After waiting for more than 20 minutes, you look eagerly at the claypot rice you ordered from the kitchen. How do you eat it? First of all, remember not to be impatient. In the past, I would dig all the rice out of the pot first in order to burn it, but that didn't work. The cooking process of claypot rice continues after it is served, and the residual heat makes the rice crispier and dryer. Therefore, you should save the charred rice until the end to make a perfect ending to a satiating meal.

Eating a portion of claypot rice is a fourfold enjoyment for the eyes, ears, nose and tongue. Following this order of eating is like completing a small ritual.

▏The first step: drizzle the sauce▕

Many people think that the final sauce for clay pot rice is simply soy sauce with added sugar, but it is not. Claypot rice specialty shops make their own sauces, add ingredients, stir-fry, and simmer. The effort is all hidden in the details. There are also those that use "pearl oil" directly, which is a sweet soy sauce that is so thick that it drips like beads.

To tell you the truth, gourmets will also drizzle a ring of lard at this step to make the already fragrant claypot rice even more fragrant. The crystal clear temptation is hard to resist.

After two rounds of showering, put the lid back on and wait for 30 seconds.

▏Step 2: Stir▕

Uncover! The diners who couldn't wait started to stir it up. After mixing the claypot rice, they just took a spoonful and found that there was no shortage of rice, sauce, meat and vegetables.

To stir or not to stir is actually not a rule.

Like the Niuzhan introduced in "Taste of Shunde", diners must first eat a spoonful of rice without juice to taste the aroma of the rice.

▏Step 3: Have a big meal▕

▏Step 4: Enjoy the rice cake▕

Eating rice cake empty is very popular in Guangdong. There are other ways to eat rice noodles.

One method is to add water or tea directly to a pot with burnt rice and boil it quickly. It is called "rice burnt tea", which can dispel cold and warm the stomach. The other is to add lotus seeds and cook slowly to make rice porridge with lotus seeds and rice.

Finally, the store will usually give you a bowl of Laohuo soup, drink it, and have another simple meal.

Cantonese people like to eat claypot rice in winter. When the autumn breeze comes, they start to miss eating cured meat. When winter comes, I gather my friends and go into a busy shop and order some "hot and spicy" claypot rice. The cold weather outside is forgotten by the aroma that shivers from my mouth.

Rice is the most common food. The stove fire burning day after day leaves its mark on the pot. The collision of oil and fire seeps into the small cracks, hiding the years of Cantonese people that have slipped away with three meals a day. On ordinary days, food naturally smells good.

If you like it, you can try it.