Talking about mixed soup

I have been to many places with special food and snacks, such as Huimin Street in Xi, Shaxi Line in Chengdu, Furong Street in Jinan, Chenghuang Temple in Shanghai and niujie Guijie in Beijing. Some of them are famous for their exquisiteness, while others are famous at home and abroad for their local characteristics. But when you come to Yongchang, an ancient city located in the important node of Hexi Corridor, you will be shocked by the dazzling array of special foods here, impressed by the good quality and low price here, and fascinated by the green ingredients here.

As long as you look at Baidu, you will know that Yongchang is an ancient city with extremely heavy history and culture. The Shang and Zhou Dynasties, the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period were the pastures of Xirong and Yueshi. Animal husbandry has a long history, and farming culture and nomadic culture began to collide and blend here in Qin and Han Dynasties. As the economic, cultural and transportation center on the Silk Road, the eating habits of the Central Plains, exotic foods in the western regions, local special ingredients, continuous ethnic blending, and unique geographical landforms, such as the northern foot of Qilian Mountain and the southern edge of Alashan Mountain, have rich and colorful cultural traditions. Local snacks, the special cuisine of Yongchang ancient city, is regional and inclusive, so it is hard not to be known.

When it comes to Yongchang cuisine, we can't help but mention the agricultural and sideline products with Yongchang characteristics. No matter how excellent the cooking is, it can't be separated from the support of high-quality ingredients. Yongchang mutton, Yongchang carrot and Yongchang beer barley are national geographical indication products and characteristic agricultural products with great market competitiveness. In recent years, pollution-free vegetables in Yongchang Plateau are also famous. Baby dishes, red peppers and broccoli are sold all over the country. Yongchang Nostoc flagelliforme and Yongchang Mushroom are well-known, and Yongchang Liguan Golden Trout completely subverts people's impression of Hexi Corridor. High-quality spring water has finally turned traditional rainbow trout into golden trout with unique regional characteristics, and these cold-water fish are extremely rich.

In Yongchang, when people talk about food, they will be the first to promote Yongchang mutton. These sheep, who grew up eating Chinese herbal medicines on the hillside and drinking melted water from Qilian Mountain, contributed Yongchang mutton and won the national geographical indication products. Good mutton combined with unique cooking skills will naturally make a delicious mutton feast with unique taste, such as braised mutton, charcoal roast whole lamb, Hu spicy mutton, clear soup mutton, mutton paomo, instant-boiled mutton, Yongchang hand-grabbed mutton and so on. Hand-grabbed mutton is a famous flavor in Jinchang and even Hexi Corridor. It is the main course of Jinchang's ten million "farmhouse music". When you eat mutton in Yongchang, you should remember an absolute truth: if you eat mutton instead of garlic, the nutrition will be reduced by half!

Mutton pad paper is a famous local food popular in Hexi area for hundreds of years, and the flavor of Yongchang is more pure and authentic. These local sheep like to eat Suaeda salsa on the northern mountain, so the mutton is tender, nutritious and tasteless. Speaking of mutton or mutton pad paper in Yongchang, Lin Zexu, a patriotic star in Qing Dynasty, governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, and a hero who banned smoking, praised it after tasting mutton pad paper on his way to Xinjiang. It is this kind of mutton pad paper with regional characteristics that, after conquering the local people, continued to attack the city and won the title of China gold medal tourist snack in the first China gold medal tourist snack selection activity.

Yongchang has another way to eat mutton. It is said that the porcelain on the tip of the tongue is served. The special brick stove is huge, revealing the bold and unconstrained atmosphere of the northwest. Large chunks of good mutton, extra-large iron roasting pan, a plate of six or seven pounds of mutton, and a pound of mutton in 60 yuan still attract diners. Special pickled ingredients, yards of pickled mutton, and chopped potatoes are decorated, and the fuel is local flax straw. It is also smoked, which combines the special fragrance of flax straw after burning, and is accompanied by onions and peppers produced in Yongchang. When mutton is served, the house is full of fragrance, people's taste buds are wide open, and the feast begins.

The mutton in Yongchang is delicious, and the stuffed skin in Yongchang is also delicious in the world. Its production method might as well be said as follows: mix a certain amount of alkaline flour into wheat flour, mix it with warm water to make a hard dough, knead it several times until the dough is fine and smooth, then knead it in cold water and wash off the starch until the dough becomes a honeycomb soft glue. This soft and elastic dough is called gluten when cooked. After the remaining batter is precipitated, pour out the floating water, and scoop the precipitated batter into a steamer covered with cotton cloth for steaming. When eating, it will be cut into long strips, decorated with a few pieces of gluten and mixed with homemade seasoning. Sour, spicy and mellow, both hot and cold, with different tastes in four seasons.

There is another kind of food in Yongchang that must be emphasized, and that is to stir up the group. Stir-fried noodles are a famous specialty snack in northwest China. The accurate definition is the paste made of noodles. People in Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningxia like fried dough best, including buckwheat fried dough, corn fried dough and potato fried dough. There is a saying in the northwest that whether a married daughter-in-law is virtuous and capable depends on whether she is smooth enough. In times of poverty, people often eat fried dumplings, but now they have become a special snack for people to find homesickness and recall the past. The practice of stirring dough is not complicated. The key is to add fried sauerkraut and garlic seedlings, and add some pepper. The taste is mouth watering.

The reason why I want to write this article is that the food in Yongchang is too rich and wonderful. I feel sorry for myself if I don't recommend it. In today's era, it is selfish not to know how to share. In Yongchang, although the names of some foods sound vulgar, they are the most memorable, such as rubbing roe, kang pot, wowozi, Peng Hui noodles, Brazil, sweet meatballs, twisted dough, oil gizzard, spicy powder, and Yongchang mutton offal is also very delicious. Yongchang dumplings and Qinghe oil cakes are extremely delicious, and miscellaneous grains mixed soup is said to be a good hangover after drunkenness.

Nowadays, it is not easy to taste authentic Yongchang cuisine on the street, appreciate the production technology of many Yongchang cuisines and feel the unique charm of northwest specialty snacks. There are still many problems in decentralized management, such as sanitation, quarantine, standardization and publicity. However, near the most famous Bell and Drum Tower in Yongchang Ancient City, adjacent to this classical building built in the Ming Dynasty, there is a well-known Bell Tower Snack City, which brings together famous snacks from the northwest and even China. It has become a master of Yongchang specialty food. The snacks in the world and the food in Yongchang complement each other, which is really good and cheap. It has also achieved perfection in environmental construction, brand marketing, cultural integration and standardized management.

In fact, Yongchang ancient city not only has special food, but also has amazing scenery. The ancient city of Li Gan, which recorded the blending of Chinese and Western cultures, the once prosperous Rong Sheng Temple, the beautiful Beihai and Northern Wudang Mountains, and the Silk Road pastoral complex under construction are all worth seeing. It is said that to grasp the hearts of tourists, we must first grasp the stomachs of tourists. Food is the most important thing for people, so it is very profound. Yongchang has beautiful scenery, delicious food and rich product resources. The key is to have a group of hospitable and pragmatic Yongchang people. The future of Yongchang is worth looking forward to!