Luchuan, the south gate of Bagui, is home to 600,000 Hakkas. Its diet is light and delicious, and its taste is tender, smooth and crisp. Hakkas in Luchuan like the original flavor of food. They usually cook with boiled and sliced food. Among them, white-cut trotters are classic works, which can be called a must.
Luchuan white-cut trotters stand out among Yulin specialty snacks. The raw material is Luchuan trotters, one of the eight excellent pig breeds in China, which are cut into white and dipped in spices. "Juice" is original, crisp and refreshing, fat but not greasy, and it is a delicious food.
White-cut trotters are very unique. First, blanch the trotters with boiling water, scrape off the fur, remove the bones in the middle of the trotters, tie the trotters with bamboo pieces and string, put them in a pot and cook them with slow fire for about two hours. The trotters look rotten. When the pig's trotters get cold, immediately put them in cold water or freezer and take them out with coriander, shredded sour ginger, peanuts, soy sauce and other condiments. They taste cold and sour, and the skin is crisp and smooth, fat but not greasy. White-cut trotters are all over the county, among which Wushi is the most famous.
According to legend, in the early years of the Republic of China, two bearers of Commander Lu, the owner of Xielu Villa, sneaked into the kitchen to find something to fill their stomachs during Commander Lu's lunch break. When they found two cooked pig hands in the kitchen, they took them out and climbed to the top of the mountain to eat them secretly. Halfway through the meal, they heard that their master was going to use a sedan chair, so they quickly packed up their things and went down the mountain. But the pig's hand had just eaten half of it, and it was a pity to lose it, so it was conveniently placed on the mountain.
A few days later, two bearers suddenly remembered the leftover pig hands, so they went up the mountain to have a look, only to find that the leftover pig hands not only tasted not bad, but also tasted fresher and fatter than the last pig hands. It turns out that the temperature of the small stream on the mountain is relatively low, just like a natural refrigerator. Wash the greasy pig's hands and remove the glue, so that the pig's hands become crisp and refreshing, and have a special flavor. Later, people followed their example and made a unique mountain pig hand with the special soy sauce of Urumqi. Nowadays, people put pig's trotters in the freezer, which not only keeps them fresh, but also makes them crisp and very refreshing, becoming a unique Luchuan white-cut pig's trotters.
When you want to eat, take the trotters out of the refrigerator, peel off the plastic wrap, cut them into thin slices and put them on a plate. When you eat the white-cut pig's trotters made of Luchuan pig, it is fragrant, tender, fresh and crisp, which is memorable. It tastes a little sticky. Pork feet are thin, tender, crisp and not greasy, which is a perfect match with Luchuan Wu's soy sauce.
It is said that authentic Luchuan white-cut trotters have some tricks. First of all, garlic for salted vegetables needs to be poured with boiled peanut oil, and then mixed with Wu's soy sauce with five or six seasonings. Secondly, add some fried peanuts to the salt pan, and the taste will be more leisurely.
Luchuan people's day begins with a bowl of pig's trotters powder. The most authentic boiled pig's trotters in Luchuan are in Wushi Town. In Wushi Town, Azhenpo's pig's feet are the most authentic Hakka flavor.