Wuhan is an old commercial city, transportation is developed, convenient, many years ago has been the South and the North and the local natives live in a mixture of real Wuhan locals have been difficult to become the majority. Wuhan has a book about the old Hankou, called "Hankou bamboo words", which wrote: "This place has never been indigenous, nine points of merchants and one point of the people".
In Wuhan, we can see an interesting phenomenon: but all the convergence of Wuhan residents of foreigners, when they first came to Wuhan, more than the character of the Wuhan people have complained. However, not many days, these whiners their own character are quickly assimilated into the Wuhan people, a change in their original self-proclaimed different from the Wuhan people.
Why? The reason for this is that Wuhan's deep-rooted and profound culture is also very important to the city. This kind of culture has a strong dissolving power, easily digested foreign things, and the outsiders will be molded into the role they need. Wuhan people are not as xenophobic as the people of Shanghai and Guangzhou, as if with the outsiders than with the locals can be more friendly, about a considerable extent also because they are mostly from the outside.
At the same time, Wuhan is a city caught between north and south. This position makes Wuhan an awkward place to live. For the north, Wuhan's winter has its cold, temperatures can reach several degrees below zero, and in the summer but never its cool, when the north of the summer night covered with a thin quilt to sleep, Wuhan people can only move the bed to the open air in order to be able to survive a sweltering heat almost cruel night. For the south, Wuhan's summer has its hot and humid temperatures of up to 40 degrees or even higher, while the winter is never warm, when the southern people wearing sweaters in the Spring Festival, Wuhan people have to burn a fire in the home in order to keep warm.
So, Wuhan has the shortcomings of both the north and the south: hot and humid summers and freezing winters. The worst thing is that Wuhan is located between the north and the south, the south thinks you are the north, the north thinks you are the south. When you install air-conditioning in your office in the south, Wuhan is recognized as the north; when you set up heating in your home in the north, Wuhan is treated as the south.
The people of Wuhan have no choice but to be colder than the north when it is cold, and hotter than the south when it is hot.
The people of Wuhan have no choice but to be colder than the north when it is cold and hotter than the south when it is hot. For this reason, the character of the people of Wuhan is compatible with the north and the south: there is the boldness of the northerners and the intelligence of the southerners.
The hot and cold living environment, since the character of the people is also a big ups and downs. So Wuhan people are easy to violence and anger, but also easy to solve the grudges, regardless of the former. As the saying goes, it comes and goes quickly. Come here to live for a long time of foreigners, but also the same can not get rid of the oppression of the climate, so the body can not help but Wuhanization. The only foreigners who traveled here, only hit the Wuhan people's easy to anger this link, but not to see the Wuhan people in a smile in all the previous links, and thus easy to Wuhan people have a prejudice.
So I say, people who spend a short time with Wuhan people will most likely have a negative evaluation of Wuhan people; but people who spend a long time with Wuhan people will surely realize the loveliness of Wuhan people's character.
Wuhan is a controversial city. People talk about Wuhan, hanging on the mouth is always three words, "big", "chaos", "hot".
Speaking of big, Wuhan is certainly not the biggest city in China. In terms of city population, it is no match for Beijing, Shanghai, or Tianjin; in terms of area, although it is also considered one of China's largest cities, but a huge East Lake, its built-up area and Tianjin's built-up area is not comparable, and can not match with the Beijing and Shanghai cities. But strangely enough, there are only two cities in China that have ever been given the name "big" in front of them, one of which is Shanghai, and the other is Wuhan.
Wuhan's "big", perhaps because of its geographical characteristics give a person the feeling of "atmosphere", perhaps also because of the three towns across the river from each other, the city structure creates a majestic impression. Wuhan is situated on the Jianghan Plain, and in this city there are big rivers, lakes and mountains. The Yangtze River runs through the city, connecting the three towns of Wuhan, and the Han River divides Hankou and Hanyang. It is probably one of the big cities with the most lakes in China, with large lakes such as the Sand Lake, the South Lake, and the East Lake spread out in the urban area, surrounded by countless smaller lakes, of which the East Lake is the largest lake in the city in China. The whole city has a kind of left embrace two Han (Hankou Hanyang), right embrace Wuchang, the city has a lake, the lake around the city pattern, seemingly endless, vast.
