Rice flour is a unique delicacy in Qijiang.

Qijiang rice noodles, as the name implies, are Qijiang rice noodles. Qijiang rice is pink and white, soft, tender and smooth. Apart from the strip-shaped rice skin, different towns have different cooking methods, different condiments and even different practices.

Qijiang rice noodles are delicious on the tip of Qijiang people's tongue, and they have entrusted the wanderers from afar with their deep yearning for their hometown.

Qijiang rice is pink, white, soft, tender and smooth

Among Qijiang rice noodles, Fuhuan rice noodle is an old brand.

According to the book "Humanistic Happiness in Qijiang Street Town History and Culture Series", Fuhuan rice noodles originated in the Qing Dynasty (around 1841 AD). At that time, Liu Qingfeng, a wealthy businessman in Fuhuan, had a thousand acres of countryside, dozens of servants and a prosperous life. He opened shops in Yunnan and Guizhou, and his business was booming. Once when Liu Qingfeng returned to Fuhuan, he talked with his family about eating rice skin in Yunnan. Envy from his family, he made rice skin himself. They soak rice, grind it into slurry with a stone mill, then spread cotton cloth with a rice pad, scoop up the rice slurry and steam it. After steaming, they cut it into squares of different sizes with a knife, blanch it with boiling water, and eat it with seasonings. It is delicate, smooth, fresh and delicious. Liu Qingfeng entertained his guests with rice skin as a fine dish.

In the thirty years of Daoguang Qing Dynasty (AD 1851), the technique of making rice chaff was improved, and the squares became strips. Fuhuan rice noodles have become the food signboard of Fuhuan, and rice noodle restaurants are full of diners every day. During the Republic of China, Fuhuan rice noodle restaurants mushroomed, and five or six rice noodle restaurants were added to the street.

A rice noodle processing workshop in Fuhuan Town is drying rice skin

After the reform and opening up, more and more people in Fuhuan Town can steam rice noodles, and rice noodle restaurants have opened one after another, such as Alley Rice Noodle, Gujia Rice Noodle and Youshi Rice Noodle. In order to win consumers, rice noodle restaurants have made great efforts in seasoning, and for this reason, rice noodles have a different taste.

Later, Fuhuan rice noodle restaurant opened in Wansheng, Nanping, Tongzi, Zunyi and other places. There are countless Fuhuan rice noodles in various towns of Qijiang.

"Let's go and eat rice noodles at Tieshiya!" Eating rice noodles at Tieshiya is what people who catch water, including most Qijiang people, talk about. Mr. Zhang, 46, lives in Datong Town and works in Qijiang City. Every time he passes Tieshiya, he stops to eat a bowl of rice noodles. Mr. Zhang said that Tieshiya rice noodle is a delicious food that he can't forget, and it is also an indelible memory in his life.

Ms. Sun, who worked as a teacher in Ganshui Town Central Primary School in her early years, has a deep memory of Tieshiya rice noodles. Ganshui Town Central Primary School is about 3 kilometers away from Tieshiya. In those days, she and her colleagues often walked or took a tricycle to Tieshiya to eat rice noodles. For Ms. Sun, Tieshiya rice noodles are her memories of youth and life brand.

There are several rice noodle restaurants in Tieshiya, Ganshui Town, and the rice noodle in Tieshiya, Ganshui Town has become a famous synonym for food, and it is also one of the favorite folk foods of Qijiang people. The signboard of Tieshiya rice noodles in Ganshui Town can be seen in Qijiang City, including the main city of Chongqing, Tongzi, Xishui and Zunyi in Guizhou Province.

Ganshui Yujia rice noodle brand was founded more than 31 years ago. Yu Guangshu, the owner, recalled that in May of 1986, she founded the Ganshui Yujia Rice Noodle Restaurant in Tieshiya, Ganshui Town, and the rice skin was produced by her family. At that time, she made a comprehensive inspection of rice noodle restaurants in Qijiang and found that the production technology of rice skin was similar and the quality could pass. If you want to run a rice noodle restaurant with its own characteristics, you can only work hard on the rice noodle restaurant. Therefore, she studied experiments in many ways and developed her own unique formula.

Clear soup rice noodles

In the Spring Festival of 1991, under the recommendation of Ganshui Industrial and Commercial Office, Yu Guangshu rushed to the county town with tools, prepared rice noodles, condiments and rice bowls, and participated in the first Qijiang individual specialty snack fair on behalf of Ganshui catering industry. The delicious taste and unique cooking skills of Yujia rice noodles attracted many citizens to taste at the exhibition.

Ganshui Yujia Rice Noodle was finally awarded the title of "Famous Snack in Qijiang County". As a result, "more than one rice noodle after catching water" became famous and was favored by consumers.

For more than 31 years, "Ganshui Yujia Rice Noodle" has never left Tieshiya in Ganshui. Yujia rice noodles have been integrated into the brand "Tieshiya Rice Noodles in Ganshui Town".

"I eat Fuhuan rice noodles almost once a week. Although I live in Zunyi, I can't help walking in when I see the signboard of Fuhuan rice noodles." Liu Ming, who runs a shop in Zunyi City, Guizhou Province, said that she grew up eating Fuhuan rice noodles. When she was young, she studied abroad. The first meal every time she went home was rice noodles. Now that she works in Zunyi, she still can't forget the taste of rice noodles.

according to Liu Ming, there are several rice noodle shops in Zunyi, which are called Fuhuan rice noodle by Fuhuan people and Tieshiya rice noodle by Ganshui people. She often goes to the Fuhuan rice noodle restaurant, perhaps because the owner is a fellow villager, and she has a kind of intimacy when sitting in the store. "I found that there are Fuhuan rice noodle restaurants and Tieshiya rice noodle restaurants in places where there are many people in Qijiang. Sometimes I really want to thank these Qijiang people who open rice noodle restaurants because they moved their hometown flavor to me."

"My favorite food is sauerkraut rice flour, which is soft and delicate, and sauerkraut enhances the taste ..." Wang Yongmin said that sauerkraut rice flour is a unique taste in Qijiang rice flour. When he returned to Qijiang during the Spring Festival last year, he had tasted this kind of taste in a "Tieshiya Rice Noodle" restaurant on Shaxi Road, and now his mouth is watering when he thinks about it. Whether it is Tieshiya rice noodles or Fuhuan rice noodles, most of them are mainly pork dumplings and spicy condiments. This kind of sauerkraut rice noodles should be another innovation. "My mother came to Chengdu to see me on May Day this year, and specially brought two Jin of rice noodles to cook for me, but I always felt that the rice noodles cooked by my mother were inferior."

braised pork rice noodles

Wang Yongming is currently working in an enterprise in Chengdu. He said that when he returned to Qijiang this Spring Festival, he must go to Shaxi Road to eat a bowl of sauerkraut rice noodles. Perhaps it is really going back to Qijiang, and sitting in the rice noodle restaurant in Qijiang can taste its unique taste.

"Every local food has strong regional characteristics, and these foods can best evoke people's deep memories." Wang Yongming said, in fact, this is the hometown complex in everyone's heart. Hometown is a concept, and food is the warmest symbol in this concept.

Rice noodles are the favorite food in Qijiang, and rice noodle restaurants are all over Qijiang. Whether it is Fuhuan rice noodle, Ganshui Tieshiya rice noodle, Anshen rice noodle or Datong rice noodle, they all have the same name: Qijiang rice noodle. A bowl of rice noodles condenses the warmest nostalgia of Qijiang people.