Amidst the red lanterns hanging high in front of the door and the sound of firecrackers, what is scattered all over the floor is the warm happiness of the Chinese New Year. The family dinner filled with mellow aroma on the dining table is the warmth of family reunion, and it is also the taste of hometown that foreigners will never forget.
Regardless of whether you are reunited with your family at this moment, you still have to have a sense of ritual during the Spring Festival. I hope these delicacies can bring you happy memories.
The festive season is the right time to "eat". This Spring Festival, let's take a small tour to experience the "taste of the New Year" on the tongues of Hanzhong people!
1. Hot dough
Every food contains the joy of life, and every flavor contains the happiness of reunion. Hot dough is the most representative food business card of Hanzhong. It has the characteristics of white, thin, light, tender, soft and tough. The hot dough is bright in color. It tastes soft and glutinous when eaten hot. It is spicy and delicious. It is refreshing when eaten cool. It is very delicious when served cold with bean sprouts and other auxiliary vegetables. As a must-eat for Hanzhong people every day, the dough is also often served during the Chinese New Year. A dish was brought to the table.
2. Vegetable tofu
Vegetable tofu has a long history of production and is a special snack that is very popular among Hanzhong people. The texture of vegetable tofu is as tender as jade, and it is rich in protein. The sour aroma is refreshing, nourishing the stomach and delicious. After eating a lot of fish and meat during the Chinese New Year, a bowl of refreshing vegetable tofu is both appetizing and refreshing~
3. Spicy Chicken
As the "New Year's flavor" becomes more and more intense, people What I miss is not only the joy of family reunion, but also the happiness and satisfaction of tasting familiar food in my memory. Spicy chicken is a unique snack in Ningqiang. It is bright in color, spicy and fragrant, and the meat is tender and smooth. As a cold dish often eaten by Hanzhong people during the New Year, spicy chicken has captured many foodies with its unique charm~
4. Preserved meat
"Preserved meat" is a chewy "home flavor", and it is also a taste memory influenced by time and fireworks. When the cured meat comes, the flavor left by the years becomes more and more mellow. "The fragrance of cured meat is fragrant, and the flavor of the New Year is getting stronger." After entering the twelfth lunar month, the atmosphere of the New Year becomes even more intense. At this time, the "protagonist" on the Chinese New Year table - cured meat - is indispensable. The New Year pigs killed at the end of the year are chopped into large chunks and hung on the beams. They can be eaten from the beginning to the end of the year. The fat meat is crystal clear and the lean meat is bright red. The waxy glow outside the balcony window is the most smell of fireworks in the world.
5. Braised meat
The New Year ritual cannot be complete without braised food. The rich flavor of the New Year has long come from the Hanzhong people’s braised meat and braised chicken. In my childhood memories, during the Chinese New Year, the adults would change cups at the dinner table, and the fragrant braised food must be indispensable. When I grow up, braised food has become the most incomprehensible nostalgia. The braised food in Hanzhong is mostly red braised. After cooking, it has a strong color and rich aroma. It is a must-have dish for Chinese New Year with wine and rice.
6. Eight Big Bowls
Liuba is located at the southern foot of the Qinling Mountains, facing Bashu and facing Qinchuan. It is a gathering place for people from the north and south, creating delicacies with strong regional characteristics. Ba Dawan is one of the best. The so-called "eight bowls" originate from the flowing water mat. They are indispensable for important festivals, birthdays, weddings and funerals, etc. They firmly occupy the top position in the New Year's Eve dinner of Liuba people.
7. Spicy fresh fish
Hanzhong spicy fish is represented by Baohe fresh fish and is well-known. It is mainly grass carp, silver carp, yellow spicy diced carp, and is served with rice noodles. Fresh vegetables such as scallops, bean sprouts, tofu, and konjac are used with seasonings to cook spicy fish. The fish meat is tender and smooth, mellow and spicy, spicy but not greasy, and extremely delicious. It is deeply loved by Hanzhong people. Eating fish during the Spring Festival brings the good fortune of "more than enough every year". Everything goes well and life is prosperous in the new year.
8. Yuan Gong Chowder
Yuan Gong Chowder is a unique dish in Hanzhong. It consists of three parts: noodles, base and soup. It is meaty but not greasy, fragrant and refreshing. It has the characteristics of salty and sour, fragrant and spicy, complete five flavors, bright color and fresh taste. It is an indispensable hard dish for Hanzhong people’s New Year’s Eve banquet. A bowl of hot chowder soup is rich to the naked eye, fragrant to the nostrils, and comforting to the stomach. Remember to arrange the delicacies that Hanzhong people must have during the Chinese New Year.
9. Pickled Ginger Chicken
You can taste the unique flavor of Pickled Ginger Chicken in Nanzheng, Hanzhong. The main ingredients come from native chickens raised in original ecological farms, with small native ginger, pickled radish, spicy millet, and more than 30 kinds of precious Chinese herbal medicines, stir-fried and stewed. After entering the mouth, the chicken is fragrant and sour, and sour and spicy. Spicy and fragrant, the delicious taste flows between the lips and teeth, surprising the taste buds. How could such a hard dish be missing from the Chinese New Year dinner table?
10. Foping Sanxiang
The nostalgia on the tip of the tongue is rich nostalgia. The warmest memories of childhood often come from the stove in the kitchen of my hometown. Foping Sanxiang is a local specialty and is well-known in Foping. It has been passed down for hundreds of years and is quite famous. The meat, eggs, radishes and various vegetables are inlaid and kneaded together. The texture is tender, delicious and nutritious. Every bite you take is warm and satisfying~
What you eat is delicious food. What you are enjoying is the flavor of the New Year, and what you are waiting for is your return! The most intense flavor of the New Year is that of hometown. The flavor of the New Year that is lingering in the smoke and aroma at home and evoked by the delicious food full of memories has never left. The unseen beautiful scenery and rapid changes in our hometown are also deeply imprinted in our minds and hearts. Just like this, no matter how far we go, we will always remember the way home.
The sentence "It's Chinese New Year" is enough to speak louder than a thousand words and evoke the "New Year's flavor" of your hometown in your memory. This is the best taste in the world!