Speaking of Xinyang snacks, the first thing that comes to mind is Regan Noodles. Strictly speaking, Regan Noodles is not a special feature of Xinyang. It was originally a Wuhan delicacy, but after it was introduced to Xinyang, it became the favorite of Xinyang people. Strange to say, except Xinyang, Regan Noodles is not popular in other places in Henan Province, or there is no market. Even in Xinyang area, it is limited to Xinyang city, and there are few other counties and districts. \x0d\\x0d\ Regan Noodles, which was introduced to Xinyang and occupied the leading position in snacks, has different tastes from its hometown of Regan Noodles. We say that Regan Noodles's practice is different from other noodles. First of all, the amount of alkali needed for dough mixing is much larger than that for ordinary noodles. Noodles with a lot of alkali are yellow. And the noodles should not be too thin, otherwise it will affect the taste. Good noodles are dry and wet, but they should be cooked before eating. This time, you can only cook it until it is raw. You can't eat noodles if they are overcooked. Take out the freshly cut noodles, rinse them with cold boiled water, then pour in small ground oil or cooked vegetable oil, mix the noodles evenly, spread them out and cool them. When it's time to eat, rinse it with boiling water, and then add seasoning to eat. \x0d\\x0d\ Presumably, the reason why Reagan noodles are not popular in other places is that it has a lot to do with spices. The condiment used in Xinyang Regan Noodles contains fresh fragrant powder, which can't be bought in other places, even in a big city like Zhengzhou. I think this is one of the reasons why Regan Noodles can't open the market in Zhengzhou. Scoop a spoonful of sesame paste into the cooked Reagan noodles in boiling water, add fresh fragrant powder and pepper, then pour in bean paste and soy sauce, add some monosodium glutamate, sprinkle with chopped mustard tuber, green chopped green onion and fresh coriander, and finally pour in some sesame oil. If you like spicy food, you can eat some boiled red pepper oil. Unless you have a strong taste, you generally don't ask for salt, because the bean paste is already very salty. Reagan noodles are delicious, smell delicious and attractive. Noodles taste flexible, chewy but not sticky, delicious and salty, which really makes people want to stop. Therefore, Regan Noodles is the first choice for breakfast in Xinyang. Just Reagan noodles. \ x0d \ x0d \ The morning market was dominated by the unshakable banner of Reagan noodles. One kind of snack is very popular, and that is glutinous rice balls. Some places are also called noodle nests. It is not difficult to do this. Soak glutinous rice and grind it into slurry, and add the ground soybean milk. Soymilk is really a good thing, and its importance is not mentioned for the time being. Add salt, chopped green onion and chopped Jiang Mo to the two kinds of pulp, and mix well. Put the frying pan on the shelf and you can fry the dumplings. This snack has such a name because the tools used are quite special. You need a flat-bottomed spoon with a diameter of about 4 inches. This spoon is concave around and convex in the middle, just like a hill on the flat ground. Soak the spoon in hot oil before cooking to prevent rice paste from sticking to the spoon. Then quickly lift the spoon, scoop in a spoonful of rice slurry, sprinkle with a handful of sesame seeds, and then immerse in boiling hot oil. Rice slurry flows to the four sides of the spoon, and the protruding place in the middle naturally becomes a hollow circle. A spoonful of steamed buns can be fried in half a minute at most. Use oil to control the fried spoon bread and you can eat it. Soybean milk spoon steamed bread is crispy and delicate, and its taste is soft and tender. If you don't add soy milk or add too little, it will not only be easy to fry, but also not crisp. Some sellers steal bait and add flour, so the taste of spoons and buns will be greatly reduced. It tastes like oil cake, which is laborious and not delicious. Speaking of pancakes, I remember. In Xinyang morning market, you can hardly see oil cakes, because oil cakes only appear on the table. Speaking of oil cakes, Xinyang's oil cakes are not simply fried with a piece of bread. Strictly speaking, they should be called pies, but they are cooked with oil. The fried oil cake is crispy on both sides, soft and tender, which is also worthy of praise. \ x0d \ x0d \ glutinous rice balls are rare now, and fewer and fewer people sell them, because it is more troublesome to make, not as easy as dry noodles, and the materials are more particular. Although it's delicious, it's not as easy as before. A company has been making glutinous rice balls for several years. Although the place is partial, the business is good. Every time I go back, as long as I can get up early, I will rush to the queue. \ x0d \ x0d \ bean curd is the most common in the morning market. It seems that when something arrives in Xinyang, it will always change its face and become a school of its own. Let's just say that this tofu has long been sweet and salty. The seasoning added to this salty tofu is actually very simple, nothing more than tussah powder, bean paste, or a handful of sesame seeds, but it tastes particularly refreshing. \x0d\\x0d\ If Reagan noodles were the dominant player in the early market, then the protectors around them were tofu and fried dough sticks. Fried dough sticks belong to the public and public food, and can be seen everywhere. But in Xinyang, it is necessary to change this very common thing. Roll it up with thousands of sheets and add some pickles. It's not greasy, salty and delicious. \ x0d \ x0d \ Besides, there are many varieties to choose from. Xinyang people added instant noodles to their breakfast, but this practice has also been changed. Put the bread boiled in boiling water into a bowl with a colander, scoop up the steaming sparerib soup and sprinkle with onion and garlic. You can add eggs, yuba, bean skin and thousands of pieces of silk. In short, there are many additional products, so you can choose carefully! \ x0d \ x0d \ and steamed bread are also indispensable main ingredients. As long as you have breakfast in Xinyang, steamed buns can be seen everywhere. It can be said that as long as you want to do business early and don't want to be too troublesome, three things are enough. These are noodles, tofu and steamed bread. There are also popular soup dumplings, but the technical content of soup dumplings is very high, and it takes some effort to make stuffing. Naturally, I can't compare with steamed buns everywhere. Then there are many companions of steamed buns, exquisite steamed dumplings, lying quietly in the steamer, and the translucent dough can vaguely see the attractive stuffing; The fried dumplings with burnt dough lie in rows in the pot, and the half-opened dough seems to send a signal to people: this China flavor is irresistible! \ x0d \ x0d \ Even rice noodles have become a part of breakfast. In other places, this is at least a Chinese meal or dinner, but in Xinyang, this rice noodle is actually mixed in the breakfast market. It can't be said that Xinyang breakfast has a large capacity and many varieties. Others, such as beef meatball soup, vegetable box, egg filling cake, spread cake, wonton and soybean milk, are the most common. \ x0d \ x0d \ Breakfast has passed, and there are many special snacks. In fact, after all, there are only a few kinds of snacks, but they are different in practice and taste, so the same thing has become a local feature in different places. Take this kebab as an example. It comes from Xinjiang, but kebabs in different places have different flavors. Just like in Xinyang, the name of the mutton kebab is still the same, but the difference is that its size has changed. A few small pieces of mutton kebab are on a thin long string, which is no longer as big as the mutton kebab in my hometown. Although the mutton pieces on the skewers are smaller, they taste better. It may be easy to taste when you are young. Turn it on a charcoal fire rack for a few minutes, brush the oil evenly with a small brush, sprinkle with fine salt and cumin, and that's it, but the meat is tender and smooth, which is an irresistible food.