Zhengding Eight Bowls

It is said that when Changshan Zhao Zilong won the battle, he often used four bowls of meat dishes and some vegetarian dishes to treat his soldiers. Chefs and some soldiers who followed Zhao Zilong retired from their old age and returned home, and brought Zhao Zilong's practice of rewarding soldiers and entertaining friends' dishes back to their hometown Zhengding, and constantly improved it. With the evolution of history, people's ideas began to advocate the word "eight". In order to celebrate the good fortune, they changed the square table to the Eight Immortals table, sat eight guests and ate eight dishes (eight cold dishes and eight big bowls of vegetables). This form of four bowls of meat dishes and four bowls of vegetarian dishes was stereotyped as "eight big bowls" in the Tang Dynasty and was widely popular.

Majia braised chicken

Majia braised chicken originated in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties and has a history of more than 3 years. In the eighth year of Tongzhi in Qing Dynasty (1869), Ma Luofa, the first recorded descendant, named the ancestral braised chicken Majia braised chicken and opened Majia old chicken shop in Zhengding, which became quite famous. Since the Empress Dowager Cixi tasted and appreciated it in 191, Majia braised chicken once became a tribute, which made it famous. For nearly a hundred years, Majia braised chicken has been passed down from generation to generation, and now Ma Xuezhong, the legal representative, is the sixth generation. It not only maintains the traditional technology, but also independently innovates a series of products such as braised chicken wings, stewed chicken feet and stewed chicken gizzards, and develops a series of soft packaging products by adopting advanced sterilization and vacuum multi-layer composite preservation technology.

Eager meatballs in Changshan County

Zhengding, known as Changshan in ancient times, is a national historical and cultural city. A long history and culture have bred a wide variety of traditional foods, and Changshan County Eager Maruko is one of them.

Changshan county hot meatballs are different from traditional meatballs. They are cylindrical foods with a diameter of 5 cm and a length of about 2 cm, which are not spherical. Because they need to be sliced while they are hot, they are called hot meatballs. It is similar to Baoding's braised pork and Shenze's meat cake, and is well-known for its unique taste. Changshan County Eagered meatballs are delicious and have a faint fragrance of lotus leaves, which is rich in taste when eaten in the mouth. Because of the filling made of sesame oil, stock and soup, the shredded pork tastes strong, and the rest is tender and tender, and the mouth is soft and the tongue melts when stirred.

Haojia sparerib

Haojia sparerib was founded by Hao Shiwei, a four-product imperial chef in the court. From the court to the people, from the Qing Dynasty to the modern times, it has gone through a hundred years of wind and rain. Later generations have been inheriting the secret recipe of ancestral sparerib cooking, focusing on the research and development of sparerib products and carrying forward the traditional Chinese cooking technology. Fresh sparerib is selected, mixed with various natural Chinese herbs and special cooking techniques, and it has a unique flavor and smooth meat, which is really delicious and makes people feel delicious.