Anqing Special Snacks Specialty (Photos)
Qing is the first city where the Yangtze River flows through Anhui Province. It was once called Huaining, or Yicheng. From the reign of Qing Qianlong to 1949, it was the capital of Anhui Province. Anqing is a famous prose school in the history of literature-"Tongcheng School" has ruled the literary world for more than 200 years. Chen Duxiu, a pioneer of the New Culture Movement and one of the founders of the China Producers' Party, Yan Fengying, a performing artist of Huangmei Opera, and Deng Jiaxian, the founder of Two Bombs and One Satellite, were all born here. Anqing is rich in tourism resources, including six national scenic spots, Tianzhu Mountain and provincial scenic spots. With its superior geographical location and convenient transportation network, Anqing, as a new tourist city, has broad development prospects.
Anqing's diet belongs to Huizhou cuisine, and its famous snacks include Jiang Mao jiaozi, Yingjiang Temple Su Guo Tie, Weijiaxiang Tangyuan, Jiang Dashun's steamed meat, Xiaojiaqiao shortbread and so on. Anqing's famous local products are: spiced beef brisket, spiced tripe, Hu Yumei bean paste, shrimp sufu, Mailongxiang mill crisp, Ding Xue Palace cake, Tongcheng Zizao, Tianzhu Hao Jian, Xuehu tribute lotus root, red chestnut, Yangtze River mud carp, crab, white eel, turtle and so on.
1, Hu Yumei broad bean hot sauce
In the thirty-second year of Guangxu in Qing Dynasty (AD 1906), Hu Yumei Sauce Garden tried to make "Hu Yumei Broad Bean Spicy Sauce" by using the flavor of Sichuan Chili sauce, which was reddish in color, delicate in taste, slightly spicy and sweet, and unique in flavor. It was famous all over the world for a time and sold well at home and abroad. Won the international honorary gold medal of Panama World Expo, the silver medal of "Guoguang" of Shanghai International Exhibition and West Lake Expo, and was rated as the quality product of Anhui Province and the quality product of Ministry of Light Industry. "Zhenfeng" brand Hu Yumei broad bean hot sauce is a famous brand food that sells well at home and abroad.
2. Mailongxiang Mozi Crisp
Anqing pastry shop "Mailongxiang" is a traditional feature. The production must go through nine processes and careful ingredients. The main raw materials are fine black sesame, sesame oil and fine sugar. This product looks like black ink, oily but not greasy, sweet and refreshing, and has the effects of moistening lung, benefiting kidney and benefiting liver, which is suitable for all ages. Won the Quality Product Award of the Ministry of Commerce and the Quality Product Award of Anhui Province.
3. Jiang Mao jiaozi
Anqing's famous flavor snacks. Dumpling stuffing is made of hind leg meat of mountain black-haired pig, shrimp and mustard tuber, and boiled with pure chicken juice or bone soup. It has a unique flavor of thin skin, tender meat and fresh soup, and is deeply loved by people. Because its founder, Jiang Qingfu, has a tuft of white hair around his neck and is nicknamed "Jiang Mao", it is called "Jiang Mao jiaozi". Now it is listed as "local snacks" by Anhui Tourism Bureau.
4, top snow tribute cake
The traditional famous product in Huaining County, Anqing City is named "Top Ice Cream" because it is as white as snow on the top of the mountain. In the thirty-second year of Guangxu (AD 1906), he participated in the Nanjing Native Products Fair and was among the best. He was praised by Empress Dowager Cixi in Beijing, hence the name "Ding Xue tribute cake". This kind of cake is white, soft, crisp, sweet and delicious. The cake slice has the characteristics of uniform thickness, brand-rolled, paper-curled, and burning immediately after ignition. It was awarded the title of quality product by the provincial Ministry of Quality Products and Light Industry. 1988 won the silver prize in the first China Food Expo.
5. Tongcheng golden jujube
Tongcheng specialty, local raw jujube slices, soaked in sugar water, first boiled in a copper pot, then slowly cooked with slow fire, about 7 hours after the jujube is cooked, taken out and dried, sweet and crisp, for the first-class silk jujube. According to legend, Tongcheng Zizao paid tribute to the Qing emperor and was designated as a tribute.
