Anpu Cheng Zhen was born in the Ming Dynasty and belongs to one of the four ancient towns in Guangdong (Anpu Town, Foshan Town, Shilong Town and Songkou Town). It is one of the oldest towns in Zhanjiang and an important industrial, commercial and cultural town in Lianjiang City. Every year, "Lantern Festival" and "Dragon Boat Festival" and other festivals will hold activities such as "Flower Street" and "Dragon Boat Row", which is a major feature of Anpu.
Anpu is an ancient town, which is connected with Guangdong and Guangxi by land and directly connected to Beibu Gulf by waterway through Jiuzhou River. Before the 197s, Anpu's commerce and handicraft industry were very prosperous. At that time, Anpu gathered "heroes" from all sides. They camped in Anpu, and they also brought with them the methods of making various delicacies in their places. After the development of generations of Anpu people who never tire of fine food, they finally formed today's unique Anpu cuisine < P > "Anpu made money and settled down!" It's about laid-back people who are naturally fond of leisure. It's easy to make money and spend money. This sentence, which was popular many years ago, tells the prosperity and excitement of Anpu, a commercial port ancient town with a history of hundreds of years. In the era of backward transportation and underdeveloped land, Anpu Port has become a golden channel between inland and Southeast Asia. As early as hundreds of years ago, commerce and goods came and went, and there was an endless stream. This ancient commercial port was finally hot and wide. And this prosperity and excitement, in addition to the port trade, Anpu's famous unique flavor food also contributed. It can be said that Anpu's unique flavor food, to a certain extent, created the prosperous years of the century-old town. "Eating in Guangzhou" shows that Cantonese cuisine plays an important role in the four major Chinese cuisines. In the Cantonese cuisine system, the unique flavor food with a long history in Anpu occupies a big position, which is not inferior to other cuisines. In recent years, the rapid rise of Anpu Chicken Rice Restaurant in Guangzhou is enough to illustrate this point. Anpu's unique flavor food is undoubtedly the icing on the cake in Guangzhou, a city that pays attention to food, and its weight is getting heavier and heavier. Today, even in the bustling Huangpu River, you can see the shadow of many Anpu chicken rice shops.
The sun turns to the stars. Due to the interception of Jiuzhou River in Jianhedi Reservoir and other reasons, the scenery of this bustling port in the past is no longer there, and it is gradually forgotten and deserted. Only the occasional stone bars in the port can reveal the scenery of the past. Walking in the criss-crossing old street of Anpu, I feel that this narrow old street is like a girl who has washed away the lead, guarding the ferry of the years and looking at the past youth with nostalgic eyes. If you walk in the streets and alleys of the ancient town in the rain, there is really a feeling of walking in the rainy alleys written by Dai Wangshu, and there is a touch of sadness in romance. Walking in Anpu New Street in the middle of the night, I saw the splendid lights, the food stalls all over the streets and lanes, and the shouts floated from time to time at midnight, which vaguely showed the prosperity and excitement of the past. Guzhen New District is like a big boy dancing wildly, stretching his wild dance, full of sunshine and beauty, vitality and publicity. Perhaps this is the true face of the century-old town, always looking for an unyielding personality to show yourself. A century-old town with such a heavy food culture accumulation has a strong and tenacious vitality. Today, with the increasingly developed tourism industry, the century-old town, unwilling to be lonely, will once again show its unique southern food charm under the excavation of modern concepts. Perhaps this is the true face of a century-old town?
Anpu has two main characteristics:
First, it is rich in beautiful women, which goes without saying.
2. Flavor snacks, when it comes to eating, this is the emphasis, because eating is a major feature of Anpu people, which are listed below:
1. Anpu Chicken Rice Chicken Rice Stall usually opens at 5 pm, and the stalls are mostly at the intersection of the street and the arcade, surrounded by cloth to prevent passers-by from peeking at the diners' faces. White-cut chicken with chicken rice is made of chicken neck or fat capon of Sanhuang chicken, cooked with slow fire thick soup until it is 9% cooked, and then coated with peanut oil to make the chicken skin smooth and oily. The seasoning is black bean, sesame oil, galangal, coriander and scallion, which are produced locally. Chicken rice is rice cooked with chicken soup and lard. According to statistics, there are 61 chicken rice stalls registered in Anpu, and each stall sells 8 ~ 1 chickens a night. According to this rough calculation, the consumption of chicken rice alone will reach more than 1 thousand yuan every night.
