If we want to talk about the most direct memory of our hometown, then we must talk about the food here. Nostalgia always has some flavor, maybe it is the food that my mother cooked for me since childhood, maybe it is the snacks that are often sold on the street. In short, nostalgia is
That aroma started.
Shaoxing Shaoxing has good customs and lots of intoxicating old wine.
Pour a pot of Huadiao old wine, embrace it, and enjoy the misty rain in the water town.
The rice wine brewed from Jianhu water is clear in color, fragrant in aroma, and sweet in taste. It is mild but strong, and gentle but full of pride.
Visitors to Shaoxing always like to go to Xianheng Hotel and imitate Kong Yiji's accent and say to the counter: "Warm two bowls of rice wine and ask for a plate of fennel beans" and slowly savor the long and beautiful past.
This Spring Festival, when you go to Shaoxing, you must drink a glass of warm rice wine, enjoy some leisure time, and bring back an antique gift.
In the twelfth lunar month of winter, the ancient town of Anchang, located in a corner of Shaoxing, has already begun to smell the "New Year flavor".
The streets and rivers remain the same, but the sausages, cured fish, duck and meat with soy sauce are always new every year.
Under the corridor eaves and between the corridor pillars, which are usually used to dry clothes, are now hung with strings of shiny red sausages, transparent red bream, and soy sauce ducks. The strong fragrance of soy sauce floats in the corridor.
Here, it is exciting to the stomach, and there is a festive and peaceful atmosphere everywhere.
Sausage is Anchang’s most famous specialty.
The meat is appropriately fat and lean, and every bite is filled with the taste of happiness.
Now, Anchang sausage has become the best-selling souvenir on the old street. During the twelfth lunar month, almost every household will have sausage products. It is estimated that the sales of sausages exceeded 30 million yuan last year.
Lishui yellow rice is a popular snack in southwestern Zhejiang, namely Suichang, Songyang, Longquan and other places in Lishui. It was first spread from Songyang to surrounding counties and cities.
Soak high-quality japonica rice until it is beige-orange, rinse and steam it, pound it into a ball in a stone mortar, then cut it into small pieces, and knead it into oblate or long strips while it is hot.
In Shicang, Dadongba Town, Songyang County, Lishui, villagers here brew glutinous rice wine by hand every New Year. This kind of glutinous rice wine is also known as "Shicang Bailao Liquor". The traditional brewing method and the mellow and unique
Its unique taste makes it a well-known "hot commodity".
Ningbo Ningbo rice cakes are famous. There is a folk proverb in Ningbo that "rice cakes are better every year, and this year is even better than last year."
Ningbo Cixi rice cakes are famous for their careful selection of ingredients and exquisite production. The rice cakes are as white as jade, smooth and moist, consistent in size, and not burnt when cooked.
There is also a snack in Cixi called "Yellow-haired Duck", which is actually a pine flower glutinous rice dumpling. Because it is bright yellow and has a small tail, it looks like a duck, so it has this cute and cute nickname.
This is an old-fashioned snack. The best glutinous rice is added to the bean paste, cooked in boiling water, and finally rolled on pine pollen, and a yellow-haired duck will grow.
Wenzhou's sun-dried fish is a must-have New Year's delicacy for the islanders of Wenzhou Dongtou before the Spring Festival. It is a life inheritance of island fishermen for many years.
All kinds of seafood are dried and eaten during the Spring Festival, which is an indispensable delicacy during the New Year.
Wheat cake is a famous snack in Wenzhou, and Yongjia Nanxi wheat cake and Yueqing Furong wheat cake are both famous.
To make a delicious wheat cake, you need to be very particular about mixing the dough, making the stuffing, the thickness of the skin, and the baking time and heat. The inside is paired with sour pickles or dried vegetables, plus pork belly as the stuffing, and then baked over a slow fire.
The freshly baked wheat cakes are crispy and fragrant. When you take one bite, you will feel the aroma of wheat on your lips and teeth.
Huzhou smoked bean tea, also known as roasted bean tea, is a traditional tea drinking custom in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, especially in Nanxun, Huzhou.
It is a tea made with smoked beans as the main ingredient and other auxiliary ingredients.
The auxiliary ingredients are generally dried carrots, orange peels, osmanthus flowers, sesame seeds and green tea leaves. Some people who are particular about it also add Zhenze black dried tofu, flat tips, bamboo shoot tips or green olives, etc.
In recent years, Qingtuanzi has become a popular item on the Internet in the mountains of Huzhou, and the production process is particularly complicated and exquisite.
Chopping stuffing, grinding flour, kneading dough, stuffing stuffing, pouring molds, and steaming are all done step by step. It can’t be done without a small number of people~ Usually neighbors cooperate and take turns to help, so the whole village is bustling before New Year’s Eve.
~Jiaxing When it comes to Jiaxing delicacies, Wufangzhai Zongzi is always indispensable.
It is famous for its glutinous but not mushy, fat but not greasy, fragrant and glutinous taste, moderate salty and sweet taste.
Especially the fresh meat rice dumplings are the most famous and are known as the "King of Zongzi".
It is steamed with glutinous rice, bean paste, lard, white sugar, longan, red dates, lotus seeds and other auxiliary ingredients. The auxiliary ingredients can be used freely, but "red and green silk" is an indispensable treasure of Pinghu Babao Rice.
Pinghu eight-treasure rice has a sweet taste and is a festive treat passed down from the old Pinghu people, especially loved by children.
Just as Zongzi is indispensable when mentioning Jiaxing delicacies, Jinhua ham is also indispensable when mentioning Jinhua.
Jinhua ham can be steamed, stir-fried, or stewed. There is nothing you can't think of that it can't do.
The marinated pork has a special aroma and taste. It has a proper proportion of meat and fat, is fragrant but not greasy, and is delicious.
Jinhua shortbread is filled with dried vegetables as the main ingredient, so it is also called dried vegetable shortbread.
It is said that the founder is the "Devil King" Cheng Yaojin.
The shortbread is crispy in the mouth and melts when wet. It is said that even people who have lost all their teeth can eat it.
Taizhou fried rice candy is a traditional pastry in Taizhou that has been around for hundreds of years and is purely handmade.
In the past, it could only be eaten during the Chinese New Year. It tastes crispy and fragrant, and leaves an endless aftertaste after eating, leaving a fragrant aroma in your mouth.