I became attached to Chengdu because I read Luo Niansheng's essay "Lotus City" when I was a teenager. Mr. Luo's wonderful pen gives birth to flowers, and Chengdu described by him is like a scholar with endless tenderness and elegance. ...

At that time, I was in a border town in the northeast, and I was fascinated by Chengdu, which is far away from Qianshan Mountain.

The first time I went to Chengdu was on business. The company arranged for me to explore the southwest market. The first stop is Chongqing and the second stop is Chengdu.

In Chengdu, clear oil hot pot is essential.

Compared with the butter hot pot in Chongqing, the taste of Chengdu Qingyou hot pot is more complicated and changeable. If Chongqing Butter Hot Pot is the vigorous king kong palm of Shaolin, then Chengdu Qingyou Hot Pot is Dali's Six-pulse Excalibur, which is flexible and powerful.

In my spare time in Chengdu, it is necessary for me to pay a visit to Wuhou Temple.

I remember watching the TV series Romance of the Three Kingdoms when I was a child. Mr. Kongming died in Wuzhangyuan, and I cried my nose out. When I was in junior high school, I could recite the whole text in an hour, and I haven't forgotten it yet.

The ancient cypress in Wuhou Temple is dense and solemn, with bamboo swaying on both sides of the winding red wall, red and green, and the winding path is secluded. "I am wearing a cloth to farm in Nanyang, and I am desperate in troubled times, and I don't want Wen Da to be a vassal ..." Now troubled times are peaceful, and the vassal has been annihilated by fly ash, but Mr. Ran's words are still in my ears.

The Jinli, which is separated from Wuhou Temple by a wall, is full of flowers and tourists.

That day, in Jinli Ancient Street, it began to rain lightly. I strolled into a teahouse, quiet and elegant. I asked for a pot of tea and sat by the window. Through the lattice window, tourists hold umbrellas in the misty rain, just like an ancient painting.

Ok, relax, this is Chengdu.

At noon, the teahouse prepared Sichuan Opera to change its face. Mr. Lao She once talked about Sichuan Opera in his essay "Lovely Chengdu", which made me curious to find out.

I thought if I looked carefully, I could find the mystery. Unfortunately, I can't find any clues. The facial changes are fluid, the actors in Sichuan Opera are swaying, and their skills are really good.

Chuanchuanxiang can compete with hot pot in Chengdu, and the "cold pot string" evolved from it is my dish.

Cold pot strings are actually hot, although they are cold. Choose the kebabs, put them in a red soup pot, and serve them at the back of the store. The bottom of the soup is red, bright and calm, and the surface is like Pinghu. Be careful when eating, or you will burn your tongue!

And this is the "contrast charm" of a string of cold pots!

Moreover, the alms chicken is not only a chicken, but also a skewer, which is very similar to the cold pot skewer. I am always stupid and confused.

A local friend in Chengdu told me a secret. He said that giving chicken will sprinkle you with white sesame seeds.

Spicy rabbit head is a major feature of Chengdu cuisine, and Chengdu people appropriately call it "eating rabbit head".

To tell you the truth, I am very resistant to eating rabbit heads. I'm not used to eating food related to this animal, especially all kinds of heads, such as chicken heads and ducks.

I ate rabbit's head for the first time because my business partner took me with me, but it was hard. It can be said that "you often walk in the rivers and lakes, and sooner or later you have to wet your shoes."

I took a bite with a ferocious face. Holy shit! Not bad!

Rabbit head meat is not much, but the meat is delicious, especially rabbit brain.

I wrapped dozens of spicy rabbit heads when I left. This thing is so satisfying!

Speaking of eating brains, taking brains is a "gourmet mountain" that I can't conquer so far.

Brain flower may be the farthest food from my heart. A friend in Chengdu told me that tofu pudding can be eaten and brain flowers can be eaten.

But brain flowers do smell like fish. Although there are spicy and delicious condiments, they are too spicy. Take a sip of ice water and the smell of brain flowers will be evoked.

Speaking of the word "Mao", it seems to me that it should mean just boiling.

Maocai is a hot pot for one person, and a hot pot is a maocai for a group of people. It can be seen that maocai is best for a traveler like me to eat alone.

