Finally wrote about Sichuan food. To me, Sichuan cuisine is like an enlightenment of food. That is, I always eat home food from childhood, and the food just fills my stomach. There is no clear concept of food. The diet in the coastal areas of Fujian is weak. Suddenly, one day, Sichuan cuisine spread to our hometown, and there was a very distinctive spicy taste in addition to the plain home cooking. At first, everyone thought boiled fish was delicious, and they wanted to eat it again. When I go to college, Sichuan cuisine is also the most suitable for dinner.
Unlike the low-key Shandong cuisine written before (Eating Travels | In Qingdao, I have eaten the best cabbage in my life), Sichuan cuisine is the most widely spread among the four major cuisines.
The spread of Sichuan cuisine has something to do with the massive migration of Sichuanese. Another reason is the prevalence of spicy food. According to the summary of One Reading in the article "The Logic of Winning with Emphasis on Taste", in the modern high-tempo and high-pressure life, spicy is a distinctive and prominent taste with low time cost and economic cost. Foods with heavy flavors often cover the original taste of the food, so the freshness of the ingredients is not the most important thing. Because of the decline in the cost of ingredients, Sichuan cuisine has become a more economical dining option.
Although today's Sichuan cuisine is famous for its spicy taste, it was actually not spicy when it originated. Because pepper was introduced into China in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties.
Sichuan cuisine originated in Bashu country more than two thousand years ago, because the land here is fertile, the two rivers meet and the products are abundant. After the reunification of Qin Shihuang, it brought immigrants from the Central Plains and developed eclectically. By the Tang and Song Dynasties, it had developed into a major cuisine.
There are also records of related food in many historical materials of poetry. For example, Li Bai loves to eat Taibai duck (stewed and steamed duck) dedicated to Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty, Dongpo elbow initiated by Su Dongpo and so on.
However, during the war in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, Zhang Xianzhong's army carried out scorched earth on the whole Sichuan area, burning, killing and looting reduced the whole plain to a wasteland, leaving little population and Bashu food culture.
Therefore, today's Sichuan cuisine is more formed from the immigration policy of "Huguang filling Sichuan" implemented after the Qing army came to power. A large number of immigrants brought their own diets and combined with local products to innovate. It was also at this time that I learned to use pepper as seasoning and gradually developed into today's Sichuan cuisine.
Born into a civilian, it is also easier to live in the people.
"Sichuan cuisine has also formed three gangs according to the region, namely, the Shanghe Gang centered on Leshan in Chengdu, the Xiahe Gang centered on Chongqing in eastern Sichuan, and the Xiaohe Gang centered on Zigong in southern Sichuan. Shanghebang Sichuan cuisine is relatively light in taste, Xiahebang Sichuan cuisine is generous and rough, and Xiaohebang Sichuan cuisine is weird in atmosphere "(Sichuan Daily, 20 13).
Rough and straightforward, probably also the name of Chongqing "Jianghu cuisine".
On the itinerary, because there is almost no raiders, I basically ate and ate. I didn't hurry or travel, so I spent a long weekend. I can't walk every day.
Friday: Snack: Li Ji Brochette Head Store
Saturday: Miscellaneous Noodles in Flower Market-ciqikou ancient town-Chicken offal in Guzhen &; Shredded chicken bean curd-Hongyadong-Laoma wonton soup in Hongyadong snack street &; Black sesame mash
Sunday: Tofu pudding rice-hot pot-Line 2 crosses Liziba-Jie Fangbei Pedestrian Street-Haoyoulai hot and sour rice noodles.
Monday: Wulong and Group Tour-Group Meal-Pangmei Noodles Restaurant
Tuesday: Shunshui Fish Village-Zhongshan 4th Road-Chongqing Three Gorges Museum
It can be seen that in addition to going to Wulong, it is basically to find the next meal after eating this meal. No time to play ...
