Four famous foods in Kaifeng:

kaifeng soup dumplings, Bucket Chicken, Fried Bean Curd, Bianjing Roast Duck

1, and kaifeng soup dumplings

kaifeng soup dumplings are one of the famous foods in Kaifeng. The soup bag is thin, white as Jingdezhen ceramics, and has a sense of transparency. Eat it, there is meat stuffing inside, and there is fresh soup at the bottom. Kaifeng people eat soup dumplings with such a jingle: "Open the window first, then drink soup, and then smell delicious".

Soup is like poetry, meat stuffing is prose, and dough is novel. Because novels are all-inclusive, prose is a little pithy, and poetry is the essence of the text. Therefore, eating soup dumplings is the first to remember the freshness of soup. Meat stuffing is almost like soup entering the sense of taste, and the dough is almost negligible except for chewing.

2. Bucket chicken

Bucket chicken is a special dish in Kaifeng, which is famous for its bright yellow color, salty, tender and crisp, fat but not greasy, and the more you chew it, the more fragrant it becomes. The main ingredient is chicken, and the main cooking process is cooking. Old hens have a higher tonic effect, and many people who are chronically ill and thin are used to tonify their bodies, especially those who are afraid of the cold wind and lack of tonic. Old hens can not only replenish qi and blood, but also dispel wind.

3. Fried bean jelly

Fried jelly is a famous traditional snack in Kaifeng, the capital of the Song Dynasty, with white color, crystal clear, tender, smooth and refreshing. There is a poem that praises: "scraping the fish in ice makes it crystal clear and cold." The taste is as strong or weak as you like, just cool it and ignore the acid. " There are many kinds of bean jelly. Starch from beans, rice or sweet potato is diluted with appropriate amount of water to form a paste, which is boiled and condensed into blocks, commonly known as "bean jelly". Such as pea powder, mung bean powder, sweet potato powder, etc.

4. Bianjing Roast Duck

Bianjing Roast Duck is a dish, also known as (Tokyo Roast Duck), and its main raw materials are stuffed duck, honey, Beijing winter dishes and so on. This dish is a famous traditional dish in Kaifeng, Henan Province, and one of the top ten famous dishes in Henan Province. It has a long history since the Northern Song Dynasty. This dish is ruddy in color, crispy in skin and tender in meat, rich and mellow, and fat but not greasy. In the end, Bianjing roast duck became a treasure at Kaifeng banquet.