Everyone in Yancheng has a delicious food of their own. The night market that Yancheng people yearn for is not a celebrity cafe or a literary bar on the internet, but a roadside stall in the streets.
This barbecue restaurant is a midnight food shop for countless Yancheng people. Chicken skewers and all kinds of vegetables are put into the oil pan, and the fragrance permeates the whole street.
The stall owner said that this fried snack is delicious because of his own secret sweet sauce, hot sauce and sweet and hot sauce.
In the corner of Yancheng, there are many delicious foods hidden. And these are delicious foods that have stood the test of time. There is no luxurious facade, relying on loyal diners who are passed down by word of mouth.
This wonton stall, a humble soup pot, turned out to be a mandarin duck pot, with the pot on the right cooking wonton and the shrimp skin soup pot on the left.
The stall owner said that the soul of his wonton is the soup made from this bowl of shrimp shells.
At night, the nightlife market in Yancheng lights up one by one.
The new landmark of nightlife is synonymous with the best fashion in Yancheng, Nong Xin. Li Xinnong Street Night Market is located in Yannan High-tech Zone. On the southeast side of the square, there is a "food market" that gathers all kinds of snacks in the north and south of the Yangtze River. Street snacks are steaming hot.
To say that in this new alley block, Yancheng snacks and food can be caught in the net, it is this potato cavity. The sweet potato cavity is full of "accent", and the dazzling array of snacks is dazzling and overwhelming.
The mung bean jelly in Yancheng is clear and crystal clear. Brush with bean jelly, pour in peanuts, coriander, pickles and soup and stir. This is the simplest summer temptation.
The stinky tofu in Yancheng comes from Dongtai, which is twice as thick as other places and tastes sweet and sour.
Yancheng is located in the plain, and local people like to eat pork. Cold dishes made of pig's head meat, pig's tail, pig's ears and pig's door cavity have rich, smooth and different tastes.
The paste in this cauldron is Subei fried dumpling cake. After the cooked noodles are fermented, they are quickly pasted on the pot, which is the authentic way for farmers in northern Jiangsu to eat.
Jianhu lotus root starch jiaozi is the most famous specialty snack in Yancheng with a history of more than 200 years.
Lotus root starch is used as raw material, with white sugar, jujube paste and sesame as stuffing, which is soaked in boiling water for many times.
What is being cut is Funing pie, which is mainly refined from glutinous rice flour. The cake slices are as white as snow, with the sweetness and chewiness of glutinous rice.
Yan Wang, head of the restaurant:
"Qianlong emperor gave it to me, called jade belt cake. Glutinous rice is fragrant, sweet and glutinous, especially chewy. "
In the past, Yancheng people ate sweet potatoes three times a day. In the season without sweet potatoes, people will dry raw sweet potatoes and cook them with barley into dry porridge.
Stir-fry the broad beans slowly, without adding oil, so that they will be crispy and brown. Rinse with boiling water, add star anise, onion and ginger, cook for about 25 minutes, take out and dry, then mix with vegetable oil, garlic and salt. This fried broad bean is also unique to Yancheng.
Have you ever eaten dumplings and seen fried dumplings? This is a memorable hometown dish in Yancheng. After glutinous rice is boiled into noodles, it is scalded into small balls, fried in oil pan until golden brown, and served with black and white sesame seeds and sugar. It is a distinguished food for guests.
Jiangsu sauce duck head, with star anise, fennel, pepper, cardamom, onion ginger, dried pepper and carved wine, not only retains the sauce technique, but also increases the sweetness, making the taste more in line with the taste of Yancheng people.
What other specialties can Yancheng night market eat? This Subei grass chicken soup is definitely worth a taste.
Grass chicken is a hen that the local people live in the fruit forest and feed on fruits and insects. The growth cycle is one year.
The practice of grass chicken soup is quite simple, but it embodies many skills. After blanching with water, combine with mountain spring water, add chicken blood and stew for three hours.
After the grass chicken soup in northern Jiangsu is ready, add a little salt when it is out of the pot and carry it to the diners in a sedan chair, which is usually unsealed by distinguished guests. Of course, there will be allegro before the soup is served.
Chef Zhang Xu:
"This bowl of soup is clear and bright, and the chicken is soft. Many foreign diners have come all the way here just to drink this bowl of chicken soup."
