I went to Changbai Mountain at the beginning of the month, and I finally went there, and I went to Yanbian for a few days.
I got on Erdaobaihe to Yanji and got on the bus. I fell asleep in a daze, dreaming that I was shopping in Myeongdong, Seoul. The roadside fish cake seller insisted on communicating with me in Korean. I was so anxious that I couldn't understand anything.
when I woke up, I found two grandmothers in the front seat, who were chatting in Korean. Isn't this the one who sold my fish cakes in my dream?
The closer the car is to Yanji, the more "Korean" will appear on the roadside signs, and even the banners on the roadside are all "Korean".
Yes, this is Yanji
The full name of Yanbian is Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture, which is the only Korean Autonomous Prefecture in China and the largest Korean gathering place in China. It borders Russia in the east and faces North Korea across Tumen River in the south, and Yanji is the capital of Yanbian.
when you arrive in Yanji, take a taxi to the hotel, and the taxi will also broadcast in bilingual, once in Chinese "Hello passengers ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
Handsome men and beautiful women walking in the street communicate in Korean, waiters in restaurants greet guests in Korean, and there are broadcasts in Korean on buses ... Korean and Chinese are used here, and all signs are bilingual, which is amazing.
The relationship between Korean and Korean is just like that between Northeast Dialect and Mandarin, except for the difference in tone. With this language advantage, many people in Yanbian go to Korea to work every year, and many people come back from Korea, bringing a lot of Korean food.
in Yanji, eating definitely takes the lion's share. Before, Miss Fleshy wrote that you can eat the most authentic Korean food in this low-key northeast border town without going abroad. The article has already introduced it in detail. This time, I asked the locals for some restaurants they like to eat, which is a supplement.
cold noodles
cold noodles are the first thing that many people think of in Korean cuisine. Only when I came to Yanji did I know that the correct way to open cold noodles is to eat them with pot-wrapped meat.
The freshly fried pork bun is soaked in cold ice water, and the temperature drops rapidly, making the outside of the pork bun more crisp. Take a bite of pork bun and drink a sour and sweet cold noodle soup. What kind of immortal eating is this?
recommended store:
Shunji cold noodle (second floor of Qionghua City, Niushi Street)
Service building cold noodle (next to entrance B of Park Road University Town)
Jindalai cold noodle (No.388, Hailan Road)
Stone pot rice
People who do dry rice use pots, but when they come to Yanji, they use stone pots. Walking into a shop casually, I realized that there are so many ways to eat bibimbap.
It obviously looks like the same dish. Why is Yanji's so delicious? Although the taste of each family is somewhat different, it is really delicious.
recommended store:
Quanzhou bibimbap (No.142, Shenhua Street)
Busan bibimbap (No.32, Yanxi Street, gongyuan street)
Centennial bibimbap (2nd floor, entrance 1, Building 2, University Town)
Bibimbap means to roast the meat for you and then serve it with lettuce or perilla leaves. There are many choices for meat, such as elbow meat, pork belly, beef and so on.
There are some differences between sauces and pickles in each restaurant, and some stores also give cooked leaves of perilla leaves and cabbage, so it is enough for one person to order a portion of meat.
recommended store:
Wu's Bao Fan (No.1877 Park Road, Yanxi Street)
Yi Le Bao Fan (Yihua Square)
Yuan Grandma Bao Fan (2 meters west of Yinpu, Gongxin Street)
Ginseng chicken soup
Ginseng chicken soup is made from a whole chick, and its stomach is full of glutinous rice. After the pot is cooked, the whole soup is served with a stone pot. The soup tastes a little like ginseng, and the fragrance is not greasy.
There are also luxurious versions of ginseng chicken soup, such as abalone, velvet antler and eel, which is really very informative.
