"Guangxi people, can't eat rice well!"
A northeastern friend once said, "Except for northeastern rice, no other place's rice is good!"
Perhaps he spoke out of his personal feelings about his hometown; perhaps he also spoke out of the heart of many people; but delicious is relative.
As a person from Guangxi, I think the rice in Guangxi is very delicious.
As a person from Guangxi, I think Guangxi's rice is very delicious!
Just rice noodles can "capture" the praise of people across the country: Liuzhou snail powder, Guilin rice noodles, Nanning old friends powder, Guiping Luoxiu rice noodles, Binyang sour noodles, Rongshui filtered noodles ...... Every place in Guangxi has its own special rice noodles, which is more delicious! There is also a wide range of opinions.
Of course, in addition to the rice noodles, Guangxi has a lot of special rice-based cuisine, as well as rice noodles, reflecting the inclusiveness of Guangxi's food culture - fancy. Each of these is a traditional craft on New Year's Day - proper "local goods", the Spring Festival is less than these rice dishes, the people of Guangxi performance: do not feel like New Year's Eve!
The flavor of the year with beautiful symbols
Some people say that "after the Lunar New Year is the year", and some people say that "after the New Year is the year", I think that after the month of Lunar New Year, when the families start I think that after entering the lunar month, families began to open the New Year's goods, that is the year. The people of Guangxi say New Year's Eve is a good time, so the food made with rice is also very symbolic.
The rice dumplings are one of the must-have New Year's items for the people of Guangxi, just like the dumplings that the people in the north eat on New Year's Day.
Although, there are many places in the country where dumplings are wrapped on New Year's Day, the annual dumplings in Guangxi are more distinctive and delicious. Guangxi also has the custom of eating dumplings at the Dragon Boat Festival, but the Dragon Boat Festival package is a triangular dumpling, while the New Year is a package of large dumplings!
"Big" is the characteristics of Guangxi rice dumplings, childhood rice dumplings are generally about 4 pounds each, the larger ones are also about 8 pounds, the whole family can share together. Now the rice dumplings have become smaller, but at least it is also more than 1 catty each, 1-2 people can eat up.
In addition to "big", Guangxi package zongzi must have green beans, that is the soul of Guangxi zongzi, and to put more, so that is fragrant enough! When I was studying at university in Chongqing, I asked my local classmates why Chongqing dumplings do not put green beans? Students answered me, "There are mung bean filling ah, you this is pork filling only!"
In Guangxi, mung bean is not a dumpling filling! And glutinous rice, just like the package of rice dumplings essential ingredients.
Guangxi year dumplings filling is very rich, there are five-flower meat, pork knuckles, sausage, chicken, chestnut, Lipu taro, sesame, peanuts, etc., according to preference with. However, the most classic filling is pork, and the fatter the better. After about 10 hours of boiling, the glutinous rice and mung beans absorb the fat of the pork and become more fragrant and glutinous, while the pork melts in your mouth and is fat but not greasy.
Year rice dumplings wrapped in glutinous rice with green beans, must be wrapped like a small mountain pile, meaning "Gold Mountain"; New Year's Eve to eat rice dumplings, "rice dumplings in the year", meaning good luck rolled in; in addition, rice dumplings harmonic for the "in the son", but also in the "in the son", but also in the "in the son". In addition, the dumplings harmonic for " in the son ", also implies the prosperity of the people. Therefore, many Guangxi families even if they do not pack rice dumplings, you can eat rice dumplings, that are friends and relatives to send good wishes.
Patty cake, happy and complete
The northern winter solstice to eat dumplings, New Year's Eve also eat dumplings; and Guangxi winter solstice to eat patty cake, New Year's Eve also still eat patty cake. However, due to different regions, customs vary, patties in different places in Guangxi will have different practices and eating methods.
Southeast Guangxi patties to have fillings of the big belly patties, fillings are sweet, salty. The sweet filling is usually white/brown sugar, sesame seeds, peanuts, etc. The salty filling is much richer, with a variety of meat and vegetables stir-fried, such as shredded meat, shredded radish, shrimp, scallions, or minced meat, leeks, fungus, or minced meat, vermicelli, bean curd, carrots, whatever you like to go with.
