It is said that Empress Dowager Cixi not only tasted "Changshengyuan" yellow wine when passing through here, but also didn't forget to enjoy Pingyao beef. The evaluation is "to smell its fragrance and remind its spirit, to taste its taste and solve its difficulties", and it is praised as a tribute to the palace after eating. It's not this that makes me determined to eat Pingyao beef. After all, the requirements of Lafayette on the way to escape are bound to decline due to conditions. When I was still in Taiyuan, I received a call from a senior traveler in Guangzhou, Jia Gourmet. I heard that I was going to Pingyao. Besides telling me that I must go to Shuanglin Temple and Zhenguo Temple outside the city, I also don't forget to eat Pingyao beef. It's delicious! He said.

what's so special about Pingyao beef? From the outside, the color is ruddy, and the pork threads are clearly visible, which is very attractive; It is also unambiguous to eat: the meat is tender, fragrant, fat but not greasy, thin but not firewood, and chewing is effortless. What's more interesting is that the beef that has just come out of the pot can't taste without a knife, but as long as it is pulled with a knife, the rich meat flavor will suddenly come to the nose, which makes people salivate. Apart from the "killing, salting and boiling" processes, Pingyao beef is very particular and special, and the raw materials are also different: generally, it is unwilling to use old cattle for processing sauce beef, while Pingyao sauce beef is older, and the more fragrant the sauce beef is, the longer it will be preserved.

"Pingyao beef Taigu cake, ... if you want to ask where it is most famous, count the Pingyao city". Many years ago, Guo Lanying had praised local products in Shanxi folk songs, which made Pingyao beef famous. Unlike the "Changshengyuan" yellow wine shop, you need to look for it specially. As long as you come to Pingyao, you can hardly escape the shadow of Pingyao beef. The red lanterns in the commercial street are all in the Chinese characters of "Guanyun". I wonder if Guanyun beef bought the naming right of Pingyao lanterns, and it is very lively to recruit and exhibit. Not only that, the shops selling beef next to each other in the commercial street are all branded as "Guanyun Beef" and look like "specialty stores". This makes me confused: what are the "original products"? I didn't do my homework on this unexpected problem before I came, and the hawkers outside the store always wanted to pull you in, which made me shrink back psychologically. I had to taste the beef, so I decided to go back to the Yide Inn where I lived and go to the small restaurant that I loved.