The most delicious cold dish in Chengdu: Husband and wife's lung slices

Husband and wife's lung slices first appeared in the late Qing Dynasty. There were many vendors in the streets and alleys of Chengdu selling cold beef slices with burdens and baskets. Using low-cost beef offal scraps, carefully processed, stewed, and cut into slices, served with soy sauce, red oil, chili, pepper noodles, sesame noodles, etc., which has a unique flavor, low price and good quality, and is particularly popular. A favorite food for rickshaws, porters and needy students.

In the 1930s, there was a couple who ran a stall in Chengdu, Sichuan. The boy was named Guo Chaohua and the girl was named Zhang Tianzheng. Their cold beef lung slices were made with exquisite detail, bright red, golden color, spicy and fragrant flavor, and excellent flavor. * The same thing, and the tacit understanding and coordination between the couple, one manufacturing and the other selling, the small business was booming. Customers gathered for a while, and demand exceeded supply.

Because the raw materials used are all cattle offal, and the source of these raw materials are mostly thrown away by the Hui people who do not eat animal offal, so it was called "waste piece" at that time. In Sichuan dialect, there is Also read 'Hui'. Because it is cheap and delicious, it is not only expected by poor people who cannot afford meat but want to eat meat, but also by citizens who love its delicious taste. It quickly became famous.

The beef tripe is as white and tender as paper, the tongue is as red as birch, and the scalp is transparent and slightly yellow. It is also served with red oil, pepper, sesame, sesame oil, monosodium glutamate, fine soy sauce and soy sauce carefully prepared by the couple. Fresh celery and other seasonings, so the cold 'waste slices' are bright red in color, soft and glutinous, spicy and fragrant, and tender and stale, becoming the most characteristic of the 'fei slices' sold on burdens and baskets at that time. One of the most anticipated. Because the couple always cooperates tacitly, they are called "husband and wife lung slices".