Recommended store:
Master Zhang's ginseng chicken soup (No.195 Xinhua Street)
Han Zheng's ginseng chicken soup (No.57 Xinxing Street, 2nd floor)
Barbecue
Since you are here to experience Korean delicacies, you must have barbecue. I always thought that the barbecue here was made of Yanbian yellow beef, but when I asked, I realized that it was all imported grain-fed beef. It was only through the unique acid-discharging technology that the meat tasted better.
Steak, pork belly, fat beef and fat sausage are all worth a try. With the special Korean sauce, the baking speed can hardly keep up with the eating speed.
Recommended store:
Dapujia Barbecue (intersection of Xinxing Street and Tuanjie Road)
Dr. Jin Grilled (4th floor opposite to Yinpu Bath Center on Lihua Road)
Futaiya Slate Barbecue (8th floor of Yijing Apartment)
Dapaiwu (1m west of Yuanchi Hutong Police Station)
Kebabs
Different from other places.
pine meat, chicken feet, heart tube and breast meat are all local specialties. You can taste them one by one. Besides dry ingredients, each store also has special Korean wet ingredients.
Recommended store:
Jinli Chuandian (5 meters south of the intersection of Wenxue Hutong and Jinxue Street)
Fengmao Kebab (south of the intersection of Tuanjie Road and Tongren Hutong)
Heba Barbecue Chuancheng (5 meters south of the east gate of Park No.3 Middle School)
Xuebing
Friends who have been to Korea should be familiar with this name, and they can also eat super authentic food in Yanji. The snow ice made from milk is covered with thick yellow bean, which is also mixed with small cakes. The powdery taste really can't stop.
besides the original flavor, there are various flavors to choose from, such as matcha, strawberry and chocolate. One serving is large enough for two people.
recommended store:
Xuebing Coffee (3rd floor, Yijing Apartment)
Laoding Stupid Coffee (3rd floor, Lishui IKEA Store, Erbinhe Road)
Korean food supermarket
Because of the geographical location and language advantages, supermarkets here generally sell many Korean products. There are also many specialized Korean supermarkets, and it is estimated that there is no such complete Korean food except Yanji in China.
You can find all kinds of Korean snacks, drinks, instant noodles and seasonings here. Even Korean ice cream has several freezers full.
Recommended shops:
Longmate (1st floor, Shenhua Street Water Market)
Youjinmate (west side of Xinxing Primary School, Aidan Road)
Water Market is a local morning market recommended by many raiders, but as the name implies, it is only in the morning. Generally, it closes at 8 o'clock, which is very difficult for us. Although I set the alarm clock before going to bed every day and told myself that I must get up early to go to the water market tomorrow, none of them succeeded.
Seeing the last day, I successfully missed the morning market again. When I fell into deep remorse, the little girl at the front desk of the hotel saved me. "You can go to the western market, and I seldom go to the morning market except with my mother."
So, I came to this western market which is open all day. It was said to be open all day, but by four o'clock, the stalls began to close one after another. So you'd better go shopping before four o'clock in the afternoon.
The western market is divided into several districts, and all kinds of pickles, seafood, dry goods and seasonings are everywhere, which is really very informative.
I thought Korean sauce was black and red. Unexpectedly, there are n kinds of Korean sauce here. There are those who specialize in cooking, those who specialize in making soup, and those who specialize in pickling. Anyway, whatever kind of food is cooked, there is what kind of sauce, as well as the all-purpose sauce prepared for our cuisine Xiaobai. To sum up the local people's diet in two words is probably-just sauce.
Besides all kinds of pickles, there are also all kinds of seafood products. Whether you buy them or not, I will generously try them for you before I go to the stall. After a circle, I don't think you need to have dinner.
The fresh food area includes crabs from North Korea, scallops that are palm-sized, and all kinds of raw seafood from the Sea of Japan, and there is a processing area next to it to provide processing services, which is more affordable than going to a restaurant.
if you miss the water market and then miss the western market, you can also go to Yanbai Supermarket on the ground floor of Yanji Department Store a few hundred meters away from the western market.
