A detailed introduction to Li Qiuzhi specialties ~ ~ ~

There are many delicious dishes in Tongli, such as champion hoof, steamed white fish, perch, mandarin fish, soft-shelled turtle and other famous aquatic dishes cooked by seafood, which are popular and have unique flavor. In the town, you can taste many kinds of snacks, such as ginkgo honey cake, Euryale ferox cake, sock bottom crisp, green smoke ball, malt cake, Fujian cake, lard rice cake and so on. Traditional local products include gorgon fruit, which was called "soft and crisp" by Yang Wanli, a poet in Song Dynasty, and "really good fruit" by Su. There are also century-old shops with unique charm: Yi Long Soy Sauce Garden, Gu Xiang Village and Nanyuan Teahouse.

Nine niang Cake: It is made by fermenting and baking "Zao", a special product of Jiangnan, and the distiller's grains in the cake. It is crystal clear and the color is like milk. One side is light yellow and crisp, and a bite is sweet, sour, tender and crisp.

Euryale ferox: This is a top-grade local product of Tongli. Euryale ferox (commonly known as "chicken head rice") produced in the northwest of Tongli is known as "ginseng in water". According to Compendium of Materia Medica, Euryale Semen is mainly used to treat dryness and dampness, lumbago and knee pain, tonify middle energizer, eliminate violent diseases, benefit essence and qi, strengthen ambition, improve eyesight and hearing, stimulate appetite, benefit qi, quench thirst, benefit kidney and treat urinary incontinence. Can be used as a medicated diet, soaked in water for half a day, cooked with slow fire, with red dates, lotus seeds, longan can be more delicious.

Half a century ago, this wild "chicken head meat (rice)" was not for human consumption, but the raw material of sizing cloth in textile industry. At that time, the poor people in the town had no other livelihood, and they all made a living by chopping off a chicken head. Nowadays, "chicken head meat" is edible. Some people praised the wonderful cloud of "Chicken Head Meat": "Soft and warm grains, floating jade in silver, replanting in Bibo, slightly fragrant and elegant, solid and wonderful food in the sky." So although it costs 500g 10 yuan, it is still crowded and tourists are afraid to miss it.

Min cake: a famous traditional cake, which is a specialty of "Ben Tang Zhai" in Minjiawan, Tongli. It has a history of more than 400 years, and its production is only in Fujian, so it is called "Fujian cake". Minbing is made of "Minbing grass", with rice flour as the skin, filled with bean paste and walnut kernel, and then steamed. It is a kind of green ball with dark blue color, bright and thin knot, oily but not greasy, fragrant and smooth, and has the unique flavor of farmers in the south of the Yangtze River. In the Qing Dynasty, Min Cake was once listed as a tribute of the imperial court and was selected by Empress Dowager Cixi to taste. Shen Zhou, a painter in the Ming Dynasty, once wrote a poem praising: "The fragrance is round and the cream is soft and steamed. The female workers are vain, and the banquet takes Tang Ling. " In the early years of the Republic of China, Min founded the "Dafugui Min Cake Company" in Shanghai, and its products were exported at home and abroad.

For four years, Song Chunyou won the first prize from fellow countryman Wei Ruxian. Shi Zai, the champion of Wei State, especially likes to eat braised hooves. During the Guangxu period of Qing Dynasty, Ren Lansheng, the owner of Tuisi Garden, admired Wei Champion and hired a famous chef to cook braised hooves as the main course of family banquet, nicknamed the champion hooves. At that time, Hong Jun, the top scholar, and my concubine Sai Jinhua often came to taste it and sighed for it.

At present, the champion hoof fired by Tongli Renjia Garden Food Factory according to the original formula is made of pork leg as raw material, supplemented by seasoning, cooked with strong fire, steamed and braised in brown sauce, with moist and crisp skin, red soup color, fat but not greasy, salty and sweet, crispy and rotten meat, which melts in the mouth. It eats in a special way. Of the two long bones that run through the whole pig's trotters, a thin bone is gently pulled out, and the hoof shape does not move. With the bone as a knife, the hoof is cut smoothly, making people share food.