Wen/Yan Xiaoshu

Xi'an, as a famous historical and cultural city, attracts visitors from all directions with its unique food culture. Anyone who comes to Xi'an must go to taste meat buns and mutton puffs. In fact, Xi'an's specialty food is far more than that. In the immediate north of the city of Xi'an, there is a unique flavor of the food is also quietly posture to become a favorite delicacy, it is the GaoLing District snacks - taro piece sandwich.

Gaoling District is located in the north of Xi'an, the terrain is flat, fertile soil, about the center of the "heart of cabbage," said. Ming "GaoLing County" said it is: "Jingwei belongs to flow in the front, the mountains and plains in the back, clear valley in the left, the flood wave in the right, cover the ancient situation of the district, the country of GaoMing". Anyone who has been to the Gao Ling people you ask him, what most let him stay, he will not think twice to say: taro slices sandwiched between the buns.

The taro slices sandwich as the name suggests is the potato slices sandwich, it is the potato cut into slices, with a bamboo skewer threaded into a skewer, boiled in a pot of boiling water, and then the potato slices sandwiched between the two palms of the same size of the pancake. This diet probably originated in the 1990s in the middle of the East Ring Road. At that time, students love to eat spicy hot, school vendors, the ingenuity of the potato chips, ham skewered with bamboo sticks, boiled in water, and then to the pan cooked round pancakes, cut with a knife, the hot potato chips in the hot pepper seasoning seasoning into the material a dip, and then they are sandwiched into the steaming hot pancakes, and then a fresh and tasty crispy and spicy taro chips sandwiched buns on the ready.

The people who first tasted the taro chip sandwich, thought it was equivalent to the vegetable sandwich, in fact, it is not. Do vegetables sandwich cake is smaller, and thick, taro slices sandwich cake is after high-temperature pan cooking, usually a pot only out of a, and the cake has two palms put together so big, it is bigger than the meat sandwich cake. And used to do the taro slices sandwiched bun cake than vegetables sandwiched bun and meat sandwiched bun thin, so that in the inside of the sandwich potato slices, the bun is tightly wrapped around the potato slices, it is difficult to crack; dishes are also diversified to the potato-based, both dried flowers, eggs, ham, etc., according to the customer's different tastes and choices; it is the process and the staffing is divided into a special responsible for washing the potatoes and potatoes into slices of the people, there are people specializing in the potato slices into skewers. There are people who specialize in washing potatoes and cutting them into slices, people who specialize in threading the slices into buns, people who mix and roll out the flour, people who knead the flour into cakes and put them into pans to cook, and people who stand on the outside and are in charge of sandwiching the buns for the customers.

When you hold a fresh potato chip sandwich in both hands and take a bite, that kind of spicy crispy feeling will go down your tongue and reach the throat, chewing down the throat, the potato chip crispy feeling is also tasted; take another bite, the potato chip will be tightly glued together with the bun straight to your stomach. People who have eaten meat bun, know that the meat bun gravy is easy to flow to the hands, if careless people, the gravy will splash overflow to the trouser leg, and tender meat is more likely to drill into the teeth; and taro slices of steamed buns are different, it is also juicy, but the juice is melted into the thick bun cake in the time you taste, the bun because of the juice and crispy, slices of mellow and slippery because of the steamed bun. The whole flavor of mellow, it is different from the meat flavor, meat flavor for a long time and tired, it is thick mellow pungent, long smell and stay fragrant. Confucius has three days do not know the taste of meat said, and in GaoLing, if one day do not eat taro slice sandwiched between the bun, you will heart panic, feel a day without spirit, like frosted eggplant.

In the intersection of East Street in GaoLing County, there is a taro chip sandwich, is also considered an old store. It is next to the school and has a favorable location. Whenever students leave class or school, there is a long line at the door, all the way across the street. Even if the line, some people may not be able to buy, more even if you can not buy, we will not complain about anything; more some students will send a representative to the store to buy a group purchase of taro chips sandwich, you can imagine, such a scene is really a market. On weekends, when there are fewer students, a small line for a while, you can buy. It is clear that this taro chips sandwich in GaoLing people's diet occupies half of the river mountain.

Gaoling people like taro chips sandwich, as if the Beijing people of the cream cake, donkey rolls; Shanghai people of the soup buns 100 leaves of oil gluten; Chongqing people of the hot pot as well. This is the people in the long-term tasting under the purchase of the formation of a dietary habits. Although, the history of taro chips sandwich is not long, but it is a rising star. A snack to form a food culture, it must be the local people first have a dietary habits of preferences, and then carefully care to cultivate it, and the flavor must be unique, the formation of a ten ten hundred infectious, so as to attract more people to come.

If you travel to Gao Ling not to see the "Jing Wei Divided" is a small regret, but if you do not go to taste the taro chips sandwich, that is the biggest regret of your life, you are in vain, do not understand Gao Ling. This is like you go to Xi'an naturally want to eat meat buns, is also an unnatural eating habits. Nowadays, Xi'an's meat buns have become quite large-scale and have formed various brands, which even foreigners know. Some of the more famous ones are Yuanji Pork Buns, Qin Yu Pork Buns at the south entrance of the Park Forest, and Liu's Pork Buns at North Guangji Street.

Sincerely, the GaoLing potato chips sandwich has formed a brand - GaoLing local first can join the company - small Joe JiaoJiao GaoLing potato chips sandwich, she will lead the GaoLing potato chips sandwich, mounted on the hall of elegance, she has been the implementation of the training of professional talents, change the traditional business concepts, bold innovation, expanding the business, the establishment of food culture and service system to match, take the market-oriented Branding strategy route.

Profound learning from Fujian "Shaxian snacks," the success of the experience, many people know the first Shaxian snacks and then know the Shaxian, which after just a few years of development, has now become the Chinese food garden in a strange flower. Originally Shaxian snacks are just local specialties, like Xi'an's cold skin and meat buns, however, they have a place in the Chinese food culture after branding.

With the development of Xiao Qiao Jiao Jiao brand with Gaoling taro chips sandwich, it will surely become a specialty snack in Shaanxi as much as meat sandwich and mutton bubble. Perhaps in a few years, people traveling to Shaanxi, asked what to eat, we will proudly answer: there is mutton foam, cold skin, meat buns, and Xiaoqiao Jiaojiao taro chips sandwich it! Then by this time, more or wherever you go, as long as you see the taro chips sandwich can think of GaoLing, think of XiaoQiaoJiaoJiao, this time of the taro chips sandwich has become a member of the family of Chinese cuisine in a gorgeous turn. And our Chinese food, can also be all-encompassing, eclectic, innovative, with the Chinese culture in the world of food world to occupy an unshakeable position.

Gaoling, as the hinterland of the Guanzhong Plain, has a history of more than 2,000 years and is considered an ancient city. Sincerely hope that this county city revitalized and vitality, by Xi'an this modern metropolis development of the ship, riding the waves, through the thorns. In the future, the taro chip sandwich culture has become a trend, as long as you come to GaoLing guests, GaoLing people will enthusiastically give you a fresh and mellow crisp taro chip sandwich!