1. Special snacks and famous shops in Wuhan
1. Laotongcheng-Sanxian Doupi
"Laotongcheng" is the name of a large restaurant located at Dazhi Road (No.1 Dazhi Road), Zhongshan Avenue, Hankou. It is famous for its famous snacks Sanxian Doupi, and is known as the "King of Doupi". Founded in 1931, this restaurant was originally located outside Dazhimen, the ancient Hankou Castle, and it was a passageway between urban and rural areas, so it was named Tongcheng dessert shop. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, it resumed its business and changed to your old Tongcheng dessert shop. This shop imitates the traditional snack bean skin in Hubei, is determined to improve it, and is very popular with sweets. The preparation method is to mix mung beans and rice and grind them into pulp, spread them into thin skin in a pot, wrap them with cooked glutinous rice, diced meat and other fillings, and fry them in oil. Senior chef Gaojin 'an strives for perfection, making stuffing mainly from fresh meat, fresh eggs and fresh shrimps, and creating three fresh bean skins. The leather bag is golden and shiny, the entrance is crisp and tender, and it is more stewed. Mao Zedong tasted it four times and appreciated it every time. Foreigners and foreign guests come to Wuhan to eat the old Tongcheng bean skin as soon as possible.
2. Four Seasons-Mei Tang Bao
"Four Seasons Beauty" is the name of a snack bar located at No.992 Zhongshan Avenue (near Jianghan Road) in Hankou, which means that food is served all year round, such as fried spring rolls in spring, cold food in summer, fried hairy crabs in autumn and crisp cakes in winter. It opened in 1927 and its business is booming. Later, senior chef Zhong Shengchu and others made-style Wuhan-style steamed dumplings in this store, which was well received by customers and was known as the "King of Soup Bags", making this store a soup bag house mainly supplying steamed dumplings. They pay attention to stuffing and strict selection of materials. First, they chop the fresh pork leg into paste, then mix it with aspic and other condiments, wrap it in a thin dough, steam it in a cage, and the aspic becomes soup. The paste is fresh and tender, seven in a cage, and served with shredded ginger sauce and vinegar, which is extremely delicious. In order to meet the needs of different customers, in addition to fresh meat soup packets, they should also make crab yellow soup packets, shrimp soup packets, mushroom soup packets, chicken minced soup packets and assorted soup packets.
3. The Story of Cai Lin-Regan Noodles
Regan Noodles, together with Daoxiao Noodles, Yifumian, Dandan Noodles, Sichuan and Zhajiang Noodles in the north, is known as the five famous faces in China. It is not only different from cold noodles, but also different from noodle soup. The production method is that noodles are basically cooked first, then they are brought together to drain oil and spread out for cooling. When eating, they are boiled in boiling water for a few times, drained, and mixed with sesame sauce, shrimp, chopped green onion, diced pickled radish, sesame oil and vinegar. When it is catchy, it is fragrant and chewy.
Regan Noodles originated from Li Bao, a noodle soup seller in Changdi Street, Hankou in the early 193s. He was afraid that the unsold noodle soup would turn sour and deteriorate, so he fished it up and hung it on the record. He accidentally knocked down the oil pot, and he mixed the spilled sesame oil into the noodles. The next day, he boiled these noodles in boiling water for a few times, fished them up and mixed them with seasonings. They were steaming and fragrant, which made people scramble to buy food. He blurted out, "Regan Noodles". People say that Regan Noodles is good, and he has monopolized this aspect ever since. Some food vendors saw that his business was booming, so they learned from him and sold them. Now there are Regan Noodles pavilions and stalls everywhere in the streets of Wuhan, which is one of the breakfast snacks that Wuhan people like to eat in the morning. Cai Lin Ji Regan Noodles Pavilion is one of the most distinctive and famous ones.
The Regan Noodles Pavilion of Cai Linji was originally located at No.854 Zhongshan Avenue in Hankou, facing the water tower. Now it is a chain operation, with several stores in three towns of Wuhan.
