The main producing areas are Shanxi, Shandong, Beijing, Hebei, Henan and so on. The main ingredients are flour, fresh meat, pepper and leek, with golden color, crisp skin, soft inside and tough outside, salty and delicious.
Donkey sandwich
Hejian city is located in the middle of the vast North China Plain. In ancient times, it was Hejian country, and the Han dynasty was Hejian king and vassal, and later the government was established.
After the Ming dynasty, the traffic artery in the south of Beijing was the "imperial road" leading to all parts of the south. It is said that the width of this road is "eighteen bows". It has become a thoroughfare between the north and the south, commonly known as the first house in the south of Beijing. Therefore, all kinds of food cultures with North and South flavors developed here, especially in the late Qing Dynasty, palace eunuchs mostly came from Hejian area, and the Qing Dynasty declined. The imperial chef eunuchs, the imperial chefs in the palace, returned to their hometown, became folk, and ate by craft.
Therefore, there is a saying that "if you want to eat, the river will turn" and "dragon meat in the sky, donkey meat on the ground". Since the last two dragons in Xia Dynasty were eaten and one died, only dragon slaying has been handed down, but donkeys have been bred for thousands of years, which makes people unable to finish eating. It's the best taste in the first world. The taste of donkey meat has long been liked by the ancients. Song Qi, a bachelor of Song Dynasty, passed by Luoyang and stayed with friends for a few days, singing, drinking and eating donkey meat. Finally, he became red-eyed, killed the donkey and stopped walking.
According to the unique flavor of Hejian, "donkey fire". It has a long history. The earliest legend is that Li Longji, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, came to Hejian before he ascended the throne, and a scholar "killed donkeys and cooked pork" to entertain Li Longji. After eating, he even said: delicious; In the Qing dynasty, Qianlong went down to the south of the Yangtze River, passed by the river, and mistakenly lived in the folk for dinner. The owner had to put the leftover cake on the donkey meat and put it in a cauldron to heat it. After eating it, Ganlong praised it again and again.
This shape (and one is round) and taste were formed by several generations. There is a saying in Hejian: "I often go to the market for fear that I won't see the fire", which means the position of the fire in the eyes of ordinary people and everyone's love for this kind of food.