1. Fried pork bun
Yongcheng fried dumplings are basically the characteristics of Shangqiu. Although there are many places to eat fried dumplings, Yongcheng is more famous in terms of taste and fame. If you eat fried dumplings, you must have a bowl of hot soup. Hu spicy soup and fried dumplings are absolutely standard for breakfast.
2. Blast furnace sesame seed cake
Shangqiu's blast furnace sesame seed cake is also a famous specialty in eastern Henan. Yudong sesame seed cake is basically popular in Shangqiu and Kaifeng Zhoukou today. In the past, the blast furnace biscuit was baked with fruit charcoal, but today it is baked with natural gas, and the taste has not changed much. When you eat sesame cakes in Shangqiu, you usually put some dishes in. In Ningling, Zhecheng, Quan Min and Shangqiu Suixian, people like to eat mutton with ribs, while people in Yongcheng Xiayi prefer to eat sesame cakes with donkey meat, while people in Kaifeng, the ancient capital, have a special liking for beef.
3. Sha Tang (also called Sa).
In the area of Yongcheng and Xiayi in Shangqiu, people have a very famous soup. It is estimated that many people have never tasted this soup. Its name is "Tang Zhe", and people in the east of Shangqiu basically like to drink this soup. It should be famous, but it is also a real specialty.
4. Spiced fish
According to legend, it was listed as a tribute during the reign of Qing Qianlong. Spiced and bad fish is made from the fat and tender crucian carp, a specialty of Hucheng Lake in Xiayi, weighing about 200 grams. The whole fish is salted, fried and stewed with various seasonings, without scales. Its color is golden and reddish, its fragrance is rich and mellow, its bones are crisp and rotten, and its fish is delicious and nutritious. Hot food is not greasy, and cold food is not fishy. This is really a delicious banquet and a good accompaniment.
5. Mutton soup
The crystal clear city river surrounds a small ancient city. It has an oldest name, called "Yuguo". In later dynasties, it was renamed Yucheng. By last century 1953, Gu and Yu counties merged, and the new Yucheng county was located in Mamuji, and the original Yucheng was renamed Limin Town. At present, the most famous snack in Limin Town is mutton soup. Every restaurant inside and outside the old town of Limin sells mutton soup. People who eat out all year round always want to drink a bowl of mutton soup, because mutton soup in Limin Town really has a special flavor. Before cooking, choose local strong goats and slaughter them now. First of all, the soup stock is made of sheep bones and oil. Serve at four o'clock every morning, adding 19 kinds of traditional seasonings such as angelica dahurica, pepper, clove, three generations, tsaoko, fennel and pepper. When boiling soup, add fresh mutton, boil it, and take out the meat for later use. When eating, cut the mutton into thin slices, put it in a bowl, rinse it with boiling soup for three times, and add seasoning, monosodium glutamate, coriander, onion slices and so on. Then rinse it in a pot with boiling soup to make mutton soup, which is characterized by "three cleanness", that is, the upper layer of oil is clear, the middle layer of soup is clear, and the lower layer of meat is clear, and the whole is clear and transparent. Delicious, fragrant and delicious. Sesame cakes are more delicious.
6.roast chicken
Guocun roast chicken is one of the traditional famous dishes in Shangqiu (Guocun Town, Shangqiu City), which has a long history.