There are also two ways to make mochi skins, raw and cooked. Raw skin is directly glutinous rice flour and dough directly after the package filling, and then put in the water to boil, water steam, oil can be fried; some places will also be wrapped with banana leaves or zongzi leaves and then steamed, eat up the fragrance of the leaves. Cooked skin is cooked glutinous rice whacked into a ball or glutinous rice flour dough steamed and cooked package filling, package can be eaten directly.
In the production of patty cake, there are other practices, such as Chongzuo crispy sweet potato patty cake, the steamed sweet potato and glutinous rice syrup and mix well together, made of sweet potato flavor patty cake skin; such as Nanning Aiye patty cake, cooked and chopped to remove the bitter water of Aiye leaves and glutinous rice syrup and into a ball, made of Aiye scented patty cake skin.
In the northern part of Guangxi, there is another kind of patty cake that only eats "patty cake skin". It is flavored with sugar and made directly from glutinous rice flour, which is then twisted and flattened into a round shape. In the cold winter climate of northern Guilin, rural families often sit around a fire to warm up, and then put the white patties on the edge of the grill to eat, crispy and delicious.
No matter what the patties, basically kneaded into a round main, with a reunion, the symbol of happiness and success, meaning that the family like glutinous rice, sticky, never separate. It is also a precious gift for relatives to bring patties to celebrate the New Year.
Pink Li, great luck
Every year during the Spring Festival, there are often friends in Guangxi complained: cut pink Li, too difficult!
The hard powder Li, not only under the knife to be clever, but also to prevent slippage; cut thick, cooking time is not flavorful, cut thin, cooking time is easy to break. Don't look at the cut when hard, once heated will become soft, eat up tender and smooth.
Guangxi people love to eat powder, especially Guibei, Guinan region, New Year's Day must have powder, as the saying goes, "New Year's Day to eat powder, a year of Shunli. Powder Li "Li" word represents auspicious, meaning "great luck", "smooth", self-food or gifts to friends and relatives can be, and pray for a good omen in the coming year.
Fanli is a kind of "rice cake" in Guangxi, but it is not the same as white rice cake.
The process of making powdered rice, which is generally made from aged indica rice (sticky rice), is also more complicated. The process is more complicated. After soaking in water and grinding into a pulp, it is boiled into a ball and then kneaded until it is smooth and cylindrical, and then steamed until it is eight years old and dried. It must be kept in water or it will dry out and crack, and the water must be replaced often. While the production of white rice cakes, is used sticky glutinous rice ground into powder, then add water and smooth dough, steamed and cooled can be.
Powdered rice tastes more refreshing than white rice cake, and it is easy to digest without worrying about sticking to your teeth. The food can be eaten in a variety of ways, such as stir-fry, soup, and hot pot. New Year's Eve, into the bacon, celery, garlic fry a plate as a dish, is how many people in Guangxi with chicken are not willing to change the delicious?
Brown Sugar Rice Cake, Yearly High
Although the powder is a kind of Guangxi "rice cake", but Guangxi people also do rice cake, but it is brown sugar rice cake.
Brown sugar rice cakes, like white rice cakes, are made from glutinous rice, but the difference is that the glutinous rice flour is mixed with brown sugar syrup to make a paste, which is poured into a round grinder and steamed, and then demolded after cooling.
Well done brown sugar rice cake, after cooling room temperature is still very soft, you can eat directly. However, when the weather is cold, it will become hard, so you can steam, deep fry, or pan fry it to heat it up. I like to fry, sliced and dipped in some egg liquid and fried until the skin is crispy, eat outside the crispy sticky; if you especially love sweet, fried and then drizzled with a little bit of brown sugar syrup to eat, greedy cry next door children.
"Year" and "sticky" homophonic, can be understood as a new year reunion cohesion of meaning, and "cake" and "high", and "cake" and "high". "homophonic, meaning step by step, the Spring Festival to brown sugar rice cakes as a gift, there is a blessing "year after year," the meaning of the high rise. In addition, the rice cake is also known as the "year cake", and "year high" resonance, implying that the child's height is higher than a year, so when I was a child, my mother often called for more food, said that can be fast and high growth.
