Speaking of Xinyang snacks, the first thing that comes to mind is Regan Noodles. Strictly speaking, Regan Noodles is not a special feature of Xinyang. Originally Wuhan cuisine, it became the favorite of Xinyang people after it was spread to Xinyang. Strange to say, except Xinyang, Regan Noodles is not popular in other places in Henan Province, or there is no market. Even in Xinyang area, it is limited to Xinyang city, and there are few other counties. \ x0d \ x0d \ Regan Noodles, introduced into Xinyang, occupies the leading position of snacks, and its hometown of Wuhan Regan Noodles, has a world of difference in taste. For example, Regan Noodles's practice is different from other aspects. First of all, the amount of alkali needed for dough mixing is much larger than that for ordinary noodles. Noodles with a lot of alkali are yellow. And the noodles should not be too thin, otherwise it will affect the taste. Good noodles are dry and wet, but they should be cooked before eating. This time, you can only cook it until it is raw. If the noodles are overcooked, you can't eat them. Take out the freshly cut noodles, rinse them with cold boiled water, then pour in small ground oil or cooked vegetable oil, stir the noodles evenly, spread them out and let them cool. When it's time to eat, rinse it with boiling water and add seasoning. \ x0d \ x0d \ Presumably the reason why Regan Noodles is unpopular in other places is that it has a lot to do with spices. Xinyang, the seasoning used in Regan Noodles, contains fresh fragrant powder, which can't be bought anywhere else, even in a big city like Zhengzhou. I think this is one of the reasons why Regan Noodles can't open the market in Zhengzhou. Regan Noodles, cooked in boiling water, scoop a spoonful of sesame paste, add fresh spicy powder and pepper, then pour bean paste, soy sauce, add some monosodium glutamate, sprinkle with shredded mustard tuber, chopped green onion and fresh coriander, and finally pour some sesame oil. If you like spicy food, you can have some boiled Chili oil. Unless you have a strong taste, you generally don't want salt, because the bean paste is already salty. Regan Noodles, it's delicious, smells delicious and attractive. Noodles taste elastic, chewy but not sticky, fragrant and salty, which really makes people want to stop. So Regan Noodles is the first choice for breakfast in Xinyang. And only push the Regan surface. \ x0d \ x0d \ The limelight of the morning market is an unshakable banner of Regan Noodles. One kind of snack is very popular, that is, spoon steamed stuffed bun. Some places are also called noodle nests. It is not difficult to do this. Soak glutinous rice and grind it into slurry, and add the ground soybean milk. Soymilk is really a good thing, and its importance is not mentioned for the time being. Add salt, chopped green onion and chopped Jiang Mo into the two pulps and stir well. Put the frying pan on the shelf and you can fry the spoon buns. This snack has such a name because the tools used are quite special. You need a flat-bottomed spoon about four inches in diameter. This spoon is concave around and convex in the middle, just like a hill on the flat ground. Dip the spoon in hot oil before cooking to avoid rice paste sticking to the spoon. Then quickly lift the spoon, scoop in a spoonful of rice slurry, sprinkle with a handful of sesame seeds, and then immerse in boiling hot oil. The rice slurry flows to the four sides of the spoon, and the protruding place in the middle naturally becomes a hollow circle. A spoonful of steamed buns can be fried in half a minute at most. You can eat the fried spoon buns by controlling the oil. Soymilk spoon steamed bread is crisp and delicate, with soft taste and tender outside. If you don't add soy milk or add too little, it's not only not easy to fry, but also not crisp. Some sellers steal bait and add flour instead, so the taste of spoon buns will be greatly reduced. It tastes like oil cake, which is laborious and not delicious. Speaking of oil cakes, I remember. In Xinyang morning market, you can hardly see oil cakes, because oil cakes only appear on the table. Speaking of oil cakes, Xinyang's oil cakes are not simply fried with a piece of bread. Strictly speaking, it should be called pie, but it is cooked in oil. The fried oil cake is crispy on both sides, soft and tender, which is also commendable. \ x0d \ x0d \ Spoon buns are rare now, and fewer and fewer people sell them, because it is more troublesome to make, not as easy as in Regan Noodles, and the materials used are more exquisite. Although delicious, it is not as delicious as before. A company has been making spoon buns for several years. Although the place is partial, the business is good. Every time I go back, as long as I can get up early, I will rush to the queue. \ x0d \ x0d \ bean curd is the most common in the morning market. It seems that when something arrives in Xinyang, it will always be transformed and become a school of its own. Let's just say that this tofu brain has long been divided into sweet and salty. The seasoning added to this salty bean curd is actually very simple, nothing more than tussah powder, bean paste, or a pinch of sesame seeds, but it tastes particularly refreshing. \ x0d \ x0d \ If Regan Noodles is the dominant player in the early market, then the protectors around it are bean curd and fried dough sticks. Fried dough sticks belong to the public and mass food, and can be seen everywhere. But in Xinyang, it is necessary to change this very common thing. Roll it up with thousands of sheets and add some pickles. It's not greasy or salty. It's delicious. \ x0d \ x0d \ There are many varieties to choose from. Xinyang people added instant noodles to breakfast, but the practice has also changed. Spoon the boiled bread into a bowl with a colander, spoon the steaming sparerib soup and sprinkle with onion and garlic. You can add eggs, yuba, bean skin and thousands of pieces of silk. In short, there are many additional products, so you can choose carefully! \ x0d \ x0d \ and steamed bread are also indispensable main ingredients. As long as you have breakfast in Xinyang, steamed buns can be seen everywhere. It can be said that as long as you want to do business early and don't want to be too troublesome, three things are enough. These are Regan Noodles, tofu (or bean porridge) and steamed bread. There are also popular soup dumplings, but the technical content of soup dumplings is too high, and it takes some effort to make stuffing. Naturally, I can't compare with steamed buns everywhere. Then there are many companions of steamed buns, exquisite steamed dumplings, lying quietly in the steamer, and the translucent dough can vaguely see the attractive stuffing; The fried dumplings with paste dough are neatly lying in rows in the pot, and the half-opened dough seems to send a signal to people. This China flavor is irresistible! \ x0d \ x0d \ Even rice noodles have become a part of breakfast. If it is in other places, it is at least Chinese food or dinner, but in Xinyang, the rice noodles in the breakfast market are actually mixed. It can't be said that Xinyang breakfast has a large capacity and many varieties. Others, such as beef meatball soup, vegetable box, egg cake, spread cake, wonton and soybean milk, are the most common. \ x0d \ x0d \ Breakfast has passed, and there are many special snacks. In fact, in the final analysis, snacks are nothing more than those kinds, but their practices and tastes are different, so the same thing has become a local feature in different places. Take this kebab as an example. It comes from Xinjiang, but mutton skewers in different places have different tastes. Just like in Xinyang, the name of mutton kebabs remains the same, but the size has changed. A few small pieces of mutton kebabs are on a thin long string, which is no longer as big as mutton kebabs in my hometown. Although the mutton pieces on the skewers are smaller, they taste better. Maybe it was easy to taste when I was young. Turn over the charcoal rack for a few minutes, brush the oil evenly with a small brush, sprinkle with fine salt and cumin, and that's it, but the meat is tender and smooth, which is an irresistible food.