Zhenjiang, as the hometown of food, is constantly developing its tourism food culture, featuring Huaiyang cuisine and taking in both North and South flavors. Zhenjiang cuisine is known as "three fish and three monsters". "Three Fish" means "Three Seasons of the Yangtze River": shad, swordfish and squid. Legend has it that Dongxiang mutton is a special flavor of Zhenjiang, which is rich in Luda Town, Yaoqiao Town, Dagang and other places in Dantu District of Zhenjiang City, Jiangsu Province. This area is located in the east of Zhenjiang and is called "Dongxiang". The most famous place for making Dongxiang mutton is Li Ru in Yaoqiao Town, a small market town formerly called Zhu Jiawei. It is said that the emperor Qianlong gave it its present name, and the reason why Qianlong gave it this name was precisely because of Dongxiang mutton.
When Emperor Qianlong went down to the south of the Yangtze River, he heard that the mutton in Zhenjiang Zhu Jiawei was delicious, so he sent someone to buy it. Who knows that poor people who buy goods are greedy and lecherous? When buying mutton in Zhu Jiawei, he molested the girls in the village and was finally killed by the local villagers. After learning about this, he was furious and decided to go incognito to find out in order to make the final punishment decision. However, when he arrived in Zhu Jiawei, the emperor found that the local people, old and young, both men and women, knew books and were polite, so he named them Confucianism. Among Zhenjiang native products, Danyang Fenggang wine is famous for its "light taste and dew, and its color is like spring in the hole".
The brewing technology of closed cylinder wine is exquisite, with glutinous rice as raw material and wheat koji as saccharifying starter. When the sugar content of the mash reaches the peak, add Xiaoqu rice wine with a degree of more than 50 degrees, immediately seal the jar mouth, keep the fermented grains for a certain period of time, extract 60% clear liquid, squeeze, mix in proportion, fill a certain amount of jar, and store it in a sealed way for 2-3 years. The brewed wine is brownish red in color, full of fragrance, fresh and sweet in taste, and the alcohol content is above 14, which is the top grade of yellow rice wine. 1984 Danyang Fenggang wine won the national silver award and won the first place in the national sweet rice wine appraisal. Zhenjiang kitten sesame oil, because of its clear and transparent, pure color, has long been fragrant all over the world. This product is exquisite in material selection and pays attention to technology. It is made by traditional stone grinding, impurity removal, cleaning, steaming and frying, pulping, precipitation, filtration and other processes. Sesame oil ranked first in the related sesame oil quality appraisal for many times. 1in March, 985, Zhenjiang Xiao Mo sesame oil won the gold medal of International Cuisine Society and International Tourism and Tourism Committee.
Among Zhenjiang's native products, ground sesame oil may be one of the best developed products in the market. At present, there are more than 10 brands of small ground sesame oil produced by nearly 10 manufacturers in Zhenjiang, among which the well-known ones are Mannan brand sesame oil from Zhenjiang Riqing Condiment Company and Fuyu brand sesame oil from Zhenjiang Fuyu Sesame Oil Co., Ltd. The products of small ground sesame oil are exported to more than 20 countries and regions such as Britain and the United States, and are well received by users at home and abroad. Zhenjiang's "crab-yellow soup dumpling" is famous at home and abroad, and it is a famous snack. Legend has it that the "Crab Yellow Tangyuan" in Zhenjiang was handed down during the Three Kingdoms period. Liu Bei died after abdicating in Baidi City. Sun Shangxiang, his wife in Soochow, was very sad.
Mrs. Sun, who is loyal to love, looks at the rolling river and climbs up Beigu Mountain with indignation. After worshipping God and her dead husband, she jumped into the Yangtze River. In order to remember Mrs. Sun's loyalty and virtue, later generations wrapped steamed bread made of minced pork and crab meat with flour to propose a toast to Mrs. Sun. This kind of meat steamed bread is delicious, which has attracted the attention of many gourmets, and soon became a hot dish on the restaurant table, which has been handed down from generation to generation since the Three Kingdoms period. "Crab Yellow Tangyuan" reached its peak in Ming and Qing Dynasties, and its reputation spread far and wide. According to legend, Emperor Qianlong of Qing Dynasty visited Jiangnan incognito. When I passed by Zhenjiang, I heard that there was a delicious "crab soup dumpling" in Zhenjiang, and I stayed in Zhenjiang for a few days specially. After tasting it, I was full of praise. Jingjiang navel, also known as "King Kong navel", is named because it looks like the navel of clay sculpture King Kong. The traditional Jingjiang navel has six corners with full rounded corners and the same size. Jingjiang navel is made of special flour, peanut oil, sugar, yeast, sodium carbonate, osmanthus, etc. , which are sold in all major farmers' markets in our city. According to the old people, there was only a few cents at that time. Make a fine diamond umbilical cord with pores in the cross section, which is soft and not loose, without acid-base agglomeration and impurities. The taste is sweet and soft, and it is good for both dry eating and soup.