Changting, which integrates human landscape and natural landscape, is praised as "the most beautiful mountain city in China" by Alley, one of the top ten international friends in China.
Changting, also known as Tingzhou Prefecture, is the first prefecture-level city in China where Hakka people live in compact communities, and is known as the "Hakka Capital of the World".
The night in Changting ancient city is beautiful. This is a hometown of fireworks, with convenient transportation, only two hours away from Xiamen high-speed railway in Fujian.
But as a foodie, Changting has several more attractive reputations: "Fujian Famous Food City" and "China Hakka Food Town". Just to experience Hakka cuisine, it is also worth flying.
Walking in Changting's shop street, there are shops selling Changting's dried tofu everywhere. The air is full of Hakka ginger candy.
Changting dried bean curd is one of the eight major projects in western Fujian. It is a traditional dish in Changting County, belonging to Fujian Hakka cuisine. It began in the Kaiyuan period of the Tang Dynasty and has a history of 1200 years.
What surprises me most is that one of the eight major projects in western Fujian was actually done by a mouse. The word "western Fujian" is "Tingzhou", which is the ancient name of Changting.
Eight major projects in western Fujian include: Changting Dried Tofu, Liancheng Dried Sweet Potato, Wuping Dried Pig Gallbladder, Shanghang Dried Radish, Yongding Dried Vegetable, Mingxi Dried Meat, Ninghua Dried Rat and Liu Qing Dried Bamboo Shoots. These specialties can be bought in the street of Changting.
In Changting's wandering days, I often eat a yellow wild fruit, which costs ten yuan a catty. There is black fruit in it, which tastes like persimmon.
It is said that his name is Huang Jinguo, but I don't know what the locals call him.
Fireworks on earth touch the hearts of ordinary people most.
There are many Hakka dishes that I haven't eaten. During my five days and four nights in Changting, I went to a small restaurant where many local people ate and shared it with you.
? Baxiyuan Baxiyuan is located in the storefront street of Changting Ancient City, which is very easy to recognize, because there are several wax figures of grinding bean curd at the door.
Diantou Street belongs to a tourist street, which is the kind of street that almost every visitor to Changting will visit.
Not far from the Baxi Pavilion, Baxi Courtyard shows the Baxi in Tingzhou: the joy of being the first place, the joy of adding flowers, the joy of adults, the joy of setting up a stove, the joy of moving, the joy of birthdays and the joy of harvest, and shows the folk culture of Hakka people in western Fujian with eight happy events in life.
Baxiyuan is a relatively large restaurant on the first street in the store, specializing in Hakka cuisine.
There is a hall and a stage in the hall. I think if it's not easy this year, I can watch a local folk performance while eating.
Ordered a few dishes, the price is not expensive, per capita around 50 yuan. Traveling to Changting is not expensive. Local friends said that everything here is very cheap except the house price is more expensive than other counties.
28 yuan.
Dengzhan cake is a traditional famous spot in Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province, and also a local specialty snack in Liancheng, Changting and Pucheng, Fujian Province.
Baiduo Hejiang is the biggest dish in Hakka cuisine, which is 48 yuan.
It is said that this kind of white-cut chicken is different from the chicken used in Guangdong "white-cut chicken" in bone and meat quality. River River's bones must be chopped with a machete, not cut. Cooking techniques can show the quality of ingredients.
Then why is it called a river? Hehe is known as the "five famous chickens in the world", and it is named because it is mainly produced in Hetian Town, Changting County, Fujian Province. It is a specialty of Changting County and a landmark product of chinese national geography.
In Changting, ordinary people often eat tofu. That's the late Dongpo tofu, 18 yuan. It's delicious.
Later, in another roadside restaurant, my friend ordered a brine chicken, which is also a river chicken. It's quite memorable, but unfortunately I didn't remember the name of the store.
Salted baked chicken is a Hakka home-cooked dish. No water is added in the cooking process, which highlights the umami flavor of the chicken.
? The street snack bar is in Changting, and I know a delicious food: Wei. This cooking method keeps the original freshness, tenderness and smoothness of food to the maximum extent.
Everything here really uses the word "rice", which is all over the street. Pigskin, large intestine, chicken, grass carp, pork ... Very interesting.
One night, I found a roadside stall in the ancient city, and ordered local specialties such as potato cake, stewed beef, taro jiaozi, and soaked chicken offal ... Except stewed beef, 12 yuan, everything else was 10 yuan.
Hakka potato chips are one of Hakka's favorite snacks. With its unique flavor, it has been circulated for thousands of years and is still popular today. In Changting County, the capital of Hakka, this snack is in short supply.
My friend taught me that Changting rice wine fried potato cake is really a unique Hakka food.
Roast beef is tender and looks like it is covered with transparent starch.
A portion of soaked chicken offal, 10 yuan, is quite informative.