The flight arrived in Chongqing on Friday night. I have an appointment with my best friend to have a hot pot snack together. As a result, the classmate missed her plane and signed a later one. I arrived at the hotel after midnight 12. I am clamoring for a midnight snack. So there's a Li Ji chain store on the opposite side of the building. This used to be a chain store, but the comments said it was a fake (there is indeed a genuine one nearby, so it is easy to be confused), but it is actually delicious. After eating for two days, we thought it was the best first meal. And it's still open in the middle of the night. It's really touching. Eat at one o'clock until after two o'clock. The environment is really a roadside stall.
Coriander balls, tripe slices, lettuce, bean skin and bamboo shoots are all very delicious!
The sliced meat is already cooked, and you can eat it if you go down and heat it, which is very tender;
Coriander balls are very special;
What we ordered again was bean skin and bamboo shoots. The tenacity of bean skin, the crispness of bamboo shoots, the texture of ingredients and the fragrance of hot pot match very well.
The tripe is crisp.
Dip dishes are classic sesame oil, garlic paste and coriander. Sesame oil is a mini can, which is more hygienic. I almost thought it was Wang Laoji who drank it. The drink is the classic Weiyi soy milk.
In the middle of the night, I staggered back with food.
Got up late the next day. Go straight to the flower market bowl of mixed noodles. At noon, there was already a long queue at the door. Behind me was a foreign friend who spoke fluent Mandarin and asked me: Is this famous?
Two people ordered the same bowl with two sides. The dried meat is very fragrant, and the peas are soft and rotten, but they feel a little mushy.
Add a brown sugar sorbet. Thick and sweet red syrup, soft cold cakes, especially spicy. I like this very much, and I ordered another one this afternoon.
Go straight to ciqikou ancient town after eating. Maybe it's Saturday, and the streets in the town are very narrow, but in short, it's very crowded. It is still difficult to move forward. When you come to the end, be careful not to go back the same way, just go straight from the side alley to the main road.
It's the first time I've heard of it, but it looks like a spicy incense pot. It contains chicken heart, chicken gizzards, chicken liver and chicken intestines, and a little oyster mushroom, cabbage and konjac. Because of the heavy smell of chicken offal, this heavy-flavored treatment is still quite tasty. Different from spicy balsamic pot, the pot is added with pepper, pickled pepper and onion, ginger and garlic, which can remove the fishy smell and increase the freshness. I prefer chicken gizzards and chicken intestines, which are crispy and fragrant. At the end of the ancient street, there are several, and we seem to have gone the wrong way. What is recommended is the chicken offal in Guzhen. I can't help it. The name is too confusing.
48 is just right for two people. Unfortunately, my friends don't like to eat internal organs, so there are some left.
Actually, it's tofu pudding mixed with seasoning and shredded chicken. But vegetarian tofu pudding tastes better because of its meaty taste.
Fried potatoes and chicken stuffed rice that can be seen along the road. It's very similar to the glutinous rice chicken that I made before, but it can't fit in my stomach.
It's glutinous rice baked on an iron plate, with a little white sugar peanut stuffing in it. The crust is too hard and the stuffing is too little. Not too delicious.
In addition to snacks along the way, there are many shops that make hot and sour powder on the spot. It's quite novel.
And a shop that makes hot pot bottom materials on the spot.
There's also a shop selling twist. There are shops called Chen Mahua everywhere, but it is said that only Chen Changping Mahua is the most authentic. You don't have to buy it on site. There are all large supermarkets, so just buy it nearby before you leave on the last day. I feel that the twist here is more delicious than Tianjin. Not very hard, but crisp. There are many flavors. Spicy is very special. I bought it as a gift.
After ciqikou, I went back to the hotel to have a rest. About nine o'clock in the evening, I set off for Hongyadong. Actually, it's only about ten minutes' walk from Jie Fangbei. We called a car and drove along the river. Although the driver took a detour, it was good to see the night view along the river.
The magic of Chongqing is just around the corner. Hongyadong is a road on the first floor, and 1 1 building is also a road. If Jie Fangbei comes, he will walk to 1 1 building.
If you want to see the panoramic view of Hongyadong, you should walk to the Qiansimien Bridge next to it at 1 1.
