Chaoshan is known as "Zou Lu on the seashore", and the Chaoshan plain adjacent to the seashore is rich in products and beautiful in environment. Many people think of Chaoshan delicacies when they mention Chaoshan, such as raw seafood, refreshing hand-grabbed beef balls, ancient dumplings in Malao Palace, fresh oysters, delicious Chaoshan braised goose and so on. What I want to introduce here is a famous snack in Chaoshan, a famous pastry food in Chaoshan-sugar onion pancake.
Sugar onion thin ice is wrapped with sugar onion and a round cake, with sesame and peanuts as auxiliary materials. The so-called sugar onion is made of maltose and white sugar, which takes a long time to pull. Sugar chefs usually hang sugar onions on special wood and pull them repeatedly until the sugar is crisp and has a certain toughness. After pulling, the color of the sugar onion is white, and there are many long holes in the middle of the sugar onion, just like stacking a bunch of onions together, so it is named sugar onion. When making sugar onion pancakes, cut the sugar onion into long strips. The most traditional sugar onion has 16 holes in each slice. At this time, the sugar onion is crispy and delicious, with a faint maltose fragrance, sweet and refreshing.
Pancakes are made of flour and water. First, they should be synthesized into flour slurry. The thinness of flour paste is regulated, because it is necessary to ensure the toughness of pancakes. Then scoop a spoonful of batter with a spoon and put it on a heated iron plate or an iron pan with cooking oil. In the production process, the master should always use tools to smooth and round the batter. It only takes five minutes to make a pancake, and a skilled master can finish it with a touch. The action is very agile. The pancakes should be wrapped with wet cloth to avoid losing water, inflexibility or hardening.
After the two main ingredients are ready, all that is needed is wrapping paper. Spread out the pancakes. A sugar onion pancake needs three pancakes, but they don't overlap. Just make sure that a small part of the three pancakes overlap or overlap. Then put a piece of sugar onion at the junction, sprinkle with the prepared sweet sesame seeds and peanuts, and wrap them into strips. Such a crisp, sweet and crisp sugar onion cake is just baked.
Every household in Chaoshan area likes to drink kungfu tea. It is very enjoyable to enjoy the cake while drinking tea, and the pancake with sugar onion is a good choice. Bite down, full of sweet and crisp sugar onions and broken sesame seeds, the fragrance is unforgettable for a long time, and the tough pancakes add its flavor. Kufu tea, which tastes strong and slightly bitter, is really the "best partner" with sugar onions to taste.
Walking on the streets of Chaoshan, you can often meet small vendors who sell pancakes with sugar and onion stuffing on bicycles. A sugar onion can be bought for only one yuan. There is also an old-fashioned secret recipe for making sugar onion pancakes in the old city of Shantou. I heard that this is the most authentic shop for making sugar onion pancakes, and many foreigners come. It's really "the smell of wine is not afraid of the depth of the alley"! There is also a shop selling sugar onion pancakes opposite Jinsha Park in the city, which is very convenient to pack and carry from far away. At present, there are about 28 pieces of sugar onion pancakes in a box of about 400g, about 18 yuan (each piece has its own packaging); 190g small box 10 yuan, about 14 yuan. A bag is about 12 yuan. Sugar onions, pancakes, sesame seeds and peanuts are all packaged separately.
However, the shelf life of sugar onion pancakes is short. The shelf life of boxed pancakes is 45 days, and two bags can only be kept for three or four days, because they are made temporarily, but the pancakes in bags will be more delicious than those in boxes.
The sugar onion cake in Chaoshan has a long history and is also one of the famous snacks in Chaoshan. If you want to taste Chaoshan snacks, then sugar onion pancakes are definitely a must!
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The delicious snacks in every place are inseparable from the local history. Quanzhou is an ancient cultural city. Traveling to Quanzhou, I feel that there are many temples and too many delicious snacks! Try my favorite "batter" at the third stop! Early in the morning, when we walked out of the hotel, my mother and I sat on an old tricycle rode by an aunt and found Jesse's "noodle sauce" shop. Ha, an old street with an arcade and a small black shop can't convince me that there are traditional foods hidden here, but the room is full of diners. To buy a bowl of noodles, you can choose what ingredients to add in front of the kitchen window. Shrimp, dried squid, fat sausage, fish balls, mustard tuber, pickled radish, etc. The boss skillfully added a spoon to the bowl for you. Don't forget, be sure to match a fried dough stick! It's like magic. Bang, put it on the table. Now, what I have in my hand is a bowl of rich food! There are soup, cables and all kinds of ingredients, a bite of batter and a bite of fried dough sticks. The soup is fresh, the noodles are thin and soft, and the fried dough sticks are fragrant and crisp. Ah! That taste is really perfect. Looking up, a local grandmother is eating with a smile! She opened her mouth, ha, she has no teeth, but she is still satisfied with this batter! I guess, this old woman must live in the old street of vermilion brick, enjoying all kinds of snacks in Quanzhou, and grow up slowly and happily!