Bayiji mutton soup is well-made, and it is very particular about the use of meat (all young goats raised locally), cooking, ingredients, processing and utensils. The original Bayiji mutton soup is made: a big pot with a half-meter-high iron sheet around it, put the whole lamb rack and mutton offal into it, use a big fire (wood firewood is better) to top the bleeding foam, then put the seasoning (angelica dahurica, cinnamon, Amomum tsao-ko, dried tangerine peel, almond, etc.) into the pot, and add a proper amount of green onions and ginger, and simmer slowly with a small fire to make the bones. When the soup is cooked, use a large sea bowl, add spicy sheep oil, cut a few thin slices of mutton, rinse the boiling soup into the bowl, add a little salted vegetables (coriander) and seasoning, and a bowl of delicious and spicy mutton soup will be made. Never add ingredients such as vegetables and vermicelli, which will hurt the taste of the soup. The special feature of the mutton soup of Bayiji lies in its soup. Everyone in the old street knows the saying, "Eight-Yi-Ji mutton (meat) soup keeps burning", and the authentic eight-Yi-Ji mutton soup can only produce less than one pot of soup every day from a stove. The soup is as white as cereal, so thick that it can be pulled into a line with chopsticks, and it will not break when it grows to half a foot. The taste is really unique, and it is comfortable to drink it.
Bayiji mutton soup was the first in Huaihai Campaign, and it was sent to the front line together with the pancakes baked by the people in the war zone. When they were soaked, they quickly made delicious food, which won valuable time for our soldiers to win the battle. It is said that after the founding of the People's Republic of China, several generals such as Su Yu, Chen Yi, and 1, when passing through Xuzhou, praised Bayiji mutton soup and asked for a second taste by name. Since then, Bayiji Mutton Soup Restaurant has blossomed everywhere near Xuzhou, and merchants have to stop in and out of this battleground for military strategists. Cats enter the Mutton Soup Restaurant on the side of the national road and get addicted to mutton soup in the spicy smell of sweating.
Although the production technology of Bayi set mutton soup is simple, the same chef, mutton, process, condiments and cauldron produce Bayi set, but the taste of Bayi set mutton soup can't be boiled, just like the stinky tofu of Bayi set "goes bad as soon as it goes out of town". The reason is also very simple. Whether it is mutton soup or stinky tofu, it is not only the skills, raw materials and utensils that cultivate them, but also the unique water, soil, light, heat, customs, spirit, traditions and habits of Bayi Collection, which are like delicate buds. Only when they are rooted in the soil of the ancient town of Bayi Collection can these two kinds of delicacies give generate a strong vitality and thrive.