Anpu is an ancient town, which is connected with Guangdong and Guangxi by land, and the waterway goes directly to Beibu Gulf via Kyushu River. Before 1970s, the commerce and handicraft industry in Anpu were very prosperous. At that time, Ampu gathered "heroes" from all directions. They camped in Anpu, and brought with them the local methods of making all kinds of delicious food. After several generations of Anpu people who never tire of eating, they finally formed today's unique Anpu cuisine.
"Anpu makes money, Anpu!" It's about idle people who are naturally fond of leisure. It's easy to make money and easy to spend money. This popular saying many years ago tells the prosperity and liveliness of Anpu, an ancient commercial port town with a history of hundreds of years. In the era of backward transportation and underdeveloped land, Anpu Port has become a golden channel between inland and Southeast Asia. As early as hundreds of years ago, commerce and goods came and went in an endless stream. This ancient commercial port is finally hot and wide. And this kind of prosperity and excitement, in addition to port trade, Anpu's famous unique flavor food also contributed. It can be said that Anpu's unique flavor food, to a certain extent, created the prosperous years of the century-old town. "Eating in Guangzhou" shows that Cantonese cuisine plays an important role in the four major cuisines in China. In the Cantonese cuisine system, Anpu's unique cuisine with a long history occupies a great position, which is not inferior to other cuisines. The rapid rise of Guangzhou Anpu Chicken Rice Restaurant in recent years is enough to illustrate this point. Anpu's unique flavor food is undoubtedly icing on the cake in Guangzhou, a gourmet city, and its weight is getting heavier and heavier. Today, even on the bustling Huangpu River, you can see the shadow of many Anpu chicken rice shops.
As the sun turns around, due to the interception of Kyushu River by Jianhedi Reservoir and other reasons, the scenery of this bustling port in the past is no longer, and it is gradually forgotten and deserted, and only the past scenery years can be seen in the occasionally visible port stone strips. Walking on the criss-crossing Anpu Old Street, I feel that this narrow old street is like a girl who washed away the lead, guarding the ferry of the years and looking at the past youth with nostalgic eyes. If you walk in the streets and alleys of the ancient town in the rain, there is really a feeling of walking in the rain alley written by Dai Wangshu, with a touch of sadness in romance. Walking in Anpu New Street in the middle of the night, I saw bright lights, food stalls all over the streets, and shouts floating from time to time at midnight, faintly showing the prosperity and excitement of the past. Guzhen New District is like a big boy dancing wildly, stretching his crazy dance, full of sunshine and beauty, full of vitality and publicity. Perhaps this is the true face of a century-old town, always looking for an unyielding personality to show itself. A century-old town with such a rich diet culture has a strong and tenacious vitality. In today's increasingly developed tourism industry, the century-old town, unwilling to be lonely, will once again show its unique charm of southern cuisine under the excavation of modern concepts. Perhaps this is the true face of a century-old town?
Amp has two main characteristics:
First, it goes without saying that there are many beautiful women.
Second, flavor snacks, when it comes to eating, this will be said again, because eating is a major feature of Anpu people. Here are some examples:
1, Anpu Chicken Rice Chicken Rice Stall usually opens at 5: 00 pm, and the stalls are mostly at the intersection or corner of street arcades, surrounded by cloth to prevent passers-by from peeking at diners. Chicken rice and white-cut chicken is cooked with the neck of Sanhuang chicken or fat castrated chicken with slow fire and thick soup until it is 90% mature, and then coated with peanut oil to make the skin smooth and oily. Seasoning is local black beans, sesame oil, galangal, coriander and onion. Chicken rice is cooked with chicken soup and lard. According to statistics, there are 6 1 stall registered in Anpu, and each stall sells 8 ~ 10 chickens a night. According to this rough calculation, the consumption of chicken rice alone will reach more than 1 ten thousand yuan per night.
2, boiled chicken Many places in Guangdong have the habit of eating boiled chicken, but Anpu people especially like boiled chicken, which is the first dish for Anpu people to add dishes and feast. Local people make boiled chicken, double choice chicken, double boiled chicken and three flavors. The chickens selected are local fine-boned farm chickens, and feed chickens and big-boned chickens are absolutely useless; Roast chicken needs slow cooking and soaking, and it can be cooked to 80%. Use ginger and garlic as ingredients. The local boiled chicken is tender, smooth and fragrant, which is very delicious. The price of boiled chicken sold in markets and hotels ranges from 30 to 50 yuan per kilogram.
