Foreigners say "food is in Guangzhou", while Guangzhou people say "food is in Xiguan", and Xiguan has kept many traditional snacks. There are countless restaurants here, from Guangzhou Restaurant, Taotaoju Restaurant, Lianxianglou Restaurant and Panxi Restaurant to Yin Ji Restaurant, Wuzhanji Restaurant and Nanxin Restaurant. From beef offal radish, double skin milk and transparent horseshoe cake to rice rolls, shrimp dumplings, wonton and so on, everything is available.
Boat porridge
This time, what I want to introduce to you is not Guangzhou snacks in a broad sense, but a rare Xiguan snack. With the gradual enrichment of products, many once popular snacks, such as fried taro and shrimp with frankincense and wonton with golden sauce, are rarely cooked in restaurants now, but Panxi restaurant has been insisting. As the largest garden-style restaurant in China, it is absolutely a pleasure to combine beautiful scenery with delicious food and taste delicious food here. When we saw the two famous snacks "Fried Taro Shrimp with Frankincense" and "Brocade Wonton" on the menu, many complicated feelings welled up in our faces. When I was a child, I often held snacks in my hand, as if they were still fragrant, and warm memories related to this emerged in my mind.
Hewei giblet
Fried taro shrimp with frankincense is a local snack in Guangzhou. According to reports, with shrimp as the main material, the shrimp meat is cleaned, sucked dry, chopped into shrimp paste, and slapped in the same direction until it is gelatinous. Chop ham and fat together into mud, put it in a pot with shrimp sauce, add fermented bean curd, pepper, egg liquid and sesame oil, and stir the flour below to make stuffing. At the same time, the betel nut taro is cut into thin strips and steamed, then the stuffing is evenly spread on the surface of the taro strips, and then it is fried in an oil pan. The finished product is golden brown in color, slightly hard on the surface, but not hard, crisp in mouth, rich in oil fragrance, fresh and slightly spicy, and unique in flavor. Has the effects of stimulating appetite and promoting digestion, and is suitable for anorexia and dyspepsia.
Lu Jin wonton, also known as "splendid marriage", is a typical Guangdong local dish and a popular dish for ordinary people to hold holiday banquets among local people. Some people explore the origin of its name "splendid marriage". Look at this dish, its raw materials are a combination of red and green, gold and orange, and some people imagine it as a beautiful combination between men and women, which can enhance feelings. It is a representative dish for men and women, and it is especially popular at wedding banquets.
The ingredients of Lu Jin wonton are very particular. Put a small amount of chilled shrimp stuffing into the wonton bag, fold it into polygons, then add hot fried crisp, and then add sweet and sour fried shrimp, barbecued pork, squid, chicken liver slices, chopped green onion, chopped green pepper, etc., but be sure to eat it while it is hot. Crispy, sweet and sour, bright color, is a crisp snack.
There are several snacks on the streets of Guangzhou that I appreciate most, one is boat porridge, the other is miscellaneous beef offal, and the third is radish cake.
In other words, boat porridge was originally operated by boats (called boats in Guangzhou) in the Pearl River Boat House on the Litchi Bay River. Porridge is mixed with fish fillets and fried peanuts, so this product is evolved from "fish raw porridge". Now the fishermen on the Pearl River have all moved to the shore, and the boat porridge has also entered the big hotels and restaurants from the boat. People can taste this kind of porridge unique to Guangzhou at any time. The boat porridge here uses abalone as the ingredients, and adds floating skin, peanuts, shredded eggs and chopped green onion. Boil it immediately before eating, it is fragrant, steaming and very fresh and sweet.
The second kind is beef offal, which needs a little fat. In the past, there were always cars loaded with beef offal and radishes in the streets of Guangzhou. Come to "Zhou Ji", only beef offal with flavor, no radish, with slightly spicy or heavy spicy sauce, and wipe the sweat while eating, which is endless fun. "Hewei beef offal radish" is said to have been invented by a Hui chef who lived near Guangta Temple during Guangxu period. He used beef intestines, beef ribs, beef lungs and radishes to reduce the fire, and used a sauce made of five spices, such as pepper and star anise? Flash tear eyebrow dad ∈ treasure? Waiting for beef offal? Enjoy the game? After inhaling the sauce of beef offal, cut the radish into small pieces and eat it with a bamboo stick with Chili sauce, which is called Hewei beef offal radish. His radish from Niu Wei has been handed down to this day.
The third kind is radish cake, a folk snack, which is steamed by every household during the New Year. When making, first scrape the rough skin of radish, shred it, fry it in a pan until it is soft, add sausage, shrimp, mushrooms and celery, add proper amount of monosodium glutamate, refined salt and pepper, mix well with rice paste and potato powder, and then steam it in a steamer (first put a cloth on the bottom of the cage) until it doesn't stick to chopsticks. When eating, cut the radish cake into pieces and fry it in a pan until golden brown. Crispy outside and tender inside, it tastes sweet but not sweet.
China taste mingdian
Generally speaking, snacks and snacks are the same. Guangdong dim sum is a unique food in Guangdong, which has a strong southern flavor and is a part of "Eating in Guangzhou". It is famous for its richness, exquisiteness and elegance, and is deeply talked about by Chinese and foreign people. Guangdong dim sum has also won many awards. At the 13th China Chef's Day just past, two dim sum products, Tai Chi Mandarin Duck Box and Green Tea Melon, which were selected and awarded by Guangzhou, won the title of China Famous Point Gold Award respectively. A well-made "Tai Chi Mandarin Duck Box" should have a texture, a smooth appearance, and the most important thing is that the entrance has a fresh coconut fragrance, which is sweet enough. Making "Tai Chi Mandarin Duck Box" is actually not complicated, but time and energy are important factors, so hand-made is the key: firstly, all kinds of raw materials such as Chaozhou powder, sugar, coconut milk, cocoa powder, oil, taro, etc. are pulverized and steamed. "Tai Chi Mandarin Duck Box" is elegant and beautiful in shape, bright in color and low in sugar and fat. "Green tea and cold melon" is a kind of healthy food that pursues freshness and naturalness. The raw materials are flour, iced green tea, sugar, oil, osmanthus and other raw materials, which are ground into powder, wrapped with osmanthus stuffing and look like a cold melon, and then steamed with steam. The entrance smells of tea and flowers, but not too strong, catering to fashionable and healthy food.