Vegetarian dishes in Guangzhou are born out of vegetarian dishes in temples and have been counted for dozens of years. Vegetarian food is not a mainstream food for Guangzhou people, but it is like a quiet spring flowing slowly in the workshop.
Ten years ago, vegetarian restaurants along Jinghui Road, Guangxiao Road and Zhongshan Road were the most popular. People have just had enough to eat, and they still have a soft spot for big fish and big meat. It is often the elders who lead us to vegetarian restaurants. "Caigenxiang" is one of the earliest vegetarian restaurants rooted in Guangzhou. Although it is fried, fried and braised with "three axes", the lifelike appearance of vegetarian shrimp, crab and abalone has made us feast our eyes.
vegetarian restaurants are getting more and more prosperous at the moment
Later, vegetarian restaurants followed suit and opened more and more, and the price dropped. The practice was still the same, and everyone gradually lost interest and let them die. At that time, in the circle of vegetarians, the "Songfeng Restaurant" on Xiaobei Road was once popular, because it added sweet and spicy flavors, which made vegetarian dishes a little new. Nonglin Xialu also opened a "Green Pastoral Vegetarian", which mainly focuses on western-style vegetarianism. Vegetarian steak, vegetarian chicken steak and vegetarian dessert are all favored by people. Unfortunately, it was a pity for vegetarians that they failed to continue their business.
after p>SARS, people pay attention to healthy diet again, and light diet has become the mainstream. At this time, the mouths of Guangzhou diners have been taught by the masters to be picky, and the materials are limited to vegetarian foods such as soy products, fungi, fruits and vegetables. The new round of competition lies in the taste! Pictographs are the most basic, and the key point is to introduce new cooking methods. Sichuan-style boiled water, Japanese mustard, winter barbecue and home-cooked soup are all reported to lure the world.
Nowadays, vegetarian dishes have become rich and colorful, and people have changed from deliberately eating and deliberately eating to being vegetarian at home. Nowadays, the fashionable vegetarian dishes are divided into take-away lunch boxes, take-away a la carte, buffet and hot pot, with various forms. Years of experience have taught vegetarian dishes a skill: keeping fresh.
vegetarian hot pot: "meatballs" and "sliced meat" fall into the soup pot
When I first tasted vegetarian hot pot, no one would believe that it is vegetarian. Look at that pot, there are nearly 1 kinds of odd-numbered "meat materials": beef balls, tribute balls, pork balls, shrimp balls and cuttlefish slices, which are unattractive, but taste the most delicious, except soybean fiber.
if the pot material is vegetarian, the bottom of the pot should be more particular. The vegetarian pot bottom here is old fire soup, and of course the soup ingredients are all vegetarian. There are three main kinds of vegetarian soup bases. Danggui Shanyao soup is a common material, which belongs to the category of clearing, nourishing and cooling, and is most suitable for playing pot. Five-element soup is special, which contains five kinds of vegetables or fungi: radish leaves, carrots, burdock, white radish and mushrooms. Although it is an old fire soup, it tastes very refreshing and is more suitable for summer. There is also a kind of "Dabu Decoction" which contains a lot of medicinal materials for invigorating qi and enriching blood. It is so strong that not everyone can digest it.
buffet dinner: eat less hot dishes and snacks.
once, my friend said that he would take me to eat buffet vegetarian food. I immediately saw a bunch of potatoes, tofu, melons and fruits in my mind. When I saw the "Shuiyuntian" on Zhongshan Eighth Road, I found that today's vegetarian dishes can be rich, ranging from stir-fried hot dishes to steamed snacks. The master in the shop said that now every vegetarian product is made of different materials. Vegetarian food should be balanced in nutrition, and it is best to eat less and be diverse.
What attracted me most was the steamer and snacks with the flavor of Guangdong teahouse. In the steaming steamer, there are snails with pepper rings, three-silk bean curd rolls, steamed dumplings and taro. To my great surprise, there are even white clouds and chicken feet! It looks lifelike, tastes refreshing and has a faint smell of chicken juice. Even a grandmother who has been a vegetarian for many years is surprised, praising the "chicken feet" for its flavor and shape, which makes her "dare not eat". Generally, there are snacks in tea houses, almost all of which are available here. Vegetarian egg tarts are very popular, and no eggs are left, but they are prepared with sauces similar to creamy yellow sauce, and the taste can be comparable to real egg tarts.
The stir-fried hot dishes are mixed with sweet, sour, bitter and spicy, and the main ingredients are vegetarian products and fruits and vegetables. Pick up a piece of "boiled beef" from the bubbling warm nest, and the red and spicy soup flows down the grain of "beef", which is very "offensive". Flammulina velutipes with vegetarian meat took a little manual work, wrapped vegetarian meat in mushrooms, and it tasted cool outside and soft inside, and it tasted good. In addition to meat, there are some vegetarian oysters, ducks and seafood, which can be made into skewers or cooked in Guandong. You can pick them up and eat them in strings! If you are afraid of the cold in winter, you can cook some "hot dishes" now, and the waiter will stand at the cooking counter and wait. When cooking vegetables, don't forget to try "Wonton". The minced meat inside is soft and filled with broth, which can be confusing.
selling food: stir-fried stew? H rich and frugal people
For the convenience of vegetarians, there are vegetarian restaurants that offer a large number of vegetables for sale. Tofu, the first choice for home-cooked side dishes, has a variety of styles, such as table-style tofu with meat sauce, five-flavor tofu in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, fresh tofu with lotus fragrance, and mushroom tofu with mushroom flavor. The vegetarian chef said that it is a big problem to eat vegetarian food. After winter, you can use a "stimulating" cooking method, such as stewing, buckling, boiling, and salt and pepper. Sea cucumber in oyster sauce is not only similar in shape, but also stewed with abalone juice when cooking. When it comes up, it is seasoned with abalone juice. After biting, the meat is layered, and the skin of the sea cucumber is black and smooth, while the meat of the sea cucumber is a little soft and greasy. "umami salmon" is fresh and tender in meat color, and it can be eaten with oyster sauce and soy sauce.
of course, as a foreign dish, a few yuan of box lunch is indispensable, which is a daily meal for vegetarians. Because of the cold weather, the lotus leaf-wrapped fragrant vegetarian rice, which looks like "glutinous rice chicken", is on sale. The materials used are extremely simple, but the rice is delicious and warm enough to eat.