Wuhan three towns, if Wuchang and Hankou two towns were set aside elsewhere can already be considered two big cities, not to mention that they are also linked into one, so it is simply a behemoth of the city. Nanjing and Wuhan, are the Yangtze River side of the big city, but compared with Wuhan, Nanjing seems very small. I remember once rode a bicycle to see the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge, the east side of the bridge, a bustling city scene, but to the west side of the bridge, is a plain, there is a kind of prosperity will be the end of the bleak feeling. And you will not have this impression in Wuhan, whether standing on the Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge or the Yangtze River Second Bridge, both ends are endless bustling cityscape. Passing the Yangtze River Bridge at night, you can see the traffic lights flowing like a shuttle, the lights on both sides of the river are brilliant, over there is the Hankou high-rise buildings, this side of the bridge is under the door of the commercial district of the Division of the glittering neon lights. If you get off from the Hankou Railway Station and take a bus to the Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Wuchang under the Yu Jia Shan, it will take nearly one and a half hours. It's no wonder that people who come to Wuhan for the first time, the first impression of the city is big.
Speaking of chaos, it seems to have something to do with Wuhan's character. Like all cities along the Yangtze River, Wuhan has its own unique charm. Standing on the Yellow Crane Tower overlooking the three towns of Wuhan, you will be y attracted by the beautiful face of the city, near, the Yangtze River as a jade belt drifting eastward, the Rainbow Bridge, vehicles shuttle, turtle snake two mountains, a distant view of the north bank of Hankou high-rise buildings, commercial prosperity, the south bank of the Wuchang showy and quiet, refined, the distant East Lake is hidden. In fact, in the big cities, there is no city like Wuhan so picturesque. Wuhan played the slogan is "building landscape garden city", I think, with some of the fundamental lack of such resources compared to the city, this slogan does not seem pretentious and exaggerated. However, although the Wuhan people have the shrewdness of "nine heads", but in addition to shrewdness, there is a kind of unrestrained, bold and impulsive temperament. Therefore, it seems to be a big grin. Not like some of the natural environment of the city as good at hiding. So Wuhan is not as grand and neat as Beijing, and not as delicate as Shanghai. When you walk into the streets of Wuhan, you will have a "messy" feeling.
The train station is the first place where people get a first impression of the city. But from the Wuchang train station out, you see a messy scene: wandering around the crowd, messy and crowded buildings, blocking the road full of vehicles, all give a person a sense of chaos. In Wuchang, one of the main roads on the Wu Luo Road, concrete pavement because of years of disrepair and looks broken, sitting in a public **** car, bumpy mess. Both sides of the building chaos, stores, even if there is a row of high-rise buildings, but also can not hide the disorganization of this street. Hankou's Zhongshan Avenue, Jiefang Avenue, high-rise buildings, overflowing with vitality and prosperity, but also seems to be chaotic and crowded. However, if you think Wuhan is like this, you are wrong. Wuhan is as contrasting as the character of the Wuhan people, where the shabby places are still shabby, but it also often has some eye-catching cityscapes. In Wuchang's Zhongnan Avenue and Donghu Road, and in Hankou's Zhongshan Avenue (west of Liuduqiao), Jianghan Road and other roads, you will be able to see some exquisite and beautiful streetscapes, which are no less than those of any other modern cities in China. As a result, these places have become representatives of Wuhan's urban image. At night, when you walk on the streets of Wuhan, the numerous entertainment venues and glittering neon lights make Wuhan colorful, prosperous and full of vitality.
