The southern rice and northern wheat pattern has created the southern powder culture, and Guilin, the area in the Li River basin, where “the landscape is the best in the world”, has been eating powder since Qin, and where the Li River flows through the towns and villages There are always noodle stores in every town and village where the Li River flows. Guilin rice noodles are subdivided into two kinds: round-shaped “rice noodles” and flat-shaped “cut noodles”. Guilin people can eat noodles for three meals a day, and if they don’t eat for three days, they will feel very uncomfortable, so they can’t help but shiver a bowl of rice noodles. There is a wide variety of brine noodles, three fresh boiled noodles, beef brisket noodles, fried noodles and so on, you can choose. The mainstream is the morning brine noodles, noon boiled noodles, fried noodles at night, rice noodles will logically become the “love of the city” of Guilin boys. After all, in the current soaring prices, there is nothing more than a bowl of four dollars with meat and vegetables two noodles can cure the stomach of Guilin people food.
The brine noodle is one of the representative food of Guilin. Each noodle store has its own special marinated vegetables, horse meat, tail joints, pig lung, joint stickers, pig ears, sausages and so on are different. Only this pot roast, marinated beef is a must for every family. Hungry diners, as soon as they enter the store, shouting a sentence of two or three taels, the cooks immediately bubble powder, only to see a long chopstick pick, a sufficient amount of powder into the powder fish; a cast, powder fish into the boiling water; a stir, long chopstick hot powder; a shake, remove the powder fish to control the water; a buckle, hot powder slipped into the bowl; a push, the bowl will be properly placed next to the case board. The chef immediately took over the work of cutting, hand up the knife, slicing a few pieces of large and thin diners selected marinated meat, code to the powder, plus a spoonful of marinade, a spoonful of oil, a spoonful of crispy fried peanuts, the dose all based on the chef’s experience, all work launched. Diners immediately take over take away, moved to the auxiliary ingredients area plus favorite things such as sour bamboo shoots, scallions. A tacit understanding of the morning action of the small theater is thus concluded. Of course, the tycoon version can also add doughnuts, brined eggs, bean curd, bok choy and so on, the store has all can add, frugal by the people. The local way of eating brine powder is to finish shaking the powder mixed with brine meat and vegetable ingredients first, filling the belly with eight points, and then add the soup by itself to drink ten points. Glutinous sweet and slightly elastic rice noodles, spicy and crisp sour yee, salty and sweet marinade, crispy and flavorful marinated meat, a brain into the esophagus, soothing the stomach and intestines, has been satisfied with nothing else.
The marinade, Guilin rice noodles soul thing. The old powder stores have their own secret recipe, some pushing the new, some generations, boiling brine spices have Luo Han Guo, cloves, grass, star anise, Chen Pi …… dozen to dozens of species ranging from adding fresh beef, pork and other brine raw materials simmered for several hours or even overnight, some old stores love to use the honeycomb coal boiling, full of the old days The sentiment. The marinade is rich and salty, brine meat aroma and beauty, the two are appropriate. Soup, no more than the choice of beef bones, pork bones, chicken bones, etc. simmered over moderate heat, white soup and nutritious, sophisticated flour stores will also put seaweed, seaweed, radish and other vegetables, some flour stores will also change the soup according to the season, fresh soup more lined with rice noodles taste beautiful.
Pork chin meat is the raw material to do pot roast, choose fatty meat accounted for seven points, lean meat accounted for three points, fatty and lean parts, brine boiling oil pot frying, a few rounds, so that the skin crispy, fatty meat is not greasy, lean meat is not wood. Other marinated dishes are also operated in this way, several boiling oil frying before taste, molding. A powder store’s beef, pot roast can often be extrapolated from the store’s bottom line, beef and pot roast delicious will mean the store’s marinade enough taste, powder also cool God. With the popularization of the concept of health, many chain noodle stores to use pancetta fried pot roast, for the local natives, always feel that the taste is a little less interesting. Rice noodles since ancient times is the daily food of the people of Guilin, ordinary people eat things, side dishes of meat, cheap fried soybeans, is the authentic.
Local gourmets love to patronize the powder store, often hidden in the lanes of the village, the community school, the sign is old or simply no, long lines of people, familiar bosses, grease-stained tables, old stools, yards of several or a dozen auxiliary ingredients spotted tabletop. Once inside the store, the nose comes with the mixed smell of sour bamboo shoots mixed with old brine, which happens to be accompanied by a little musty smell on a south windy day, the taste of the teeth and claws domination, often let foreign, especially northern diners do not know what to do, hate to take the door and go. The auxiliary ingredients table is a small place where the spicy and sour culture of Gui cuisine is fully reflected. Garlic, green onion, pickled bamboo shoots, pickled beans, dried radish, fresh radish sour, dried chili noodles, spicy oil, vinegar soaked green pepper and other conventional auxiliary ingredients are full of code. The seasonal ingredients are available in spring: toon with oil, shredded seaweed with spicy oil in summer, salt vegetables in autumn and crushed coriander in winter. Seasonal ingredients are not available in every house, so it’s all a matter of luck to meet them, and they are all picked up by diners. Familiar customers will pick up the powder and the boss night shit (gossip gossip) two Ban Lu (storytelling), say two jokes to each other, the city always has a kind of unspoken casual human flavor, let people very happy.
Guilin put the master boy (children) when they learn to speak by their fathers out to eat powder, which loves its life of powder will be naturally formed. When you can talk, eat powder since you will shout to eat Gaga (meat). When the homecoming wanderers set foot on the land of Guilin, nothing else to say, shiver bowl of powder first, plus meat plus spicy plus acid, shiver after the reception will be completed.
Strolling through the alleys of the city, occasionally smell the fragrance of brine, why not stop to shout a bowl, not in vain to meet a.
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