Enshi Food Tujia Camellia Soup Tujia Camellia Soup is a snack similar to tea soup.

Fragrant, crispy, smooth, fresh, delicious and refreshing to quench your thirst.

It is a traditional flavor food loved by the Tujia people.

Therefore, there is a saying among the people: "If you don't drink camellia soup, your heart will panic." "Three meals a day, three bowls, thank you for your hard work." At the same time, drinking camellia soup is also a traditional etiquette of Tujia people to entertain guests.

Whenever a distinguished guest arrives, the Tujia people will serve a bowl of delicious camellia soup to show their hospitality.

According to legend, oil tea soup was invented by the Tujia people who herded cattle in the tea mountains and set up "houses".

They picked up a handful of tea seeds on the mountain, fried them in tea oil in an earthen pot, then picked tea leaves, fried them in oil, poured them into mountain spring water, added fried corn, and ate them with gusto.

Over time, drinking camellia soup has become a habit of the Tujia people.

The method of making local oil tea soup is to fry an appropriate amount of tea leaves in cooking oil until brown, then add water to the pot and add natural condiments such as ginger, onion, garlic, and pepper.

After the water boils, scoop it into a bowl, then add fried (or stir-fried) fried rice popcorn, popcorn, tofu, walnut kernels, peanuts, soybeans and other "stuffed goods" for consumption.

The key to making oil tea soup is the quality of tea leaves and the temperature of tea frying.

The choice of condiments and "infusions" can be based on the guest's taste.

Camellia oleifera soup is one of the representative food culture phenomena of Tujia people in Enshi Prefecture. It can be called China’s unique tea culture and has a long history.

It is still popular in the whole state, especially in Xianfeng and Laifeng.

In 1992, the "Laifeng County Tujia Camellia Soup Tea Ceremony Group" participated in the first Chinese Tea Culture Festival held in Hangzhou and won the praise of "Famous tea travels from the peak to the peak, and the fragrance of Tujia camellia spreads throughout Kyushu".

The Korean delegation praised Tujia Camellia Soup as "a unique item in Chinese tea culture."

Later, the relevant departments refined and organized the Tujia Camellia Camellia Soup into the "Four Teas" (i.e. White Crane Tea, Bubble Tea, Camellia Camellia Soup, and Egg Tea) and performed the Oil Tea Ceremony, making it a standardized sacrificial tea ceremony.

At the China Selenium-Rich Tea Culture Festival hosted by the China Tea Association in 2005, the elegant and outstanding performances of the "Four Teas" tea ceremony became a beautiful scenery, allowing the essence of Tujia tea culture - Youchatang to be carried forward.

(Bells, etc.) Zhang Guan combines dregs and mud, also known as lazy tofu.

The Enshi Tujia people have deep feelings for Zha Zha, especially in the war-torn years.

Because food was scarce, Zhazhajiu saved many people's lives. There is a popular saying that "chili is salt, Zhazhajiu celebrates the New Year."

Now the people of Enshi can no longer eat garbage during the festival.

You can usually eat it at home, and many restaurants use it as a special dish, which is very popular among customers.

Composite slag is relatively simple to make, but a little difficult at the beginning of the "push" phase.

Therefore, people call the production of this kind of composite slag as pushing slag.

Its production process is: wash the soybeans and swell them with water, use a stone mill to grind the beans and water into a slurry, bring it to a boil over high heat, then add cut fresh radish leaves to the boil, and a pot of milky white and green composite residue will be ready.

Made.

It can be seen that "pushing the residue" is much simpler than making tofu. There is no need to filter, press or pickle.

No wonder the Tujia people also call it "lazy tofu".

The nutritional combination of compound residue is also very scientific.

The protein in soybeans is combined with the vitamins and inorganic salts in radish vegetables to achieve the effect of a reasonable diet.

In Enshi, there are many ways to eat shit.

Some eat it very thinly, without any seasoning, and are often called light dregs, which emphasizes "drinking". Sometimes they are boiled with potatoes; if they eat sour dregs, put the dregs into acid before eating, which not only quenches thirst but also relieves heat.

Some are also made into slag hotpot, Zhangguan slag hotpot is a typical one.

Guanzha is to cook the dregs, marinate them until they are slightly dry, and then add fresh pork, chicken, eggs and other soup ingredients to make a series of dregs hotpots such as fresh meat dregs, chicken dregs, and egg dregs.

Zhangguan Hezha is named after Zhangguan, a small market town in Xuan'en. Its typical feature is Hezha hot pot, especially the hot pot made by an old woman named Huang in the town. It is the most famous and authentic.

Guanhe slag has a pure taste and rich nutrition. People call it "full-price food".

Whether in cities or rural areas, both locals and Chinese and foreign tourists particularly like to eat it and rate it highly.