A Small Town on the Tip of the Tongue —— A Taste Bud Journey in Little Liuzhou

What makes me reluctant to go is Rong 'an's delicious food ~

Rong 'an is known as the "Little Liuzhou" and the "hometown of kumquat", and it is an important county in Liuzhou. Not only is the environment beautiful, but there are also many mouth-watering snacks. ...

Liuzhou Rongan traditional specialty fruit has the reputation of "longevity fruit". The fruit of Liuzhou Kumquat is oval, golden and shiny, with small and dense oil bubbles and sweet skin and meat. It contains many nutrients needed by human body, such as sugar, acid, vitamin C and so on. Has the effects of invigorating qi, resolving phlegm, quenching thirst and promoting fluid production.

Zhouxiaotou vegetable is a local traditional vegetable in Rong 'an County. Its texture is crisp and tender, and it tastes delicious. It was named after its original owner, Zhou Xiao Village, Daxiang Township, Rong 'an County. Because of its unique folk pickling processing technology and unique flavor, its products are well-known both inside and outside the region and have a long-standing reputation, which is deeply loved by consumers. The average plant weight of the first prize in Zhou Xiao is 65438 0.5 ~ 2.0 kg. The root tuber is big and thick, with thin skin, less fiber, crisp texture, and the product is resistant to storage and transportation and not easy to deteriorate. It can be used for ordinary home cooking or high-class cuisine.

Snail powder has a unique flavor of sour, spicy, fresh, cool and spicy, ranking first among Liuzhou-style snacks. It is made of soft, smooth and refreshing rice flour unique to Liuzhou, with sour bamboo shoots, fungus, peanuts, fried yuba, day lily, fresh vegetables and other ingredients, as well as rich and moderate sour and spicy taste and boiled snail soup. People can eat snail soup because of its peculiar and delicious taste.

Liuzhou people always look for a bowl of snail powder to relieve their homesickness as soon as they return home.

Snail powder is the most famous and popular snack rice noodle in Liuzhou. Just like Stephen Chow's "nonsense" jokes, they can be seen everywhere in the market.

Regarding the origin of snail powder, I have asked many small bosses who do powder stall business, and no one has ever been able to make it clear. I'm not sure, but it doesn't affect that snail powder has become one of the famous snacks in Guangxi.

However, there is one thing that many people, including Liuzhou locals, may not know, that is, the place where snail powder first appeared, in the urban area or suburbs of Liuzhou. Tell you, the originator of Liuzhou snail powder was in Rong 'an, Liuzhou, from Rong 'an to Liuzhou, and finally became famous in Liuzhou, which was popular in Guangxi, and even many friends from other provinces were full of praise for snail powder.

Furong Crisp is a famous dish in Rong 'an County, Guangxi. Every holiday, people will cook a bowl of hibiscus crisp, and it is also indispensable when hosting a banquet. The nearby cities are famous for coming to Rong 'an to eat this dish, and they are all amazed after eating it. This dish is made of lean meat, mushrooms and other vegetarian dishes 10, with flour, egg white and other condiments, and then fried in an oil pan. After making the finished product, the hibiscus crisp is golden in color, crisp outside and tender inside. After eating, the lips and teeth remain fragrant, crispy and delicious. It has been loved by people for more than 200 years and ranks first in all kinds of banquets.

Rongan Shao is one of Rongan's special snacks. It looks like fried meatballs, brown and shiny. There is also a layer called "pig net oil" by locals. Is prepared from minced pork, minced pork liver, scallion, winter bamboo shoots, etc. After oil explosion and charcoal fire baking, it is crisp and attractive. Every Spring Festival, locals will do it themselves. Usually eaten with filter powder.

Filter powder is one of the special delicacies in Rongshui Miao Autonomous County and neighboring Rongan County, among which Rongan filter powder has a particularly good taste and is also one of the rice noodles. Filter powder has developed into a favorite food for people in Luocheng area. In Luocheng and the following towns and villages, everyone's breakfast and lunch are often inseparable from powder filtration. It seems that it has become a necessity for villagers to eat a bowl of filter powder for lunch or afternoon tea every time they go to the market.

