Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan, is a very beautiful and comfortable place. It is also the birthplace of Sichuan cuisine and the food capital of the world. This? The capital of food? The title is not self-styled, but awarded by UNESCO. It is reported that there are only seven selected by UNESCO in the world at present? The capital of food? Among them, China accounted for three, besides Chengdu, Macau and Shunde, Guangdong. If you travel to Chengdu, you will soon find that Chengdu has two very obvious characteristics: first, the local people love to speak Chengdu dialect, and if you speak Mandarin to him, he will still call you back in Chengdu dialect; Second, there are many places to eat in Chengdu.
Not to mention barbecues and pot-stewed stalls. The most storefront along the street is hot pot, string, maocai. In fact, string string and maocai should be regarded as a kind of hot pot, because they are all cooked in the bottom of soup, but the specific form is a little different. There are many chain stores in Chengdu, generally called? XX small county liver string? . The first time I was in Chengdu, I was brought to eat by a local friend and went to one of the most famous chain stores in online celebrity. A friend ordered a Yuanyang soup base, saying that the biggest concession for Chengdu people to eat hot pot is Yuanyang pot, otherwise they will order oil pan because it is spicy enough.
After ordering the soup base, go to pick the ingredients. The ingredients here are all cut into small pieces and then strung together with bamboo sticks to choose from, as well as all kinds of meat and vegetables. There is a little food on each bamboo stick. Although we brought back a bunch of sticks, there wasn't much food. Some foods have more bamboo sticks in them, just like a boneless chicken claw with five bamboo sticks in it. It looks funny. Only after asking, I know that string stores are generally charged according to the number of bamboo sticks. A bamboo stick is about fifty cents. You can count the bamboo sticks after eating.
My friend asked me to get more county liver, saying it was delicious, and then I suddenly realized what Chengdu people said? County liver? Chicken and duck? Muscle stomach? . We usually call these things chicken gizzards and duck gizzards, or chicken gizzards and duck gizzards, and Cantonese people call them chicken kidneys and duck kidneys. When eating skewers in Chengdu, you have to prepare your own sauces (seasonings), including millet pepper, oil consumption, salt, vinegar, monosodium glutamate, coriander powder, celery powder, garlic powder, chopped green onion and so on. You can prepare your own seasoning if you want.
In fact, many places that eat hot pot have their own sauces, but after the sauces in Chengdu are made, instead of adding soup or soy sauce, they directly pour in a packet of sesame oil and mix these seasonings with oil (except oil sauce and dry sauce)! If this bag of oil goes down, I will be cheated directly. There is a thick layer of oil in the pot and a bag of oil in the sauce. How to eat? Fortunately, I don't feel greasy when I really dip it in. After cooking, put the vegetables and bamboo sticks together in the pot, and then put the vegetables on the bamboo sticks in a bowl and dip them in the sauce.
But it seems more troublesome, because there is one more action to take the food off the bamboo sticks, and too many bamboo sticks also hinder the place. I don't understand why we string food together with bamboo sticks. Just like other hot pot restaurants, isn't it good to bring the dishes clearly marked and pour them into the pot? However, friends think that if there is no bamboo stick, it will not taste like this, and only with bamboo sticks can we feel it. At this time, the shopkeeper just came over and put in a word: strings without bamboo sticks are soulless!
After eating and drinking enough, we have two barrels of bamboo sticks left, about two or three hundred. I thought the clerk would come and count the bamboo sticks one by one, and then calculate the money, but they directly weighed them. Because the weight of each bamboo stick is similar, we can weigh it together and then divide the weight of a single bamboo stick, which can save a lot of time for signing. A friend rushed to pay the bill, and he felt: in order to cater to tourists from all corners of the country, most of Chengdu's food is not as spicy as before, and it is an improved version of Sichuan cuisine, but it can't meet the requirements of age.
The times are changing, and so is the diet, which is an inevitable phenomenon of social development. Therefore, when you travel to a place, you may not be able to eat authentic local food, either the taste has changed or the ingredients have changed. If you really want to eat authentic food, you'd better go to the countryside, because there are few tourists in the countryside, so don't worry about the tastes of foreigners. Most dishes can retain their original flavor.