Some people say that it's a waste of time to have been to Chaoyang Lingyuan without tasting the local special snacks. Eleven years ago, Lingyuan bean curd, cypress roast chicken and Lingyuan hanging furnace sesame seed cake were selected into the list of "Top Ten Famous Snacks in Liaoning" and "Liaoning Flavor Snacks". The warm and hospitable Lingyuan people send you an invitation: Please come here during the 11th holiday and enjoy the seven wonders, eight arts and fifteen flavors.
Lingyuan, a small town with a long history, is permeated with multi-ethnic cultures such as Han, Mongolian, Hui, Manchu, etc., which constantly breeds distinctive ethnic cuisine. Lingyuan people have unique views on the pursuit of food, and the most famous ones are the seven unique skills, eight arts and fifteen flavors, which are: baked wheat cake, mutton soup, bean curd, cut cake and bean curd, and Yuanxiao. Noodles fish and beans, bowls of fried cakes. Mountain bend donkey meat and pancakes, cedar roast chicken with fire spoon. Hui nationality steamed dumplings four seas bowl, buckwheat noodles with high nutrition.
Walking on the street of Lingyuan, all kinds of snack bars can be seen everywhere. Tofu brain has a long-standing reputation, and Zhao's tofu brain is one of the well-known representatives. It was founded in the late Qing Dynasty and is a unique tofu product developed by Zhao's ancestors who lived in Lingyuan constantly summing up, improving and innovating the processing technology of tofu brain. Friends from all over the country and foreign friends are full of praise. Now it has been loaded into Lingyuan county annals. Lingyuan bean curd made from local mountain spring water is its unique advantage, its delicate taste is its essence, and the root of pine mushrooms is its crowning touch. Here, taste a bowl of Lingyuan bean curd and feel the cultural heritage of a city.
When it comes to Lingyuan food, another food that cannot be avoided is mutton offal soup with western Liaoning flavor. No matter the local people in Lingyuan or the tourists from other places, they will punch in the mutton soup shop and taste its delicious food.
Lingyuan mutton soup is mainly refined from mutton head and mutton offal with mutton bone soup stock, so it is also called "mutton offal soup". Shred the cooked sheep's head, cook the old soup with sheep bones for later use, put the mutton offal cooked in advance in a bowl, scald it with hot fresh soup several times repeatedly, and serve the boiling soup before serving, with seasonings such as chopped green onion, coriander, Chili powder and pepper noodles, and a bowl of delicious mutton soup is made. The mutton soup made by this method is better than the clear soup, the strong fragrance, and the taste of mutton offal, which won the essence of "fresh".
A small town has many flavors. A bowl of mutton soup is simple in appearance but delicious. Just like Lingyuan, a small town, it carries a passionate and colorful life in a simple way.
When you go to Lingyuan, you must try the baked wheat cake. Over the years, many tourists have always said that although they have eaten all kinds of baked wheat cakes from all over the world, they just can't taste the baked wheat cake from Lingyuan. The flavor of Lingyuan sesame seed cake has been deeply implanted into people's hearts and lingers.
The baked sesame seed cake is made by sticking the baked sesame seed cake embryo on the oven. Because the charcoal fire is below, the ceramic cylinder piece on it is heated, then the sesame seed cake embryo is turned over and stuck on it, heated up and down together, and slowly baked by the charcoal fire below. Because the biscuit embryo is hanging upside down, it is called "hanging furnace biscuit". Lingyuan hanging furnace sesame seed cake is baked with slow fire, with yellowish appearance but not burnt, soft and ripe inside, paying attention to large crisp, multiple layers, even sesame seeds, sufficient heat and low moisture.
Lingyuan food is delicious, which is an old tradition of cedar roast chicken. The cypress roast chicken is preferably Lingyuan local rooster, and more than ten kinds of secret seasonings and health-preserving Chinese medicines are carefully selected to cook the soup stock. Slaughter and clean the white striped chicken, put it in a cauldron, cook it with the boiled soup until it is soft and rotten, and take it out for later use. Take brown sugar and cypress sawdust, stir them evenly, spread them in an iron pot, and heat the bottom of the pot to make it emit smoke. Put a smoking cage on the iron pot, put the cooked chicken in the smoking cage, and turn the chicken repeatedly during the smoking process so that the color is uniform and the taste is delicious. Finally, the chicken is coated with sesame oil to lock the skin moisture, and the cedar roast chicken is finished.
if you come to Lingyuan, you must not miss the delicious roast chicken with cedar. I heard that many people have heard of its delicious food and drove hundreds of kilometers!