When it comes to eating, we always like to distinguish it with five flavors, just like the sour taste of old vinegar, the bitter taste of cold melon and the spicy taste of pepper. However, we often overlook that besides taste, food has colorful colors, such as brown of old vinegar, green of cold melon and red of pepper. There are orange of citrus, purple of eggplant, bright yellow of custard and snow-white of fish soup, which set each other off and create a colorful world. In that case, why not take color as a clue and taste the characteristics of a small town? Jiexi is so small, but did you eat it all?

▲ paste.

In other words, there are always one or two impressive foods in everyone's childhood memory. For me, it must be a bowl of sticky loach hair clips with 50 cents that kindergarten must eat at the school gate every day after school. But now, in the small town, I really can't see the bike carrying the sticky loach, and I can't hear my uncle's clear cry.

▲ fake.

It's a bit like steamed bread when it's fake. At first, it was dry and tasteless. Chewing it carefully is not the same thing. The sweetness and elasticity of starch are incomparable to steamed bread.

▲ Circular stamps

There are no round stamps on the dinner table at home. It is often before dinner in the afternoon, or at night, when you suddenly get greedy, choose a few to heat for food. The skin of the hairpin is soft and tough, wrapped in refreshing diced pickles, accompanied by the aroma of peanuts, which just soothes the temporary emptiness in the abdomen.

▲ Micheng

Rice grains are desserts made of fried rice with sesame seeds and peanuts. Compared with other snacks, it is easier to carry and store, so it becomes the "best companion gift" for visiting relatives and friends during the Spring Festival. It is a tradition of a small town to cook for the New Year. In the hand-made workshop, find familiar people, put a few barrels of rice, and then divide them into big bags and small bags when you get home.

▲ thin hairpin

Thin hairpin can also be regarded as a special snack in town. The skin is made of sticky rice flour and water, and the stuffing is a lot of green garlic and fried dried beans. People who eat are intuitive and delicious, but others are fascinated by the smell, which can be compared with the famous stinky tofu in China. So every time I go out and get on the bus, my aunt will carry a few bags of boxed hairpins and ask, "Does my sister love hairpins?" Before I could answer, there was a car attendant. The flight attendant drove people out: "Don't eat thin chopsticks in the car!" " "This is also the unique scenery of a small town.

▲ Baby

Pour the rice paste into a steamer, steam it and evenly cut it into four or six parts. After adding the stuffing, twist the four corners in turn, fold it in half in the middle and wrap it. You can eat it. People who eat steamed stuffed buns for the first time can't master this trick. They always eat vegetable oil first and fall all over the floor. Similar to Leicha, there are various fillings in the bag: pumpkin, rice spoon, long beans, bamboo shoots, pickles, as well as accessories such as dried tofu and peanuts. What to eat and how much to put depends on personal taste and preference. Ok, let's show off the west. Baozan and sweet beans are more suitable.

▲ Tea crushing

As a feature that every tourism festival will publicize with great fanfare, the feature that every household will do, smashing tea, may not need to be explained. If you must have an explanation, then you come here.

▲ Mai Wei

A wheat hairpin and a cup of soybean milk are standard breakfast items in primary and junior high schools. One is salty and the other is sweet, which complement each other. I didn't know until high school that a single wheat dumpling can also produce wonderful ways to eat, such as "wheat dumpling wrapped in zongzi", "hot dog wrapped", "chicken fillet wrapped" and "spicy". At first glance, it sounds incredible, but after eating it, I can't help but buy it. It is also the whimsy of the breakfast shop owner.

▲ beans

After frying in the oil pan, the dried bean curd is covered with a crispy shell, but the starch inside is still soft and smooth. Usually, I will prepare a bowl of garlic salt water to eat, also to reduce the fire of cooking. At the same time, fried things are inevitably greasy, so people in small towns wrap a piece of lettuce around a piece of beans, adding a refreshing taste to this snack.

▲ Stuffed tofu

The word "fermented bean curd" may have been heard by many people and should have been done in many places. The fermented bean curd in the small town is neither braised nor steamed, but more fried. Needless to say, the process of "brewing" is exquisite, and frying is by no means simple as imagined. It is not difficult to keep the shape of tofu, which is not broken or cracked, and to embed the meat in tofu without leakage. But because it is not easy to make, it tastes special.

▲ Fried pile

The familiar fried piles are mostly round jiaozi covered with white sesame seeds. But in small towns, fried piles also have different shapes: patterned oblate circles, mostly printed with molds. As for the taste, there is not much difference except the sesame seeds in the outer layer.

▲ Sweet glutinous rice

Sweet fruit, the name has revealed the taste. You can slice it and steam it, but the favorite way to eat it is to dip it in egg liquid and fry it slowly in shallow oil. Golden yellow is wrapped in dark brown, and the aroma of eggs neutralizes the sticky sweetness of candy. In addition, when it comes to sweet berries, there is an interesting expression. The older generation praised people's healthy skin color and said "color is sweet". In our generation, "color sweetness" has only become a mockery of "being hacked".

▲ Bowl hairpin

Bowl hairpin is called bowl hairpin because it is steamed in a small bowl. After steaming, the bowl chai laughs more and happier. Some people even use teacups directly at home, and the steamed bowls are small and pleasing. Adding brown sugar will turn dark brown, adding sugar will turn white. Selfish prefer to cut the chopsticks into small pieces, put them in a pot and fry them with a layer of crispy skin. The addition of oil can eliminate the original drying.

▲ Bowl hairpin

As the name implies, Hong Tao Ban is a red peach-shaped hairpin. The fillers used in Hong Tao Ban and circular printing are the same, and the only difference lies in the skin and shape of the hairpins. When kneading dough, add a kind of powder called "hairpin red" to show a festive pink. The difference in shape depends on the mark. There is also an interesting expression about seals. If two people look alike, it is: "You two are simply stamped with Hong Tao Ban's seal." The influence of diet on writing can also be seen.

▲ Potato powder.

As "afternoon tea" that I have loved since primary school, I eat it almost every afternoon when I come home from school. Even after years of four to three yuan, I am still willing to pay for it. There are leeks, taro, pumpkins and so on. But now, I can only sigh that the potato powder hairpin has long been gone, and now there is no new one that can compete with the humble stall with only one car and one boiler on the roadside. ;