I became attached to Chengdu because I read Luo Niansheng's essay "Lotus City" when I was a teenager. Mr. Luo writes brilliantly, and Chengdu in his works is like a scholar, with endless tenderness and endless elegance. ...
At that time, I was in a small border town in the northeast and fell in love with Chengdu, which is far away from Qianshan Mountain.
The first time I went to Chengdu, I was on business. The company arranged for me to explore the southwest market. The first stop is Chongqing and the second stop is Chengdu.
In Chengdu, clear oil hot pot is essential.
Compared with the butter hotpot in Chongqing, the taste of Chengdu Qingyou hotpot is more complicated and changeable. If Chongqing Butter Hot Pot is the vigorous king kong palm of Shaolin, it is powerful, then Chengdu Qingyou Hot Pot is Dali's Six-pulse Excalibur, which is dexterous and changeable, and its power is also extraordinary.
In my spare time in Chengdu, it is necessary for me to pay a visit to Wuhou Temple.
I remember watching the TV series Romance of the Three Kingdoms when I was a child. Mr. Kongming died in Wuzhangyuan, and I cried my eyes out. In junior high school, I could recite the whole text in an hour, and I haven't forgotten it yet.
In Wuhou Temple, the ancient cypresses are dense and solemn, and bamboo forests on both sides of a winding red wall are swaying, red and green, and the winding path is secluded. "I'm wearing a cloth to farm in Nanyang, and I don't want Wen Da to be a vassal in troubled times ..." Now troubled times are peaceful, and the vassal has been annihilated by fly ash, but Mr. Wang's words are still in my ears.
In Jinli, which is separated from Wuhou Temple by a wall, flowers are in full bloom and tourists are weaving.
That day, in Jinli Ancient Street, it began to rain lightly, and I strolled into a teahouse, which was quiet and elegant. I asked for a pot of tea and sat by the window. Through the lattice window, tourists hold umbrellas in the misty rain, just like an ancient painting.
Ok, relax, this is Chengdu.
At noon, the teahouse is going to change its face for Sichuan Opera. Mr. Lao She once talked about Sichuan Opera in his essay "Lovely Chengdu", which made me curious to find out.
I thought if I looked carefully, I could find the mystery. Unfortunately, I can't find any clues. The change of face is fluid, and the actors in Sichuan Opera are swaying, and their skills are really good.
Chuanchuanxiang can be compared with hot pot in Chengdu, and the "cold pot string" evolved from it is my dish.
Cold pot strings, although cold, are actually hot. Choose the skewers, put them into the red soup pot, and serve them after the store irons them. The bottom of the soup is red and calm, and the surface is like Pinghu. Be careful when eating, or you will burn your tongue!
And this is the "contrast charm" of cold pot strings!
Moreover, the beggar chicken is not only a chicken, but also a skewer, which is very similar to the cold pot skewer. I'm always stupid and confused.
A local friend in Chengdu told me a secret. He said that giving chicken will sprinkle you with white sesame seeds.
Spicy rabbit head is the characteristic of Chengdu cuisine, and Chengdu people call it "eating rabbit head" vividly.
To tell you the truth, I am very resistant to eating rabbit heads. I'm not used to eating food that can be associated with this animal, especially all kinds of heads, such as chicken heads, duck heads and so on.
The first time I ate rabbit head, it was because my business partner took me with me, but it was very kind and difficult. It can be said that "you often walk in the rivers and lakes, and you have to wet your shoes sooner or later."
I took a bite with a ferocious face. Holy shit! Not bad!
Rabbit head meat is not much, but the meat is delicious, especially rabbit brain.
I wrapped dozens of spicy rabbit heads when I left. This thing is so satisfying!
Speaking of eating brains, eating brains is a "gourmet mountain" that I can't conquer so far.
Brain flower may be the farthest food from my heart. A friend in Chengdu told me that tofu pudding can be eaten and brain flowers can be eaten.
But brain flowers do smell like fish. Although there are spicy and delicious condiments, they are too spicy. Take a sip of ice water and the smell of brain flowers will hook up.
Speaking of the word "Mao", it seems to me that it should mean just boiling.