The earth geese, also scattered among reeds, are the best choice for Yancheng people to hang geese and roast them. Blanch the goose in a large iron pot, and then add rapeseed oil and lard to fry together, which can produce the fragrance of goose. After that, onions, ginger, spices, sauces, beer and broth are the key to simmering roast goose.
Add goose blood, dried orchids and other ingredients to the roasted goose, and simmer for one hour. The oily goose oil is saturated with goose meat, which makes people drool.
Yanfu soft package is a traditional famous dish in Jiangsu province, and it is also the most famous dish in Huaiyang cuisine. Soft pocket is eel, and Yancheng people also call it "long fish". Yanfu soft pocket is made of long fish with a pen. Boned the long fish, then spread the leek on the bottom of the casserole and quickly pour in the black pepper juice.
When eating, use an alcohol stove to heat it at the bottom, and the flavors of wine, leeks and long fish shreds are mixed together.
Jiaozi, the lotus root in Yancheng, is also different from other places. Generally, lotus roots are steamed or stewed, while Yancheng lotus roots are fried. Cut lotus root into mud, squeeze out water, add egg, onion, ginger and minced meat, and stir well to form jiaozi. Lotus root zongzi is wrapped in rice. After frying, the appearance is clear, the filling is soft, fat but not greasy.
Fat Loki shrimp, cut from the inside, stir-fried with high oil temperature, and then stir-fried with homemade sauce and sauce, crisp and tender.
The Dazong Lake in Yancheng is rich in shrimps and crabs, and there are also many rhubarb. After cleaning, brew with Yancheng Chenpi wine, Chinese liquor, lemon, star anise, cinnamon, coriander and fragrant leaves.
Chef Zhang Xu:
"Some women and children actually like to eat drunken crabs, but the taste of carved wine is unacceptable. Chenpi wine is different, it is sweet, with a little wine flavor, and it is combined with this crab. "
After two to three hours, the meat is tender and fragrant, and the intoxicating drunken crab is full of fragrance.
At night, Yancheng Binhai County is brightly lit. Binhai County is named after the Yellow Sea in the east, with a tidal flat area of 106 square kilometers and a salt flat of 6,000 hectares. Abundant marine resources also provide inexhaustible ingredients for local people.
Coastal people like to fill sausages, use the first-class hind leg meat, cut into pieces, mix with homemade seasoning, and then fill them into the small intestine, dry and steam them, which is sweet and delicious.
Of course, coastal people are also good at being little seafood. Wash dried mussels and cuttlefish with clear water, blanch with shredded white radish, and then stir-fry with onion and ginger. Add the broth and adjust the taste. Braised mussels with radish and black seeds is simple and refreshing.
The coastal people call herring "miscellaneous meat". Put the homemade fish soup and herring into the pot, add cooking wine and cook for 10 minute, then add the soaked peanuts and pickles, and the soup will be thick. The assorted meat along the coast tastes delicious.
"Drunkenness" is still the protagonist on the table of coastal people.
Drunk snails and drunken crabs are so drunk. Spray white wine, add homemade seasoning such as ginger and garlic and soak for more than 6 hours.
When we arrive in Binhai, how can we miss the rice and crispy rice cooked by Tujia people?
Wash rice, dice vegetables and bacon, stir-fry onion and ginger until fragrant, add minced bacon and vegetables, add rice, and cook or boil. Add vegetable oil to the pot, then add steamed vegetable rice and stir-fry until it is crisp, and it becomes a crispy rice pot with both vegetable and rice.
Coastal people eat sweet potatoes in various ways. Soak dried Portulaca oleracea in clear water, wash, chop, add minced meat, onion and ginger, and adjust the taste. Then slice the sweet potato, steam it, knead it into a ball with pure sweet potato powder, wrap it with purslane stuffing and steam it, and it is the sweet potato jiaozi.
Desserts made from sweet potatoes are also very popular, and rock sugar sweet potatoes rank first. Peel and wash the sweet potato, add rock sugar, honey and water, and burn for an hour and a half. Sweet potato is soft and sticky.
Nowadays, nightlife full of fireworks appears in Yancheng every night.
The new lane is bustling and the Haitang Garden is crowded. The light and shadow show of a large unmanned ship-"The Ship Says Begonia" is being staged brilliantly. The formation of unmanned ships appeared with bright lights, and dancers dressed as Haitang fairies danced lightly, creating a colorful symphony poem together. Yancheng, this city is getting more and more exciting!
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