Gourmet is a business card of China. The more ancient it is, the more distinctive it is.

Luoyang is the ancient capital of the 13th Dynasty. When it comes to Luoyang's special food, most people know it as a "water mat", which can be said to be the representative of Luoyang's food culture. When you come to Luoyang, you must taste the Luoyang water mat, and this trip will be complete.

Luoyang water mat originated in the Tang Dynasty. It consists of 24 dishes. Except for the first eight cold dishes, the rest are presented in soup. Every dish can't be separated from the soup. If you eat one, withdraw one and then go to another, just like flowing water, so it is called water mat.

After playing in Luoyang for two and a half days, I punched out the Luoyang water mat in the third grade of high school and low school. Which one is the best? Let me share my experience with you.

There are two stores in Navigation. We went to the store in the old city and asked the express driver to pull it directly.

Zhenbutong Hotel, founded in 1895, has a history of more than 111 years, and has many titles such as time-honored Chinese brand and famous Chinese restaurant.

judging from its appearance, it's quite a prosperous Tang dynasty.

It is said that the water mat was invented by Wu Zetian, and her wax figure is enshrined in the shop.

The store is resplendent in decoration. The waiters are all dressed in the Tang Dynasty, dressed in silks and satins and wearing large peony flowers.

the decoration style is resplendent and magnificent, which is quite royal.

The Palace Hotel is decorated in this style in Shijiazhuang, and the price is naturally the "Palace" price.

Zhentu can be regarded as the chief representative of Luoyang water mat. In 1974, Premier Zhou came to Luoyang to eat Luoyang water mat and entertain foreign guests. The signature dish "Peony Swallow" was named by the Premier.

We ate in the card room in this hall. We went early, and nobody was there yet.

Peony Swallow:

A must-order signature dish, which looks beautiful.

the peony swallowtail represents the characteristics of Luoyang water mat: using simple and plain raw materials, using complicated procedures, meticulous work, and finally achieving the effect of color, flavor and taste.

Its main ingredient "protagonist" turns out to be its own colorless and tasteless shredded radish, which can pass through the eye of a needle. The ingredients are shredded ham, shredded sea cucumber, shredded squid, shredded tenderloin, shredded winter bamboo shoots, shredded mushrooms and shredded crab sticks. The shredded radish absorbs the clear soup of these high-grade ingredients, and finally is decorated with peony flowers made by cutting petals from egg cakes.

The shredded radish is very thin, as thin as the wool of a sweater, and a little tough. It may be steamed or fried with starch first.

I don't know what it is if I don't eat it carefully. It's wonderful and delicious.

The soup is delicious and sour. It's really delicious.

Fried meatballs (upper left corner of the picture):

This dish is very visually impactful.

One bowl is filled with freshly fried meatballs, and the other bowl is filled with hot and sour soup. In the blink of an eye, when the soup is poured on the meatballs, white smoke suddenly rises, and the sound of sizzling and fragrant smell comes, which makes people appetite.

although the meatballs are soaked in sour soup, they are still crispy and fragrant, and they are delicious and delicious.

The main ingredient of meatballs is actually sweet potato vermicelli, with no meat and hot and sour juice. Compared with eating meatballs, it has no burden on the stomach, but it has a burnt smell of meat.

Sliced pork in soup (bottom left of the picture):

This dish has no special features, just the smooth sliced pork in the ordinary Hu spicy soup version, but there is a lot of meat.

Slurry surface:

Get a staple food after eating. The specialty of staple food is slurry surface.

It's a big pot, and it's not so much soup as noodles cooked in porridge. The porridge is gray-green, and it looks like "salty rice" that my mother likes to eat, but I won't eat it until I die (a staple food in Taihang Mountain area where rice porridge, noodles, vegetable leaves, turnips and kohlrabi are cooked together, and you can't understand everything, so add some salty salt to eat it) <

after all, it's a special food. I'll try it again with respect. If the first bite doesn't suit me, it will be better. The second bite is still like that. Even the peanuts in it are sour.

