Pingyao Ancient City Food Revealed: Eight Soul Tortures

Every city has its own unique style and cuisine. Pingyao Ancient City, famous for Shanxi merchants, is now also discovered by foodies as a city of gourmet food. In the four streets and eight alleys, wine flags are flying and the aroma is overflowing. Just the slogan of "108 kinds of snacks" is overwhelming. The mysterious delicacies of Pingyao Ancient City, face the strong wind and welcome the eight soul tortures!

Pingyao beef is well-deserved to be the leader in Pingyao’s gourmet food industry. It is a royal tribute that is well-known at home and abroad. It has hundreds of years of production technology inheritance. It is extremely delicious, neither woody nor greasy. It is suitable for all ages and will leave a lasting impression on your lips and teeth after the CD fragrant.

The potato strips and beef strips are either crispy or tender, and the combination is perfect. With the addition of cumin flavor, it has more fashionable taste elements than traditional Pingyao beef, making the dish more plump.

The beef copper hot pot is suitable for small groups of friends or families to sit around the table when traveling. There is a pot full of beef cubes and other ingredients sizzling in the pot. You soak me and I soak you. The taste is rolling and permeating in the steaming heat, and the aroma is overflowing.

The bowl must have come off! If you don't see it, just set up a small stall in the streets and alleys, and it's the smell of stir-fried bowls.

Wantuo, as the name suggests, is a kind of Shanxi pasta that comes out of the bowl. It is similar to Shaanxi noodles, but the state is different. It can be stir-fried or cold. In the late Qing Dynasty, Cixi and Emperor Guangxu were entertained, and the princes and ministers were full of praise after eating it. I ran into a century-old shop called Hu Ji in a small alley of the ancient city.

Must have it! Pingyao Ancient City's snack - handmade millet mooncakes, a hand-made dessert snack, has only one taste, strong aroma when eaten hot, crispy when eaten cold, sweet but not greasy, and a very simple old taste. It will subvert your understanding of traditional brown sugar and five-nut mooncakes and you will fall in love with it after one bite. Guangquanyi, a time-honored mooncake shop in Pingyao, Tandian operates in the open and sells freshly made at reasonable prices.

Changyam, a specialty of Pingyao, has a sweet and glutinous taste, a mild fragrance, and is also a good nourishing product. Restaurants in the ancient city of Pingyao offer a variety of Chinese yam dishes made in different ways, including stir-fried Chinese yam, honey-glazed Chinese yam and sesame oil Chinese yam. The long yam medicine is also made into powder and brewed for drinking.

Shanxi's pasta is extensive and profound. As a small county under Shanxi, Pingyao's pasta culture is no exception. The classic ones include graping the dough and cutting the dough.

Cage Dou is a transliteration of the local dialect and has nothing to do with "fighting". Pingyao's folk customs are simple and simple, without the barbaric and rough customs outside the Great Wall. Rubbing is to use a special grater, place it on a rolling pan, put the dough on it, and rub it like potato shreds, thereby making a unique type of pasta.

The cut knots are small pieces of dough that are pulled out with your fingers. In layman’s terms, they are small pieces. The simpler the operation, the less easy it is. The softness and hardness of the surface and the strength of the fingers are both crucial.

Poured sauce 栲栳栳 must be this dish (staple food) with the most uncommon words. Pinyin: 栲 (kao) 栳 (lao) 栳 (lao), a kind of steamed oatmeal noodles pasta. The kind-hearted people of Pingyao added the annotation "reliable" and gave it magical power. The waiter at the northern restaurant told us that when this dish is made, it is closely linked to each other. When it is served, at least two people must cooperate with each other to dismantle each small circle, which symbolizes firmness and unity. . Food also contains great truths.

Many Shanxi businessmen will go to Guanwai to learn business when they are teenagers, commonly known as "walking to the west entrance". Their families would fry oil tea for them who had left their hometowns to satisfy their hunger on the road. Camellia oleifera is made by roasting whole grain powder and a variety of nuts. It can be drunk after adding boiling water. It is usually served as a sweet soup for breakfast or after a meal. A bowl of good oil tea is fragrant and fills the room with fragrance. It is eaten with dry food and is the aristocrat on the breakfast table of Shanxi people.

Sea buckthorn juice is regarded as one of the specialties and is displayed in shops and restaurants in the streets and alleys of Pingyao, with "Exclusively for Pingyao" printed on the bottle. Prices vary depending on the brand, capacity and sales location, ranging from 10 yuan for three bottles to 5 yuan for a bottle and then to 10 yuan for a bottle.

Sea buckthorn, commonly known as vinegar willow, has become one of the model cash crops in arid areas due to its extraordinary vitality. Sea buckthorn juice is sour, sweet and refreshing, and it also has certain medicinal effects, so it is also a healthy drink.

Sea buckthorn is also very common in restaurants in the ancient city of Pingyao. Most restaurants will make soup, sea buckthorn and white fungus soup, and people in northern restaurants make unique sea buckthorn and cucumber. This is the most creative thing I have ever seen. How to eat cucumber, the sweet and sour taste of sea buckthorn and the refreshing taste of cucumber are perfectly combined, delivering an otherworldly experience to your taste buds.

After reading so many delicacies in Pingyao Ancient City, do you have the urge to lick the screen? Food cannot be completely described in words, so it is better to taste it in person