Haochi Street in Huangpi District, Wuhan City was built in the first year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (1573).
There are "nine streets and eighteen lanes" and "six gates and four piers".
Before the Anti-Japanese War, Xiazheng Street and Cross Street were the main commercial streets, with 21 department stores, 26 Pitou stores, 44 grocery stores, 8 tea stores, 7 kerosene stores, as well as firewood stores, cattle stores,
There are more than 10 pig shops and grain shops.
The catering industry is mostly concentrated in the "Haochi Street" outside Daximen, with 8 restaurants and 53 delicatessens. Stalls are set up along the street at night, selling delicious snacks.
There are many handicraft workshops in Renshou Street and Marrying Street.
The delicious streets in Huangpi District, Wuhan mainly include Banqiao Avenue (2.2km long) and 800m east of the intersection of Banqiao Avenue and Shuangfeng Avenue. The total length of about 3 kilometers of the avenue is filled with restaurants of all sizes.
Small restaurant along the street.
The Huangpi Food Temple Fair is one of the three major theme activities of the China Wuhan Mulan Tourism and Culture Festival. It is also the first large-scale event in Huangpi to promote Huangpi local specialties to the outside world.
Huangpi District Haochi Street focuses on displaying the main products of Huangpi's "Gourmet Hometown" tour, including mountain flavors from Luohan Street, steamed vegetables from Yaoji, wild vegetables from Caidian, medicinal diet from Changling, fresh duck from Liuzhi, Qijiawan
soy products, simmering soup from Hengdian, Zhai Lai from Mulan Mountain, boiled live fish from Panlongcheng and shrimp bream from Huanghua Lao, Hengdian duck pot, Huangpi steamed pork with sugar, dry pot duck blood, Huangpi braised pork, and Huangpi glutinous rice cake.
, shredded beans, Huangpi three delicacies, and wheat sauce pork.
The Food Temple Fair also rated the top ten famous delicacies in Huangpi; they are: Caidian Street: four kinds of asparagus, juefen shredded tenderloin; Changxuanling Street: arrowroot egg rolls; Yaoji Street: steamed cowpeas; Liuzhi Street: duck pot;
Qijiawan Street: fried stinky dried seeds; Meidian Reservoir: dried flat red tail fish; Mulan Mountain Scenic Area: Eight Immortals longevity; Luohan Street: pheasant and phoenix meat; Panlongcheng Economic Development Zone: Huanghua Lao Sanxian (
The three delicacies of Huangpi: meat cakes, fish cakes, meat balls, and fish balls).
Huangpi Delicious Street is about 3,000 meters long. It is old enough and delicious enough. It stands behind the city with oily twists. It is more like an ancient note of urban rhythm. Once it plays in the morning light, it makes the sleeping Wuhan three-dimensional.
And get specific.
The shops in Huangpi Food Street are laid out in family units, with homes upstairs and restaurants downstairs.
Hot dry noodles, fresh fish and lake soup noodles, rice wine, the appearance and food of Huangpi Delicious Street have never been the same. Several lifetimes of people have passed by in the aroma of snacks that linger in the heart and mind.
Huangpi Food Street has the unique loud voices of Wuhan people, the hasty passers-by squeezing through the oil smoke, the dilapidated pavement ceilings of oil-filled shops, and the slightly dirty dishes, but they make the ordinary morning smoke and firework fresh in the farmhouse.
The appearance is enough to make urbanites who always emphasize the environment and atmosphere completely forget about it, so this journey of looking for rice noodle soup actually has the meaning of touching the real place of old Huangpi.
When it comes to food, the eyes are always one step ahead of the appetite, so let’s start with the hot soup noodles.
Huangpi Sanhe (Huangpi Three Delicacies) Huangpi Sanhe is a traditional delicacy among the people in Huangpi, Wuhan, and has been circulated for hundreds of years.
Sanhe is the collective name for fish balls, meatballs, and meat cakes combined into one dish.
The local people also call it "three delicacies". They regard the three delicacies as the minimum standard for appraising a banquet.
Each of the three delicacies has its own traditional production techniques.
The fish balls are made from minced gill fish and mixed with egg white, green onion, ginger juice, lard and other remainders.
The meatballs are minced with pork leg meat, served with fish paste and various seasonings, and deep-fried.
The raw materials of meatloaf are the same as meatballs, but they are made into cake shape and steamed.
The three dishes are cooked together. The fish tastes like meat, and the meat tastes like fish. It has a unique flavor.
Since there are three words in the three dishes: fish, meatballs and cake, fish and Yu are homophones, the square sound of dragon is round, and cake is a homophony of high. People give Sanhe the meaning of having more than enough every year, family reunion, and advancement step by step.
It is a must-have for auspicious celebrations and the New Year.
The fish balls are smooth and tender, the meatballs are loosely soaked, and the meat cakes are soft, making them very popular.
Huangpi Sugar Steamed Pork is also called Dongpo Sugar Steamed Pork. Sugar Steamed Pork is one of the famous traditional steamed dishes in Hubei. Like "Mianyang Three Steamed Pork", it is famous both inside and outside the province.
Huangpi people pay attention to "sugar steaming". During every New Year's festive banquet, they make a mellow-colored red delicacy that symbolizes sweetness, happiness, happiness, and auspiciousness. It is sugar-steamed pork, and they serve it to guests.
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Bean silk is a specialty of Huangpi District, Wuhan City.
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Dried tofu is cut into shreds and cooked with ingredients.
Silk beans are one of the three traditional snacks in Huangpi District of Wuhan City (along with Huangpi Sanxian and Huangpi Rice Cake). It is also a traditional farm food in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, mainly distributed in southeastern Hubei, southwestern Anhui and Jiangxi.
Shredded beans are made by beating rice, mung beans, etc. into a cake in a certain proportion. At this time, they are wet shredded beans. Generally, they are eaten directly with sauce or wrapped in vegetables.
Of course, it can be cut into shreds and dried for easier storage.
Bean silk is an indispensable New Year product in Huangpi, Hubei. Every twelfth lunar month, every household makes bean silk, giving off a strong New Year flavor.