I'm not a food waster, but all three of us gave up this dish, and we will never order it again.

Summary: Luoyang is really a city suitable for poor travel. This kind of hotel looks tall, with three dishes and a pot of staple food, only consumes less than 151 yuan, which is so affordable.

I just ate a few mouthfuls of that bowl of rice noodles, which is very embarrassing.

It's a good way to get to know the delicious and interesting local foods quickly. When traveling in Luoyang, we mainly take express trains and taxis, and chat with N drivers every day. Plus Baidu, we have a lot of information.

The most famous thing in the water mat is the real difference, but the online reviews don't recommend it to locals, especially drivers. They say it's for foreigners. Most of them recommend Guan Ji, Yao Yao and Jian Kun. Often, after work, three or five friends are invited to eat, and the online reviews remember the highest score, so I went to Guan Ji again.

Business is really booming, there are many people, the storefronts, tables and chairs are dilapidated, and the environmental sanitation is close to the fly restaurant.

fried meatballs, 15 yuan

hawthorn waterlogging, 11 yuan

pork slices with soup, small portions of 18 yuan,

small crispy meat, 21 yuan

three dishes and one soup, one * * * 63, the price is touching.

Up to now, I found that the water mat is different from the top-grade ingredients in the eight major cuisines, and the materials are very common, but it is just the vermicelli white radish that northerners like to eat, such as "fake sea cucumber", which is made of vermicelli and looks quite similar. After careful cooking, it can eat an extraordinary taste as good as delicacies.

It is said that:

Low price stands for: Xinxin Shuixi

Some express drivers said that the Shuixi in the hutong was also delicious, so when we visited Lijingmen, we stopped by to find one.

By way of digression, Lijingmen is a must-see attraction when you come to Luoyang. Look at the old buildings, visit the old city walls and have a taste of delicious food. It is suitable for coming in day and night.

Lijingmen is located in the old city of Luoyang, where spring factories can be seen everywhere.

freshly squeezed pomegranate juice is only five yuan a cup, which is sweet and delicious.

Xinxin Shuixi, in an alley, came across it by accident.

There is a brief introduction at the door. The boss is a really different teacher. After finishing his studies, he will start his own business.

this shop is a veritable fly restaurant, with dim lights and light like incandescent lamps in the last century.

We shared a table with another family, and we still had four dishes:

Fried meatballs, fake sea cucumbers, sliced pork in soup, and peony swallowtail.

The soup is watery. In terms of food quantity, it is a little less than the first two. The workmanship is rough, and the fried meatballs are no longer crisp. Even the soup slices are filled with tomatoes, while the other two are filled with red peppers.

As for the peony swallowtail, I can't tell it is. I just thought it was shredded pork with sauerkraut. The white radish was cut into strips, not silk. You can eat it in one bite.

The price is even more touching. Four dishes cost more than 51 yuan. If you want three dishes and one soup, there is a set meal in 48 yuan.

To sum up:

Water mat, as its name implies, is a kind of soup, and the dishes are inseparable from the soup, and the soup tastes like Hu spicy soup, which is very appetizing.

There are few meat dishes, mainly vegetarian dishes with little oil and water.

if you are a vegetarian, a draft mat is a good choice.

if you are a person who is slimming down, you can rest assured that you can eat a draft mat.

I ate these three soups with water, and I didn't feel greasy after eating them. Under the action of pepper and vinegar, my stomach was warm and comfortable to eat.

You have eaten all the water mats at the third price, and you still get what you want for each price.

Authentic and carefully crafted ones are really different from the old ones, which are the best.

Careful cooking is suitable for local people's mass consumption.

As for the small restaurant in the hutong, it costs 48 yuan for three dishes and one soup, and there is a meat dish, and there is no limit to rice, so you can still make this affordable.

to repeat, Luoyang is really cheap to eat, with low consumption in all aspects. It is a good place for poor travel. Even if you choose the most expensive one, it is really different. If you open your mouth, you will never exceed 111 per person.

I'm Tang Xiaotian, and I want to share something delicious and fun. Welcome to pay attention.