When I was in Chengdu, I was doing business alone, and my stomach was growling, so I came to a temple offering sacrifices to five zang-organs in maocai. Don't care about the store size. A large population is a good place.

In my opinion, this kind of maocai should be the originator of our Northeast Mala Tang, but we are used to serving a spoonful of sesame sauce, and sprinkling chopped green onion, coriander and Sichuan lobster sauce when eating maocai. The taste is better and richer, and the spicy taste is complex and changeable. Eating one is sweating profusely.

Speaking of spicy food, Chengdu and even Sichuan are very spicy. Even a bowl of jiaozi is full of red oil.

We Northeasters love jiaozi, and jiaozi, the bell of Chengdu, has also captured my heart. Bell jiaozi, pay attention to thin skin, fine ingredients, tender stuffing and fresh taste, pure meat stuffing, mixed with red oil, sesame oil and red soy sauce, spicy, fragrant, sweet and fresh, with strong garlic flavor, that is, the weight is not big, and I can kill three servings by myself. [Grinning]

Of course, Chengdu cuisine is not only spicy, but also sweet. After all, sweet can relieve spicy!

In Chengdu, eating "three cannons" is an interesting and delicious thing. After the third gun was lit, the owner took out a ball of Ciba, divided it into three parts and threw it on the copper plate. There are three clear and loud "Bang Bang" cannon shots, which bounce on the inclined plane like table tennis, automatically roll a layer of soybeans, sprinkle brown sugar and sesame seeds, which is the "three cannons" of this sweet glutinous rice.

Of course, there are many delicious sweets and snacks in Chengdu, which I will never forget.

Ice powder, a cool and sweet anti-spicy artifact, plus brown sugar, peanuts and raisins is the correct way to serve a bowl of ice powder after eating hot pot.

Lai Tangyuan, a century-old brand in Chengdu, Sichuan, has many flavors, the most classic of which is lard and black sesame stuffing. Although the calories are ridiculously high, I feel very practical after eating.

Here, I'd like to focus on the special cuisine.

Ye Ba 'er is a special food in Sichuan. The first time I ate yerbar was in Chengdu, the home of a local friend.

My friend said that it depends on the season to eat Ye Ba Er, and it can only be eaten around Tomb-Sweeping Day. Yebal has meat stuffing and sweet stuffing, and I especially like sweet stuffing. Green leaves are dyed with wormwood juice, which is quite similar to our "wormwood cake" in Korea.

The shape of Ye Ba 'er also makes me feel more intimate, which is quite similar to our northeast Manchu snack "Suzhou Cotyledon Cake".

In my eyes, Chengdu people know how to eat, and they will not go all the way to black on the road of eating spicy food.

The understanding of spicy and sweet is in place. Playing spicy and sweet snacks is a famous snack in Chengdu: sweet water surface.

The delicious taste of sweet water lies in only catching people's taste.

The spicy taste of sweet water comes from red oil pepper, which is rich and spicy, and it is more rich and charming with pepper powder and peanuts. The sweetness of sweet water surface comes from sweet red soy sauce. The slightly sweet taste neutralizes the spicy taste and brings more taste changes.

When you eat sweet water, the first bite will definitely bring you the tendons and teeth of noodles, as well as the crisp peanuts jumping between your teeth, then the sweetness, which is caused by sweet red soy sauce and salivary amylase, then the spicy taste comes again, and finally the rich sweetness brought by careful chewing. ...

I have been to Chengdu several times, but due to many things, I have no chance to go to Du Fu's thatched cottage to reminisce about the past.

In 20 16, I finally had leisure time in Chengdu and visited Du Gongbu's former residence in Du Fu Caotang.

The statue of Mr. Du Fu in the thatched cottage is pitifully thin. It was this poet who wrote a generous poem: "There are thousands of spacious buildings in Ando, and all the poor people in the world are happy, and the wind and rain are still peaceful."

During the prosperous Tang Dynasty, Mr. Du was very angry when his hut was destroyed by autumn wind and his whole family was caught in the rain. Did he ever think that this land would be full of flowers, businesses and delicious food in a thousand years? ...

I think this is the massiness of Chengdu and the place where my generation loves life and the country.

Chengdu, a city that fascinates me!

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