Food shop exploration - Which water banquet restaurant in Luoyang is the best? Check out the high, high, and low water banquets and tell us about your experience.

Food is a business card of a Chinese city. The older an ancient capital is, the more unique its food is.

Luoyang was the ancient capital of thirteen dynasties. When it comes to Luoyang’s special delicacies, most people know the “water banquet”. The water banquet can be said to be the representative of Luoyang’s food culture. When you come to Luoyang, you must taste Luoyang water banquet. Seat, this journey is complete.

Luoyang water banquet originated in the Tang Dynasty. It has a total of 24 dishes. Except for the first eight cold dishes, the rest are presented in soup. Each dish is inseparable from the soup. Eat one and drink it. One way, and then the other, it is like flowing clouds and flowing water, so it is called a water mat.

After spending two and a half days in Luoyang, I checked out the Luoyang water banquets at the high, high, and low levels. Which one is the most delicious? I will share my experience with you.

There are two stores in the navigation. We went to the store in the old city and asked the express driver to take us there directly.

The True Different Hotel was founded in 1895 and has a history of more than 100 years. It has many titles such as a Chinese time-honored brand and a famous Chinese restaurant.

Looking at the appearance, it really has the style of the prosperous Tang Dynasty.

Legend has it that the water mat was invented by Wu Zetian, and her wax figure is enshrined in the store.

The store is decorated magnificently, and the waiters are all dressed in Tang Dynasty costumes, wearing silk and satin and large peonies on their heads.

The decoration style is magnificent and royal.

The only hotel decorated in this style in Shijiazhuang is the Palace Hotel, and the price is naturally "palace" price.

Zhen BuTong can be regarded as the chief representative of Luoyang water banquet. In 1974, Premier Zhou came to Luoyang to eat Luoyang water banquet and entertain foreign guests at Zhen BuTong. The signature dish "Peony Jelly" was named after the Prime Minister.

We ate in the booth in this hall. We went early and there was no one there yet.

Peony agarwood:

A must-try signature dish, the presentation is beautiful.

Peony agarwood represents the characteristics of Luoyang water banquet: using simple and plain raw materials, using complicated processes and meticulous workmanship, and finally achieving the effect of complete color, fragrance and flavor.

The "protagonist" of its ingredients is actually colorless and odorless shredded radish, which is so thin that it can pass through the eye of a needle. The ingredients are shredded ham, shredded sea cucumber, shredded squid, shredded tenderloin, shredded winter bamboo shoots, shredded mushrooms, and crab. Shredded sticks and radish absorb the clear soup of these high-quality ingredients, and are finally decorated with peony flower shapes made from petals cut from chicken cakes.

The shredded radish is very thin, as thin as knitting wool, and a bit tough. It may have been wrapped in starch and steamed or fried.

If you don’t eat it carefully, you won’t know what it is. It’s so delicious.

The soup is spicy, sour and so delicious.

Burnt croquettes (upper left corner of the picture):

This dish is very visually impressive.

Freshly fried meatballs are placed in a bowl. , another bowl filled with hot and sour soup. In the blink of an eye, I poured the soup on the meatballs, and suddenly white smoke rose, the sizzling sound and the tangy aroma came, whetting my appetite.

Although the meatballs are soaked in the sour soup, they are still crispy and crispy, leaving a fragrant taste in your mouth.

The main ingredient of the meatballs is actually sweet potato vermicelli, without any meat, and served with hot and sour sauce. Compared with eating meatballs, it is less burdensome on the stomach and intestines, but it still has the burnt flavor of meat.

Pork slices in soup (lower left of the picture):

This dish has nothing special, it is just an ordinary spicy soup version of smooth pork slices, but there is a lot of meat.

Pudding noodles:

After finishing the dishes, you should have a staple dish. The signature dish of the staple food is Pudding noodles.

What came out was a large bowl. It was more like noodles boiled in porridge than soup. The porridge was grey-green and looked very much like the "salty" dish that my mother loved but I would never eat. "Rice" (a staple food in the Taihang Mountains where rice porridge, noodles, vegetable leaves, cabbage, and kohlrabi are boiled together until nothing is clear and then some salt is added to eat)

I tasted it with trepidation. Oh my god, there was a sour taste first, and then the sour taste was a little astringent, as well as the smell and astringency of old Beijing bean juice. Although the salty rice is not delicious, But there is no musty smell.