The whole Hongyadong is mainly catering now, and there are all kinds of popular hot pots, including the paper salt river hot pot that we will eat again the next day. There is a food street on the fourth floor, with many snacks. Laoma wonton soup was recommended by my friends' colleagues, but it was under renovation when we found it. I just ate at the next door. The taste is good, but the cost performance is relatively low.
The incense is fragrant, but the meat inside is really pitiful. I think the wonton in Sichuan is different from the wonton in Shanghai, except that the wrapping method is different, and the meat stuffing of the wonton is beaten into mud, which is more delicate than the meat stuffing of wonton. Add red oil seasoning, spicy and delicious.
It should be the wine with black sesame paste and peanuts. Sesame and wine are fragrant, and the taste is sweet and glutinous. I like it very much. But it's too real for one person to eat.
After eating, go down to 1 building, and walk across the street to the river.
Later, two boys were singing. The temperature is just right, the breeze is bright, the singer leans against the railing by the sea, and the girls who listen to the songs sit in a row on the railing of the road. Folk songs and love songs are sung all the way, like in an open-air bar, but there is no noise and impetuousness in the bar. Occasionally, someone rises and can ask to sing a song.
I sat there for a long time until the lights went out in Hongyadong.
The singing may not be the best, but it feels too good. The spring breeze is intoxicated, and the riverside is affectionate. There is a quiet and wonderful connection between the audience and the singer.
This kind of experience is also a wonderful part of travel.
On Sunday night, my little friend went back and got up late again. So I only ate two meals this day. I had tofu pudding for breakfast in Jiaochangkou night market downstairs. Looking at the crowded market, I think it should be good.
The first impression of tofu pudding rice came from Chengdu eight years ago. After eating several spicy meals in succession, I was taken to eat tofu pudding rice, which was really mellow, fresh and refined, and was the most impressive food in my trip to Chengdu. I haven't eaten it anywhere else since.
I've been thinking about it for years. This time, I ordered tofu pudding rice, a braised pork intestines and an eggplant.
The seasoning is very good, but it's probably not the season for eggplant. Eggplant is not delicious, hard and tasteless. The fat sausage is very delicious and delicious as always!
Tofu pudding rice is a bowl of white rice and a portion of tofu pudding with good seasoning. Mix the tofu pudding well and pour it into the white rice to eat. I mixed too much seasoning, which is a little salty, but it still smells good.
After eating, we walked to Hongyadong, ready to eat a hot pot in the afternoon when there were few people. I went at four o'clock in the afternoon and actually waited for two numbers for a while. But it's really not worth queuing at all. I think it is the level of ordinary hot pot. It just gave us the location of the river view, and the landscape was good.
I ordered tripe, crispy meat, duck blood, lotus root, kelp and piranha.
Crispy meat is full of crisp fragrance, that is, half of it is full fat. A whole piece of fat is also drunk.
Normal level of tripe, lotus root and kelp.
The piranha is actually frozen. It's hard with a thick layer of ice on it. After scalding, it is hard and fleshy. The meat quality of salted fish. I don't know if this is the way it is. It tastes good.
It is not recommended to order a mandarin duck pot. This kind of shop has been improved. The spicy pot is not very spicy either. We didn't use the white soup at all
Ice powder can be ordered to relieve the spicy taste. The ice is smooth and sweet, with a strong osmanthus fragrance.
The conclusion of this hot pot meal is that I regret wasting my only hot pot opportunity in this flashy online celebrity restaurant because my friends left at night, and I should try Dongzi Hot Pot, or Deng Ji Mangzi Hot Pot (Luzu Temple Store) and Huang Spicy Ding Hot Pot were sincerely recommended by friends in the circle later. For your reference.
I can't eat anything at all after this evening. I went to take the subway line 2 and crossed the subway in Liziba Building. If you don't want to take Line 2 during the trip, you can go and sit down. Just go from Jiaochangkou to Liziba. It is the second magic of Chongqing that the subway runs high and low along the river and occasionally passes through the building. It's a bit like the island road around Xiamen, where you see the scenery across the river.
