Huai 'an Spring Festival traditional food recommendation
Zheng niande
People in Huai 'an must eat steamed buns, steamed bread, jiaozi and other steamed foods during the Spring Festival. Every household will prepare these in advance, and the whole family will eat jiaozi and rub dumplings, which will become a lingering memory of the New Year. Eating steamed food means prosperity in the new year. Old people will put a coin in the jiaozi. After eating coins, they will become rich in the new year!
Traditional tea food
People in Huai 'an must drink tea during the Spring Festival. When visiting relatives and friends, tea will be prepared on each coffee table to entertain guests.
There are many kinds of traditional Huai 'an tea in Beijing, such as fruit, peach crisp, peanut candy, sesame cake and teapot. Eating in the mouth is sweet in the heart.
Huai 'an teapot is slender as a line, while Huang Liang teapot is golden and crisp. It is not only a dish, but also a snack. It is a nutritional product suitable for all ages.
Salty food
Huai 'an people's love for salty goods permeates into their bones. From the sausages and pork hanging at the door of every household, it can be seen that salty goods are a taste that Huai' an people never forget.
Roasted seeds and nuts
Melon seeds and peanuts are essential snacks for Chinese New Year every year. Huai 'an people must eat melon seeds during the Spring Festival. Melon seeds represent hope and children and grandchildren.
Melon seeds have also become the flavor of the Spring Festival, and every household should have melon seeds in their new year's goods. On New Year's Day, I served a plate of melon seeds and chatted with my relatives and friends who had not seen me for a long time. It was very Chinese New Year. If you leave melon seeds, you will lose your soul in the new year.
Must-eat dinner
Speaking of New Year's Eve, hooves and Qin Gong meatballs are indispensable on the table of Huai 'an people. In Lianshui County, Huai 'an City, there is a folk song: "Mid-Autumn Festival is getting colder and colder, and hooves compete for flavor. Customers are rushing to purchase goods, but unfortunately the production supply is not available. " Iron hoofs are also one of the necessities of Huai 'an people's New Year's Eve dinner.
The most famous in Huai 'an is "Qin Gong Maruko". Qin Gong meatballs are a traditional dish, which is said to have been created by an imperial minister who supervised water conservancy during the Kangxi period. It has been circulated for more than 300 years and is widely known. It is one of the top ten famous dishes in Jiangsu Province. When Nixon visited China, Zhou Enlai specially hosted meatballs at a banquet in A Qin Palace. A local folk song praised: "Qin Gong's meatballs have been falling off the wall, but they are round and slippery to pick up. They fell to the ground and jumped a few times, and their mouths were tender and fragrant. "