High school here for three years, after graduating from college and then back to work here, counting, I stayed in this county for 25 years, also considered a local pass.
Yilan local food, I was most impressed by the Manchu restaurant, three hot pot and old ice cream.
Yilan is the birthplace of the Manchu, and there used to be a lot of Manchus here, and there were a lot of Manchu restaurants on the street. These Manchu restaurants have their own unique style, just like the halal restaurants. The plaque of the Manchu hotel is generally black, the lintel on the lintel and wooden couplets, as for the content of the couplets are varied, without exception, and eat have a relationship. These couplets neatly, the language, some with allusions, careful speculation, rhyme.
As for the Manchu cuisine, the feeling and Northeast cuisine is almost the same, or Northeast cuisine is a derivative of Manchu cuisine. However, the impression of Manchu cuisine is not as "bloody" as the Northeast, for example, the Northeast cuisine in the "pig dishes" to pay attention to a fresh word, the pig just killed, the body was sent to the table in a variety of ways, the flavor of the fresh on the fresh, but always feel with a bloody flavor, really can not bear to stick.
And the Manchu cuisine, although also often use pork as ingredients, but the flavor of the four flat, very neutral, the essence of the middle way. Sometimes I think, Manchu ancestors in this land of white mountains and black water, to pugilistic and Kongwu famous, but eating is such a modest, really quite strange thing!
Before the Manchu restaurant more, now has rarely seen, perhaps, because it is too mediocre, so the characteristics do not stand out, coupled with fierce competition in the catering industry, opened more, closed down more, did not highlight the characteristics of the fast-food era, it is difficult to attract customers eyeballs, and the Manchu restaurant in this regard seems to be not good at them more suitable for slow and leisurely savor, so the decline is also unavoidable.
In addition to Manchu restaurants, Yilan food there is a signature, that is, three hot pot. Yilan was formerly known as the three surnames, it is said that Hui Qin two emperors exiled here, although they also brought a cook, but the Jin people have orders, they do not dare to cook without authorization. However, the south stomach north food, the two emperors are not accustomed to eating the kind of half-cooked game made by the Jin people, every time you eat, bitter, the imperial kitchen will be in the name of heating the dish, with a copper pot to restore and cook it. Mountain treasures and wild game cooked in its copper stove, passed down from generation to generation has become a wonderful Yilan cuisine, eat up the aroma, the teeth trace fragrance. Unfortunately, with the change of the years, now the authentic three surnames hot pot is rarely seen.
I had an authentic Sanshou hot pot once before, in a small two-story building of a private house. The owner used a copper hot pot to cook all kinds of ingredients, including beef and mutton, as well as a lot of wild game and wild vegetables from the forest area, and burned charcoal underneath. When the hot pot boils, it bubbles, and the wood fire crackling underneath responds to each other like playing music, which is extremely joyful. In the cold winter, when the room was steaming hot and full of flavor, I had a really good meal, which left a deep impression on my memory. Unfortunately, that piece of cottage demolished a few years ago, the hotel also do not know where to go, as if disappeared, really a pity!
Yilan's old ice cream is a very famous local food, its history I do not know when to trace, but in my memory, it has been hidden, so vivid, so clear.
When I was a kid, we children in the summer favorite snack is popsicle, then a popsicle is only 5 cents, the taste is very cold, but also with a sweet cream flavor, in the hot summer, eat really refreshing cool, refreshing cool. And after eating the mouth is very normal, unlike a lot of ice cream nowadays as uncomfortable in the mouth after eating.
We are small children greedy, heard the voice of the outside shouting to sell popsicles on the itch, at this time, if the parents do not give pocket money, we also have a way, in the chicken nest to touch out the chicken just laid eggs to steal to go for popsicles. According to the current economic perspective, this is a very uneconomical bartering, but we have a craving, but do not care so much. Although the parents found out, the inevitable scolding, we are still happy to do this kind of thing, so that parents can not be defended.
Waiting to come to the county on the high school, the school is in the suburbs, a distance from the county, coupled with the study time is tight, so the opportunity to come to the city to shop is not much. Every time I come, usually a big shopping, in addition to shopping center of the street two hundred and department stores, is full of street scurrying. In the summer, ice cream is every time to come to basically have to taste.
At that time in the current Central Avenue East, and the East Shuncheng Road intersection of that section of the place, every few steps there is a sorbet stall. The stall was very simple, with a simple screen tent surrounded by a few tables, and then purchased some plates, you can do business. The owner of the store from the ice bucket with a special tool to clip out the ice-cream piece by piece. The ice-cream is a piece of white ball, sliding back and forth in the plate, lovely.
I remember when I was a student, it was really hot in the summer, and the dogs chained to the poles in the sun were hot and spitting out their tongues, panting. I remember when it was noon, there were not many people on the street, I guess either nap, or hide in the house to avoid the summer heat, so I remember ice cream stalls generally do not have a lot of customers. In the quiet environment, I slowly ate ice-cream, slowly passing the time, the shopkeeper next to the daze, I do not know whether it is sleepy or have something on his mind. The first thing you need to do is to get a good deal of money from the company, and then you have to pay for it.
In the past, the piece of the North vegetable market, and now the Wuguocheng Road, there are a few ice-cream is very famous, and even invariably formed a brand. Last night went to a trip, the environment here is quite good, diners are also quite a lot. Ordered a sorbet, slowly tasting, think the taste is really good, after the entrance, slippery and not greasy, both with the freshness of the fruit, but also the sweetness of the cream, although the ice is cold, but the ice is just right, mild and not stimulate the mouth after eating there is still aftertaste. I think it's no wonder the business is so good, customers are the best word of mouth ah!
Yilan's culinary culture is profound, far more than just the above three, representative of the cake (silk cake, pie, tendon cake), stone barbecue, and so on, limited to my ignorance, said there are inevitably omissions and even bias, welcome to correct and supplement!