Chifeng's famous local breakfast specialty, "Pair of Pincers"!

In China's profound food culture, Inner Mongolia's cuisine occupies an important place. Among them, Chifeng Pair of Folders is not only attractive, but also has its own story.

Chifeng to clip is Chifeng's unique traditional food, is a kind of shortening in the middle of the biscuit wrapped in smoked pork, shaped like a meat sandwich local snacks, to date, has a hundred years of history, by the local people's favorite.

It is said that in 1917, the early years of the Republic of China, Hebei Su Wenyu, Su Debiao father and son forced to live, to the Jehol region of Chifeng City to do business, when Chifeng has a very famous baklava called "Hada Huoyu," the Su family sold baklava to make a living. Due to the sale of biscuits, so the Su family's biscuits are not very good, and then the Su family father and son was inspired by the hometown "donkey meat barbecue", the Hada barbecue, donkey meat barbecue and Su Debiao early in Beijing Yushenglou meat store as an apprentice when the stolen learning of the Palace Imperial smoked meat technology together, with the surface of the skin, wrapped in the middle of the smoked pork, to create a With a unique process and flavor of the "sandwich meat burrito", named "on the folder", at that time to sell hot Hada burn Chifeng Street created a reputation, and quickly became popular, since then, "on the folder Since then, "Pair of folder", which represents Chifeng's specialty snacks, was born. Su family started the first to specialize in the sale of pairs of folder stores opened, located in the first street, named Fushenglong.

In the long-term business practice, Fushenglong formed a unique snack culture. According to the "Zhaoda style" book records, go to Fushenglong buy pairs of folder, the store is clean and tidy, the shopkeeper smiling face to welcome, must first ask the customer, "to fat and thin, or want to fine meat?" Then, according to the customer's request, the bacon is cut and weighed, and then the bacon is sliced into thin slices and loaded into the half-open layer of the baklava, and a pair of sandwiches will be made on the spot. If eaten in the store, it is served with wontons and seaweed soup with cilantro and shrimp as auxiliary ingredients; if taken away, it is wrapped in red and green plywood paper and bundled with paper strings to make it easy for customers to carry. In addition, Fushenglong sold pairs of folder, no matter winter and summer, pairs of folder skin always sell hot, never sell cold. Later, Chifeng specializing in the sale of pairs of stores countless, but this "hot to the customer" method of service has been consistently inherited.

The traditional practice of Chifeng pairs of folder is in a certain proportion of flour, oil and water, and then add salt, vanadium, five spice noodles and a little sugar and into a dough kneaded and woke up, rolled into a thin sheet, smeared with a layer of millet flour and lard made of shortening, rolled up, pulled into a small dough cake molded into the oven to bake, and then into the bacon.

The key to Chifeng's good food is the crispiness of the pancake and the flavor of the bacon.

Chifeng to clip with the baklava from the "pitchfork baklava", and ordinary sesame baklava difference is in addition to different in the noodle and the production process, but also from the hanging furnace out of the baklava, and then ghee mixed with minced meat noodles in the appearance of the smear again, set to a kind of iron pitchfork, back to the furnace to the fire to re-bake again, so that the baklava, crispy on the outside, soft on the inside, and then bacon flavor. The baklava, crispy on the outside and soft on the inside, has a unique flavor.

And Chifeng on the folder within the bacon is also very careful, "on the folder" in the folder of meat is best fat and thin bacon, that is, the meat is cooked and dried, smoked with sugar color. The meat is cooked and flavored with a dozen or so selected ingredients, fragrant but not greasy.

The authentic Chifeng pairs of folder, the outer skin of the golden, layered, delicate meat, smoked aroma, lean but not firewood, fat but not greasy, tough but not broken, burnt incense overflowing, crispy and crunchy mouth, the aftertaste is long. Chifeng pair of folder is therefore called "China's folder meat burger".

Chifeng pair of sandwich is deservedly Chifeng food card, but also Chifeng people nostalgia support. The famous Chifeng writer Ma Boyong once went into the CCTV "Delicious China" program to introduce the Chifeng pairs of folder, so that the whole country people recognize this Chifeng food.

In 2011, the Chifeng pair of folder by the Catering Association as China's famous snacks. 2017 October, Chifeng pair of folder technology is recognized as "Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region intangible cultural heritage". As Chifeng's unique snack, Chifeng pairs of folder with its delicious has been recognized by more and more outsiders.