Times are changing, society is progressing, although it is said that everything is changing, but there are always some things are indelible, such as the banquet.

I remember the scene when I was a child in the countryside when I ate a banquet, not to mention how lively it was! Friends and relatives or neighbors encountered a house on the beam, birthday birthday, add a child imported, happy marriage, the old man passed away and other major events always have to hold a banquet, that is a major event in the village, six relatives nine family members uninvited. This kind of vast spectacle is only available in the countryside.

Before the banquet began, the table was covered with a red disposable tablecloth, the desktop has been set up with cigarettes, wine, tea and drinks, candy, peanuts, bowls and chopsticks, waiting for the guests to sit.

This snack on the desktop, called hot skin, is a Gannan Hakka specialty food. The hot skin is made of round-grained rice, soaked, grinded, steamed and dried in the sun into thin slices, which are then fried with sand to make a fluffy and tasty snack without oil. In addition, it can also be fried, shredded and boiled, etc., each practice has its own flavor.

At that time, the banquet was a personal affair, and the whole family was too busy to do anything about it. It was customary for people from their own families or from next door to come and help out at these events. Let's take a look at what they're cooking up!

Chicken soup:

An indispensable one! There's also turtle soup and the like.

Buckle Meat with Preserved Vegetables:

Buckle Meat with Preserved Vegetables, also known as Roasted Pork or Roasted Sliced Pork, is one of the most popular dishes in Ganzhou. The meat is fat but not greasy, and the food is soft and mellow. When I was a kid, I was looking forward to eating wine on the table!

Stuffed tofu:

Stuffed tofu is the first and foremost Hakka dish. The Hakka in Gannan, who married their daughters in their spare time, usually choose their own beans, grind them, fry them, and stuff them with bean curd.

Leaf blessing:

Nanan? The Lotus Bun Blessing? is a famous dish popular in the former Nan'an Province of Jiangxi Province (present-day Nankang, Dayu, Chongyi and Shangyu areas). Whenever there is a happy event, the main family to thank friends and relatives at the banquet are not missing? The blessing of the lotus bag is a blessing of the blessing of the lotus bag.

Gannan Fried Fish:

Gannan Fried Fish is a unique local dish in Gannan, which is known as "Three Fishes" in Ganzhou together with Fish Cake and Fish Dumpling.

Sour taro lotus fried fat intestines, duck Qing.

Fried taro and fat intestines, very Gannan characteristics of home cooking, but also often as a banquet dishes. Taro is the rhizome part of taro leaves, pickled with salt and made of pickled vegetables, with a special sour smell, very appetizing. It is perfect for stir-frying with fat intestines or other offal. Here the fat intestines are treated differently from elsewhere, the fat on the intestinal wall is cleaned very well and looks slightly transparent, the taste is Q-bouncy and tough, fragrant but not greasy.

Pig skin:

Pig skin is a local specialty. Pork rinds can be kept in a cool place for several months after deep-frying. The chef first soaks it in warm water to soften it, then add oil and salt and small onions and fry it over high heat. It is fragrant, soft and fresh, with original flavor.

Cold dish platter:

This cold dish is prepared in advance, brined bundled hooves sliced with deep-fried peanut rice, a good dish for drinking.

White chopped chicken:

White chopped chicken is not the same as in Guangdong, it should be rubbed with salt and then steamed, cut into very large chunks and garnished with chopped peppers and shredded pickled ginger.

Brisket:

Brisket and radish, pre-stewed brisket cut into strips and stir-fried with white radish with chili.

Braised turtle:

Steamed turtle. Snapper cut small and then fried in a frying pan once, and then stir-fried with chili peppers. The best thing about turtle should be the skirt, soft, smooth and fragrant. It is usually used in soup or braised.

Fried fish:

Fried fish is also made in advance, large grass carp cut into pieces and marinated, coated with sweet potato batter deep-fried into a golden brown, crispy outside and tender inside.

Stewed goose meat:

Stewed goose, Gannan region people prefer to eat goose, duck, the usual practice is to add chili red stew stew, fresh and delicious.

Brussels sprouts, cabbage:

There is so much meat at the banquet, meat dishes are inevitably tired, vegetarian dishes are more popular.

Braised pig's feet:

Pig's feet made very attractive, just too much meat dishes, on the table will be appetite! Well done not greasy at all.

The above is a standard configuration of dishes that can be eaten at a banquet when you were a child, a lot of dishes, the portion is very sufficient, although today's banquet is also there, but it is difficult to eat the flavor of the year, what has changed, not that lively atmosphere! I think in the city can not eat, and then look at the following: