Different countries have long and short history, large and small territory, strong and weak strength and large and small population, so their food culture is different. With the improvement of personal consumption level, everyone has a different concept of food. For example, China has a vast territory, a large population, different customs and habits, and different diets. Let's take a look at the top 1 most controversial alternative foods in China, which are regarded as delicious by locals and sighed by foreign diners!
1. Guangxi Mutton Flat Soup
Mutton Flat Soup is a special food in Guangxi and Guizhou. The local Miao people will make a unique dish with goat's internal organs, which is an excellent dish for receiving guests. The goat's staple food is herbs, and its meat is rich in nutrition. In recent years, the figure of "Mutton Flat Soup" has been seen in restaurants in various counties and towns in northwest Guangxi, Guangxi. Experts believe that eating is shaped by shape, and Mutton Flat Soup is taken from sheep. If it is a free-range goat, it should also have some effects if it eats herbs from the mountains. However, many goats are now kept in captivity, so it is difficult to guarantee that what is undigested in their small intestine is herbs. Many foreign diners are afraid to eat this delicious food for the first time, and the strong smell of mutton is extremely pungent, so they can only sigh that they can't enjoy it.
2. Guangdong Niusanxing
Niusanxing is one of the traditional snacks in Xiguan, Guangzhou, belonging to Cantonese cuisine. The traditional Niusanxing soup generally contains beef venetian blinds, beef liver and beef loin, and some of them also have beef venetian blinds and beef double pulp, which is the thickest part on the side of beef tripe. The Niusanxing soup in the old Xiguan area is cooked only when it is eaten, and then the soup base is added with salty acid and leeks. The sooner this process is done, the better, and the fragrance of internal organs will not be lost. With the smell of cattle in the water, locals regard it as delicious, and foreign diners can only look at it and sigh.
3. Zhejiang stinky wax gourd
Smelly wax gourd is a famous local dish with traditional flavor in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, and its flavor is unique. There is a folk saying in Ningbo that "the wax gourd is pickled with sesame oil and old wine". It is a good food for the people to soak in rice in the morning. Many overseas travelers should taste it when they return home to visit relatives to remember the past. The stinky pickled vegetables such as stinky white gourd, stinky pickles, stinky edamame, stinky tofu and stinky amaranth stalks are the local products in Ningshao area of eastern Zhejiang, and they can be said to be a strange thing in China's food life. If foreigners see such "stinky goods", they will definitely be afraid to ask.
4. Drunken Crab in Jiangsu
Drunken Crab in Dazong Lake is a traditional dish in dazonghu, Yancheng City, Jiangsu Province, which belongs to Jiangsu cuisine. This product has eight characteristics, such as lifelike appearance, tender meat, rich flavor, intoxicating smell, fresh wine, rich nutrition, no need to cook and convenient to carry. It was recorded in Yancheng County Records in the seventh year of Qing Dynasty (1742), and Yancheng food. "By autumn, Huaiyang was carrying away, and there was no leisure in the morning and evening. The lake swing in lake crab is mainly Dazong Lake. The lake is wide and deep, and crabs are big and fat, usually three or four per catty, but for foreign diners, many people can't eat crabs at first sight.
5. Hubei cinder
cinder, also known as "lazy bean dregs" and "lazy tofu". It is a home-cooked dish in Yichang, Enshi and other places in Hubei Province. It is widely distributed in the areas where Tujia and Han people live together in southwest Hubei. Locals call it "lazy tofu". Tujia people in southwest Hubei have a folk proverb that "Chili is salt, and slag is mixed for the New Year". Restaurants in Yichang and Enshi regard it as a local dish. There are many ways to eat mixed dregs, some of which are eaten thinly, without any seasoning, often called light mixed dregs, highlighting "drinking", and sometimes adding potato to cook together. For foreign diners, they still hate their taste for the first time and need to eat more times to get used to it.
6. Hebei Yangchang Soup
Cangzhou is located in the east of North China Plain, where the Hui people are a major ethnic group. Because of religious reasons, the Hui people don't eat and cook sheep intestines, blood, etc., so other ethnic groups who don't have this taboo have developed a lot of delicious food with it. Cangzhou snack Yangchangzi is a representative. When eating, different kinds of cooked sheep intestines, sheep abdominal membrane, blood intestines and sheep are taken according to the customers' choice of fat and thin.
7. Anhui preserved egg with Songhua
Jingcai preserved egg is a specialty of Tianchang City, Anhui Province. It was made as early as the Qing Dynasty, and it has a history of hundreds of years. It is characterized by its transparent egg body, loose pattern, mellow fragrance and delicious taste. This food can be seen in local weddings and funerals, and it is delicious after drinking and eating, but foreign diners still can't accept the peculiar smell of this food, which is just thin.
8. Chaotian Pot in Shandong
Chaotian Pot is a traditional dish in Weifang, Shandong Province, which belongs to Shandong cuisine. Chaotian Pot originated in the middle of Qing Dynasty and was produced on the grand collection of Weixian County. Weixian County Grand Collection is the largest collection in Shandong Province, and it is known as "a hundred thousand people". It becomes a problem for people to eat more, so Chaotian Pot came into being. The earliest name is chop suey pot, and most people over 6 are also called chop suey pot. Because of the strong consumer participation in dining, moderate price, fat but not greasy, rich nutrition and delicious taste, Chaotian pot is naturally deeply loved by local citizens. If foreign diners are not used to chop suey, they will have no luck to eat.
9. Fat sausage in southern Sichuan
Fat sausage in southern Sichuan is a special food in nanbu county, Sichuan Province. Like fat sausage cooking in other places, the attachment on the surface of the fat sausage should be washed with flour or vinegar before cooking. When the fat sausage shows a smooth color and has no strange smell, it can be boiled in boiling water. The finished product is famous in Sichuan for its bright color, delicious taste, fresh soup, refreshing taste and suitability for all ages.
1. If you haven't been to Henan, you must have never eaten this food. Cold Schizonepeta is one of the special foods in Henan. Schizonepeta has a special aroma, especially the leaves of Schizonepeta are higher. It smells and tastes very pungent. It's absolutely a pleasure to watch this dish locally. It's like an excited feeling when a Malagasy lemur eats a millipede.