Wuhan's drivers also have a big grin, not a strong sense of respect for the rules, even if there are police, they do not care very much. The car is driven to the "fierce" and "tricky". "Fierce" is that they are anxious, like to drive a flying car, as long as the road conditions allow, they will drive the car to let people worry. "Diao" is that they are good at "drilling holes" in the congested lanes, as long as there is a gap, they will try to make up for their cars immediately. Therefore, on the streets of Wuhan, you can often see the car you catch up with me. Even the public **** car on the road to meet passengers waving, as long as there is no police, also dare to stop. Wuhan's public **** a lot of car frequency, each station is often crowded with a variety of vehicles. In order to compete for passengers, the conductor of each car are there to open their voices and shout "Si door!" "Wu Luo Road!" "Wuhan Pass!" The bus conductors were shouting "Si Men!" and "Wu Luo Lu! Since there are not many footbridges or tunnels for pedestrians to cross the street in Wuhan (but it's still better than in Tianjin), jaywalking is also very common.
Wuhan's chaos also has to do with the city's various desperate characters. As a thoroughfare of nine provinces, Wuhan is a large dock, all kinds of people gathered in the environment of the Wuhan people's jianghu qi, more importantly, although it is geographically located in the middle of China, but far from the center of politics, rarely subject to the solemn and elegant temple bound, so the Wuhan people retain a kind of Chu people brutal qi at the same time, but also retained a Chu people's aura. The "barbaric gas" so that they are still free, love impulsive, unrestrained, speak loudly and martial arts, do things boldly and freely, hot character, impulsive up to the king of heaven and earth are not in the words, this character makes Wuhan has always been an easy to "fire" of the city, from the Wuchang Uprising to the From the Wuchang Uprising to the February 7 Strike, from the Revolution of the 1920s to the "Million Heroes" of the 1960s, Wuhan people have demonstrated their hot and impulsive character to the fullest extent. When foreigners come to Wuhan, they are always impressed by the loud voice of Wuhan people, which makes them feel that Wuhan people are not easy to deal with. Even foreigners, who are always highly regarded in China, have experienced the power of Wuhan people in Wuhan. When on the English speaking class, a foreign teacher once talked about his experience in Hankou is still haunting, he walked on Zhongshan Road accidentally, stepped on a young man's foot, even said to him that I'm sorry, but the young man cross-eyed half a day, resolutely do not buy the account, and stepped on him in turn, this is resentful of the foot to go away. The high crime rate in Wuhan is also related to this kind of adventurous and radical character.
Speaking of Wuhan's hot, everyone knows. Wuhan is one of the country's three famous "furnace" city, it warms up from February and March, into the red spring, to May began to turn hot, to July, August and September began to heat, during this period, Wuhan has been like being infused in hot water. During this period, Wuhan has been like being drenched in hot water, so hot that people can't breathe. And from December, Wuhan turns cold again. Unlike the north, there is no heating in winter and people don't have the habit of roasting fires. Although the temperature is not as low as in the northern cities, the climate is relatively humid, so it seems cold and gloomy, and in such a climate, frostbite is a frequent occurrence. This kind of climate with big ups and downs is hard for many outsiders to adapt to. But Wuhan people are still living a comfortable life. Wuhan people that kind of ups and downs of temper, I'm afraid that this climate is not unrelated.
Wuhan is a city with four distinct seasons, Wuhan people's character is also as colorful as its climate, spring flowers and foliage, Wuhan people especially like to excursions, in the East Lake, Luoga Mountain, can be seen everywhere to enjoy the flowers, picnicking crowd, elsewhere, such as the East Lake such a beautiful scenic area, has long been circled on the fence into a park to charge for a money-making place, but Wuhan is East Lake, most areas open to the public free of charge, this is the East Lake. Most of the area is open to the public for free, which can also be considered a blessing for Wuhan people.
However, the most reflective of Wuhan's urban character, but also count the summer, Wuhan's summer, the heat wave, in this climate, an outsider is afraid to go out easily. However, summer gives Wuhan people in the Yangtze River water play, swimming in the East Lake provides an opportunity, therefore, Wuhan's waterfront, is always hot, all kinds of swimming masters, are here to show off their style. Showing the bravado of Wuhan people. And wait until after sunset, almost all the Wuhan people will go out of their homes, either to find a place to rest, chat, or move a bamboo bed outside, or invite friends to find a stall to enjoy the evening meal. So, the daytime is the heat of the sun, the evening is the heat of the crowd. Make the whole Wuhan summer night, are crowded, in this kind of summer night life, Wuhan people after the hot character of the other side, but also to show. They appear to be quick-witted, intelligent, knowledgeable and clear-headed. And many romantic and not-so-romantic love stories happen at such times.