Rolling horse, an interesting and peculiar snack, is said to have been invented by Rong 'an people and later became one of Rong 'an's specialties. Later, state-run snack bars also appeared in Liuzhou. This variety is made of glutinous rice flour, bean flour, sesame and yellow sugar powder, and it is shaped like glutinous rice balls. When eating, you can roll it in Huangxi powder a few times, which is warm, tender and delicious.

The making method of Rongan water cake is relatively simple. Rice is ground into paste with water and then steamed with sugar. The taste is excellent, and Rong' an people have grown from small to large.

Five-color glutinous rice. Zhuang people usually do it at the "March 3rd" Song Festival, while Han people usually do it in Tomb-Sweeping Day. There are five colors of glutinous rice because the washed glutinous rice is dyed separately and then cooked. Ready-made edible dyes are used in towns and wild plant dyes are used in rural areas. For example, Redmi is soaked in sappan wood, blue rice is soaked in mashed maple leaf juice (slightly light), black rice is also soaked in maple leaf juice (but the juice is thicker), yellow rice is soaked in gardenia water, and white rice is soaked in glutinous rice. Cooked five-color glutinous rice has an obvious Shan Ye flavor, which is very attractive. People often give it to relatives and friends or worship their ancestors. If you put this "five-colored glutinous rice" together on a plate, the colorful colors will be pleasing to the eye. Ordinary five-color glutinous rice is dyed with plants. Generally black ones are dyed with maple leaves. If the maple leaf juice is not strong enough, it will be dyed gray. Yellow is usually turmeric. Both purple and red are dyed by red and blue grass, but the color will change with different concentrations. If you like green, you can use spinach. Mash the plants first, then boil the water. It becomes a dye. Let it cool and soak it in glutinous rice for several hours. Then clean with clear water and steam in a cage to obtain five-color glutinous rice.

Copper ladle is delicious. The device used in this system is a pentagonal heart-shaped spoon. When it is made, the pure rice slurry is poured into it, with seasonal melons, diced pumpkins, diced sweet potatoes, lotus root strips, chopped green onion, lard and other seasonings. It is delicious and sweet after being taken out of the pot.

Ababa's Compendium of Materia Medica records: "Artemisia argyi leaves are bitter and pungent, warm in nature, ripe and hot, pure in yang ... With this fire of moxibustion, all meridians can be penetrated and all diseases can be eliminated." Boiled Folium Artemisiae Argyi to remove bitterness, mixed with glutinous rice flour, and served with sesame sugar stuffing and grapefruit leaves. The steamed Folium Artemisiae Argyi tastes fragrant and delicate.

Stewed eggs, an old dessert in Qilou Street. Sweet but not greasy, it melts in the mouth and has high nutrition. Children's favorite ~ is also my favorite (when I was a child (? & gtω& lt； *? ))

Rong 'an Camellia oleifera is rich in condiments, and pays special attention to the collocation of meat and vegetables. Lean meat, pork liver, vermicelli and pork red are cooked in boiling water, and processed into meat and soup with monosodium glutamate. Vegetables include lettuce, raw onion, fresh beans, Mi Dou, vegetable sprouts, fried peanuts, glutinous rice and avocado.

Camellia oleifera tea is also exquisite, and it is best to use big leaf tea, which is a special kind of tea, and the boiled tea has a strong fragrance. When eating camellia oleifera, first put the camellia oleifera rice into a bowl, then make tea water, and let the guests choose whatever seasoning they like. There used to be a rule of "three drinks and four drinks for tea", but now it is very casual. You can eat as many bowls as you want until you are full. ?

Rongan Camellia oleifera is rich in nutrition, which can satisfy hunger, keep warm, refresh people's minds, make people energetic and strengthen their physique.

Are you excited to see the friends here? Then go for a walk with me on the streets of Rong 'an ~