Chinese Name: Hu Spicy Soup
Main Ingredients: Diced Meat, Bean Cordon Bleu, Kelp, Vermicelli
Classification: Yu Cuisine, Snacks
Flavor: Sour and Spicy
Description
We are proud to present Hu Spicy Soup in Easy Town, one of the most famous Chinese food in Henan Province.
Allusion I
The origin of Hu Spicy Soup can be traced back to the late Northern Song Dynasty. At that time, the son of Song Huizong was a good man, military affairs, but nothing, but the qin, chess, calligraphy and painting, eating, drinking, playing and so on, but everything. The so-called on something good, the next must be very much, so the wind from the top down, all over the country,
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People's town of hot soup
And especially in Bianjing for the most. Zhang Zeduan's "Qingming Shanghe Tu" outlines the prosperity of the Song Dynasty in the decades before the fall of the country, in which there are many different kinds of food and drink, different flavors, evolved, passed down to the present day, has become the famous Kaifeng snacks. Therefore, really talking about the origin, Hu spicy soup and Tokyo Bianliang City has an inseparable relationship it!
At that time, there was a small eunuch in the palace, from a young age into the palace, because of good understanding of the intention of the response to the appropriate, y loved by Emperor Huizong, sixteen or seventeen years old, will become the emperor's personal eunuch. Emperor Huizong on the little eunuch favorite, licensed him to go out of the palace to play, by the way, to go home to save his family. The little eunuch is today's Nanyang area people, so out of the palace after the west, the first stop to the Songshan Shaolin Temple. As the emperor in front of the red man, the abbot of the temple on his hospitality, care extremely thoughtful. When he saw the little eunuch red face and ears, dry mouth and lips and diet and less, they served a bowl of Shaolin Temple's "sober soup", the little eunuch drank intuitively after the body gas refreshing, all the symptoms if the loss of very happy, so even drink a few days, and ask the abbot to ask for the "sober soup" on the way out! The abbot is about to give the formula to the little eunuch.
After returning home, the little eunuch continued to travel south, they came to Wudang Mountain to play a little, Wudang Mountain masters see the little eunuch eat a lot of food, the amount of urine, stool, fishy odor, the body is thin, the eunuch prepared for the little eunuch of Wudang Mountain, "elimination of tea", the little eunuch drinking a few days after the stool is normal, the shape of the body gradually plump, and take a mirror A light, the face is also much fairer. The little eunuch is very grateful, and will be this party to ask.
Seeing this two parties are quite useful, the little eunuch returned to the palace, it will seek to offer it to Emperor Huizong, in order to win the Emperor's favor. He came to the Imperial Catering Room eunuchs and academicians of the Imperial Hospital, the two parties as the basis for making a color, flavor and shape of all the best soup. The soup both reduce the bitter taste of tea, and remove the spicy soup, and can wake up and refreshment, appetite and spleen. Shi and the concubines, all said good; served with Emperor Huizong, the emperor is hale and hearty, can not help but be happy.
Emperor Huizong asked the little eunuch why this soup, the little eunuch had a bright idea, called it "longevity soup", Emperor Huizong rejoiced, gave the little eunuch for the country's last name (i.e., Zhao), the Royal seal of this soup for "Zhao's longevity soup". This soup is said to winter cold, summer to avoid heat, Emperor Huizong had edict issued in the barracks, the soldiers served after a hundred evils can not be invaded, the disease does not arise, the reputation of a moment, and therefore become a good recipe for the army.
Later, coinciding with the "Jingkang disaster", the Jin soldiers broke the city of Kaifeng, captured Huizong, Qinzong two emperors, the chaos, the little eunuch out of the cage, with the escape crowd to the south. Little eunuch long lived in the palace, the body is weak, coupled with the disaster of the prison, the difficulties of the country, the road wind cold, fear, line not far, will be infected with a serious illness, to escape to the town of the free dock, it was late, he could no longer support, fainted in front of the dock of a tea stove. The next morning, the tea seller Wang old man found a man lying in front of the stove, quickly dragged him to the house for treatment, a hot soup and hot meal, the little eunuch's illness is much better. Old man Wang took in the little eunuch, and promised his daughter to the little eunuch as his wife (expressed skepticism). In order to make a living, the little eunuch turned the tea stall into a breakfast stall, he put the "longevity soup" to change (the Palace Palace people like soup for nourishment, the people need porridge to fill), will be sold to the four sides of the merchants. Later, the eunuch will be removed from the soup of drugs, plus fried black sesame seeds, peanuts and so on, made a sweet soup, which became popular in the local oil tea.
One day, a northern merchant brought a bottle of pepper to eat the little eunuch's big meat porridge, Wang Laohan accidentally the guest