China has a vast territory and borders on many countries. The border areas are more or less influenced by neighboring countries in culture. Heilongjiang, located in the northeast corner of China, borders on Russia and has had many trade exchanges and cultural interactions since ancient times.

since the construction of the middle east railway a hundred years ago, many Russians have poured into the northeast by train, which has further expanded their influence on the northeast.

In many cities in the three northeastern provinces, you will see information marked in Russian, and the architectural style is mostly influenced by Russia, which is full of Russian customs.

In addition to language and architecture, Russia also has a great influence on the food in Northeast China.

Russia came to Northeast China with their food culture from their hometown, and these foods have gradually integrated into the lives of Northeast people, and some of them have gradually become representative foods in Northeast China.

Among these six kinds of Northeast-flavor foods, there is an indissoluble bond with Russia. After understanding them, we can understand how much Russia has influenced the diet in Northeast China.

1. Red sausage

Red sausage, also known as Lidos, originally originated in Russia, Lithuania and other countries. In 1911, a Russian opened an enema workshop in Harbin, which was also the predecessor of Lin Qiu Foreign Company's enema factory.

Later, a British businessman invested and established the largest livestock product processing enterprise in China at that time, which is the predecessor of Harbin Meat Joint. The enterprise hired a Russian technician to guide the processing technology of sausage, and the first batch of sausage produced also marked the birth of Harbin Meat Joint sausage.

The appearance of sausage was welcomed by local people and expatriates from all over the world, which also marked the formal introduction of sausage into the northeast of China.

Red sausage adheres to the processing principle of more meat and less starch, and it is full of meat in one bite, and the taste and taste are a few blocks away from most sausages and ham sausages.

After smoked sausage, part of the oil is consumed, and the casing is locked, which makes the whole sausage wrinkled but very shiny, with the aroma of smoked cigarettes and fruit trees. Sliced sausage pieces are thin and fat, and it tastes fat but not greasy, just right.

Its garlic and pepper aromas gradually diffuse in the mouth, which is the reason why sausage can be welcomed by the northeast people.

The sausage has grown up with generations of Northeast people. Every Chinese New Year holiday, a place will be reserved for the sausage on the dining table. When you go out to school, you will definitely bring a bag of sausage and distribute it to your friends in the dormitory, and you will also leave yourself with two pieces that represent home.

Today, sausage has become a specialty of Harbin, Jiamusi, Qitaihe and other places in Northeast China. However, sausage is of course the most famous in Harbin, and a food store selling sausage can be seen on every main road in Harbin.

sausage from Russia has been perfectly integrated into the lives of most people in Northeast China, and it has also become a food specialty that people in Northeast China are proud of.

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A monster in the northeast, bread is like a pot cover, which is one of the foods in recent two years. Lieba, like sausage, was handed down by Russians, and Lieba is a transliteration of Russian bread.

Barley is a traditional staple food for Russians. Because there is only one bread stove in each village, families can only bake bread in the bread stove regularly. In order to make it for a long time, they have to make it very big, weighing almost four or five kilograms. They usually store it at home and cut a piece when eating. Over time, this kind of bread has become a special food in Russia.

in order to be stored for a long time, there is little sugar, salt and oil in the big bar, which is not sweet to eat or even slightly sour in taste.

After the Russians flooded into Harbin, Russian businessmen set up a bakery to produce Italian food in order to meet their needs for traditional food in their hometown. Although Italian food was slightly sour.

But it's crispy on the outside and soft on the inside, with noodles, wine and fruity woody notes. Northeasters are also happy to accept this exotic food, and Dalian has been introduced to thousands of households after being improved according to local tastes.

In p>1953, the Russian master also taught the production technology of Leba to China, which has been handed down by Harbin people for three generations.

Russians came to visit the production of Da Lieba, and said that this craft has been lost in many places in Russia, but it has been passed down in China for a hundred years, and it has been integrated into the food culture in Northeast China, making it a must in Harbin.

Old Harbin people also have the habit of eating Dalibaiba, and they will regularly queue up at the bakery selling Dalibaiba to buy it and take it home.

3. Pot-wrapped meat

Pot-wrapped meat, a classic dish in Northeast China, can also show the influence of Russia on it. During the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty, Zheng Xing, a flag bearer, became an official chef with excellent cooking skills.

In Harbin, Du Xueying, a Taoist priest, specializes in cooking meals. Daotai Prefecture often entertains foreign guests, especially distinguished guests from Russia.

