traditional snacks in Wuhan

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Laotongcheng Doupi

"Laotongcheng" is the name of a large restaurant located at Dazhi Road, Zhongshan Avenue, Hankou. It is famous for its famous snack Sanxian Doupi, and is known as the "King of Doupi". This restaurant was founded in 1931. It was originally located outside Dazhimen, the ancient Hankou Castle, and it was a passage between urban and rural areas. Therefore, it was named Tongcheng Sweets Store. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, it resumed business and changed to be your old Tongcheng Sweets Store. This shop imitates the traditional snack bean skin in Hubei, and strives to improve it, and it is very popular with sweets. "The preparation method is to mix mung beans and rice, grind 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.

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Four Seasons Beauty Soup Bags

"Four Seasons Beauty" is the name of a snack bar located near Jianghan Road, Zhongshan Avenue, Hankou, which means that food is served all the 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 Wuhan-style steamed dumplings with Jiangsu flavor in this store, which was well received by customers and was known as "the king of steamed dumplings", making this store a soup dumpling restaurant 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

also make crab yellow soup packets, shrimp soup packets, mushroom soup packets, chicken soup packets and assorted soup packets.

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Xiaotaoyuan simmer soup

"Xiaotaoyuan" is the name of a snack bar located at Lanling intersection of Shengli Street in 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 store are

crock chicken soup, sparerib soup, hoof 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.

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Tanyanji Dumplings

Tanyanji 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 in recent years, such as mushroom dumplings, factory rice dumplings, three fresh dumplings, chicken-minced dumplings, shrimp dumplings and so on, to suit the tastes of different diners.

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Cai Linji Regan Noodles

Cai Linji Reqian Noodle Restaurant is located at No.854 Zhongshan Avenue in Hankou, facing the water tower. Business is booming, with a daily sales volume of about 15, bowls and more than 1, diners.

Regan Noodles, Daoxiao Noodles in Shanxi, Yifumian in Guangdong and Guangxi, Dandan Noodles in Sichuan and Zhajiang Noodles in the north are also called 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.

it is fragrant and chewy. Li Bao, who sold noodle soup on Changdi Street in Hankou in the early 193s, was afraid that the unsold noodle soup would turn sour, so he picked it up and hung it on the record. He accidentally knocked down the oil pot and mixed the 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 < P > 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 is one of the most distinctive and famous ones.

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Laoqianji shredded beef and beans

Laoqianji is a flavor snack bar located in Simenkou, Wuchang, which mainly deals in shredded beef and beans, and also manages beef soup dishes and drinks at will.

shredded beans are made of mung beans, rice and other raw materials, ground into pulp, spread into skin in a pot and cut into shreds. Wuhan people love to eat them, and there are many ways to eat them, such as shredded soup beans, shredded dried beans and shredded fried beans. Lao Qian Ji deals in fried beef and bean shreds. When fried, it can be dried or soft fried according to customer's requirements. The taste is different, and the difference is only in the heat. The main raw materials are yellow cattle eyebrows, wet shredded beans, water-soaked mushrooms, magnolia slices, etc., plus seasoning, fried in sesame oil frying furnace. The beef tastes crisp, smooth and tender, and the shredded beans are soft and moist. The flavors of beef and shredded beans are mixed together and have a unique flavor.

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Mianwo

Mianwo, like Regan Noodles, is one of the favorite breakfasts of Wuhan people. It is simple to make, and it is spread all over the streets of three towns in Wuhan. Most of them are run by stalls or restaurants, and there are no representative shops.

Mianwo is unique to Wuhan and was founded in Guangxu period of Qing Dynasty (1875-199). At that time, there was a biscuit seller named Chang Zhiren near Jijiazui in Hanzheng Street, Hankou. Seeing that the business of selling biscuits was not good, he tried to create a new early variety. After repeated pondering, he asked the blacksmith to make a dry iron spoon with a convex nest shape, poured rice slurry mixed with rice and soybeans into it, sprinkled with black cheese < P > hemp, and fried it in an oil pan, and soon made round rice cakes with hollow edges and yellow and crispy colors. People think it's unique. It tastes soft in the thick part and crisp in the thin part, which is very tasty. Chang Zhiren called it Mianwo, which has been circulating for more than 1 years and has become a kind of cheap and good breakfast.

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More flavor snacks

There are many varieties of flavor snacks in Wuhan, so it is impossible to introduce them in detail. Here are a few more for those who are interested to choose to taste:

Wufangzhai Tangyuan "Wufangzhai" is located at No.127, Zhongshan Avenue, Hankou, near the intersection of Lanling, and operates Ningbo-style tangyuan with black sesame seeds and osmanthus as the core. It has the reputation of "Ningbo Tangyuan King".