Wuhan is a hot city, full of the passion and vigor of a civilian city. It is frank and unpretentious, lazy and amorous, it is not xenophobic, you are here almost no feeling of foreigners; it has personality, you can hear here sharp and straight talk, but rarely hear the flattery of the meat, it is very knowledgeable, and often indulge in self-meditation, and very little self-aggrandizement of the stupid vanity.
Wuhan food culture
Traditional snacks
"Do not need to examine the food alone, the winter months of people's food is good, rice wine dumplings snacks are good, no fish fat vegetable stems fragrant." Qing Dynasty Daoguang years (1821-1850) of this "Hankou Bamboo Branch Lyrics", from a side to reflect the food customs of Wuhan and its unique flavor snacks. Wuhan has many varieties of flavorful snacks, with a long history, such as pseudo-Qingshui Brown originating from the Warring States period, spring pancake side during the North and South Dynasties, green bean skin during the Sui and Tang dynasties, oil fruit during the Song and Yuan dynasties, rice wine during the Ming and Qing dynasties, noodle nests, and the recent emergence of the three-fresh bean skins, soup dumplings, hot noodles, and so on.......
The old Tongcheng Bean Skin
"Old Tongcheng" is located in Hankou Zhongshan Road Dazhi intersection of the name of a large restaurant, in order to operate the famous snack three fresh beanskin famous, "king of beanskin," said. This restaurant was founded in 1931, originally located in the ancient Hankou Castle Dazhi Gate, for the urban and rural passages, so the name of the Tongcheng sweet store, after the victory in the anti-Japanese resumption of business, renamed the old Tongcheng sweet store. The store is modeled after the traditional snacks of Hubei folk bean skin, sharp improvement, with sweets should be marketed, quite popular. The method is to mix mung beans and rice and grind the pulp, then spread it into thin skin in a pot and wrap it with boiled glutinous rice, diced meat and other fillings, and then fry it in oil. Special chef Gao Jinan excellence, with fresh meat, fresh eggs, fresh shrimp as the main production of fillings, the creation of the three fresh soybean skin, the skin package of golden shiny, crisp and tender in the mouth fragrant, more braised sizzling population.
Four Seasons Beauty Soup Bun
"Four Seasons Beauty" is located in Hankou, Zhongshan Road, Jianghan Intersection, near the name of a snack bar, meaning that there are food supplies throughout the year, such as spring fried spring rolls, summer cold food sales, fried hairy crab in the fall, winter hit the shortcake, etc. Opened in 1927, the business is booming, and after the special chef Zhong Shengchu, etc. in the shop to make the food, the food is not only good, but also good. Zhong Sheng Chu and other special chefs in the store to make Jiangsu flavor Wuhanization of small dumplings should be marketed, by the customer's praise, known as the "king of dumplings", so that the store into the main supply of small dumplings dumplings dumplings Museum. Its filling, strict selection of materials, first fresh pork leg meat into puree, and then mixed with meat jelly and other condiments, wrapped in a thin crust, steamed in a cage, the meat jelly into the soup, the puree tender, seven a cage, accompanied by ginger, soy sauce and vinegar, exceptionally tasty. In order to meet the needs of different customers, in addition to fresh meat soup dumplings, they are also seasonal production of crab meat soup dumplings, shrimp soup dumplings, mushroom soup dumplings, chicken soup dumplings and assorted soup dumplings.
