This paper participates in the theme essay of "Hometown/Hometown Cuisine" in the activity of welcoming Class 5

My hometown, Hohhot, is the capital of Inner Mongolia. Geographically speaking, it is the Yinshan Mountain in the north, the Yellow River in the south, and the end is a land of geomantic treasures. The history of the city can be traced back to the pre-Qin period, when King Wuling of Zhao set up Yunzhong County (so it was located in Tuoketuo County, southwest of Hohhot). During the Republic of China, it was the capital of Suiyuan Province. After the merger of Mongolia and Suiyuan, Hohhot became the capital of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. The central city of Hohhot was originally formed by the merger of Guihua City and Suiyuan City in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, hence the name Guisui. In 1954, it was renamed Hohhot, which means "blue city" in Mongolian.

It may be related to the singleness of propaganda films in the past. When talking about Inner Mongolia, people think of grasslands, horses and yurts. In the past, Hohhot was also a vast grassland in the impression of outsiders. When I went out or chatted online, I was asked: Do you all ride horses when you go out? Is that milk flowing from the tap? Can I surf the Internet in the yurt? .....

Well, Hohhot is actually a very modern city, with many high-rise buildings, convenient transportation, airport, high-speed rail and subway.

ahem, I can't stop saying too much at the beginning. Today's protagonist is not the city, but the food.

There are many delicious foods in Hohhot, such as haggis, roasted seeds, oat noodles, steamed dumplings, milk tea and so on. I want to introduce steamed dumplings.

steamed dumplings in Hohhot is different from steamed dumplings, which is steamed with glutinous rice in Guangzhou and other parts of the south. It is packed with pure mutton, and there is nothing but onion and ginger seasoning. After steaming, steamed dumplings looks like a flower from above, and its skin is translucent. When it is served on the table, it is hot and delicious, and people can't help eating one after another. Nowadays, for the convenience of foreign tourists, Hohhot has specially invested to build a street in steamed dumplings, where almost all the city's time-honored brands have opened branches, and tourists can slowly taste them one by one.

Traditional steamed dumplings in Hohhot is stuffed with mutton. In recent years, there are more foreigners traveling. It seems that there are also beef and vegetarian stuffing besides traditional tastes, but there is almost no pork. It is said that in the early years, most steamed dumplings pavilions were run by Hui people, so they only made mutton and beef. Although there are quite a few Han people who open steamed dumplings Pavilion now, they have basically continued this custom.

steamed dumplings with brick tea is the best breakfast for the old Hohhot people. Three or five friends meet in one place, a few pots of brick tea in steamed dumplings, plus a few petals of pickled garlic and a dish of rotten pickles, which can kill the whole morning while chatting, comparable to the morning tea of old Guangzhou people.

In the area around the old city of Hohhot, when you walk into a steamed dumplings Pavilion in the morning, you can hear greetings from the Hohhot accent:

In order to post pictures, I found several pictures of steamed dumplings on the Internet, but it didn't attract others, so I actually hooked up my own greedy worm first.

After thinking about it, I haven't eaten steamed dumplings for a long time. Well, I've decided to eat it tomorrow weekend morning. You don't have to go far. There is a famous old shop, Old Suiyuan steamed dumplings Pavilion, in the commercial street downstairs of my house.