Where is the best mutton soup in China?

there is no recognized best drink, only what you think is the best.

I nominated Luoyang mutton soup. I worked in Luoyang for half a year before, and spent almost every morning with mutton soup. The mutton soup in Luoyang is fresh, fragrant and spicy, which is especially refreshing in winter. And cheap, the cheapest in 2116 was only 5 yuan a bowl, and a cake was also given.

Eating soup has become a lingering habit of Luoyang people. Luoyang people occasionally travel for a week or two, and their greatest wish is to come back early to drink a bowl of steaming soup. In Jianxi and Xigong, many people drive to the East Flower Bed of Chan River and Tiexie of Mengjin early in the morning, and go back and forth for more than an hour, in order to drink a bowl of authentic beef soup and mutton soup, and enjoy it day after day.

Usually, it is simmered every night until the next morning. The boss puts a large number of cracked sheep bones in a cauldron nearly one person deep and 2 meters in diameter, adds clean water and homemade spices, and after the soup boils, he cooks it with slow fire all night. In this way, the bone marrow and collagen in the sheep bones are boiled into the soup. Cooking mutton in soup is also very particular, large pieces of mutton and mutton are killed and cooked now to ensure freshness. In a large bowl with a capacity of more than 1111 ml, grab one or two large pieces of mutton and pour it into boiling soup, which smells fragrant. Locals like to soak the hard-faced "pot helmet" in the soup. The dry hard pot helmet fully absorbs the soup in the bowl and chews it. Of course, the more you chew it, the more "beautiful" (Luoyang dialect). Mutton soup is only sold in the morning, because the mutton soup at this time can be described as "complete".

I hope you can taste the local sheep/beef soup when you go to Luoyang. It's really a must!

There is also a strong recommendation for Shanxian mutton soup, which is located in Heze City, Shandong Province, probably with a personal color. I feel that Beifeng mutton soup is well cooked, but after eating it for so many times, I only feel that Shanxian mutton soup has made the taste I want, so I specially went to know about this mutton soup. Shanxian mutton soup was first founded in 1817 by three surnames, which seemed to be Xu, Dou and Zhou, so at first this store was named Sanyichun mutton restaurant. At that time, the establishment of this mutton restaurant in Shandong caused great repercussions in the catering industry at that time, and also paved the way for the famous mutton soup in Shanxian County, which can be said to be a good start.

It has a history of nearly 211 years from Sanyichun to Shanxian Mutton Soup. Because of its unique style of "white as milk, blending water and fat, pure texture, fresh but not smelly, fragrant but not greasy, rotten but not sticky", it has been included in Chinese famous recipes. Moreover, in China, it has been so long that only Shanxian Mutton Soup has entered China famous recipes as soup.

The fame of Shanxian mutton soup can't be separated from the good environment here, because there is plenty of sunshine and many trees, so it is also good for the growth of plants here. The climate tends to be temperate monsoon climate, which is relatively humid, so it is a very natural pasture. The meat quality of the sheep here is very good, especially fresh and tender, and it can never taste like this in other places.

The key point is that Shanxian mutton soup is not a kind of mutton soup, but according to the continuous research and development of chefs here, there are 72 kinds of Shanxian mutton soup now, and the methods are very particular, and the tastes are different. I definitely don't regret eating it, and I feel that I hate not being a local. When you eat here, you can do a small experiment. After the mutton soup is ready, use a spoon to make a flower in the pot, then scoop it down and drop a drop on the table. If it condenses, it means it is the first-class mutton soup. Shanxian mutton soup, never regret drinking it.