"Drunk on frivolous world affairs, old and pregnant with hometown people."
This is a quote from a letter to his hometown written by Nan Huaijin, a Wenzhou native.
Wenzhou is a trading city, Wenzhou people are bold and daring businessmen, they spelled out the title of "China's Shoe Capital", spelled out the "hometown of China's buttons", spelled out the third city in Zhejiang.
Wenzhou merchants hither and thither since the laborious, whenever sitting at the table in the field, always think of their own hometown that is very characteristic of the food ......
Separated from the hazy drizzle, accompanied by the faint light, the city turned a page, began a new The city has turned a page and started a new day.
The crowds on the streets are in a hurry, but they never forget to go to the little breakfast place on the street and order a bowl of fragrant sticky rice and a cup of steaming hot soybean milk to start the busy day.
Wenzhou people's breakfast protagonist - glutinous rice
Glutinous rice, commonly known as cooking rice.
A small bowl of soft glutinous rice, breakfast store owner skillfully grabbed a good crunchy fried dough or fried dough pieces, evenly sprinkled on the top of it, and played a spoonful of freshly flavored minced meat soup poured on it.
This is Wenzhou's favorite bowl of glutinous rice.
Sticky rice is relatively simple to make.
Breakfast restaurants choose long sticky rice that is sweeter and more viscous, and soak it in water.
Minced pork with chopped mushrooms is placed in a pressure cooker filled with water, and various seasonings are added to start the savory and aromatic minced pork broth.
Prepare the dry ingredients such as crushed fritters, meat floss and chopped scallions.
With this, the ingredients for the sticky rice are almost complete, just waiting for the early morning to let the minced meat broth and crushed fritters collide with each other to give a delicious taste on the tongue.
The rain stops, the sun slowly fades and colors the sky red, and Wenzhou, too, welcomes its night.
It's the end of the day, and the beginning of the hustle and bustle.
Many people run to the hotel to start their dinner, many are family gatherings, but more businessmen socializing.
Wenzhou, located at the mouth of the Oujiang River, a city bordering the East China Sea, naturally has seafood on the table.
And Wenzhou people not only eat seafood, and even the Oujiang River in the delicious also do not spare, the river crab's deliciousness has been tapped to the extreme.
Wenzhou people's ultimate creation - river crab raw
River crab raw for the family is just a common household dishes, and moved to the table, it is an extremely high quality cold dishes.
River crab raw flavor smooth, fresh flavor.
Crab meat does not stick to the shell, just gently pout and suck, the crab meat automatically out of the shell, slide into the mouth.
If you put some wasabi on it before you eat it, the flavor becomes fresh and spicy.
The river crab in Jiang Crab Sheng is actually the pike crab, which is rich in meat, fat and cream, and is extremely tasty and nutritious.
Its crab meat is white, and the meat in its two pincers is slightly sweet.
A delicious raw river crab starts with marinating.
Fresh pike crabs to its stomach and abdomen, with a high degree of white wine and salt mixed with pouring, to achieve the purpose of sterilization and disinfection.
Marinate for a short while, pour out the marinade, then sprinkle pepper, cover with plastic wrap, and finally put in the refrigerator for half an hour.
A cold dish of river crab sheng is thus brought to the table, and the expression of diners enjoying the deliciousness is the greatest praise for this dish.
Leaving Wenzhou has been a number of years, Wenzhou food in the memory of hazy, but never dissipate. In the field to discuss the hometown food, but also from time to time to the side of the friends of the delicious Wenzhou, the memory of Wenzhou specialties, countless. Like the name of the fish ball, but not at all the shape of the ball, but irregular long kneaded fish paste. The fishballs I remember are translucent alabaster in color, with a firm texture and a smooth texture in the mouth. The soup base is clear and bright, send a spoonful of fish ball soup to the mouth, sweet and sour, slightly spicy, full of fresh flavor. And there are also the lantern cakes that appear in the crowd at the New Year in Wenzhou. The lantern cake in my memory is deep-fried in wide oil and has a three-layer texture when you bite into it. One is the crispy rounded edge, the second is the soft outer skin, and the third is the refreshing inner filling. Fresh out of the frying pan, the lantern cake is golden and enticing, the aroma of the nose, just smell is appetizing. Ou Cuisine shows the local flavor of Wenzhou, "light oil and light gravy, heavy knife work; taste fresh, light but not thin; cooking is careful, delicate and childish", is Ou Cuisine. But all the food on earth, its soul is not in the flavor and techniques, but is contained in the strong local flavor and feelings. This one belongs to the characteristics of Wenzhou, gathered into this unique city, Wenzhou people scattered around, but the food can be gathered all over the sea friends at a table. End