What is New Year's Eve? The first thing you need to do is to get your hands on a new pair of couplets, firecrackers, new clothes, and new year's money; now it's the return trip to the Spring Festival, class reunions, WeChat red envelopes, and circle of friends photos.

Many people say that the past red-hot Spring Festival is now faded color, it has become dull, ordinary, ordinary, the taste of the year is as light as drinking water, only to quench the thirst, no taste. The Spring Festival has become a large weekend with firecrackers, is a full of expectations and knowingly empty joy ......

Speaking of the flavor of the year, the most important thing is that this "taste". When I was a kid, I did a lot of cleaning at home with my grandfather, and then happily picked out new clothes to my liking, and then my grandmother bought a whole lot of New Year's goods, beef, candy, eggs, juice, rice, oil ...... the more the better.

Wenzhou people have always been very conscientious in the food, especially in the New Year's Eve dinner, we called the "split year wine", pay attention to the "ten perfect". This issue will share with you the New Year's Eve dinner - Wenzhou's top ten classic dishes!

1, red-hot - soy sauce meat

Winter is coming, every time, "your soy sauce meat in the sun?" It has become a greeting for neighbors in Wenzhou. In Wenzhou, soy sauce meat is wax goods, New Year's flavor deservedly representative of the soy sauce meat sunshine is good to say that the New Year is about to come. Wenzhou mountain coastal, temperate climate, developed Wenzhou people tend to strong taste, there is a special fascination with soy sauce.

According to the custom of Wenzhou people to sun sauce meat, after the winter to the winter solstice is the best time to sun sauce meat. Walking on the street, everywhere you can see residential buildings on the windowsill, balcony, a piece of soy sauce meat bathed in sunshine swinging in the wind, the air began to permeate a flavor of the year, rich meat aroma, mouth-watering. Soy sauce meat is usually taken out on sunny days and its skin is reddish-brown, so eating soy sauce meat on New Year's Eve also signifies a prosperous new year.

The traditional process of making soy sauce meat savory and tender, you must choose the fat and thin apart from the pork, fat and lean, lean through the oil to chewy and not stuffed teeth. With the special sauce marinated in half a day and then hung on the shelf sun, drying in the sun for two days to air-drying, in order to ensure that the sauce meat soft and hard appropriate.

Steamed soy sauce meat steamed in water put a little bit of cooking wine, not yet out of the cage, soy sauce meat unique aroma is tempted to greedy insects stupid. The marinated fat meat just out of the pot slightly soy sauce color transparent, high temperature, fat meat fat oozing out, bright crystal, especially tempting appetite.

A piece of soy sauce meat entrance, a little salty, and a little bit of shredded meat natural sweetness, fat meat is absolutely crispy and not greasy, and then chew a mouthful of mellow grease seeped into the dry and tough fine meat fibers, and each mouthful of a mixture of different portions of soy sauce saltiness, shredded meat sweetness and fat lard glutinous, really the more you chew the more delicious.

2, one in a hundred - duck tongue

Duck tongue: Wenzhou people love to eat duck tongue since needless to say, meaning one in a hundred, both precious and delicious. In Wenzhou dialect, tongue pronunciation and loss of money pronunciation is similar, but Wenzhou business people, think "tongue" pronunciation is not auspicious, so the duck tongue renamed "duck earn".

A duck and a tongue, although it is not a delicacy, gourmet meal, but for the Wenzhou family, both the taste of home and the atmosphere of the festival. The year, Spring Festival, Ching Ming, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, small and large forests of festivals, this small duck tongue is indispensable to the plate of food, so there is no "duck tongue" in Wenzhou, said the seat.

Light oil and light gravy, light flavor of the duck tongue belongs to the cold dishes, the essence of its cooking is a "brine" word. Each will do brine duck tongue Wenzhou mother, have their own unique recipe, each family flavor, soy sauce old soy sauce wine vinegar, hot pot wrapped in duck tongue, coo coo coo coo coo coo coo coo coo coo coo coo coo coo coo coo coo coo coo coo coo coo coo coo coo coo. Different recipes, the same delicious, is the taste of home, but also the taste of mom.

Marinated duck tongue, purple color, aroma, taste mellow and sweet, really a wine with the best. Chewing is very tough, left chewing, right chewing, the flavor of the duck tongue is released. A duck tongue is like a cartilage of spring steel wire, like an armless water louse ready to escape.

3, more money - clams

The most delicious is made of raw pickled blood clams, first hot blood clams, add chili sauce garlic seasoning can be eaten. When the hands of a peeled, shell inside the flow of "blood", soy sauce just right and "blood" mutual integration, exudes a sudden flavor, a bite into the meat tender lubrication, fresh and delicious exception, into the throat of the blood juice rich in flavor, a unique flavor, although occasionally or to eat the Although occasionally still eat one or two blood clams containing soil, but that kind of meat juice overflowing delicious, still tempted my taste buds.

4. White Chicken

White Chicken: It means "the east is about to dawn". In the days when there were no watches, cell phones or alarm clocks, people relied on the rooster to know what time to get up. In Wenzhou, if you get up earlier than others, you have more chances than others.

White chicken meat color white belt butter, scallions playing flower edging, with a strong scallion oil fragrance. When eating, dip a little special soy sauce, not only retains the original flavor of the chicken, but also the salty freshness of the soy sauce.

5, the tide is rising and falling - jellyfish skin

Jellyfish skin is a manufactured jellyfish, is a large edible jellyfish in the coastal areas of Wenzhou. It is umbrella-shaped, translucent, white, green or slightly yellow in color, and has been eaten since the Jin Dynasty, more than 1,600 years ago. Before eating must be washed with water, remove the salt, alum, blood, sand, and then blanch with hot water, shredded can be dipped in vinegar to eat, but also can be mixed with mushrooms, bamboo shoots and other cold dishes with.

