Eating breakfast in Tianshui requires a password that only locals can understand, such as croaking and ranran, fishing and cutting.
It is made of buckwheat to make a slightly pinkish dough, and after cooling it, the hand crushes the dough, which is croaking. It is known as the first delicacy in Qinzhou, and it tastes soft and pink, which is the breakfast that Tianshui people like to eat.
There is no taste in itself. Delicious croaks are all made up of toppings. Toppings are the ancestral secret recipes of each shop, which used to be passed down from man to woman. It is said that the best toppings in ancient times were boiled with donkey oil, and now it should be difficult to find. The red oil made with spices is poured on the croak, and the ingredients such as sesame paste, garlic paste, and balsamic vinegar are added to the nose.
Although the red oil poured on it looked red and shiny, after bravely eating the first bite, I found that it was not as spicy as imagined, but soft and spicy with incense, just like the strong appearance of the Northwestern people, the heart is gentle.
Fishing and cutting is a cold powder made of peas. In Tianshui, there are usually two ways to eat cold powder: use a colander with a small hole to gently turn the top of the cold powder, and the cold powder becomes a thin strip, and then fished up, it is called fishing.
On the side of the cool powder, it is cut into thin slices with a long knife, which is called cutting (pronounced xuexue), the name is simple and direct, and it is direct and straightforward to the northwestern people.
You can just order fishing, you can just point cutting, and you can mix and match. Fishing and cutting are suitable for cold eating, the taste is tender and easy to break, and the toppings are also inseparable from the red oil spicy sesame sauce, which is better with garlic.
However, it is a cold powder made of potato flour, broken by hand, the taste is q-bomb, with toppings, very strong. In croaking, fishing and cutting, I love ran the most.
All kinds of starches conjured up various tricks in the hands of Tianshui people, which surprised me very much.
Whether it is eating a bowl of croaking, ranran, or fishing, cutting, with a bowl of freshly ground apricot tea is perfect. Tianshui apricot tea is freshly ground with bitter almonds, cooked and added spices such as cumin, which is fragrant and moistened in the throat.
Pairing apricot tea with a local lard box or yellow bun is also a good choice, and it is a favorite pairing.
If you feel croaking, natural, fishing, cutting a little vegetarian, you can take a boiled Tianshui poached egg, very tender, nutrition is great.
After many Tianshui people eat breakfast, they will also bring a breakfast to their families and friends to take away in a plastic bag, which has become the bag that Tianshui people call, which means to take away.
To eat the special breakfast of these days, there is no need to run around, you can find it all in Yusheng Lane in the city center.
Yusheng Lane is an old street that existed in the Ming and Qing dynasties, and the largest historical district in Tianshui City. Here, the appearance of old Qinzhou has not changed much.
Every day, the incense in the Xianlong Palace in Yusheng Lane is continuous, and the sound of the chime is pleasant. The people who live here live and work in peace. Many people live in this alley for a lifetime. Numerous breakfast restaurants have been passed down from generation to generation in this ancient alley, nurturing generations of Tianshui people.
If you happen to come to the Maijishan Grottoes and happen to come to Tianshui, you may wish to try the croaking, ranran, fishing, cutting, with freshly ground apricot tea, and feel the fireworks of ancient Qinzhou.
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