What food specialties are there near Xikou Scenic Area?

Ningbo Xikou Scenic Area is a very famous scenic spot in Ningbo, with beautiful scenery, Wuling in the east, Tunxi in the south, Xuedou Mountain in the north, surrounded by water. In addition to the beautiful scenery, there are many special foods in this place. It can be said that you must try them all near Xikou scenic spot! Almost all of them are local specialties or specialties of Ningbo or Xikou! Come and have a look!

Fenghua taro Fenghua taro is a traditional and excellent pollution-free agricultural product in Ningbo. Taro is nearly spherical, brown in appearance and pink at the top, weighing more than 1 kg, and the largest can reach about 2.5 kg. Its quality characteristics are mainly characterized by large skin, fine meat powder without gluten, waxy and delicious. Taro can be eaten in a variety of ways, each with its own flavor, which can be roasted, steamed, eaten raw, fried, cut into white, poured in soup and boiled frozen. If it is baked and steamed, it is fragrant and powder like chestnut; If you cook soup, it will be as smooth as tremella and as glutinous as glutinous rice balls. 65438-0996 Fenghua was jointly named "Hometown of Taro in China" by the State Council Development Research Center, China Agricultural Society and China Specialty Newspaper.

"After three passes and six docks, I have eaten Fenghua taro." This folk proverb in Shanghai, Hangzhou and Ningbo is mainly used to describe people's well-informed experiences. Taro, an ancient "treasure in food", has now become the most famous specialty in Fenghua.

Xikou Melaleuca Cake Xikou Melaleuca Cake is one of the traditional points of Han nationality in Xikou Town, Fenghua, Ningbo, Zhejiang Province. The real name of "the best cake in the world" is "thousand-layer cake", which was originally a small cake produced locally, and later became famous all over the world because of Chiang Kai-shek. The main raw materials are flour, taro powder, sugar, refined salt, vegetable oil, sesame, moss and so on. The method is to mix taro powder with flour, add seaweed, roll into thin slices, then fold and bake with charcoal fire. The entrance is crisp and sweet. Xikou Melaleuca Cake is one of the three specialties in Fenghua, with a history of 100 years. Its founder, Wang Maolong, began to make it in the fourth year of Guangxu in Qing Dynasty (1878).

Grey juice ball Grey juice ball is a special snack in Xikou. It is a kind of gray translucent ball, which tastes slightly alkaline and mint. The specific method of authentic grey juice meatballs in Xikou rural area is: take the straw cut in the field and burn it into black ash, then soak it in warm water for one night, drain the black ash the next day, leaving only "grey juice", then add appropriate amount of sugar and alkali to the "grey juice", then add glutinous rice flour, knead it into meatballs, steam it in a steamer and eat it after steaming.

Ningbo Tangyuan Tangyuan is one of the famous snacks in Ningbo and one of the representative snacks in China with a long history. According to legend, Tangyuan originated in the Song Dynasty. At that time, a novel food was popular all over the country, which was made of various fruit baits and kneaded into balls with glutinous rice flour outside. After cooking, it tastes sweet and delicious, which is very interesting. Because this kind of dumplings cooked in a pot will float and sink, it was originally called "floating Zi Yuan", and later it was renamed Yuanxiao in some areas.

Ningbo glutinous rice balls, also known as Ningbo lard glutinous rice balls, are mainly made of glutinous rice, black sesame seeds, lard, sugar and osmanthus flowers. In this method, glutinous rice is made into dry and non-sticky water milling powder by using slurry hanging technology; Then the black sesame seeds are ground into powder, and pork chop oil, sugar, etc. are added. Mixing to form stuffing; Take water mill powder as skin blank, wrap it in stuffing, knead it into a round shape, put it in a boiling water pot, and sprinkle a little sugar, osmanthus fragrans and red and green silk. Ningbo Tangyuan is white and bright, waxy but not sticky, with smooth skin, moist stuffing and sweet taste. Since the 1990s, new varieties such as "Ma Tang Rong Tuan" and "Quick Frozen Tangtuan" have been created, which are exported to Japan, Hong Kong and Macao and are very popular.

To this day, Xikou people still have the traditional custom of getting together with their families to eat glutinous rice balls on the morning of the Spring Festival. On the Lantern Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day and the winter solstice, the whole family is also required to eat glutinous rice balls, which means reunion and beauty.

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Qing Tuan is a kind of green cake made of grass head juice. The method is as follows: firstly, glutinous rice flour, sticky rice flour, bean paste stuffing, wormwood and other materials are prepared. Wash the wormwood and blanch it with water. When ironing, you can add a little lime water to remove the bitterness. You can wash it several times without adding it. Then add some water and break it with a household blender to get wormwood juice. Mix glutinous rice flour and sticky rice flour according to the ratio of 3: 1, add wormwood juice and flour, then add stuffing to make fist-sized jiaozi, and the last step is steaming on fire. Let the green balls cool after steaming, and you can eat them.

Liudu cake Liudu cake is one of the snacks that Xikou people often eat, and it is also a common offering when people worship and offer Buddha. According to legend, Liudu Cake is the incarnation of Maitreya Bodhisattva-a cloth bag monk brought to the world from the inner court. Maitreya Bodhisattva was born under Longhua tree that year, spreading Buddhism to the public, enlightening the Dharma to six degrees with six fruits in the world, and filling the hunger with food of hue. Since then, Liudu cake has become a good product for good men and women to worship Buddha. In recent years, Liudu cake has been improved by modern technology, hand-made and has a unique taste, which has become a gift for the majority of believers. Speaking of Xikou scenic spot in Ningbo, this place is