Because they love sweet and sour food, Zheng Xingwen changed the "burnt pork strips", a palace dish originated from Manchu, from salty to sweet and sour to cater to their tastes.

This dish is called "Pan-fried pork" because it needs to heat the wok, stir-fry it quickly, and then pour the sweet and sour juice into the wok and soak it into the meat. Russian guests like this dish very much, but their pronunciation is not standard, so they pronounce it "Bao", and over time it is also called "Pan-fried meat".

Later, this official dish spread abroad,

spread from Harbin to the whole three northeastern provinces, and became a major representative dish in Northeast China

, and it was also one of the necessary dishes for people in Northeast China to entertain foreign guests.

4. Pickled Cucumber

At the beginning of the 21th century, a food company in Shanghai took the lead in introducing canned food from overseas, and canned food that can be eaten immediately after opening the lid, is convenient to carry and can be stored for a long time became popular all over the country.

Every place has developed its own canned food, and Harbin, the northeast corner of China, has produced a canned food that is not a canned fruit like yellow peach.

It's not the canned food full of hometown flavor, such as baked bran and fermented soybean and shad, but the Russian pickled cucumber brought by Russian expatriates is packed in the canned food.

Thin-skinned cucumber grown in Northeast China is pickled with rice vinegar, salt, sugar, fennel seeds, perilla seeds and perilla leaves before it is fully grown. After steaming in a pan and cooling, the cucumber becomes sour and crisp.

Russian-style pickled cucumbers have been perfectly integrated into the diet of the northeast people. In the New Year's reunion dinner, a can of pickled cucumbers will be fried with a piece of pork belly, followed by wine.

There will be a dish called "Sauteed Shredded Pork with Pickled Cucumber" in all restaurants in Harbin. Northeasters commented that this sour, sweet and crisp cucumber just suits the taste of Northeasters.

v. stewed beef with potatoes

I believe most people will be puzzled why stewed beef with potatoes appears here. Isn't stewed beef with potatoes a common home-cooked dish, and what does it have to do with Russia?

Actually, stewed beef with potatoes did not originate in China, but was a famous dish in Hungary. Later, it was introduced to Russia, which belongs to the alpine region. Potatoes with high starch, high calorie and storage resistance have become the main food and vegetables of Russians.

Slowly stewed beef with potatoes has become a home-cooked dish in Russia, and it has entered the northeast of China with Russians.

Northeast China, like Russia, belongs to the alpine region, and there are few fresh vegetables to eat in winter, so Chinese cabbage and potatoes have become the main local edible vegetables. The soft, waxy and sweet potatoes are matched with the fresh and fragrant beef, which is mellow in taste and rich in meat flavor, supplementing both calories and protein.

Beef stew with potatoes has also entered thousands of households in Northeast China, becoming one of the four major stews in Northeast China, and then slowly spread from Northeast China to all parts of the country, becoming a home-cooked dish in China.

VI. Mattel Popsicle

Ice cream popsicle is one of the indispensable summer-relieving artifacts, and the appearance of Mattel Popsicle is the beginning of the ice cream history in Northeast China.

In p>1916, Kasper, a Russian, founded a hotel named Madiel in Harbin, and brought the popsicle formula used by European courts to the northeast. There was a simple big box at the door of the hotel, which contained the made Madiel popsicle.

now, more than one hundred years later, Mattel still keeps a simple style, and the use of raw materials remains the same, which still smells like the childhood of generations of Northeast people.

Let the northeast people be willing to queue up to buy whatever it is hot in summer or cold in March 9th, and eat a Mattel Popsicle while wearing cotton-padded clothes and air conditioning.

Madiel cold drink is the earliest cold drink enterprise in China, which affects the ice cream industry in Northeast China to a greater or lesser extent, and now it has been ranked first in the ice cream industry in Northeast China, so that the Northeast people have a clear understanding of the ice cream with rich milk flavor and have always maintained high requirements.

Summary

Most of Russia's influences on the diet in Northeast China are from Harbin, or Harbin has the greatest influence.

The main reason why Russian cuisine can be integrated into Northeast China is that both places belong to extremely cold regions, and their eating habits have many similarities.

In addition, the sweet and sour taste of Russia is the same as that of Northeast China, so it is not excluded. Friends who are interested in Russia are inconvenient to go abroad.

You might as well go to Harbin to experience it first, appreciate some Russian architecture, taste some Russian restaurants, and buy some sausages and big bars to take home, which is also very good.