Minsheng Quanke Xiaotangyuan was created by Minsheng Sweets Store at No.212 Minsheng Road, Hankou. It is small, fragrant and pure sweet.

fuqinghe rice noodle "fuqinghe" is located at No.855, Zhongshan avenue, Hankou, near liuduqiao, and is famous for selling Hunan-style rice noodles. The powder is smooth and delicious

Yayuan Hunan Rice Noodle Yayuan Rice Noodle Restaurant is located at No.383 Jiefang Road, Wuchang, and was founded in 1935. It deals in Hunan-style rice noodles and is famous for its beef noodles.

Tian Hengqi paste soup noodle restaurant is located at No.252, Hualou Street, Hankou. The paste soup noodle restaurant is featured on the spot. It is made by adding fresh fish, adding starch into paste, scalding the rice noodle in a bowl filled with fresh soup, and sprinkling chopped green onion and pepper. It is very delicious. Fried dough sticks are served with food. Affordable, full of diners.

Chubao Guihua Red Bean Soup Chubao Deli Store is located at No.911 Zhongshan Avenue in Hankou, at the lower head of Liudu Bridge. Sweet-scented osmanthus red bean farm is made of sweet-scented osmanthus, red beans, glutinous rice, sugar, starch, etc. It tastes sweet but not greasy.

Baoqing Beef Noodles Baoqing Noodle Restaurant is located at No.171 Liji Road, Hankou. It has a history of more than half a century and is famous for its traditional beef noodles in Baoqing and Xinhua areas of Hunan. The beef noodles in this shop are different from others:. The beef is made from the leg meat of an old ox, with licorice as the ingredient, and the noodles are made into leek leaves, which are put into bowls and packed into ingots. It tastes delicious.

Yipin Xiangdabao Yipin Xiangtian Restaurant is located at No.1445, Zhongshan Avenue, Hankou, near Gongan Road. Opened for more than half a century, in addition to operating sweets, it also produces a large package of products, which is called a fragrant package with thin skin and beautiful stuffing, and is famous far and near.

Shunxiangju Heavy Oil Roasted Plum "Shunxiangju" is located at the intersection of Hualou Street and Jiaotong Road in Hankou. It is an old shop that has been engaged in heavy oil roasted plum for nearly 5 years. The plum-burning oil in this shop is heavy but not greasy, shaped like chrysanthemum, delicious and famous for a long time;

wuyemei, an old huibin restaurant located in Liuduqiao, Hankou, produced wuyemei, a famous banquet spot, which is quite ingenious: it is not only thin and fresh, but also beautiful in shape, with red ham powder, egg yolk powder, green parsley, white shrimp and dark-haired vegetables at the five corners, which are colorful and attractive.

Orange Ode Cake is a famous spot created by Tingtao Restaurant in East Lake Scenic Area to commemorate the great patriotic poet Qu Yuan. The cake is orange-shaped, red and white, and quite Ao Shuang-like. The orange is the result of frying, and the frost is the sugar sprinkled outside. Named after Qu Yuan's famous poem Ode to an Orange, it is quite poetic.

Dongpo cake is a kind of cake that Su Shi, a famous writer in Song Dynasty, loved to eat when he lived in Huangzhou. People named it Dongpo cake after its name, which has been passed down to this day and is a traditional food in Huangzhou City and Ezhou City. Hanyang Guiyuan Temple vegetarian restaurant is very popular.

Oily fragrance, originally a fried food in the north, passed from Xiangfan City to Wuhan City and became one of the favorite breakfasts of the citizens, so it was named after its fragrant smell. It is available everywhere on the streets of Wuhan.

rice cakes are also called raking when they are sold in pairs, while children are called Baba. Introduced into Wuhan from Jianghan Plain, it became a popular breakfast for citizens. The method is to grind rice into pulp and ferment it, add flour, sugar, soda ash, etc. and mix well to cook it. The shell is golden and crisp, and the meat inside is white and soft. Cheap and good quality, available everywhere.

Assorted bean curd brain is available on the streets of Wuhan in the morning and evening. It is called Assorted bean curd brain because of adding ingredients and seasonings such as prickly heat, glutinous rice, shrimp, diced pork, diced pickled mustard tuber, diced pickles, coriander, sesame, pepper and chopped green onion. It tastes tender, crispy, crispy and delicious.