3. Ampu powder: It belongs to a kind of rice flour. In terms of taste and texture, it can rank among the top three in Guangdong with Chencun powder and Shahe powder. The AMP powder made by Mimi is fresh and elastic, and it is matched with special ingredients. This tastes good! The most primitive way to eat Ampu powder is to mix it with a little soy sauce, a little peanut oil and a little garlic. This way of eating, this taste is the most authentic anpu powder.
4. Anpu rice porridge is famous for being smooth, refreshing and quenching thirst. When the porridge is boiled with first-class refined white rice until it is not raw or rotten, it is rushed into the cold boiled water tank cooked in advance to make the porridge granular, and the porridge water is brewed clearly, so that it does not stick to the teeth. In summer, restaurants specializing in rice porridge generally include dried bitter gourd, dried cucumber, dried radish, sweet garlic, peanuts, cooked duck eggs, Chili sauce, water spinach and pickled lemon diced. High-grade beef jerky, fresh fish with olives, red-cut whales and white-cut chicken are also available.
5. The dustpan is made of rice, raw flour, clear water, cooked sesame seeds, peanut oil, soy sauce, Chili sauce and garlic. Method: Wash the rice, soak it in clear water for 3 hours, pick it up, put it in a stone mill and grind it into rice slurry while adding clear water, add a proper amount of raw flour and mix well, and make it into rice flour slurry after fine particle struggle; After the water in the steamer is turned on, pour the rice flour slurry into a tray or a small dustpan several times for steaming. How to eat: in summer and autumn, cut the dustpan into small squares and sprinkle with sesame or garlic, soy sauce and peanut oil; In winter and spring, cut the dustpan into small squares and fry it with Chili sauce. Features: white, soft, smooth, cool and salty. Function: tonify middle energizer, replenish qi, relieve vexation and quench thirst. This kind of snack, especially from Anpu and Hengshan, is delicious.
6, stewed dog Anpu people love to eat dog meat, but its way of eating is very special, like stew, eat all year round, especially in winter. The method of dog stew is: select tender dogs, wash their hair and viscera, chop them up as needed, then put them in an oil pan and fry them with ginger heads for about 10 minutes (mainly to remove the fishy smell), then pour them into a clay pot and stew them slowly with low fire. When they are cooked, they are served with minced garlic and Chili sauce. In the streets of the city, whenever night falls, people are seen squatting around small round tables in groups, asking for a pot of dog meat, adding some rice wine or beer, and talking about things slowly. This situation surprised many foreigners. Stewed dog meat in winter not only keeps the original flavor, but also warms the stomach. Therefore, it is loved by more and more people, and many foreigners are willing to try its unique flavor when they come to Anpu. The price of raw dog meat in the market is 25 ~ 32 yuan per catty.
7. Steamed Dumplings Anpu Steamed Dumplings are famous for their smooth and delicious taste and moderate hardness. In particular, Li steamed dumplings in Liancheng East Street are well-known, and customers "eat and think". Steamed dumplings are wrapped by soaking white glutinous rice to dry, then stir-frying with fresh lard, adding barbecued lean pork or pork belly to stir-fry pork belly, with red shrimp or crab meat in the middle. The cooking temperature is moderate. The refining method of grey water is as follows: burning straw into ash, adding appropriate amount of water, stirring, standing for a period of time, and pouring out supernatant to become "grey water"; Soak glutinous rice in time, take it out and drain it, then wrap the soaked glutinous rice with zongzi leaves, put it in boiling water and boil it with strong fire, and put it in zongzi for about 2 hours until it is cooked thoroughly. It is hot in winter and spring and cold in summer and autumn. The finished product is golden yellow, soft and tough, dipped in honey or brown sugar, sweet and unique in flavor.
