When boys lie down in college, the first topic of conversation is beautiful women. However, there are few girls in engineering colleges and celebrities and actresses are far away. In most cases, they still discuss food.
After work, the evening bus always encounters rush hour, and the journey takes more than an hour. Think of the winter in the Northeast. At six or seven o'clock, a group of people were cold and hungry in the car, and all they could do was talk about and write about food. When people from all over the world talk about delicious food, they naturally recommend local specialties.
Although the Northeast region seems to be a whole in Guanhai, it is actually vast and rich in resources. Although the northern cuisines are all branches of Shandong cuisine, in the Northeast, several schools have evolved. Harbin is influenced by Russia and has a more western style; the coastal area of ??Dalian is characterized by seafood and has Japanese colonial overtones, with a variety of unique Japanese food. What about Shenyang? Shengjing’s Manchu palace cuisine is a business card. Changchun is more embarrassing. It was once the capital of Puppet Manchukuo. This pseudo-character is inferior to others. If you mention Xinjing without some accumulation of historical knowledge, you really can't think of it.
In fact, after the Manchus entered the customs, the Han people in the Northeast declined. It was not until after the Sino-Japanese War of Sino-Japanese War that the border crisis deepened, and the Northeast was developed as a virgin land. Japanese reclamation regiments, exiled nobles from Tsarist Russia, and farmers from Shandong and Hebei. Of course, the local Manchus and the Koreans next door are the background of Northeast China.
What’s interesting is that Korean cuisine is famous for its fragrant meat, but the Manchus don’t eat it. For three hundred years in the Qing Dynasty, people shaved their hair and took clothes easily, but there was no ban on food, which is also difficult to understand.
In fact, the Manchu custom of not eating fragrant meat was only concocted by the old and young people in Beijing who joined the Ethnic Affairs Committee after the Reform and Opening-up Year, and made up a story about the old Khan. Therefore, there is such a strange phenomenon in the Northeast. Young Manchu students who have gone through nine years of compulsory education refuse to eat it on the grounds of ethnic customs; while older Manchu grandparents taste it delicious!
Different from the crispy way of eating in the south, the stores in the Northeast pay attention to freshness. This character "烀" is so vivid that many friends don't know why. The so-called 烀 is to use a large pot with a small amount of water, seal it and heat it together with the ingredients. In fact, it is stewed and steamed. The meat is dry and tasty, and paired with a special sauce, it is really delicious.
This is how the Koreans eat it. As for how the Han people in the Northeast eat it, it has long been impossible to verify. All I know is that the Han people don’t eat skin. The reason is not because it tastes bad or they don’t know how to cook, but because the winter in the Northeast is long and they need fur for hats or gloves. Or ask: Isn’t there mink? Please, mink skin has been a rarity since ancient times. In the past, it was used as tribute to the capital. The poor got some skins, no matter what they were, keeping out the cold was the most important thing.
When eating delicious meat, pay attention to one yellow, two black, three flowers and four white. Yellow and black are better. The meat with white flowers is woody and tastes like chewing wax. Foodies will not like it. Different from the custom of the Summer Solstice Festival in Yulin, Guangxi, Northeastern people like to eat it after the first snow in winter. The meat is hot in nature and is a good way to keep out the cold. In the past, killing dogs in restaurants on the street was really cruel from today's perspective. Therefore, with the advancement of civilization, there is less tradition.
However, today's diverse civilizations in Northeast China still exist, and the customs of ethnic minorities are fully protected and respected, giving people the space to choose freely.
When I have nothing to do, I call my friends, find an old restaurant, the fragrant meat is on the scale, and order a bucket of draft beer. Summer is here!