Famous food, allusions to 37 Chengdu couple lung tablets

Husband and wife lung slices are a famous flavor dish in Chengdu, Sichuan, and are almost universally known. However, the reason why this delicacy, which is loved and praised by Chinese and foreign diners, is named "husband and wife", is rarely known.

According to legend, in the 1930s, there was a man named Guo Chaohua near The Shaocheng in Chengdu, and the husband and wife made and sold cold beef lung slices. Because of the cold mix lung slices they sell, they are known for their fine production, exquisite seasoning and unique flavor, so they are quite popular with eaters, coupled with the husband and wife from selling along the street to setting up stalls, until the development of shop operations are together, and this product is created by The Guo couple, the quality is better than other general lung tablets, so it is called "husband and wife lung tablets", thus becoming famous.

Husband and wife lung pieces, inherited and developed so far, have actually become a kind of "cold mix beef offal" nickname, the original main ingredient beef lung has been replaced by beef and beef heart, tongue, scalp, mille-feuille belly and other offal. However, it still maintains its flavor characteristics and is particularly famous. The original "lung slice" was also called "braised slice", pronounced similarly, that is, it took the meaning of "smorgasbord". According to li Jieren's commentary on "lung tablets" in his book "Before the Storm", the Yunchuan people used to abandon all the internal organs and six houses of cattle, and then some people used them as "waste films". "Waste" and "lung" are homophones, so they have been rumored by posterity for a long time, thus evolving into "lung tablets". Therefore, the development of this cuisine so far, it has become a "lung piece" without lungs, which has become a natural part of the masses' dietary habits.