2, boiled chicken Many places in Guangdong have the habit of eating boiled chicken, but Anpu people especially like boiled chicken, which is the first dish for Anpu people to add dishes and feast. Local people cook white-cut chicken, double-select chicken, double-cook chicken and triple-taste. The selected chickens are all local fine-boned farm chickens, and feed chickens and big-boned chickens are absolutely useless; Boiling chicken requires slow cooking and soaking, and it can be cooked to 8%; Ginger and garlic are used as ingredients. The local white-cut chicken is tender and fragrant, which is very delicious. The price of boiled chicken sold in the market and hotels ranges from 3 to 5 yuan per kilogram.
3. anpu powder: it belongs to a kind of rice flour. In taste and texture, it can rank among the top three in Guangdong with Chencun powder and Shahe powder. The anpu powder made of beautiful rice is refreshing and elastic, and then mixed with special ingredients, which is delicious! The most original way to eat anpu powder is to use a little soy sauce, a little peanut oil and a few garlic to mix and eat. This way of eating, this taste is the most authentic anpu powder.
4. rice congee Anpu is famous for its smoothness, refreshing taste and thirst quenching. When the porridge is cooked with first-class refined white rice until it is neither raw nor rotten, it is rushed into the cold boiled water tank that was boiled beforehand, so that the porridge grains can be granulated and the porridge water can be brewed clearly, so as not to touch the teeth and paste the mouth. In summer, restaurants specializing in rice congee generally have dried bitter gourd, dried cucumber, dried radish, sweet garlic, peanuts, cooked duck eggs, Chili sauce, fresh water spinach and pickled lemon cubes. High-grade beef jerky, fresh fish with olive, red-cut whale and white-cut chicken are also available.
5. The dustpan is made of rice, raw flour, clear water, cooked sesame seeds, peanut oil, soy sauce, Chili sauce and garlic. Method: Wash the rice, soak it in clear water for 3 hours, pick it up, put it into a stone mill and grind it into rice slurry while adding clear water, add a proper amount of raw flour and mix well with it, and make it into rice flour slurry after fine-grained struggle; After the water in the steamer is turned on, the rice flour slurry is poured into a tray or a small dustpan several times and steamed. How to eat: in summer and autumn, cut the dustpan into small squares and sprinkle with sesame seeds or garlic, soy sauce and peanut oil; In winter and spring, cut the dustpan into small squares and stir-fry with Chili sauce. Features: white, soft, smooth, refreshing and salty. Function: tonify the middle energizer, replenish qi, stop vexation and quench thirst. This kind of snacks, especially those made in Anpu and Hengshan, are delicious.
6. Stewed dogs Anpu people like to eat dog meat, but their eating method is very special, and they like to stew, and they eat it all year round, especially in winter. The method of dog stew is: selecting tender dogs, cleaning their hair and internal organs, chopping them according to their needs, then frying them in an oil pan with ginger heads for about 1 minutes (mainly to remove the fishy smell), then pouring them into a clay pot and stewing them slowly with low heat. When they are cooked, they are served with garlic and Chili sauce. In the streets and lanes of the city, whenever night falls, people are seen squatting around the small round table in groups, asking for a pot of dog meat, adding a few taels of rice wine or beer, and talking about things slowly. This situation has surprised many foreigners. Dog stew in winter not only keeps its original flavor, but also warms the stomach. Therefore, it is loved by more and more people, and many foreigners are willing to try its unique flavor when they come to Anpu. The price of raw dog meat in the market is 25 ~ 32 yuan per catty.
7. Steamed Dumplings Anpu is famous for its fragrant, smooth and delicious taste, moderate hardness and softness, especially Li Weikun's steamed dumplings in Liancheng East Street are well-known, and customers "eat one and think of two". The method of wrapping steamed dumplings is to soak white glutinous rice and dry it, then stir-fry fresh lard, add barbecued lean meat or pork belly fried with pork belly, and sandwich red shrimp meat or crab meat. The cooking temperature is moderate. The ash water refining method is as follows: burning straw to get ash, stirring it with proper amount of water, standing for a while, and pouring out the supernatant to become "ash water"; Soak the glutinous rice at the right time, take it out and drain it, then wrap the soaked glutinous rice with zongzi leaves, then boil it in boiling water with strong fire, and put it into zongzi for about 2 hours until it is cooked thoroughly. Hot in winter and spring, cold in summer and autumn. The finished product is golden, soft and tough, dipped in honey or brown sugar, sweet and fragrant, and has a unique flavor
8. The refined sweet potato porridge was originally forced by the poverty of the people in this county. After the 198s, with the improvement of people's living standards and the change of dietary tastes, the eating of sweet potato porridge became hot in Liancheng and Anpu, and many sweet potato porridge stalls (usually in chicken rice stalls) were set up in the streets and lanes, which became a fresh snack in Anpu catering industry. The ingredients are sweet potatoes, water and a little sugar. Method: First, clean, peel and shred fresh sweet potatoes, wash off the starch adhered to the shredded potatoes with clear water, and drain the water; Boil with water, add shredded potatoes, and serve with white sugar until it is almost cooked. The finished product is cool, refreshing and slightly sweet, which is more flavor if it is fried with salted fish.