8. Refined sweet potato porridge was originally forced by the poor people in this county. After 1980s, with the improvement of people's living standard and the change of dietary taste, the eating method of sweet potato porridge became hot in Liancheng and Anpu, and many sweet potato porridge stalls (usually in chicken rice stalls) were set up in the streets and alleys, which became a fresh snack in Anpu catering industry. The ingredients are sweet potato, water and a little sugar. Methods: 1. Wash, peel and shred fresh sweet potatoes, wash off starch attached to shredded potatoes with clear water, and drain water; Boil the water, add shredded potatoes and sugar until it is 80% cooked. The finished product is cool, refreshing and slightly sweet, which is more flavor if fried with salted fish.
9. Glutinous rice has a long history and is very popular in the local area. The production method is to cook glutinous rice into rice, then add wine cake, put it in a relatively sealed container, heat it at a certain temperature in winter and ferment it for 36-48 hours. These sweet grains are mellow and sweet, and most people can drink them. If you add a small amount of brown sugar and eggs to cook and eat, it will have more fitness effect. The confinement of local urban and rural women must be both sweet and bad. Most of them are made one month in advance, soaked with a small amount of rice wine, and eat several bowls every day to nourish the body, enhance vitality and promote blood circulation. Make a full moon, make a birthday, serve a bowl of sweet and unpalatable food as soon as the guests enter the door, and then cook. Nowadays, all farmers' markets sell at a price of 3 ~ 5 yuan per kilogram.
10. Sweet potato soup is called "clam jumping pond" in this city. On the eve of Mid-Autumn Festival every year, sweet potatoes are harvested one after another, and sweet potato soup is also listed one after another. Ingredients: sweet potato, sesame, glutinous rice flour, brown sugar and water. Method 2: stir-fry sesame seeds with slow fire; Wash sweet potatoes, remove hair and make mashed potatoes. Add a proper amount of sticky rice flour and a little cooked sesame seeds to make a thick paste. Scoop into boiled brown sugar water and roll until just cooked. Take it out and serve it. Features: soft and tough, refreshing and sweet.
1 1, Yizi sugar is made by kneading refined flour into dough, then directly twisting (cutting) it into small dough with a knife or hand, and then boiling it in sugar water. Boiled Yizai sugar is refreshing and elastic, smooth but not greasy. Another kind of black Yizai sugar made of ground plants (chicken manure) has the effect of reducing fire and removing summer heat.
12, stew dogs with dried fish, dried worms, dried tangerine peel and other seasonings. , and then stew until cooked. After the lid is lifted, people can appreciate that "the incense of meat floats around the altar, and the Buddha hears of abandoning Zen and jumping over the wall", which is really "immortal instability". 18-25 yuan/kg
13, dry fried shrimps. China people and prawns are shelled and fried, only seasoned with salt, with golden color and delicious taste. There are also fried crabs with ginger and onion, dried fried squid tubes ... the price of seafood is generally higher than that of Zhanjiang Pingyi 1/3. The most famous is Corbicula Anpu, which is plump and cheap. 8 yuan, a box, full of weight.
14, Anpu raw fish porridge is the oldest and youngest in Xian Yi. Seasoning raw fish, fried small marine fish, braised dried squid, chicken, lean meat, barbecued pork and shrimp cake. It is quickly rolled with porridge. Delicious and fragrant, the price even reaches your letter, 2-3 yuan/bowl.
There are also supper and snacks. Roasted oysters 1/ yuan, buy 10 and get 3 free, roast dog meat, full of flavor, as long as 2 yuan/skewer. There are also radish cake 0.3 yuan/piece, taro cake 0.5 yuan/piece, hand-ground peanut paste 0.5- 1 yuan/bowl, spiced beef skewers 0.5 yuan/skewers. There are glutinous rice chicken, fried shrimp cake, sweet potato cake and so on, so I won't list them one by one. Anyway, there are many delicious foods, hehe. ...
Let's talk about life after eating. The food here makes people linger. The key is equality, beauty and integrity. However, the accommodation conditions in Anpu are just so-so, including Anpu Hotel, Century Yuan Hotel and Hengfeng Hotel. Price 50-200 yuan/room. It's similar to Zhanjiang. Of course, there are also cheap hostels. For example, Dongfeng Hotel.
Generally speaking, personally, Anpu is quite good, with a glorious past and more hope for tomorrow, and tomorrow will be better. Anpu location: located in the southwest of Lianjiang City, downstream of Jiuzhou River in Leizhou Peninsula, and west of Beibu Gulf.