4. Tan Yanji-Dumplings
Tan Yanji Dumplings Restaurant is located at No.384 Zhongshan Avenue in Hankou, not far from Liji Road. It was founded in 192 by Tan Zhixiang, a native of Huangpi. Specializing in dumplings for nearly 8 years, he has a unique skill in making dumplings. From meat selection, ingredients, taste, stuffing, system to package, soup, cooking and other processes, there are strict standards, such as making stuffing with fresh pork leg and beef leg, boiling soup with pig's trotters, and adding condiments such as shrimp, mushrooms, parsley and chopped green onion to make dumplings tender, fresh in soup and beautiful in shape. In addition to the traditional fresh meat dumplings, the famous teacher Tan Yinshan has successively developed new varieties such as mushroom dumplings, factory rice dumplings, three fresh dumplings, chicken dumplings and shrimp dumplings in recent years to adapt to the tastes of different diners.
5. Shunxiangju-Roasted Plum
"Shunxiangju" is located at the intersection of Hualou Street and Jiaotong Road in Hankou, and it is an old shop that has been engaged in burning plum with heavy oil for nearly 5 years. The plum oil in this shop is heavy but not greasy. It is shaped like a chrysanthemum, delicious and has a long-standing reputation.
Roasted plum is made by cutting fat pork, steamed bread, orange cake, peanuts, crystal sugar, raisins, etc. into small dices, slightly frying, and then blending with osmanthus fragrans, red and green silk and white sugar to make stuffing. Add appropriate amount of water to flour, add a little salt and knead, wake up for about 3 minutes, rub strips, cut into small pieces, sprinkle dry starch on the table, roll into lotus leaves to form thin skin, add stuffing and add a little sesame oil. Or fried, or baked, or steamed. Its taste is sweet and delicious, and it is deeply loved by the masses.
6. Fuqinghe-Beef Rice Noodles
"Fuqinghe" is located at No.855, Zhongshan Avenue, Hankou, near Liuduqiao, and is famous for its rice noodles with Hunan flavor. The powder is smooth and delicious.
7. Wufangzhai-Tangyuan
Wuhan Wufangzhai Restaurant was set up by Mr. Ni Jincai in the 35th year of the Republic of China, and its business name was "Shanghai Wufangzhai" (founded in the eighth year of Xianfeng in Qing Dynasty), and its business place was located at No.133 Zhongshan Avenue. At the beginning, it employed more than ten workers, and its business (production) area was tens of square meters until liberation.
Wufangzhai Restaurant, located at No.723 Zhongshan Avenue (formerly No.1171) in Hankou, has been established for more than a hundred years, from small to large, from private to public-private partnership, and even to national enterprises. Wufangzhai takes high quality and low price as its core. Since 1991, it has successively won three gold medals in the provincial (municipal) commercial system, and is known as "King of Tang Yuan", "King of Zongzi" and "King of Cake Group". In 1993, approved by the Ministry of Commerce, it was awarded to "Wufangzhai Restaurant in Jiang 'an District, Wuhan" and "Doing a Good Job as an Old Brand" to publish articles, asking other old brands to follow suit.
The establishment and development of Wufangzhai has been well-known in three towns for more than a hundred years. Today, Wufangzhai in Wuhan has expanded from a single snack variety of "Ningbo Tangyuan" to dozens of multi-flavor tangyuan and quick-frozen series, which can be supplied all year round. Continuous reform and development, focusing on quality, price and service, have gained the initiative of market competition and the praise of consumers.
8. Xiaotaoyuan-simmering soup
"Xiaotaoyuan" is the name of a snack bar located at No.64 Lanling Road, Shengli Street, Hankou. The store was founded in 1946, where two vendors, Tao and Yuan, set up tents and stalls, dealing in snacks such as fried dough sticks and soybean milk. Later, the two companies cooperated to manage simmering soup, and the name of the store was "Xiao Tao Yuan", which was homophonic as "Xiao Taoyuan" after liberation, and was a famous "simmering soup expert". The main varieties of this shop are crock chicken soup, sparerib soup, pettitoes soup, bafeng soup, foot fish soup, beef soup, duck soup and so on. Pot chicken soup is the most famous, and its raw material is the fat hen weighing more than one and a half kilograms in Xiaogan, Bo Huang. It is chopped into chicken pieces, stir-fried with a chain saw, and then poured into a pot with boiling water. It is cooked with strong fire and simmered thoroughly with low fire. The soup is original and nutritious, and it is a nourishing top grade for the elderly, patients and parturients. Bafeng soup and other grain soups are also featured in various counties, which are delicious and deeply loved by diners.