In the evening, I sent my friends away. I went to Jie Fangbei for a walk again, and ate a small bowl of hot and sour powder in the street. The dried meat is still very fragrant, but it is particularly spicy, and no paper towels are given. Everyone squats on the small flower bed at the door to eat. There are also people who specialize in selling paper towels.
This day is a one-day trip to Wulong, a travel agency. Because I checked that it is very troublesome to transfer many times by car. It turns out that travel agencies are indeed more convenient. It takes three hours to drive one way. Assemble at 7: 30am and return to Jie Fangbei at 8: 00pm. The advantage of living here is that this place is also one of the fixed points for getting on and off. Including round-trip bus and lunch is 388 yuan. The seat is an airline seat, and there is a wide sofa where you can lie down. Thinking of getting up so early, I decided to sleep comfortably. It's more expensive than the ordinary bus trip 100, but it's very comfortable and stable, and it won't get carsick at all. There is no shopping in the whole journey. The tour guide is also quite good.
When we arrive, we will have a group meal at noon first. The amount is relatively small, but the taste is ok. There's bacon in the middle. It smells good. I didn't take pictures because I just went to a bathroom and came back to find that there were not many dishes left. I had to try to eat more to cope with walking in the afternoon.
One day's trip was tense, and I only went to the tiankeng to sew. There are many walks, and I feel that the safety precautions in the scenic spots are not very good. I feel that it will be very dangerous to take children, and I have not seen any children along the way. Because some places are only one meter wide, there is no fence at the edge of the cliff, and you will fall if you are not careful.
The scenery is really beautiful. It's a place where the city is full of Golden Flower and Transformers 4.
Transformers, there is a gossip here. It is said that when the crew signed a contract with Wulong County, it was stated that the shooting location should be clearly defined in the film. As a result, the crew only wrote in it a perfunctory way about Wulong, China. In the plot, the mountain fought and went over a hill to Hong Kong, which led the audience to think that it was a place in Hong Kong. Later, Wulong sued the crew and won the case. The money is not much to lose, but this tone still has to be contested.
Although summer is the most suitable time, it is also very satisfying to see the spring in the mountains.
Back to the fat girl noodle restaurant in the city where I ate at night. My friend recommended the fat girl noodle restaurant on Zhongshan Third Road, but it didn't appear in the public comments. Please check it on Baidu map. It is said that there are many fake chain stores in this store, and I don't know if the food is right or not. It tastes good.
I ate a bowl of red oil wonton soup. This restaurant has a lot of meat stuffing and good seasoning. But after a hungry day, I didn't feel full, so I asked for another bowl of pork intestines powder.
The boss looked at me with incredible eyes and said, "Pack and go?"
"No, eat here ... then ... just give me one or two."
Rice flour is very similar to Hunan rice flour eaten in Shanghai. It is wide and smooth. Delicious.
I basically only had one meal on the last day. I checked out and had brunch at the nearby Shunshui Fish Restaurant. Maybe because it was Tuesday, I was the first customer when I went in at 12. I ordered a Jiang Tuan fish weighing more than a kilo, the hottest spicy sauce was selected, and an egg fried Ciba was added.
I served the seasoning plate first. I thought it was a side dish and ate a lot. Super delicious soybeans. Very crisp and tasty, and not too hard to bite.
Later, after the fish pot was served, the waiter put a spoonful of soup in, only to know that it was a seasoning plate.
The bottom of the pot is also made of pickled peppers and sour radishes, with Chili peppers added, and it comes with glutinous rice flour and konjac tofu. Jiangtuan is very smooth, tender and delicious. If it weighs more than a kilo, there is not much meat coming out, and one person is completely unsatisfied.
The powder is very waxy and tasty, and I like it quite much.
It was this Baba that held me up. Wrapped in a layer of egg liquid, it tastes crispy outside and tender inside, with a strong egg fragrance, which adds a layer of flavor when sprinkled with soybean powder. The glutinous rice noodles inside are elastic and not sticky, and they are very delicious! All six have been eaten. I couldn't eat anything for dinner and went straight to the airport.
Not necessarily this store, many stores have cooked this dish. I suggest you try it.
