size of a pigeon's egg or a pea, and then fried or fried. Pigeon egg-sized rice dumplings are softer, while pea-sized rice fruits are crispy, put some in each bowl, and then with fried peanuts, soybeans, rice, etc., sprinkle a little green onion on the surface, and then pour boiling oil tea water, which is full of aroma, sweet and crunchy, very tempting.
Yao women make rice dumplings
With the food of rice and fruit, the taste of oil tea will suddenly increase color. Oil tea with rice fruit has the effect of filling hunger, sweating and promoting blood circulation, which is beneficial to fitness and disease prevention. In the winter, the family sits around the stove and drinks steaming oil tea, which is particularly warm.
Fragrant and seductive oil tea.
"Now that life is good, when I play oil tea, I not only put rice and rice fruits, but also put bacon and even chicken." Suqiao Mei said that the Yao family also has such a smooth sentence about playing oil tea: "One cup of bitter, two cups of astringency, three cups of four cups of good oil tea." "It means that the oil tea from the first water will be bitter, the oil tea from the second water will change from bitter to astringent, and the oil tea from the third and fourth water is the most delicious." In the past, oil tea, which was used to fill the hunger, has now become an important food for the local Yao people to entertain guests, and has become one of the most favored tourism products for tourists to experience the Yao customs. (Source: Guilin Life Network)