What porridge is there in Yangjiang?

Yangjiang porridge is different from Guangzhou porridge. Guangzhou porridge and rice are cooked into paste. We call it "mosquito wings". Yangjiang porridge can be cooked with rice, which is closer to what the Central Plains people call "porridge".

Although the cooking method of rice porridge is simple, it is also very particular. Porridge is divided into three layers, which is good porridge. Dry porridge is a thin layer of paste on it. We call it "porridge skin", which children especially like to eat. The second layer is porridge water, which we call "drinking". It was the most popular nutritious drink in Yangjiang before. When you are thirsty, you will feel comfortable immediately. The bottom layer is boiled rice. We call it porridge residue. If we eat porridge residue, the old man will scold and go easy on us.

Scholars used to pay more attention to porridge. In the Northern Song Dynasty, Zhang Wenqian wrote The Story of Porridge: "Zhang Anding eats a big bowl of porridge every morning. When the stomach is empty on an empty stomach, it will use grain gas, and tonic will not work. Extremely soft and greasy, compatible with the stomach. It is the best diet. " Monk Miaoqi said, "Monks in the mountains will have a kind of porridge, which is very important. If they don't eat, they will feel dry and thirsty all day. " Cover can calm stomach qi and promote fluid production. Today, I advise everyone to eat porridge every day, thinking that it is very important to keep fit, and they will laugh. Generally speaking, there is nothing profound and difficult to understand about supporting life and seeking happiness, just between sleeping and eating. "In the past, Yangjiang people ate rice porridge every meal, not because they were poor, but because they couldn't afford it. Therefore, others say that poor days are "close to the world", while we call them "close to porridge". If an old man can't enjoy his old age, he can only sigh "eating frozen porridge when he is old"

Yangjiang people used to eat porridge for three meals a day, and only rice for dinner at most. Get up early every day, cook a big bowl of porridge, and the family eats it from morning till night. As a side dish, salted fish is the most common. "Salted fish for porridge" is a common dish of Yangjiang people. Another most common side dish is salted melon. The people in the play sang: "Take a bite of salty melon and drink a bowl of rice porridge!" " -"Get porridge water" is also so vivid, which shows the cheerful spirit of Yangjiang people.

Melon is salty and pickled with cucumber and a lot of salt.

What is used as a side dish reflects the living standard of a family. It is said that meat and vegetables were expensive and scarce at that time, so some people found clean white stone, washed it, fried it with oil and salt, licked it with a piece of white stone when eating porridge and put it back on the plate, and then drank a few mouthfuls of porridge. There used to be a fortune teller who told a child's fortune, and as soon as he calculated it, he shouted, "Good! All right! This child is so rich that he will definitely eat lean porridge for dinner in the future! " Because at that time, "eating fish three times a day" or "pig wet lean porridge" were the portrayal of wealthy families.

People in Yangjiang eat porridge today, which is exactly what Miao Qi said. They eat porridge for health. Therefore, rice porridge has become a necessary item for dinner. After big fish and big meat, you must eat rice porridge and order salted fish sufu as a side dish, which not only supplements the nutrition that is not found in fish, but also cleans up the fat in cooking.

At present, there are food stalls specializing in rice porridge in Yangjiang. From the open space at the back door of Zhongshan Park to the markets in various towns and villages, every porridge stall is a pattern: several square tables are arranged in a row, and several pots of sauerkraut, salted melons, sour melons, salted broccoli, sweet beans and so on. Was put on the table. Guests scoop a bowl of porridge, choose their own side dishes, a bowl of 1, Yangjiang buffet.

(Cucurbit acid-zucchini marinated in salt water overnight)

At present, Yangjiang people eat rice porridge, and the classic breakfast is a bowl of rice porridge and two fat sausages. In the food stalls by the river, it is the most common midnight snack to send rice porridge to white-cut chicken. If you want to eat delicacies, you can eat abalone porridge-but this is no longer "white" porridge, because the word "white" in Yangjiang rice porridge means no ingredients, that is, rice and water. Because of this, rice porridge has now become a healthy food for women who lose weight.

Times have changed, and the eating habits and cooking methods of Yangjiang people are changing every day. Only rice porridge, from cooking to eating, has not changed at all.

It's just that we ate rice porridge today and we ate rice porridge with our parents yesterday. I'm afraid I'm not in that mood now.