WUWEI plate duck someone said and called smoked duck, think is blackmail, authentic WUWEI people never so called, even in the field, also called WUWEI plate duck, this name has long been deep into the bone marrow, the thunder and lightning.

But the practice of plate duck is indeed related to smoked, slaughtered and plucked, and then not open the belly, with an iron hook from the *** out of the internal organs, and then with anise, cloves, etc., smoked after the brine, when all over the yellow sauce, the body oil, aroma, tender and refreshing, aftertaste of the plate duck is ready.

A duck, from slaughter to smoke, then to brine, interlocking, complicated procedures, not simple, but for the duck maker, but skilled like magic, which in the eyes of the onlookers, is not a big eye candy.

The duck is the business card of Wuwei County, Anhui Province.

In WUWEI, do countless duck, famous mostly in the city, south of the city Ma family, east of the city Yan family, can be described as women and children know of the old, brine ingredients and smoking fire, are the ancestral secret, never show.

Wuwei people do not have to taste with their mouths, look at the color and smell, can determine the quality of good and bad, outsiders in this regard will never understand.

So Wuwei people to send duck to outsiders, often to explain is "Ma family" or "Yan family", to show that the authentic, but despite this, outsiders still do not understand the mystery.

As for the Wuwei people go out to do duck, even if it is not authentic, as long as the hanging "Wuwei duck" signboard, it must be famous.

The saying "WUWEI people will eat" is a joke, but also to the point.

WUWEI small town is a thousand years old city, bumpy stone roads, deep alleys, everywhere, very ancient Huizhou flavor, in the streets and alleys, duck stalls scattered, the smell wafted out of the old far, all the time tempting people's appetites.

The way to eat the duck is delicate, and it is better to eat it cold than hot, otherwise the flavor will be worse than 90%.

The brine can be missing sometimes, but the vinegar, sesame oil, garlic cloves must not be missing.

Foreigners often complain that the flavor is not right, but they don't know that the eating method is wrong.

Wuhui people eating duck even have a special term called "chopping duck", "chopping" word in dialect, very varied, but very flavorful, as if with the duck fragrance.

And duck meat and head, neck, claws, wings, viscera, must be eaten separately, outside the duck are called "gizzard claw", know the food more favored "gizzard claw", three or two guests door to door, looking for a restaurant, chopped a pair of gizzard claws, a bottle of old wine, chewing and drinking, that The feeling is not less than immortal.

One side of the soil, one side of the cultural history.

According to the records of Wuwei County, duck in the Qing Dynasty during the Daoguang period has been famous, "folk custom wedding feasts with geese, and then changed to duck." To this day, men and women engaged to send the custom of duck remains unchanged, which is called "super festival".

As long as the betrothal, New Year's festivals, the male side will have to give the female side of the "super festival", and even the female side of the seven aunts and eight aunts, can not fall one by one.

Expenditures, although not small, can be married to the matter, the man is always smiling.

But the duck is more used in the daily hospitality, as long as the guests, to buy duck, which is customary, urban and rural areas, the duck to buy, the host feels very affordable guests, guests also feel treated with courtesy, the heart is also close to the distance.

People duck the same reason, famous need to stain the light.

I have always felt that the duck was born in the wrong place, if the fall in the southern Anhui Province, more or less dipped in the light of celebrities and elegant people, may have long been the Royal Tribute, but the duck was born in the hometown of WUWE, so far in the folk fight, and did not really get on the hall of elegance, is a real civilian duck, and even the practice of handmade and not on a large scale, there was a test of the production of pipelines, but due to the taste of the handmade is difficult to defeat, or to play out!

As for buying and selling, the plate duck traditionally only stalls, not store, small business.

Zhang Kee, Wang Kee, Li Kee, a family of duck stalls like a grain of pearl, scattered in the old streets of the old alleys in WUWE, but also the flavor spread all over the small town.

But the reputation of the duck in the end or year after year, now included in the "Chinese famous dishes", starred restaurants also have its figure, the provincial capital, there are restaurants to play direct sales card, said every day directly from the WUWE transported to the authentic, it seems that the price is indeed high.

I came to the provincial capital for many years, year after year, still dealing with the duck, in addition to eating in the restaurant, more is the old home to bring, compare, or the old home authentic.

It seems that the duck, like people, is also to find the roots.

But the flavor of the plate duck in the field has not been generally accepted, so so, there is said to be jerry-built, there is said to be the recipe is not right, in fact, more related to the use of duck.

The board duck is made of hemp duck.

WUWEI is the land of fish and rice, paddy fields, very suitable for raising ducks.

In my childhood, villages have professional duck breeders, the county freezer plant also released a large number of ducks, winter, a batch of ducks in the endless paddy fields, "quack" singing, one after another, very spectacular.

Nowadays, raising ducks has been scarce, and Wuhui people do board ducks all over the country, can not be used again with the native Wuhui ducks, duck varieties can be raised differently in the field, the taste is also different, even in the Wuhui, the duck source is also in short supply, had to use the goose instead of the city of Wuhui, in addition to fall and winter seasons, and then the famous board duck stalls are basically only the board geese, but no board ducks, a real pity