With people's living standards getting higher and higher, tourism has approached thousands of households and become an essential element of people's daily life. At the same time, in the process of playing, people have new requirements for their understanding of tourism, which is no longer just to meet the needs of seeing the scenery with their eyes. Experiencing local culture and tasting special food have also become important requirements, especially for the people. When conditions permit, tasting food is just a need for travel.
Chongqing's hot pot noodles, Chengdu's string of maocai, Shaanxi's mutton bread in soup, Guangdong's rice rolls barbecued pork, Inner Mongolia's hand-cooked meat ... each place has its own signature food, so what should we eat in the Northeast? Pork stewed vermicelli, chicken stewed mushrooms? Or pot-wrapped meat, sauce bone? In fact, in Yu Fan's view, in the northeast, you must have a fish feast in Chagan Lake to be enjoyable.
Chagan Lake, formerly known as Chagan Bubble, means "Chagan Naoer" in Mongolian, which means a white and holy lake. Most of it is located in the former Guoerluosi Mongolian Autonomous County in the northwest of Jilin Province, in the water network area where Nenjiang River meets Huolin River. Strictly speaking, it belongs to a dammed lake at the end of Huolin River. In this area, rivers and marshes are dotted, whitebait shuttles, water plants are fat and beautiful, and geese and ducks live together. The trees along the coast are lush, and the fields are lush and picturesque. It is a fishing and hunting place for emperors of Liao, Jin and Yuan dynasties.
Chagan Lake is not only picturesque, but also rich in fish resources. In history, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, Emperor Taizu of Liao called it "Duckling", which was the fishing ground of the Qidan nobles. From the Emperor Shengzong of Liao Dynasty to the Seventh Dynasty of Emperor Tianzuo, they all came here for "spring hunting" activities. Among them, winter fishing is easy to preserve and transport, so this ancient winter fishing method has continued to this day and has remained unchanged for thousands of years. Nowadays, the wonders of winter fishing in Chagan Lake have been included in the national intangible cultural heritage list, and the whole fish feast derived from last winter fishing has also become an intangible cultural heritage.
The whole fish feast in Chagan Lake has become an intangible cultural heritage, not because of local people's hype, but because the masses who have lived around for generations are good at making all kinds of dishes with fish as the main ingredient. In addition, there are many kinds of fish and dishes used in the production, so it is called "all-fish banquet". Its production skills occurred and developed with the local fishery production, and it is one of the folk skills in the legacy of Liao and Jin Dynasties, so it can become an intangible cultural heritage.
The whole fish feast in Chagan Lake is a unique cooking process by the former Guoerluosi people based on the wild fish in Chagan Lake, such as stewing, frying, frying, cutting and so on. It is made of dozens or even dozens of wild fresh fish in Chagan Lake, which are cold, hot, raw and cooked, soft, tender, crisp and crisp. It has distinct regional characteristics, but also has a very heavy cultural heritage.
the traditional "whole fish feast" has been passed down by the people in the lake area, especially by the famous chefs in the catering industry, and has been continuously innovated and developed. Now, according to the different seasons, the types and quantities of fresh fish used in the whole fish feast in Chagan Lake are different, but the tastes in the four seasons are delicious.
This is the whole fish feast of Chagan Lake that we ate at the Great Khan Palace Resort Hotel near Chagan Lake today. The whole table consists of more than ten dishes, most of which are related to fish. The main course is a big plate of chubby fish, and there are also delicacies made of bream fish, grass carp, carp, crucian carp, lake shrimp, whitebait and snakehead skin.
If it's hard to tell the size of the fish just by looking at the plate, it's easy to tell the difference with the beautiful woman's hand as a foil. The largest chubby fish is half a meter long and weighs more than ten kilograms, and grass carp and carp are not small either. Although it's not as exquisite as southern dishes in terms of selling, its taste is mouth-watering. Local friends told us that the fish feast in Chagan Lake not only fully inherited the legacy of Liao and Jin Dynasties, but also absorbed the skills of modern cuisine. Moreover, it is also rich in local characteristics, contains national characteristics, has great public taste, has high nutritional value, and is a local traditional banquet that can represent Jilin cuisine and even Northeast cuisine.
Have you tried the fish feast in Chagan Lake?