Maocai is a hot pot for one person, and a hot pot is a maocai for a group of people. It can be seen that maocai is best for a traveler like me to eat alone.
When I was in Chengdu, I was doing business, and my stomach was growling, so I came to a Maocai temple dedicated to the five internal organs. Don't care about the store size. A large population is a good place.
This maocai, in my opinion, should be the ancestor of our Northeast Mala Tang, but we are used to spoonfuls of sesame sauce, and maocai is sprinkled with chopped green onion, coriander and Sichuan lobster sauce. The taste is better and richer, and the spicy taste is complex and changeable. Eating one is sweating all over.
Speaking of spicy food, Chengdu and even Sichuan are spicy. Even a bowl of jiaozi is red oil.
We Northeasters love jiaozi, and Chengdu's Bell jiaozi also captured my heart. Bell dumplings pay attention to thin skin, fine ingredients, tender stuffing, fresh taste, pure meat stuffing, mixed with red oil, sesame oil and red soy sauce, spicy and sweet, full of garlic flavor, that is, the weight is not big, I can kill three portions by myself. [Grinning]
Of course, Chengdu cuisine is not only spicy, but also sweet. After all, sweet can relieve spicy!
In Chengdu, eating "three cannons" is a fun and delicious thing. When the third gun was lit, the master took out a lump of rice cake, divided it into three parts and threw it on the copper plate. Three clear and loud "Bang Bang" cannon shots, which bounce on the inclined plane like table tennis, automatically roll a layer of soybeans, sprinkle brown sugar and sesame seeds, which is the "three cannons" of this sweet glutinous rice.
Of course, there are many great sweets and snacks in Chengdu that I will never forget.
Ice powder, a cool and sweet spicy-relieving artifact, plus brown sugar, peanuts and raisins is the correct way to have a bowl of ice powder after eating hot pot.
Lai Tangyuan, a century-old brand in Chengdu, Sichuan, has many flavors, the most classic of which is lard and black sesame stuffing. Although the heat broke the table, I felt very practical after eating it.
Here, I want to focus on the special food-Ye.
Ye Ba 'er is a special food in Sichuan. The first time I ate leaves was in Chengdu, the home of a local friend.
A friend said, Ye Ba 'er should be eaten according to the season, and it can only be eaten around Tomb-Sweeping Day. Yebal has meat stuffing and sweet stuffing, and I especially like sweet stuffing. The green leaves are stained with wormwood juice, which is quite similar to our Korean "wormwood cake".
Moreover, the shape of the leaves also makes me feel more cordial, which is quite similar to our northeast Manchu snack "Suzhou Cotyledon Cake".
In my eyes, Chengdu people know how to eat and will not go all the way to black on the spicy road.
The understanding of spicy and sweet is in place. Playing spicy and sweet snacks is a famous snack in Chengdu: sweet water surface.
The delicious taste of sweet water lies in grasping only the taste of people.
The spicy taste of sweet water comes from red oil pepper, which is rich and spicy, and it is more rich and charming with pepper powder and peanuts. The sweetness of sweet water surface comes from sweet red soy sauce. The slightly sweet taste neutralizes the spicy taste and brings more taste changes.
When you eat sweet water, the first bite will definitely bring you the tendons and teeth of noodles, and crunchy peanuts will jump playfully between your teeth, followed by sweetness, which is the function of sweet red soy sauce and salivary amylase, then the spicy taste comes again, and finally the rich sweetness brought by chewing carefully. ...
I have been to Chengdu several times, but because of many things, I have no chance to catch up with Du Fu Caotang.
In 20 16, I finally had leisure time in Chengdu and came to Du Fu Caotang to see Du Gongbu's former residence.
The statue of Mr. Du Fu in the thatched cottage is pitifully thin. It is this poet who wrote a generous poem, "There are absolutely spacious buildings in Qian Qian, and the poor in the world are happy, and the wind and rain are flat."
During the prosperous Tang Dynasty, Mr. Du was very angry when his hut was destroyed by the autumn wind and the whole family got wet. Has it ever occurred to him that in a thousand years, this land will be full of flowers, commerce and food? ...
I think this is the massiness of Chengdu and the place where my generation loves life and the country.
Chengdu, a city that fascinates me!
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