Little Peach Garden Simmered Soup
"Little Peach Garden" is located in Hankou Shengli Street, Lanling intersection of a snack store's name, the store was founded in 1946, there are two hawkers Tao, Yuan, set up stalls in the shed here, operating the doughnuts, soybean milk, and other snacks, and then the two cooperated in the operation of the simmered soup, the name of the store! The name of the shop was "Shiaotao Yuan", which was harmonized into "Xiaotaoyuan" after the liberation, and it is a famous "expert in simmering soup". The store operates the main varieties of chicken soup, pork chop soup, hoof soup, eight Feng soup, foot fish soup, beef soup, duck soup, etc., to the most famous chicken soup. Its raw materials for the Huangbo Xiaogan area more than one and a half kilograms of fat and tender hen, chopped into chicken pieces, first into the oil saw stir-fry, and then poured into the inside of the boiling water inside the tin, with a strong fire grain cooked, simmering through a small fire, soup fresh meat rotten, original taste, rich in nutrients, is the old man, the sick, maternity nourishing products. Eight Feng soup and other grain soup also have their own characteristics, fresh and delicious, loved by diners.
Talking about dumplings
Talking about dumplings is located in Hankou, Zhongshan Road, No. 384, not far from the Liji intersection, founded in 1920 by the Huangpi people talk about Zhixiang, specializing in dumplings for nearly eighty years, there are unique dumpling making techniques. From the selection of meat, ingredients, point flavor, filling, skin making to wrapping, boiling soup, cooking and other processes, there are strict standards, such as fresh pork leg, yellow cow leg meat filling, pig's hooves boiled in soup, with shrimp, mushrooms, cilantro, green onions and other condiments, so that the dumplings are tender filling, fresh soup, beautiful shape, thin skin, eaten with a crisp, moist abdomen, after-scented mouth, after eating the aftertaste, so that people still want to eat it. In addition to the traditional fresh meat dumplings, the famous master Tan Yinshan has also developed new varieties of mushroom dumplings, factory rice dumplings, three fresh dumplings, chicken dumplings, shrimp dumplings and other new varieties in recent years, adapting to the tastes of different diners.
Cailinji Hot Noodles
Cailinji Hot Noodles is located in Hankou, No. 854, Zhongshan Road, facing the water tower, business is booming, daily sales of about 15,000 bowls, reception of more than 10,000 people tasting food. Hot noodles and Shanxi knife-shaved noodles, two wide Yifu noodles, Sichuan Dan Dan noodles, northern fried noodles and known as China's five famous noodles, which is different from the cold noodles, but also different from the soup noodles, the production method is the first basic noodles cooked, and then brought up to drain the oil and spread the cool, and then in the boiling water when you eat a few times, drained, plus sesame sauce, shrimp, green onions, sauce diced radish, sesame oil and vinegar and other ingredients mixed well, on the mouth when the aroma of the chewing! Tasteful. Now there are hot dry noodles halls and stalls everywhere in the streets of Wuhan, hot dry noodles have become one of the morning snacks Wuhan people love to eat.
Old Qianji Beef and Beans
Old Qianji is located in Wuchang Simen, a flavorful snack store, mainly engaged in beef and beans, beef soup dishes, casual drinks.
Beans silk is green beans, rice and other raw materials, grinding into pulp, in the pot spread into the skin, cut into silk, Wuhan people love to eat, soup beans silk, dry beans silk, fried beans silk and other ways to eat. The old Qianji business is fried beef bean threads, fried according to customer requirements, can be withered fried, can also be soft fried, the flavor has a thousand, the difference is only in the fire. The main raw materials are yellow ox eyebrows, wet beans, mushrooms, yucca slices, etc., plus seasoning and condiments, fried in sesame oil. Eat up the beef is smooth and tender, bean threads are soft and moist, the flavor of beef and bean threads are intertwined, a unique flavor.
Noodle nest
Noodle nest and hot dry noodles, as well as Wuhan people love to eat one of the morning meal, the production is simple, all over the three towns of Wuhan, the streets and alleys, most of the stalls operated by the catering business or by the food store also managed. Noodle nest is unique to Wuhan, founded in the Qing Dynasty during the Guangxu period (1875-1909). At that time, Hankou, Hanzheng Street, a set of Jiazui near the bakery called Chang Zhiren, see the sale of bakery business is not good, think of ways to create new varieties of breakfast, after repeated consideration, he asked the blacksmiths to make a dry nest shaped in the convex iron spoon, poured with rice, soybean mixture of ground rice, sprinkled with black sesame seeds, put into a frying pan to deep-frying, and soon made a side of a thick, hollow, yellow crispy color of the round rice crackers. It is soft and fluffy in the thick part and crispy in the thin part, which is very flavorful.