6. Xiaojiaqiao shortbread
Xiaojiaqiao shortbread was created by Li Daolong during Guangxu period of Qing Dynasty. Named after operating in Xiaojiaqiao. It has a history of 100 years and is a famous specialty in our city, enjoying a high reputation in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River. Won the title of provincial and municipal quality products respectively. 1978 People's China published and promoted in Chinese and Japanese. This product is refined from more than ten kinds of raw materials such as Fuqiang powder, osmanthus fragrans, fermented noodles, sesame oil, black sesame seeds and white sesame seeds. It is sweet and salty, and looks like a golden crab shell. Now it is produced and operated by Anqing Wanchun Catering Company West Point Food Factory. 192 1 year, a famous modern writer Yu Dafu came to Anqing to teach at Anqing College of Political Science and Law. He has two hobbies, one is to go for a walk in Linghu Park at night, and the other is to eat Xiaojiaqiao shortcakes, and he buys several shortcakes almost every day as a delay.
7. Susong Snow Jujube
Legend has it that Empress Dowager Cixi lived in Anqing with her father when she was a child and coughed in autumn and winter. A local official heard the news and sent some Susong snow dates. After eating it, her illness gradually improved. Later, as soon as Cixi came to power, she asked Su Song to pay tribute regularly as a royal snack. As a result, the snow dates in Susong are famous all over the world. In fact, the so-called imperial snow jujube is a traditional specialty of Susong, which has a history of more than 1000 years. It is made of top-grade glutinous rice, white taro pulp, sugar and peanut oil. It is shaped like jujube, melon pulp and white jade, with thin and crisp skin, instant in mouth, sweet and unique, easy to digest, rich in nutrition, and has the effects of relieving asthma, relieving cough and resolving phlegm. There are two main processes to make snow jujube, first making blank, and then refining the finished product. Snow jujube blank was originally made after the first frost, but now it can be made in dog days. Yu Jia Tuantuan House in Liangting Town has unique skills in making snow dates. Since the reform and opening up, with the change of people's concept, ancestral crafts have spread to the whole county, and the output of snow dates has increased year by year, selling well in Hubei, Jiangxi, Henan, Shandong and other provinces.
8. Tongcheng Caixin Bar
Tongcheng's traditional breakfast has a unique flavor, which was famous as early as the Ming and Qing Dynasties. At that time, the favorite breakfast of the residents of the ancient city was a bowl of green tea and a plate of clear cabbage. There are breakfast shops and teahouses on both sides of the county street, and the business is very prosperous. Tongcheng caixinba is very particular about its production. It is made by soaking 70% indica rice and 30% glutinous rice in warm water for half a day, scooping them up and draining them, then turning them into powder, selecting tender vegetables, slightly boiling them, kneading them into mud, removing their pedicels, and adding lard and white sugar as stuffing. After steaming, the appearance is jade, the heart is sad, soft but not sticky, sweet but not greasy.
9.red chestnuts
Produced in Taihu Lake, Yuexi and Qian Shan in Anqing City. Fresh chestnuts can be eaten raw or cooked. They are sweet, delicious and nutritious. Taihu Dahong Chestnut is the best chestnut with reddish brown, bright luster, early maturity, big head, tough shell, rich meat and sweet taste.
10, Anqing drunk fish
"Bad fish" is an ancient folk traditional product in China, which was listed as a "tribute" as early as Song Taizong years. Bad fish has fragrant smell, ruddy meat, soft taste and long shelf life. It not only retains the original flavor and nutrients of fresh fish, but also does not fall into the stereotype of pickled fish. It is a convenient and quick delicacy for modern families and a good gift for relatives and friends.
1 1, Kiwifruit in Tianzhu Mountain
It is an advanced nutritional and health-care fruit with edible and medicinal functions. Every100g of fresh fruit contains vitamin C120-420mg, which is 0/0 times that of citrus and 80 times that of apple. It also contains a lot of protein, various amino acids, enzymes, calcium, iron, phosphorus, magnesium and pectin, and is known as the king of fruits. Can be used for preventing and treating cancer, and has good curative effects on hyperlipidemia, ischemic vascular diseases, cerebral arteriosclerosis, periodontitis, gastrointestinal diseases, etc.
12, Huating Lake dry tea
"Huating Lake" dry tea, with a history of thousands of years, is made of high-quality soybeans, natural spring water from ancient wells, sesame oil squeezed from wood and traditional seasonings. Unique flavor, suitable for all ages. It is a green tourist food for refreshments, drinks and cooking.
13, Songzi dried salted duck
Songzi brand salted duck is a famous historical product, pure natural green food. Selected high-quality duck meat, processed by traditional production technology, pickled and dried, has the characteristics of beautiful shape, milky white skin color, tender and crisp meat, moderate salinity and mellow fragrance. It is a delicious food at the banquet, and it is also a good gift for relatives and friends.
