Word meaning
Wowowotou is made of cornmeal or mixed flour. The big ones weigh half a catty, and the small ones are two or three taels. The shape of the head is small on top and big in the middle, in the shape of a cone. In order to make it easy to steam up cooked, there is a hole underneath (Beijing slang called Wo Wo Er), but also because it is the same staple food as steamed bread, so the Beijing people call this food for Wo Wo Tou. In the past, when describing a person's bitter fate, they used to say: "He, ah, a lifetime of hunger, satiety and toil, eating the head of the Wo Wo Tou." The saying "Wo Wo Tou turned over - show big eyes" refers to the Wo Wo Tou turned over to the nest, the nest towards the sky showed a big round eyes (i.e., round holes), used as a metaphor to show off, but instead of making a fool of themselves, often with a contempt for the irony of the meaning.
Cixi said
Farmers use cornmeal to make this food, with this name, has been a long time. There is nothing unique in the world, and there are other stories about Wo Wo Tou. Beihai Park, there is a restaurant called "imitation meal", is the meaning of imitation of the practice of the Imperial Household Cuisine. Their famous food, there is a "small nest", said to be also related to Cixi, according to legend, the end of the Qing Dynasty, the Eight-Power Allied Forces into Beijing shortly before, Cixi and a group of people fleeing in distress, and a few days to catch up with the road, with the pastries are eaten up. When they arrived in Xi'an, Cixi was so hungry that she ordered them to stop the car and asked them to find food. Attendants thought, she ate used to the sea food, soft pastries, now where to find. So the men only humming answer, no way to start. Cixi see, fire: "you this group of lackeys, how not to find food, want to starve me ah!" A eunuch said: "the old master rest assuaged his anger, the slave is not refused to go to find, but this place, before no village after no store, where to find ah?" Was saying, Cixi see not far away from the people fleeing, is sitting and eating, she pointed and said: "You go and see." Eunuchs ran to see, fleeing the people ate a cool nest. The eunuch reported back that they were eating coarse food nests. Cixi has never heard of what is called the nest head, the heart is strange, personally get off the front to visit, see is a yellow food, those who eat is fragrant. She went up and asked: "This thing, delicious?" An old man replied that delicious. Cixi belly empty, unconscious mouth born saliva, but also very much want to taste, then said: "you can give me a taste?" The old man quickly handed over one. Cixi took a bite, feel the flavor is good, eat up, ah! It smelled really good! In a short while, a big nest of head was eaten up by her.
Later, she returned to the Beijing Palace, whenever tired of eating the table full of imperial food, remembered that time to eat when fleeing - Wo Wo Tou, can be said to be memorable. So ordered the Imperial Household Food Room to do Wo Wo Tou to eat. Wo Wo head sent, is also yellow, she tasted, smack, smack, feel not that taste, in a fit of rage, and killed a few cooks. This can be difficult to bad royal kitchen, which cooks are not afraid to die, who still dare to do her nest. We get together to think of ways. Or an old chef came up with an idea: "We use chestnut flour with sugar, do nest head, try to see if she loves to eat?" So, we did the chestnut flour nest sent on, Cixi tasted, quite delicious, said happily: "I finally ate again when I fled the nest." News back to the imperial kitchen, we are relieved. From now on, the imperial kitchen in the dim sum spectrum added a product of small nest nest. In fact, this nest is just more than the current add some material, it is said that there are: cornmeal, chestnut flour, soybean flour, sugar and other materials, so the flavor is also unique, so the Beijing city face in addition to the real nest nest, there are two kinds of love nest and small nest nest, leaving a little trace of history." Wo Wo Tou" is extremely small things, but I did not expect such an interesting history, can be seen in some food things such as to examine, there must be many things can be found.
There is also a kind of guards ate in the nest nest, that is the authentic nest nest it, although the shape is long, cool cake, but the production of the ingredients is absolutely authentic, with the pods of flour with crushed pods of leaves and pods of the stick steamed, only called the authentic nest nest. In the past, the old society referred to the nest of the head are made this way.
Nutrition
Rich in essential proteins, amino acids, unsaturated fatty acids, carbohydrates, crude fiber and a variety of trace elements, minerals, is low-fat, low-sugar food, suitable for diabetics and obese people.
Today's WoWoTou has been a green, delicious, nutritious, healthy food, because the coarse grain is very good for health, so widely loved by consumers now.