New Year's Snacks for Gifts
New Year's Snacks for Gifts
In Guangxi, the New Year's Snacks for Gifts are not uncommon among family and friends, and guests can't enter empty-handed, nor can they go out on a hungry stomach. With the change of the times, people's lives are getting better and better, material is also more and more rich, the New Year's guests gift options, but the traditional rice snacks are more intentional and popular. So, people in Guangxi often use it as a hand-me-down, but also to entertain friends and relatives.
Rice crackers, carved works of art
Many places in Guangxi have the custom of making rice crackers, New Year's Eve night, a family of young and old around the kitchen to do the rice crackers, a joyful and happy.
Playing rice crackers is a wooden mold, carved with auspicious birds and beasts, flowers and herbs, blessings and longevity and other patterns of text. Each rice cracker is like a piece of sculpted art, lifelike, very beautiful. Children will also often according to their favorite pattern to share the rice cake, some want roosters, some want flowers and herbs, some want the word of blessing ......
The production of rice crackers cumbersome process, in the fight before the rice crackers, you need to go through the selection of rice, soak the rice, drying the rice, frying the rice, powdering, cooking sugar, making fillings and other processes, the rice crackers to play out the baking or steaming. After the rice cakes are made, they have to be baked or steamed. Now adhere to their own handmade very few people, most choose to buy factory-made rice crackers, but the pattern does not feel as exquisite as the handmade molds, but the taste is very good.
Rice crackers are generally divided into two kinds of sticky rice crackers and glutinous rice crackers, sticky rice crackers crispy, glutinous rice crackers soft and sticky, the taste varies. With the commercialization of rice crackers, factories have also developed many new flavors, such as black glutinous rice crackers, mixed grain crackers, and corn Huai Shan crackers.
Shagao, a strong love of the Zhuang countryside
Shagao, a traditional pastry of Guangxi's southwestern region of Guangxi, is also one of the three sets of gifts (shagao, zongzi, and threaded chicken) during the Spring Festival of the Zhuang people.
Sand cake, made with fragrant glutinous rice, has a sandy feel when you first enter the mouth, hence the name. The filling can be very rich, sesame, red beans, soybeans, mung beans, etc. can be processed into filling, colorful very beautiful, but also very appetizing, young and old alike. Shagao entrance sticky and delicious, sweet flavor, lips and teeth, if the Zhuangxiang people in the Spring Festival did not have a bite of shagao, it does not feel like New Year's. Because of the "cake", "cake", "cake", "cake", "cake", "cake", "cake", "cake". Because "cake" and "high" sound the same, they look forward to life year by year.
Nowadays, the tradition of eating sand cake on New Year's Eve remains unchanged, and every year when the Spring Festival is approaching, many young people start to ask their elders at home: Have you started making sand cake this year?
Rice Flower Candy, sweet and beautiful candy
Rice Flower Candy, is a lot of Guangxi after 70, 80, and even after 90 childhood snacks, but also the traditional snacks of the New Year in Guangxi people. On the night of the New Year's Eve, children began to crave, followed by adults in the kitchen to fry rice, boiled sugar, pressure rice flower ......
Before frying the rice, but also need to be prepared many days in advance, soak glutinous rice, steamed glutinous rice, sun glutinous rice, etc., not a day or two time can be done. Families with slightly better conditions can add sesame seeds, peanuts, etc. to make together, crispy and delicious, flavorful and sweet, meaning that life is sweet and beautiful.
That's right, rice flower candy is the candy of poor families in the past. Because of the poor conditions, can not afford to buy candy for children to eat on New Year's Day, so hardworking and wise adults thought of using glutinous rice to make rice flower candy, so that children have a delicious "candy" in the Spring Festival.
Sugar ring, can eat the Chinese knot
Sugar ring, is Guangxi Spring Festival must have another kind of candy, and in Guangdong, Hong Kong, too.
The practice of sugar rings in each place is more or less the same, the material is also simple, glutinous rice flour, sugar can be, some use glutinous rice flour and sticky rice flour ratio, the taste will be more crispy. Of course, some people make savory ones, but I think since they are called sugar rings, sweet ones are authentic.