14, snow fox tribute lotus root
Different from others, most of the lotus roots produced in Qianshan County are 7-hole 1 1 silk, while the lotus roots in Xuehu Palace have 9-hole 13 silk, which is particularly fresh, sweet and crisp. It is really a treasure in lotus roots. According to legend, after Zhu Yuanzhang officially established the capital south, the local people took lotus roots from the lake on the first day of the eighth lunar month and transported the first batch of lotus roots to Kyoto as a tribute. Therefore, it is also called "Snow Lake Tribute Lotus Root". Snow Lake tribute lotus root skin is white as jade, lotus root is fresh and tender, lotus root is slightly square, and its thickness (diameter) is generally 10-60. Snow fox tribute lotus root is good to eat raw and cooked. Choose crisp lotus root knots, cut them into round pieces, put them on a plate and sprinkle with sugar. This is a famous cold dish at the local banquet. Cooked food can choose old and strong thick lotus root, and the hole of lotus root is filled with glutinous rice, which can be eaten as a staple food after steaming. Steamed pork lotus root is also a local dish with unique flavor, which is deeply loved by domestic and foreign tourists.
15, sugar-free buckwheat flour
Tartary buckwheat is known as the "king of grains" and contains seven kinds of nutrients. According to Compendium of Materia Medica, it can nourish five internal organs, reduce qi and moisten intestines. It is a good food for middle-aged and elderly people to lower blood pressure, blood sugar and blood lipid. It is recognized as an excellent dual-purpose grain for food and medicine by FAO, which is a typical embodiment of the homologous culture of Chinese medicine and food. "Huizhou" tartary buckwheat powder is made of high-quality tartary buckwheat, which is convenient to dissolve and more suitable for daily health care of middle-aged and elderly people and people with "three highs".
16, the number of shad in the Yangtze River
Shad is a rare fish species in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and it is also called "Three Freshness of the Yangtze River" with puffer fish and swordfish. It is migratory, called "thrush" in the sea and "Kun" in the river. It enters the river to lay eggs on time and returns to the sea on time, so it is called "Kun". Anqing, Zongyang, Huaining, Wangjiang and Susong along the river are all shad producing areas. Interestingly, every year at the turn of spring and summer, Shade returns to Jiangxi and stops at Xiaogushan in susong county, so the folk proverb says, "Shade is just Xiaogushan."
Herring is shaped like snapper, with silver scales and beaded lips, and usually weighs two to three pounds. The meat is tender, the scales are fresh, the soup is fresh, and the nutrition is rich. It is a tribute from generation to generation. "Bud ginger purple vinegar moxibustion shad, snow bowl with more than two feet. There are peach blossoms in spring, which taste better than squid. " The praise of Su Dongpo, a generation of literary giant, attracted many people's yearning for the delicious shad! Steamed shad has been a famous dish all over the world. In order to taste the delicacy of shad, Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty spared no expense to send thousands of miles of Risema, which is a legacy of "riding a princess in the world of mortals and laughing, no one knows it is litchi". It is no wonder that Wang Anshi praised "shad out of the net to cover Zhu Jiang, fat bamboo shoots are not as good as milk". Due to overfishing in past dynasties, the output of shad along the Yangtze River in Anqing has been declining year after year and almost disappeared. The shad is now banned by the state.
17, big crab
Whenever autumn chrysanthemums are in full bloom and the golden breeze is cool, the big crabs along the Yangtze River in Anqing will be listed in time. Crabs are tender, delicious and nutritious. At this time, people are scrambling to taste this kind of "bullying" thing, which has always been regarded as delicious.
Cold dew arrives in beginning of winter, which is the flood season for fishermen from counties along the Yangtze River in Anqing to catch crabs. Whenever the sun sets, crabs are lit, and the waves are reflected on the branches of rivers and lakes, forming a busy crab-catching picture. Baskets of big crabs have been collected and trafficked to the north, south, west and east of the motherland, as well as Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong and Macao ... In recent years, with the development of market economy, artificial crab nursery farms have been built in crab-producing areas along the Yangtze River, which has greatly increased the number of big crabs whose output once declined, greatly increasing the stamina of prospering urban and rural markets and earning foreign exchange through export. Many fishermen have started this industry and embarked on a well-off road step by step. Especially the hairy crabs in Susong and Zongyang counties are well known.