Specialties
Wuhan cuisine relative to snacks is proudly listed among the top ten national cuisine of the essence of the E cuisine and representatives, which originated in ancient Chu cuisine, after more than two thousand years of development, the formation of its own unique flavor and a number of famous dishes, such as steamed Wuchang fish, bacon fried cabbage shoots, etc. ......
Steamed Wuchang fish
Wuchang fish is a famous aquatic products, produced in Wuchang County and Ezhou City **** tube in the Liangzi Lake, the feudal era is a tribute, is now a delicacy. Its cooking methods are varied, very careful, the most prestigious is the steamed Wuchang fish, the production of the best dishes is Wuchang Dazhonghua restaurant. This restaurant was founded in 1933 by people from Anhui Province and is famous for its expertise in cooking Wuchang fish. Wuchang fish is usually used as the name of the steamed Wuchang fish as the method of steaming is the most representative. They usually use about one kilogram of fresh Fankou whale as the main ingredient, supplemented with ham, mushrooms, asparagus, chicken broth and other more than ten kinds of ingredients seasoning, steaming on the cage, strict control of the fire, so that it is just right. Steamed and then on the fish decorated with red, green, yellow color shredded vegetables, so that the colorful, fragrant, tender fish, soup is delicious. In addition to steaming, they also use stewed, braised, flower brewing method to create more than 30 kinds of fish dishes.
Cassoulet
Hubei people eat turtle at least two thousand years of history, cassoulet is a famous dish in Chu. Turtle, also known as the group of fish, Yuan fish, Lei, turtle, commonly known as the king of eight, nutritious, nourishing yin and tonic function of the kidney, its armor and its meat can be eaten, Li Shizhen in the Compendium of Materia Medica, but also regarded as a drug. Wuhan Dazhonghua, the old Daxingyuan and Yunhe restaurants will be turtle cassoulet, with mushrooms, chicken soup and other seasonings, fresh and sticky.
Pimped eel
Pimped eel is a traditional dish introduced to Wuhan from Jingzhou and Shashi, and has been eaten for hundreds of years in the Jingzhou area. Eel flavor, and has medicinal value, "Famous Medical Records" that it has the effect of tonifying the five organs, treatment of deficiency. The eel is cut into long strips after the old bones are cut and cooked as if they were strips of skin and named, but also because of the shape of the bamboo joints, also known as the bamboo eel. Hankou Yunhe restaurant, the old Daxingyuan restaurant and the old restaurant cooking eel is very careful, the method is to use two different temperatures of oil deep-fried to the skin crispy, and then hung on the sweet and sour sauce, golden color, crispy outside and tender inside.
The old Daxing carp
"Old Daxing" is located in Hankou Liji North Road near Jiefang Avenue Aviation intersection of the old Daxing Garden restaurant short for this has more than 140 years of history of the restaurant to cook round fish known, enjoy the "round fish king! "reputation, and" big king of bean skin "," big king of soup dumplings "," feed the soup expert "and known as the Wuhan flavor of the" Three kings and one expert".
Roundfish that is long-nosed salmon, also known as the river group, Baiji, fish body round long, mouth in the head, crescent-shaped, the whole body without scales, mostly produced in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River. The restaurant's famous chef Liu Kaibing cooked braised roundfish before and after the Anti-Japanese War, so that he and the restaurant won the honor of "King of Scale Fish". This title passed through the second generation of Cao Yuting to the third generation of Jiang Xianshan, so that the traditional skills have a new development, the creation of a clear candle roundfish, net oil roundfish, steamed roundfish and blanch roundfish and other new varieties of color, aroma, taste, shape and so on.
Hongshan vegetable shoots fried bacon
Hongshan vegetable shoots that are produced in the Wuchang Hongshan area of red cabbage shoots, color purple and red, crisp and fragrant, nutritious, often eaten without getting tired of it, is one of the Wuhan people in winter and spring season of the home cooking, with the Wuchang fish known as the two famous dishes of the Chutian.
