Steamed saury saury is no stranger to foodies. This tender and oily seafood has only one drawback: the fishbone is too thin. However, there are always few delicious foods. Steamed saury should be accompanied by cooked ham, mushrooms, lard and other accessories. In this way, seafood and fresh land blend with each other, and one plus one is much more delicious than two.
Baipu dry tea Baipu "Sanxiangzhai" dry tea (referred to as Baipu dry tea for short) has a history of more than 300 years and is a traditional local specialty with a long reputation in Nantong. "Baipu Tea Dried" is made of high-quality soybeans and various spices. "Baipu dry tea" was first made in the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty. A Huzhou man named Tu opened a dried bean curd shop in Baipu North Street. The shop number is "Sanxiangzhai", also known as "Tusanxiang".
Baipu North Street is the main traffic artery between the north and the south, with prosperous business. Every morning, businessmen, neighbors, villagers and vendors like to sit in teahouses, talk about business and buy coated dried tofu while chatting. Because it is similar to brown and is a famous tea, it is named dry tea. By the thirty-fifth year of Kangxi, the dry tea made by Tu Sanxiang was known as "a unique skill of Baipu" because of its fine processing technology, good color, fragrance and taste, and the store number was stamped on the dry tea.
Sorghum dumplings are different from ordinary dumplings. As the name implies, sorghum is added to this jiaozi, which is a necessary food for the Spring Festival in Nantong. It is a delicious food for the Spring Festival family dinner to entertain relatives and friends. This dish is very convenient to make and preserve. Mariko symbolizes reunion, happiness and happiness. Mariko has different practices and diets in different seasons. There is a saying in Nantong that "it's a big winter and a small year", so you must have jiaozi as breakfast on the solstice of winter to show your reunion. On the first day of the Lunar New Year, we should have "Children's jiaozi" for breakfast, that is, solid jiaozi of different sizes dipped in foreign sugar, which means that children and grandchildren are full of family reunion and happiness. You should eat lanterns on the thirteenth day of the first month.
Nantong has the habit of "putting the lamp round and dropping the lamp surface". On the fifteenth day of the first month, you should eat jiaozi. Jiaozi can be filled with sesame cake crumbs, sand washing, shepherd's purse, shrimp and fresh meat. Eat a hearty jiaozi when you get married. Nantong City and three northern counties are all made of glutinous rice crumbs. Qidong, Haimen and Tonghai regions pay attention to making red balls with sorghum chips. Glutinous rice contains protein, fat, sugar, calcium, phosphorus, iron, vitamin B 1, vitamin B2, nicotinic acid and starch. It is a kind of food with strong warming and nourishing properties, which has the effects of invigorating the middle energizer, invigorating the spleen and nourishing the stomach, and stopping sweating deficiency, and can relieve symptoms such as loss of appetite, abdominal distension and diarrhea to some extent.
The wrinkled skin of mussel meat, also known as "tiger skin meat", "oily meat" and "oily meat", is a traditional folk dish in Nantong. First, the preliminarily cooked pork is fried in an oil pan with high oil temperature until the epidermis bubbles and expands, and some oil is discharged. Then steaming is popular, and the skin is wrinkled, and the meat is crisp and rotten but not greasy. Cooking with mussels not only permeates the delicacy of mussels into the meat, but also adds a variety of nutrients such as minerals and vitamins.
Cooked vegetables are crisp and rotten, fresh and fragrant, with amber skin and jade embedded in meat, which is a wonderful work in pork. Wu Daoxiang, an older generation of senior chef in Nantong, is good at cooking this dish.