After dinner, I went to Zhongshan No.4 Road (Exit A of Zengjiayan Station on Line 2) as recommended by netizens. The buildings in the Republic of China are very similar to those near the French Consulate in Shanghai. There are also several celebrities' former residences that have not been seen.
Just a short walk and then go to the Three Gorges Museum at Exit B. The first floor is the historical data of the Three Gorges, and the second and third floors are the history of Chongqing, Sichuan. The exhibition hall is very small. But I think it is worthwhile to spend a little time in a place to learn about the local history.
I've always lived near Jie Fangbei, so it's very convenient to travel, and I eat a lot around, and the geographical location is very good. Living in homestays, the cleanliness is average and the facilities are average. Many local people around here have taken part of the residential apartments and rented them out. The first one is called Lange Hotel Apartment, which is run by local aunts. The service attitude is very good, and the room is also very large. It looks like a single apartment with 70-80 flats, 240 nights and a double bed. The public commented that the star rating was very high, with a score of 4.8, but the overall occupancy experience was very general. The toilet door is broken, the bed board is creaking, the lampshade is stained with dust (although it is reflected that it will be cleaned the next day), the sheets are rusted, and the kitchen is gray and not very clean. Very not recommended. I feel that I would rather add a little money to stay in a better chain of regular hotels.
Later, when a person didn't want to move, he changed to an apartment in that residential building. The room is a set of three rooms separated by several households, which are rented separately. The room is very small, but the landscape is very good. It is relatively small and fresh, with two big beds. 138 one night. The sanitary conditions are average. The floor is carpeted, but it is not clean and dirty. The boss is also amazing. I have never seen anyone for two days. It is not safe to get the key according to her instructions.
The whole journey is to buy a one-way subway ticket, which is convenient except for queuing at the airport and Ciqikou station. Because it's troublesome to ask if you want to return the card when you buy it, and go to a designated place to return it. Moreover, we basically travel by foot, we didn't go anywhere and didn't take the subway much, so it doesn't matter to buy a subway card.
If you take a taxi, it will be a detour. Often, in places where the distance is very close in a straight line, you have to take a taxi up the mountain, but it will take a long time. Because I am lazy, I have never been to the other side of the river or to a tree in Nanshan to see the night view. The tour guide of Wulongxing recommended going to a tower in Elingshan Park to see the night scene, and each floor has a kind of scenery.
Generally speaking, many things still have rules to follow. The three spices (onion, ginger, garlic), three peppers (pepper, pepper and pepper) and three ingredients (vinegar, bean paste and mash) of Sichuan cuisine are used alternately in many dishes, creating a variety of flavors, especially spicy, sour and spicy, pepper and sesame, and red oil, which are also the flavors we are deeply obsessed with.
But perhaps because Sichuan cuisine is so popular, you can eat very authentic Sichuan cuisine not only in China, but also in new york, so when you really come to the local area, it is still delicious, but there are not many surprises, which are all expected. Strangely, I obviously stayed for four days, and I couldn't walk every day, but I still haven't eaten much.
But Chongqing is really special. Its magical structure, tolerant character, casual lifestyle, friendly people and delicious food are all very popular.
Such a complex terrain has such a rich life. When walking on the road, the bgm…… of "hardworking and brave China people" often comes to mind ...
Because of the mountain city structure and dense buildings, it is said that Chongqing is called "Little Hong Kong", and there are some similarities in the equal treatment of the rich and the poor and the richness of food choices-standing on the side of the road to eat noodles with bowls or benches (a famous noodle shop, tables and chairs built by benches with one height and one height outside), great sticks (porters) walking in the bustling center, and delicious food hidden in streets and lanes. Everyone can find their own taste.
Compared with Hong Kong's alienation and avoidance, Chongqing is obviously much more cordial and generous.
After all, heroic, refreshing, tough and pungent are the attributes of Jianghu people.
The source of Sichuan cuisine in the first part of the article refers to:
Sichuan Daily 201July 3 12 Edition
Sichuan cuisine culture network
Sichuan food network