Hongshan vegetable shoots fried bacon, practice is very delicate. Vegetable shoots to choose Hongshan Baotong Temple around the planting, to be both fresh and tender, the main eating shoots, shoots with hand folded, about an inch long, washed and drained spare. Bacon should also be cut into one-inch long thin slices, first put into the pot to stir fry wonderful, and then fish up, and then fry the shoots, and finally the bacon into the mix, start the pot on the plate. Eat when the shoots are tender and crisp, bacon mellow and soft, a unique flavor.
Dongpo meat
Located in the middle of Jiefang Avenue in Hankou, Yunhe Restaurant has a kind of asparagus, spinach, five-flower pork cooked and made of famous dishes to "winter" harmonic "East", "spinach" harmonic "slope". "Winter" with "East", "spinach" with "slope" and called Dongpo meat, delicious flavor, aroma, quite popular with diners. This dish originated in Huangzhou, Hubei Province, and is related to the banishment of Su Dongpo, a writer of the Northern Song Dynasty, who was relegated to Huangzhou in the year 1080, and plowed in Dongpo, calling himself Dongpo Jushi. At that time, meat was cheap in Huangzhou, but it was not cooked well and did not taste fresh. Su Dongpo after experimenting, figured out a set of stewed five flowers within the method, stewed meat color red, taste mellow and delicious, the later called this stewed meat Dongpo meat, in the Huangzhou area circulated for more than 900 years. Later, when it came to Wuhan, there were improvements in cooking techniques, and the flavor was even more delicious.
Not coincidentally, in Su Shi lived in Sichuan, Zhejiang also have different flavors of Dongpo meat. What's more interesting is that the ethnic minorities in Dali, Yunnan Province, when they get married, there is the custom of the bride and groom eating Dongpo meat together.
Huangpi Sanhe
Huangpi Sanhe is a traditional delicacy of the folk of Huangpi, a suburb of Wuhan, which has been passed down for hundreds of years. Sanhe is a fish ball, meatballs, meat cake three dishes into one collectively, the local people also known as the three fresh, they are three fresh as a minimum standard for evaluation of the feast, there is "no three fresh does not call the seat, three fresh is not good" said.
The three fresh each have their own production of traditional skills, fish ball selection of gill fish chopped velvet, with egg white, white onion, ginger, lard, etc. Yu system and become; meatball selection of pork leg meat chopped, with fish velvet and a variety of seasonings, crispy deep-fried into; meat cake raw materials and meatballs are the same, but made into a cake-like, steamed and become. Three dishes together, fish has meat flavor, meat has fish aroma, a unique flavor. Due to the three dishes in the fish, pills, cake three words, fish and Yu resonance, the dragon's square sound for the round, cake and high homophonic, people will be endowed with the three together to the annual surplus, family reunion, step by step the symbolism, for the figure of auspiciousness, the annual festival must. 1941 Huangpi people in Hankou, playing Copper Street to open the Huangpi Heji restaurant, the Huangpi three together to Wuhan, the quality of the local dishes to further improve the quality of the fish balls, meatballs tender, loose bubbles, meat cake, soft soft, quite popular. It was a very popular restaurant in Wuhan. Later, with the construction of Wuhan Iron and Steel, Heji Restaurant moved to Qingshan Construction Seven Road, renamed Jiefang Restaurant, and continued to refine this dish.
Shinyang Three Steam
Shinyang is a large county on the Jianghan Plain, which historically included the present-day city of Honghu, and has been reorganized as Xiantao in recent years. This area is more water, rich in produce, for the land of fish and rice, the people love to eat steamed vegetables, there is "no vegetables do not steam" food customs, known as the township of steamed vegetables. Three steamed that is, three kinds of steamed vegetables, some say refers to steamed fish, steamed meat, steamed chicken, some say refers to steamed fish, steamed meat, steamed meatballs, some say refers to steamed fish, steamed meatballs, some say refers to steamed fish, steamed meatballs. Steamed meatballs, some say refers to steamed meat, steamed pearl meatballs, steamed white pills. The so-called steamed pearl pills, is the fish, meat minced velvet plus material, squeezed into pills, rolled sticky glutinous rice in the large sieve, and then on the cage steamed, cooked glutinous rice crystal clear, like a pearl. If you do not roll sticky glutinous rice steaming, it is called steaming white pill. 1931 Hankou Minsheng Road opened a Shin Yang Hotel, known for its good three steam, the fifties with the construction of Wugang moved to the Castle Peak Workers' Village, No. 60 business.
