The city of Xi'an in recent years can be described as popular throughout the country, not only by its rich and unique cultural atmosphere, but also by its unique local taste of a variety of cuisine, just a steamed bun can eat several tricks in the local area, not to mention other flavorful cuisine, with a non-exaggerated sentence to describe the city: "If you go to Xi'an weight is not fat ten pounds, then you must not have a good taste of the city's cuisine", so want to understand Xi'an, the first step you have to do is to understand the status of food in the local area.
Koshiki, many people see this word will also reflect what to read, (zèng), from this name can read the difference in this cuisine, in order to eat this snack must have a pottery, and the origin of the koshiki can be traced back to the ancient Chinese cooking utensils, one of the ancient utensils used to cook food on the pot, and the koshiki is also called "Jinzi", so the koshiki cake is also affectionately called "jin cake", tao koshi is the best material for steaming this pastry, in addition to iron koshiki, wooden koshi and copper koshi, But the steamed effect is not as good as the first.
Koshiki cake is not the contemporary people invented the cuisine, as early as the Western Zhou Dynasty has its prototype, at that time was also known as "powder fin" by people who ate it, and the material is not as rich as it is now, and with the development of the times, in the Tang Dynasty period began to mix into the rice into the date way to steam this kind of pastry, to the Song Dynasty after the emergence of a variety of ingredients made of pastries, the variety of varieties of dazzling.
And now we eat in Xi'an area of the koshiki cake ingredients can be described as extremely rich, including dates, glutinous rice, raisins, red kidney beans and other ingredients, so that seven layers of cake (three layers of rice and four layers of ingredients), its taste is clearly layered, the aroma can be smelled within ten miles. Each family will have its own know-how, but in general, they all continue the wisdom of the ancestors in ancient times, from the beginning of the work to the final end can be described as a moment of sloppiness, and finally the moment when the pot is opened can see the final finished product.
When the cake is just opened, it looks like a black paste from a distance, there is no delicate appearance and no good shape, but when you take a closer look, the aroma of dates and kidney beans mixed with the fragrance of glutinous rice, instantly occupies your entire nasal cavity, cut a small piece to see, each layer has a wealth of ingredients, simply mouth-watering, after eating a bite you will be addicted to it.
As one of the flavor snacks in Xi'an, the cake is not only unique in taste, but also has a long history and culture, so people who have not eaten this snack must take the time to go to Xi'an to take a look and eat, I believe that it can be popular throughout the Network is not without reason, even if it is fat ten pounds can not miss this rare gourmet dish.