Do sugar ring hand to be clever, in order to coil a good shape, but there is no standard shape of the sugar ring, there is a large circle disk a five-pointed star, there are a number of small circle around a circle, there is a disk a zigzag shape. No matter what shape it is, it is a ring, meaning that the rings are interlocked and endless. It is also said that the sugar ring is "can eat the Chinese knot", auspicious and symbolic of the unity of the heart.
The New Year's Eve staple food
In the past, people in Guangxi made their living by farming, and they were busy from the beginning of the year to the end of the year, and they could only have a good rest on New Year's Eve. I don't know is finally have time to whole point of food to treat yourself, or rest "panic", Guangxi people do a variety of snacks, even the staple food is not spared.
Tofu stuffed with leeks, the most classic
Guangxi do a lot of ways to make tofu stuffed with meat as the main filling, as a dish; but in the old days can eat enough rice is good, so most of the sticky rice as the main stuffing, turned into another staple food, and especially delicious!
Although it is based on glutinous rice, but the filling is not at all sloppy, but also the key to delicious. Glutinous rice soaked, with minced pork, chives and other seasoning mix, and then stuffed in the tofu bubble (oil fruit), on the pot steamed can be eaten. Ingredients are not fixed, are based on preferences and tastes, some do not like leeks, put carrots, fungus, lotus root, taro, etc. are available, but I think leeks are the most classic.
With tomatoes, chili peppers, scallions, cilantro cooked into the soup, poured on the freshly cooked tofu stuffing, think of all the mouth-watering way of eating, not all people in Guangxi know.
Stuffed pork intestines, a unique flavor
In Guangxi, not only tofu can be stuffed, everything can be stuffed, including pork intestines. So, the same stuffing as in the tofu stuffing can also be stuffed into the pig intestines, which has a unique flavor.
Pig intestines stuffed, pig small intestine, pig intestines can be, Gui Southeast region to pig intestines mostly, it is said that because the flavor of the pig intestines is more fragrant - people who do not love it will feel the stench.
Northwest Gui, on the other hand, is dominated by pig small intestines, and the brew is also more distinctive. Every year, the Zhuang people began to kill the New Year's pig, they will be pig blood and glutinous rice seasoning mix, poured into the pig intestine cooked, this practice of pig intestines brewed locally known as "blood sausage". It is said that the practice of blood sausage in Guangxi, from the Qing Dynasty into the customs - the Manchus in the Northeast is the originator of the blood sausage, but the Northeast blood sausage is pure pig's blood.
Stuffed pig intestines can be used as a staple food, but also as a dish, eaten in a variety of ways. Steamed and eat directly tender and sticky, can also be sliced and fried to charred, crispy outside and sticky inside, full of aroma. In Guangxi Guiping, many hotels and stalls have this pan-fried pig intestine stuffing.
Wanbao rice, dessert
In Guangxi, among the many rice dishes, the value of the eight treasures should be the highest, the color is bright and beautiful, and can make people who do not love sweets can not help but move chopsticks.
Yes, eight treasures of rice in the name of the rich materials, is eight kinds of dried fruits, candied fruit in the bottom of the bowl on the plate, mixed with lard, sugar, glutinous rice compaction, and then on the cage steamed, eaten when inverted in the plate. Do eight treasure rice, dried fruit, candied fruit is not fixed, like what can be put, the focus is placed, is the key to determine the value of eight treasure rice.
Eight treasures rice, such as Western-style desserts, in the New Year's Eve dinner on the last bowl of eight treasures on the rice, the whole family to share, it is called a good taste: overflowing soft slippery, sweet but not greasy.
Yizhou, Guangxi, eight treasures rice is particularly famous, is Yizhou people New Year's indispensable tongue food, implying "eight treasures to present auspicious" meaning.
These rice dishes, not what the delicacies of the sea, in the eyes of many people is the soil can not be earthy food; however, these are people in Guangxi from generation to generation handed down the traditional craft.
As a Guangxi people, feel particularly proud - just "eat rice" has so many patterns, each of which carries the Guangxi people's flavor of the year.
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Wen Cunhua
Pictures of Bengcun, partly from the network
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