Shinyang three steam at least six hundred years of history, according to legend, the end of the Yuan peasant revolt leader Chen Youliang unveiled a revolt, and captured the county town of Shinyang in one fell swoop. Chen's wife, Mrs. Pan (I say Luo) personally in charge of the kitchen, fish, meat, lotus root, etc. mixed with rice flour, with other condiments, steamed in a bowl to reward the uprising peasants. Everyone ate, slurping praise, and since then that is passed down from generation to generation, like to eat steamed vegetables into the habit.
Beaulieu Roll Cut
Beaulieu Roll Cut, also known as Beaulieu dishes, is one of the famous dishes of the Chu countryside operated by the Hankou Yunhe Restaurant and the old Huibin Restaurant, which originated in Zhongxiang County, Hubei, and is found in the Zhongxiang County Records, which is more than a hundred years old. There are various local legends, all of which are related to Emperor Jiajing of the Ming Dynasty. 1521, Emperor Zhengde, Zhu Houzhao, died of illness, and with no heir and no full brother, Zhu Houzong, the son of King Xingxian, who was sealed in Chengtianfu (Zhongxiang), succeeded to the throne. Legend has it that Zhu Hou-tsung was afraid of other uncles and brothers outside of the clan reached Beijing first, seize the throne, then dressed up as a prisoner of the Beijing liberation, day and night into the capital, hungry to eat on the neck of a kind of ring-shaped food: outside of the egg skin, wrapped in fish, meat, steamed and shaped to eat convenient, tasty, refreshing and not greasy. It is said that before Zhu Hou-tsung went to the capital to his teacher to leave, the teacher and the chef discussed to make an original dish to treat the emperor who was about to ascend to the throne, it will be an egg as the skin, fish as a filling, rolled into long strips, steamed and then cut into thin slices, yard in the plate, so that the shape of a dragon, known as eating meat without seeing the meat of the coiled dragon rolls cut. It is also said that after Zhu Hou-tsung succeeded the throne, he went back to Zhongxiang to build a mausoleum for his father when he visited his teacher, who designed this dish for him. Later, it was passed down and lasted for a long time. Wuhan restaurants, restaurants in the folk system based on the improvement, so that it becomes color, aroma, taste and shape of the famous E dish.
Lao Huibin sunflower tofu
"Lao Huibin" is the short name of the old Huibin restaurant, opened in 1929, famous for cooking E cuisine, and can be both Beijing and Suzhou cuisine. Located in Hankou Sanmin Road, in the downtown area of Liuduqiao. Sunflower tofu is a famous dish created by this restaurant, which was created in the hands of brothers Zong Liangzhi, a special chef, and Zong Liangsong, a senior chef. They inherited the skills of Hu Chengfan in the 1940s, and produced the unique flavor of Yipin Tofu. The production method is the tender tofu peeled and crushed, mixed with minced fish, shrimp, ham and other ingredients, carefully cooked and become the name of the tofu, it is the best dishes. Should be marketed after the sensational Wuhan towns, many gourmets specialize in this restaurant to order food this dish. Chefs strive for excellence, and design to improve the shape of a product of tofu, a good product of tofu decorated with egg skin silk, surrounded by green leaves, so that the shape of sunflower, renamed sunflower tofu. This one dish caused by the heart of the motherland of a pair of Tianshin overseas Chinese couple's great interest, they tasted after the impromptu poem said "sunflower bean curd milk vegetable heart, nostalgic for the old meeting of the guests, Chuxiang good to see a strong flavor, tasted doubly home township relatives."