Honestly, the feeling at that time was that there seemed to be nothing else to do in Leshan except the Big Buddha, and it took less than two hours to stroll around the Leshan Big Buddha scenic spot, and then I took a bus directly to the foot of Mount Emei.
Then I didn't realize that in addition to the Giant Buddha, Leshan also has a variety of good food, and I can eat a whole day just eating.
Last year's National Day, on the way back to Chongqing from Sichuan, by the way to go to Leshan once again, this time mainly to taste the snacks of Leshan, but due to the lack of arrangements in Leshan to stay too much time, always feel that not enough to eat. So not long before the weekend to take the time to go to Leshan once again, this time to Leshan is mainly to experience the tip of the tongue of Leshan. I realized that Leshan has so many delicious, potting chicken, ice powder, deep-fried skewers, bean curd brain, foot beef, bean curd feast, sweet skin duck, egg baked cake and so on and so forth, eat a day are not enough.
Coming to Leshan, I realized that there are different ways to eat the combination of sticks and various ingredients. Cooked in a hot pot to eat, is the skewer; made into a cold dish put pots dipped in condiments to eat, is the bowl of chicken; put in a frying pan fried to eat, became a deep-fried skewers; put on the charcoal fire grilled to eat, and became a barbecue.
The name "Potter's Chicken" may sound strange to outsiders. "Potting" is in fact, potting chicken is a variety of ingredients according to the practice of cold dishes, wearing bamboo sticks, soaked in potting, potting will be full of a variety of seasonings into the condiments, practical when you choose your favorite ingredients to eat, are generally billed by bamboo sticks.
In the past, the ingredients were mainly chicken, chicken mince, and now there will be other ingredients. To Leshan you will find everywhere is the bowl of chicken, according to the local friend's recommendation to go to the Ji Lao Si yellow chicken bowl of chicken, 8:00 p.m. past, there are still more people.
Like eating skewers, they go inside the freezer to pick their favorite food, the boss will put a whole pot of chili oil on the table, will be their own choice of food infiltration in the pot.
For those who like to eat the flavor focus, you can soak in the condiments more, stirring. Allow the spices to fully combine with the food, and for those who prefer a lighter flavor, dip in the spices like a sloppy joe.
When you eat bowl of chicken eat full of oil, this time and then a bowl of hand-rolled ice powder, really do not too comfortable. As a Chongqing resident, cold shrimp with ice powder is really my favorite in summer.
Watermelon, dragon fruit, papaya, mango, cantaloupe and other fruits are added inside the ice powder. Eating a bowl of ice noodle in summer is really a way to avoid the summer heat and quench your thirst.
Next to Ji Lao Si Pottered Chicken is Leshan's net red icy powder, String Sisters Fancy Ice Powder General Store. Their representative mother-in-law ice powder recommended to try, their brown sugar and other ice powder is different, other families are brown sugar water, their brown sugar made especially sticky, taste better.
There is also a dessert light store next to the Education Bureau in Leshan City, the new pattern studio. It is also recommended by a local friend in Leshan to go there, just arrived in Leshan in the afternoon to go over. Their family to snack-based, coconut sago dew is the signature dish, we went just when there are still 2 bowls of sago dew left, if you go a little later on no, sago dew in the mango portion is really a lot.
They recommend more cold noodles and cold skin. We were late and a lot of them were sold out, and the cold skin was also sold out.
Two people ordered sago soup, wolf's teeth potatoes, a bowl of cold noodles and cold rattling skin
In Sichuan, a lot of dishes will be added to the folded ear root as an ingredient, if you really will not eat friends, remember to give the boss ahead of time to say do not add.
When you come to Leshan, tofu brain is also a snack you have to try. When it comes to tofu brain, and have to say your hometown is like to eat salty, sweet or spicy. Because in the end what flavor is the best tofu brain, the good friends of the north and south, may have to cause a war.