Yanbai Supermarket is a master of local specialties and Korean imported food. But I think the essence of Yanbai Supermarket lies in its cooked food area and semi-finished products area. You can see the cooked food area half the size of a food city and all kinds of semi-finished barbecue products.
The semi-finished barbecue here is more complete than any barbecue restaurant I went to. At this moment, the picture of the whole family enjoying barbecue together in Korean dramas comes to my mind. I wonder how people can eat barbecue easily at home. It turns out that their supermarket has such a complete range of semi-finished products.
I really want to buy a baking tray and eat it if the conditions are not allowed. After visiting Yanbai Supermarket, I have planned my next trip to Yanji: about three or five friends find an Airbnb with a kitchen and taste every kind of meat with local rice wine. I wonder if there is any "fair-weather friend" to respond.
I can't help sighing that the vegetable market and supermarket are the essence of Yanbian people's diet.
Recommended store:
Oriental Water Market (No.1425 Shenhua Street, 5:-8:)
West Market (No.819 Shenhua Street, 9:3-16:)
Department Store Supermarket (No.68 Guangming Street, 1: -22: ) < It takes about two and a half hours by car. Of course, you can also choose to take the high-speed train to Hunchun and then charter a car to Fangchuan. Fangchuan is the easternmost village in Jilin, and here is the real border.
It's cheaper to drive from Yanji than to charter a car. It just happens that Yanji has a car rental station for Shenzhou, and I really want to experience this border road myself, so I chose to drive by myself.
from Yanji, follow the navigation. There are not many cars and the road conditions are good. The big haystack rolled up by the roadside reminds people of the picture of eating chicken.
the last 2 kilometers of this road is called the circle defense line, which basically means driving on the border. On both sides of the road is the barbed wire on the border, on the right side of the barbed wire is North Korea, and on the left side of the barbed wire is Russia. The narrowest place can only accommodate a two-way two-lane highway.
find a safe place to park and put your finger out-we're going abroad. I also went to two countries in one day, which was very busy.
At the end of the perimeter line is the Dragon and Tiger Pavilion in Fangchuan Scenic Area. You can see the Three Kingdoms at a glance when you climb it. The ticket+shuttle bus is expensive in 78 yuan, but there is no second such scenic spot in China. Based on the travel concept of "coming here", I still pay for it.
Up to Longhu Pavilion, the territory of China is at the foot, the Russian border railway station Baode Gornaya is in the east, the Tumen River is across the southwest from Doumanjiang City of North Korea, and the Sea of Japan can be seen vaguely in the distance.
The Tumen River at the foot is only more than ten kilometers away from the estuary, which used to be the territory of China, but after a humiliating history, it has become an estuary that can never be reached.
This history is fully described in the exhibition hall on the fourth floor of Longhu Pavilion. In the mid-19th century, when the Anglo-French allied forces launched the Second Opium War, Russia also took advantage of the fire to rob and seize a large area of land in the Heilongjiang River Basin, and forced the Qing government to sign the Sino-Russian Aihun Treaty, which humiliated the country and humiliated the country, and then coerced the Qing government to sign the Sino-Russian Beijing Treaty.
These two treaties plundered more than 1 million square kilometers of land, including Sakhalin Island, to the north of Heilongjiang, to the south of Xing 'an Mountains and to the east of Wusuli River, and cut off China's territorial waters, making Jilin an inland province which is closest to the sea but has no sea area.
After understanding that period of history, it will be more touching to see the slogan "Not an inch of the sacred territory of the motherland can be lost" in the scenic spot when we get out of the Dragon and Tiger Pavilion. Fortunately, now that our country is strong, we should strive for self-improvement.
I originally came to Yanbian only for Yanji's delicious food. I didn't expect this small border town to have so much history of honor and disgrace. After receiving some patriotic education, I feel that I should cherish the present life.
I looked at the unfinished food list in my hand. Well, it is necessary to come again.
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