? Speaking of a city's food culture, we have to start with the city's geographic location. Beijing as a thorough northern city, dietary tastes also naturally have the characteristics of the northern diet - salty partial oil, rough and bold. Street-side restaurants in the meal to look like the eye is used to eat, rather than for taste, full of a plate of shiny hot fried with a big bowl full of solid rice, as if a song and a harmony in the diners said: "large amount of flavor, eat it you within."
? Of course, the rough style of food is just a product of historical change, social change, dating back to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, our Beijing food to stay in the long history of the glimpses but that a road of exquisite palace food. Comic clips often mentioned in the full Manchu banquet is the famous palace food, can be said to be a mountain and sea food to see, delicacies and food to eat all over. There are also bureaucrats and ministers to enjoy the second only to the palace food government food, such as the well-known Tanjia Cuisine, to cooking dry food, what shark's fin abalone, dried scallops and bird's nests are representative of the government food. In that period of time, whether it is the court food or government food, as if a wisp of ancient smoke and fire, drifting into the Beijing food culture rolling endless historical wheels.
? In addition to court and government food, there is an important part of Beijing cuisine that has to be mentioned - Halal food. Speaking of this halal food in Beijing, afraid to trace back to the Yuan Dynasty, the so-called "Yuan Hui Hui all over the world", referring to the Yuan Dynasty when the Hui people flocked to the capital of the historical phenomenon, that is, from the Yuan Dynasty, halal food gradually appeared in the Beijing people's dinner table to the end of the Qing Dynasty, has appeared in the serious halal restaurant, the Republic of China has been the most important part of the Beijing people's food, the halal food is not only the most important part of the Beijing people's food, it is also the most important part of the Beijing people's food, but also the most important part of the Beijing people's food. During the Republic of China period, halal food has been gradually improved and formed a large scale, and has become an integral part of the flavor of Beijing cuisine. Beijing's oldest restaurant, Dong Lai Shun, is a famous halal restaurant, known for its shabu-shabu, which is enjoyed by young and old alike, and has been passed down to this day. There are also the Ziguangyuan and Guiguoji snacks that are now common on the streets, which are famous halal restaurants, and you often hear about vinegar and moo shu, sugar rolls and fruit, which are all famous halal food.
? Speaking of which, you may have to say, the most famous Beijing cuisine is not bean juice? It's rancid, and it's hard to drink. I'm sure a lot of people's prejudice against the Beijing diet comes from the "smell" of the beans, right? To be honest, as a local living in Beijing for more than 20 years, I have only tried the bean juice once, and just a small sip to stop, when the shadow attached to the heart, the flavor ...... The taste is really think about let a person's scalp numb. In fact, many people around me can not accept the flavor of bean juice, like fish, snail powder, love people love, hate people hate, can only be said to be very distinctive and controversial one of the Beijing dishes, counting food, can be different from person to person. Also have to mention the halogen boiled burnt, this mouthful I still quite love, fat intestines soft and tasteless, fried tofu sucked full of soup, red square coriander is the eye-catching pen, the price is also cheap, and occasionally come on a small bowl is still very good, a shallow taste on the have to, because eat more ah, is really tired.
? In fact, whether it is a bean juice, or brined and boiled, fried liver, are just that era of the people's tool to relieve the cravings of the people, the people which can eat what the palace food government food ah, want to eat meat can not afford to do, the whole point of the downstream wipe oil just. Nowadays, we have better days, we eat more and more food, and when we look back at these so-called "pingtai", it is inevitable that we will not be able to appreciate it. The classic flavor for the Beijing people, most of them are full of feelings.
? Say goodbye to the old days of material scarcity, with the reform and opening up, China's accession to the WTO, the original closed us gradually into this vast global village, rich and varied ingredients began to enter thousands of households, Beijing as the capital, but also attracted countless domestic and foreign aspirants, and along with their hometowns that a combination of nostalgia of the delicious meals. It is in this increasingly open environment that Beijing's food has become more and more diversified, and the way Beijingers cook has begun to absorb the strengths of all families and develop new flavors. My family is because my mother has a few good relations with colleagues in Henan, so the table since I was a young child there are often cold eggs, green bean ball soup and other Henan aunts to share with us food, even now grown up, the refrigerator is always stocked with a few eggs, this Yu-style flavor has long been rooted in my heart.
? Nowadays, no matter what city you are in, out of the door on the street, into the eyes of a number of restaurants is not only local food, Beijing as a large city full of inclusive northern is more so, with "China's food capital, the window of the world's catering" to describe Beijing is more than appropriate, this is not to boast of the local specialties of the food in Beijing, only to show that Beijing is a collection of the world's food. This is not to boast about the local specialties of Beijing, but just to illustrate that Beijing is the culinary masterpiece of the world. The food on this piece of land is a blend of a hundred schools of thought, abundance and frugality, rich, diverse, pluralistic and open is the style of Beijing's food.
? Maybe the price of Quanjude is not grounded to make you dissatisfied, maybe the flavor of the peculiar bean juice for you to talk about, maybe the short video platform "authentic" speech makes you feel pompous boredom, it does not matter, I hope that in this land you can find a familiar flavor related to the hometown, it may not be authentic, but it shows that this beautiful and rich! The big city in the north as this diet - set a hundred of the best, is the collection of people from all over the world here to form the present capital of Beijing, thanks to the construction process, there is a power of your hometown.
? I believe that the moment you choose to come to Beijing, the food here is a desert or oasis should no longer matter. Wish you as you wish, not to live up to the road, wish our great country tomorrow, will be better.
Reference:
Article "Beijing wants to be the capital of gastronomy"
Article "on the" Beijing flavor "
Article The Inheritance and Development of Contemporary Beijing Culinary Culture
Article "Beijing Cuisine"
Article "Halal Culinary Culture in Beijing"