When eating cold jellyfish must be appropriate to put some vinegar, otherwise it will make the jellyfish "away". Because the jellyfish is a creature without eyes, it can only follow the tide of the river traveling, so the jellyfish symbolizes the ebb and flow of the tide.

6, there is a head and tail - dried shrimp

Wenzhou near the sea, dried shrimp and other such seafood processing air-dried delicious is also very much. Do not add any seasoning into the sun, shrimp meat chewing fiber sense of full, do not go down to the meal as a snack to eat dry also let a person can not stop talking.

In the old days, a piece of dried shrimp dipped in soy sauce, vinegar with a bottle of beer, is now the New Year's Eve dinner table indispensable wine delicious. It implies that there is a beginning and an end, and at the end of the year, things should be done hard and seriously.

7, smart and progressive - eel replica watches

Wenzhou language "replica watches" pronounced with "think", meaning smart and progressive. Legend has it that in the Ming Dynasty, Wenzhou region every year to tribute to the court eel replica bags china, so also known as "Ming Fu want", and later evolved into "replica bags china" word.

In Lunar New Year, every family in Wenzhou will make their own eel replica bags china. The first thing you need to do is to get your hands on some of the best replica bags china replica bags china replica bags china replica handbags china replica handbags china replica handbags. Eel replica bags china meat fine flavor, color yellowish white. Steamed slices of fat meat slices, and then dipped in sauce, vinegar can be eaten.

8, gold and white jade - fish cakes

Wenzhou fish cakes pay attention to the inner white and yellow color, meaning gold and white jade. Its meat is tender, fresh and not fishy, low-fat, extremely nutritious. When eating, dipped in soy sauce vinegar, both to maintain the original flavor of the fish, but also to strengthen the mouth delicate and smooth, tough and no fishy unique flavor.

Fish cakes are not only delicious steamed, fried is a unique flavor. But it should be noted that the fish cakes fried to eat, must be thawed and cut into slices, so that not only easy to cook, to avoid the outside of the burnt inside is still raw, but also more easy to taste.

When the oil in the pan is hot, you can go to the pan, and so the sides of the fish cakes slightly warped, the surface to the golden brown can be into the plate, so that out of the fish cakes fragrant! Pan-fried fish cakes in addition to the more intense fish flavor in addition to the texture of smooth, and a bite full of flavor, do the wine dishes is more than appropriate, is the table of the New Year's Eve dinner must!

9, full of harmony - river crab raw

River crab raw means full of harmony, is the traditional Wenzhou local dishes, belonging to the Wenzhou cuisine in the cold food, often used in the family, just ordinary under the "wine" dishes, moved to the banquet, it became the top! The cold dishes are often used in the family, just ordinary "wine" dishes, moved to the banquet, it becomes the top.

River crab raw selection of Oujiang River in the shuttle crab, after the fine split decomposition, with vinegar, soy sauce, yellow wine soak or supplemented with other dense method of raw materials, soaking time for half an hour to an hour, so the surface flavor of the river crab raw is sour, sweet, soy sauce, fresh, dipped in mustard to eat, it becomes a fresh fierce spicy. Eat without sticking to the shell, without fishy, pouting mouth gently suck, crab meat will be separated from the crab shell slipped into the mouth.

10, like a flower like jade - griddled crab

Griddled crab is a traditional famous dish in Wenzhou. It has a lively shape, color and luster, double flavors in one dish, and the meat is as creamy as fat, which is very delicious. Gazami crab is the customary name for green crab in Wenzhou. It inhabits the warm and low salinity shallow sea, with oval body, green color, short and wide cephalothoracic armor, tender and rich meat, which is the best crab.

The gazami crab is steamed and placed on a plate, then poured into the prepared egg mixture and steamed for about 8 minutes, then drizzled with lard and soy sauce and garnished with a few wolfberries. The gazami crab shell is bright red, with yellow eggs, the color is bright, and the smoothness of the egg custard is wrapped around the fat crab meat, the fragrance is fragrant, and it is called "Hibiscus Gazami". The flavor and the mood are all there.

Latecomers to the table etiquette to keep in mind

Often heard to eat Western food to talk about etiquette, that eat New Year's Eve dinner what are the requirements?

1, the seat can not be grabbed, the "horizontal head" seat to the elders.

3, when the midway to say goodbye, the hands of the chopsticks to turn a "body", chopsticks head to their own, chopsticks tail to other people, to apologize to the people present.

4, chopsticks can not always hold in the hand, clip a mouthful of food, put in the mouth to taste when the chopsticks can be put down, this is called "eat a mouthful of put a". You can't eat the food in your mouth, chopsticks in the other dishes, eyes still staring at the dishes just on.

5, if the younger generation, when each dish on the table, should be the first elder to clip the first chopsticks.

6, clip the food, should not be first from the center of the clip, should be first from the surrounding start clip. Not to mention that you can't pick and choose in the plate, dialing around.

7, after eating, bowls and bowls are best not stacked together, Wenzhou language in the "stack" and "hit" the same pronunciation, is more taboo behavior of elders.

Thousands of years of traditional Wenzhou points of the year wine, which is not only food, but also a full flavor of the year, a fine care, a warm friendship.

New Year's Eve dinner, is the end of the year and the beginning of the end of the beginning of the year, is a laugh after crying after the calm, is wandering from the shore, but also the desire for reunion.

As Zhang Xiaoxian once wrote: The flavor of the year that we miss is not only the delicious food, the fragrance of flowers, the gathering of friends, the taste of love, the warmth of the home and the soil of the hometown, but all of these add up! The flavor of the year, in fact, is the flavor of reunion.