Leshan's bean curd brain, not just eat bean curd brain, there are a variety of ingredients, there are crispy meat, beef, shredded chicken can also be added to the steamed pork and hot and sour noodles. It's really a big bowl full.
When I was a kid, the roadside tofu brain I ate was a relatively small bowl, and I felt like I ate it all in two bites. At that time, I decided to come back to eat a bowl of tofu brain after eating bowl of chicken, ice powder, originally thought that a bowl of tofu brain will not be much big bowl. It turned out that Leshan's tofu brain is a full bowl, plus a variety of ingredients, really a bowl of tofu brain can make a person full. Eventually just taste the flavor can not eat.
Another way to eat skewers in Leshan is to deep-fry them, which is similar to the practice of deep-frying and grilling that you ate when you were a kid.
Fried skewers and barbecue similar to the only difference between the pan frying, than the benefits of barbecue is barbecue when there are a lot of people, it is really difficult to wait, fried skewers on the faster, whether it is vegetarian or frozen food, under the frying pan frying in a few seconds on the frying pan. If you can eat the root of the recommended to try, fried out of the texture is more surface, this time the root of the astringent flavor will be a lot less than usual. Fried pork rinds are also worth a try, be sure to eat while hot, fried pork rinds will not look so fat.
Leshan's sweet skin duck, is the favorite of Chengdu people, there is a saying circulating on the Internet, in the world of sweet skin duck, Leshan sweet skin duck is the favorite of Chengdu people, Meishan people do not eat at all Leshan sweet skin duck, Penshan people look down on Meishan sweet skin duck.
Leshan people called "marinated duck", originated in the ancient town of Mucheng, Jiejiang County, Leshan City. The sweet-skinned duck is heavy in oil and sugar, but it tastes fat but not greasy, and is not very sweet.
Besides various snacks, there are two other delicacies in Leshan which are part of the regular meal, warping beef and tofu feast.
The origin of the warped beef goes back to the early 30s. According to the legend, there was a Chinese medicine doctor in Leshan at that time, who cooked medicine by the river side in Suji town to cure the sick and save the people. When he saw some big families dumping beef meat into the river, he thought it was too bad, so he fished it out and washed it to cook it in the soup and medicine, and found that the flavor was not only delicious, but also cured diseases. Come to taste more and more people, some standing, some squatting, when people standing used to one foot on the beam under the table. Over time the diners will be the image of a "stilted feet" beef nickname, and has been passed down to this day.
Beef on stilts is cooked in broth with a variety of spices and eaten with a dry oil dish. In fact, I prefer to eat braised, as Chongqing people still prefer heavy oil and spicy food.
Leshan tofu feast, as the name suggests, are dishes made with tofu. Xiba tofu is a traditional dish of Leshan. Xiba tofu has a long history, according to historical records, in the Tang and Song dynasties have long been circulating, in the Ming Dynasty Wanli years is the prosperity of Xiba tofu.
It's about a 50-minute drive from downtown Leshan, so we took a trip to Xiba town to try the famous Xiba tofu. The town is almost full of tofu stores. On the recommendation of a friend, we chose the Sanba Restaurant, where you can park right next to the store.
Each dish also has a different name iron plate tofu, snowflake tofu, embroidery ball tofu, lantern tofu, bear's paw tofu, crab tofu and so on and so forth.
Snowflake tofu, which has tofu and egg whites cooked together, tastes similar to homemade tofu.
Teppanyaki tofu, which tastes a bit like small Japanese tofu, the tofu tastes tender and flavorful.
Lantern tofu, the tofu is sandwiched with a meat filling inside the tofu.
Crab roe tofu, originally made with crab roe, tofu and other ingredients. It evolved to be cooked in some places using salted egg yolks instead of crab yolks. It tastes a bit like tofu brain.
Locals recommend that when you have a tofu feast, you don't order tofu all the time, and make sure you order one or two other dishes, such as white chicken, which can be a good way to get rid of the fatigue.
The next time you come to Leshan, in addition to see the Leshan Buddha and Emei Mountain, remember to open a gourmet food feast.