Beijing's Traditional Cuisine Bean Juice

Bean juice is Beijing's long-established traditional snack. It has the characteristics of gray-green color, thick and mellow bean juice, and sour and slightly sweet taste. Bean juice is a winter and spring snack with unique flavor in Beijing. Especially the old Beijingers have a special preference for it. In the past, there were two kinds of bean juice sellers: those who sold raw bean juice and those who sold cooked bean juice. Those who sold raw bean juice used to push a wooden barrel cart and sell it together with hemp tofu; those who sold cooked bean juice used to carry a pot of bean juice on one end and set up charcoal rings, sesame flowers and spicy pickles on the other end.

Jingdong traditional food

According to historical records, Jingdong has more than 500 years of barbecue history, has developed into a local dish. There are barbecued beef, mutton, pork, chicken, fish, vegetables, leeks, eggplants, etc., of which the most famous are fire-roasted pork and fire-roasted black-bone chicken.

Fire-roasted pig practice is: choose about 40 kilograms of fine-boned pig (also known as walnut pig), slaughtered and washed, in the pig around the body rubbed with salt, wine, peppercorns, garlic and other seasonings, with a special iron fork through the pig, in the chestnut charcoal fire on the turnover, to be roasted to the pig's skin yellowish, turn over the grilled side of the rubbed with marinade, sesame oil, and continue to bake again. About 4 hours, when the whole body of the pig is roasted to a golden color and the skin is crispy, the roasted pig is ready. Afterwards, the roasted pig is cut into pieces and dipped in sauce, vinegar, pepper, coriander, and green onion, which gives it a fresh flavor and crispy skin.

Expanded Information

Steamed Buns Legend has it that during the Three Kingdoms period, the southern barbarian cave master Meng Yu in the south of the State of Shu was always constantly attacking and harassing, and Zhuge Liang personally led the troops to conquer Meng Yu. The area around Lushui was extremely unpopulated, the miasma was very heavy and the Lushui water was poisonous.

Zhuge Liang's men came up with a superstitious idea: to kill some of the "southern barbarians" captives and use their heads to sacrifice to the river god of Lushui. Zhuge Liang, of course, can not agree to kill the "southern barbarians" captives, but in order to encourage morale, he came up with a way: with the army to bring the flour and into the mud, kneaded into the shape of a human head steamed, as a sacrifice instead of "barbarians" head to sacrifice to the river god.

Crystal cakes are a famous Weinan specialty in Shaanxi, featuring a golden surface and silver helpings, crispy skin, cool tongue and teeth, and sweet and moist taste. Legend has it that Kou Zhun, the prime minister of the Song Dynasty, was a clean and fair official and won the hearts of the people. Kou Zhun one year from the Kyoto Bianliang back to his hometown in Weinan countryside to visit relatives, coinciding with the fiftieth birthday, the townspeople sent birthday peach, birthday noodles, birthday plaque congratulations, Kou Zhun set up a birthday banquet to treat.

Three rounds of wine, suddenly the men came to an exquisite tung wood box, Kou Zhun opened a look, which is loaded with 50 crystal bright as crystal stone like snacks. In the snacks above, there is also a red paper, neatly written with a poem: "Gong has a crystal eye, but also a crystal heart, can distinguish between loyalty and treachery, innocence is not stained with dust." The inscription is Weibei old man. Later, Kou Zhun's home cook also copied this snack, Kou Zhun according to its characteristics to give it a nice name, called "crystal cake".

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