9. Sweet glutinous rice grains have a long history and are very popular in the local area. The production method is to cook glutinous rice into rice, then add wine cake, pack it in a relatively sealed container, and if it is heated at a certain temperature in winter, ferment it for 36-48 hours. These sweet grains taste mellow and sweet, and can be drunk by ordinary people. If you add a small amount of brown sugar and eggs to cook and eat, it will have a more fitness effect. When local urban and rural women sit on the moon, there must be something sweet and bad. Most of them make it one month in advance, and add a small amount of rice wine to soak it together, and eat several bowls every day to nourish their bodies, strengthen their vitality and promote blood circulation. Make a full moon, make a birthday, and serve a bowl of sweet and bad food as soon as the guests enter the door before cooking. Today, all farmers' markets sell them at a price of 3 ~ 5 yuan per kilogram.
1. Sweet potato soup is called "clam jumping into the pond" in this city. On the eve of Mid-Autumn Festival every year, sweet potatoes are harvested one after another, and sweet potato soup is also listed one after another. Ingredients: sweet potato, sesame, sticky rice flour, brown sugar, water. Method 2: Stir-fry sesame seeds with mild fire; Wash the sweet potato, remove the fur, and make it into mashed potato. Add a proper amount of sticky rice flour and a little cooked sesame seeds to make it into a thick paste. Spoon it into boiled brown sugar water and roll it until it is just cooked. Take it out and serve. Features: soft and tough, refreshing and sweet.
11. E-seed sugar is made of refined flour, then twisted (cut) directly into small granular dough with a knife or hands, and then boiled in sugar water. The boiled E-seed sugar is refreshing and elastic, smooth but not greasy, and another black E-seed sugar made of ground plants (chicken manure) has the effect of cooling down the fire and removing heat and relieving summer heat.
12. Braise the dog with seasoning such as dried fish, dried worms and dried tangerine peel, and then stew it until it is cooked. After opening the lid, people can appreciate that "the altar is full of meat and fragrance floating around, and the Buddha hears that it abandons Zen and jumps over the wall", which is really "the gods are uncertain". 18-25 yuan/kg
13. Dry fried shrimp. Chinese and prawns are shelled and fried, only seasoned with salt, with golden color and delicious taste. There are also fried crabs with ginger and onion, dry fried squid tubes ... The price of seafood is generally 1/3 lower than that of Zhanjiang. The most famous is Anpu Corbicula, whose meat is fat and cheap. 8 yuan, a case, full of weight.
14. Anpu raw fish porridge is the oldest in Xian Yi. The condiments include raw fish, fragrant fried small marine fish, braised dried squid, chicken, lean pork, barbecued pork, shrimp cakes, etc., which are quickly rolled into porridge. It is delicious and fragrant, and the price is even to your letter, 2-3 yuan/bowl.
there are also snacks and snacks. 1 grilled oyster/yuan, buy 1 get 3 free, grilled dog meat, full of flavor, as long as 2 yuan/skewer. There are also radish cake .3 yuan/block, taro cake .5 yuan/block, hand-ground peanut paste .5-1 yuan/bowl, spiced beef skewers .5 yuan/skewers. There are glutinous rice chicken, fried shrimp cake, sweet potato cake and so on. Anyway, there are many delicious things, hehe ...
After eating, let's talk about living. The food here is unforgettable, and the key is flat, beautiful and upright. However, the accommodation in Anpu is just average, including Anpu Hotel, Century Yuan Hotel and Hengfeng Hotel. The price is 5-2 yuan/room. It's similar to Zhanjiang. Of course, there are also cheap guest houses. Such as Dongfeng Hotel.
Generally speaking, I personally feel that Anpu is quite good, with a glorious past and more hope for tomorrow, and tomorrow will definitely be better. Location of Anpu: It is located in the southwest of Lianjiang City, at the lower reaches of Jiuzhou River in Leizhou Peninsula and near Beibu Gulf in the west.