Posting is a place name, is a town in Chongqing Shuangqiao Economic Development Zone. Located at the junction of Chongqing and Sichuan East, for the Chengdu-Chongqing transportation throat, is the old days down to Chongqing, up to reach the capital of the necessary post. According to the relevant historical records, "store", "stage" for the Qing Dynasty to pass the postal service, the paperwork of the handover or transit point, these stations, store in the transmission of postal service, paperwork at the same time, but also become the businessmen and women to and from the foot rest, tea, food and lodging in an important gathering place. Post Pavilion is such a place, to the function of the post station named Post Pavilion.
The original name of the post office was "post stop", historically known as "post office store" "post office". Since there were people staying at the post, some food service industries were developed. In addition, the place was rich in crucian carp, which was stewed and seasoned and liked by the guests, so there was "crucian carp in Posting" named after the place. Some smart local fishermen, relying on the post pavilion store opened a roadside carp store, boiling carp soup, cooking carp, convenient for passers-by to eat. Unexpectedly, the crucian carp cooked here with its fresh flavor, tender, won people's great appreciation. Gradually, "Posting crucian carp" reputation spread far and wide, and business is getting more and more prosperous.
After the 1980s, "Posting crucian carp" gradually formed the reputation of Ba Shu, full of southwest specialties. 1990, around 1990, in Chongqing, Chengdu and some counties and cities in Sichuan and Chongqing catering market, blew a "Posting crucian carp" cyclone. The "Posting Carp Fish" whirlwind. As if overnight there are dozens of posting crucian carp museum, the momentum of the strong catering industry bosses were not expected. Thus, "posting crucian carp" began to have a national popularity.
Rongchang, Yongchuan, Tongliang, Bishan, Anyue, Nanchong, Mianyang and other places in the vicinity of the town of Posting, can be seen everywhere written "Posting crucian carp" signboard. Especially in downtown Chongqing, the crucian carp is more popular than spring chicken, roasted chicken and other dishes. In Yuzhong District, there are more than a dozen large and medium-sized crucian carp restaurants concentrated along the riverfront road of Chuqimen. Thousands of diners flock there every day, and business continues until the early hours of the next morning. In Chengdu, there are a lot of large hot pot restaurants, Chinese restaurants "on the horse", shaking a change in the operation of the posting crucian carp to.
Such as Wenhua Road, Yulin District, East Field and many other places in the restaurant, change the flag, hanging up the "Posting Carp" signboard. In the double street leading to the town of posting on the post road, built nearly two kilometers long "posting crucian carp street". On this street, no less than one hundred restaurants named after crucian carp, the most famous are "Liu Sanjie crucian carp", "Yangmen authentic crucian carp", "Posting Chen crucian carp" and so on.
In fact, the history of crucian carp in Yuting is not very long, and it has been widely known for only twenty years. According to some information, the crucian carp was first invented in 1992 by a 60-year-old man surnamed Xiang in Zhuxi Town, Dazu District. The old man's first place of work was in the town of posting outside the high store "to the old crucian carp", but with the passage of time makes this restaurant has long been declining, and then the old man was "Liu Sanjie crucian carp store" boss invited. In "Liu Sanjie Carp Fish Shop", he did the "Posting Carp Fish" color and flavor, many people who love cooking have come to learn the art. 20 years past, the old man has long since left this world, but he left the "Posting Carp Fish" but widely used. The first time I saw this, it was a very good idea.
The practice of posting crucian carp and general Sichuan cuisine is no different. "Liu Sanjie crucian carp store," said the boss, the general practice is that the first crucian carp dissected and cleaned, change the cross knife, plus ginger, green onion, salt, cooking wine flavor. Soak red pepper, PI County bean paste chopped fine, celery cleaned and cut into sections. Fish fried in a frying pan into a golden brown, frying pan under the oil burned to fifty percent hot, will soak red pepper, PI County soybean, chili powder, ginger rice, peppercorns and so on into the, fried to the oil was red under the soup, cooking wine, pickled radish, simmering out of taste, and then fried crucian carp, celery under the pot of fish cooked, adjusted into the chicken after the pot to the pot on the table, colorful and fragrant crucian carp will be done. When serving, the fire boiler does not need to light the fire, to be eaten after the fish to join other dishes and then light the fire.
Posting crucian carp eating method and Chongqing hot pot than there is a new idea, it changed the past to eat hot pot necessary fresh oil dish, dry oil dish, changed into crushed rice peanuts, crushed rice squash, scallions and other seasonings. Eaters will be the whole crucian carp from the hot pot out into the food plate, with personal preferences into a variety of seasonings, and then scoop a small scoop of hot pot soup to mix, and eat. Eat crucian carp in this way, spicy and tender, supplemented by small seasonings peanut crunchy aroma, mellow aroma of mustard greens, fire onion aroma, bursting out in the mouth, the flavor is first-class. After eating fish, if the aftermath of the booming, you can also order a few other tripe, seasonal vegetables, as a change of mouth wine dishes, rice side dishes.
This carp as the main ingredient of the delicacy why the prosperity of decades and not decline? Chongqing municipal intangible cultural heritage "posting crucian carp," the inheritor of the old boss Chen Qinghe said, in the mid-1980s, the Jianghu cuisine big brother "Laifeng fish" was popular for a while, followed by "Tai'an fish". "Ink on the scene, and then again fish, ball creek catfish, as well as Beidu fish, overwater fish, spicy chicken, spring water fish, hair blood Want, goose palm soup, spicy crab ...... can be described as your side of the show, a good deal of fun. The story of him and the posting crucian carp also started from that era of Jianghu chaos. His craft of posting crucian carp was passed down from his father.
"The old man's favorite food was fish, so naturally he practiced the art of cooking fish. At that time, private restaurants were just allowed to operate, so I wanted to put my old man's craft to use and set up a stall to sell fish. At first, I mainly sold hot pots and crucian carp on the side, but later, as more and more customers ate crucian carp, I simply sold only crucian carp. The beginning of the stall and now the stall is almost the same, a few pieces of roadside shed a tear even if the front, the total **** 4 tables every day almost never empty."
At that time, most restaurants are still cooking more than one catty of big fish. With the palm-sized crucian carp concocted by the Posting crucian carp, overnight rushed into the Chengdu Plain, knocking on the door of the mountain city. As if overnight posting wind, thousands of stores eat crucian carp. It is reported that the head office is located in the post pavilion of the "post pavilion Chen Carp", now engaged in a number of chain stores, outlets throughout Chongqing, Sichuan, Hubei, Hunan, Tibet, Guizhou, Xinjiang, Shanghai, Beijing and other provinces and cities in more than 10 provinces and cities in the country.
Compared with the decline of other rivers and lakes dishes, posting crucian carp why the development is so good? In addition to being located in a major transportation corridor, the local tourism culture drive, the local government's vigorous promotion is also crucial. 2010, the Posting Township government held a "Posting crucian carp" food and cultural festivals, increasing the food culture publicity. In order to further promote the development of crucian carp in Posting, the local government has also created an ecological fish breeding base, specializing in providing food materials for "crucian carp in Posting". In the cooking culture of crucian carp in the Posting, do not hold on to the old, adhere to the flavor innovation. Nowadays, the good operation of the crucian carp store, in addition to maintaining the characteristic flavor of the crucian carp, but also for the diners of the "nutritional diet, new and fresh" mentality, has developed new dishes, such as fried eggs crucian carp soup, pot crucian carp, crucian carp and other types of fat intestines to meet the tastes of different people.
Posting crucian carp, the fragrance of the nine states, has now become a special business card of Shuangqiao.