After all, it is a special delicacy. I will try it again out of respect. If you are not used to the first bite, it will be better if you continue to eat it. The second bite is still the same, even the inside Peanuts are sour.

I am not a person who likes to waste food, but three of us at the table gave up on this dish and will definitely not order it again in the future.

Summary: Luoyang is really a city suitable for budget travel. This kind of high-end restaurant, with three dishes and a bowl of staple food, only costs less than 150 yuan, which is very affordable.

I only took a few mouthfuls of the slurry on the water, which was really embarrassing.

If you want to quickly learn about the local food and fun, it is a good way to ask the driver. When traveling in Luoyang, we mainly take express trains and taxis. We chat with N drivers every day, plus Baidu, we can master a lot of information.

The most famous one among Shuixian is Zhenbu, but online reviews and local people, especially drivers, do not recommend Zhenbu. They say it is for outsiders. Most of them recommend Guanji, Yaoyao and Jianbu. Kun, I often invite my friends to eat after work. Guanji scored the highest in online reviews, so I went to Guanji again.

The business is really booming, there are so many people, the store, tables and chairs are dilapidated, and the sanitation is close to that of a fly restaurant.

Fried croquettes, 15 yuan

Hawthorn croquettes, 10 yuan

Pork slices with soup, small portion 18 yuan,

Small puff pastry Meat, 20 yuan

Three dishes and one soup, 63 yuan per dollar, the price is impressive.

Until now, I have discovered that the water banquet is different from the eight major cuisines that use high-end ingredients. The ingredients are very ordinary, but they are the vermicelli and white radish that northerners love to eat, such as "fake sea cucumber". Made with vermicelli, it looks quite similar. After careful cooking, it can have an extraordinary taste that is no less than delicacies from mountains and seas.

It is said:

Low-price representative: Xinxin Water Banquet

Some express drivers said that the water banquet in the alley is also delicious, so When we were visiting Lijingmen, we stopped by one.

As a digression, Lijingmen is a must-see attraction in Luoyang. You can look at the old buildings, go up the old city wall to enjoy the scenery, and taste the delicious food. It is suitable to come during the day and at night.

Lijingmen is located in the old town of Luoyang, where spring factories can be seen everywhere.

Freshly squeezed pomegranate juice only costs five yuan a cup, it is sweet and delicious.

I found Xinxin Water Banquet by accident in an alley.

There is a brief introduction at the door. The boss studied under a really different master. After completing his studies, he started his own business.

This shop is a veritable fly restaurant, with dim lighting, like incandescent lamps from the last century.

We shared a table with another family and still had four dishes:

Burnt croquettes, fake sea cucumber, sliced ??pork in soup, and peony agarwood.

The soup is watery. In terms of quantity of dishes, it is a little smaller than the first two restaurants. The workmanship is rough and the charred croquettes are no longer crispy. Even the soup meat slices are filled with tomatoes, while the other two restaurants are not. It's red pepper.

As for the peony agar, I can no longer tell. When it was served, I thought it was shredded pork with pickled cabbage. The white radish was cut into strips, not shreds. You could tell it was white radish in one bite. .

The price is even more impressive. Four dishes cost more than 50 yuan. If you want three dishes and one soup, the store also has a set meal for 48 yuan.

To summarize:

As the name suggests, the water banquet is presented in the form of soup. Each dish is inseparable from the soup, and the soup tastes like spicy soup, which is very appetizing.

There are very few meat dishes, mostly vegetarian dishes, and there is little oil and water.

If you are a vegetarian, the water table is a good choice.

If you are a person who is losing weight, you can rest assured to eat water.

I drank these three meals with water and didn't feel greasy after eating. Under the influence of pepper and vinegar, my stomach felt warm all over, making it very comfortable to eat.

I have eaten all the water banquets in the three price ranges, and I still get what I pay for.

The authentic and carefully crafted ones from time-honored brands are really different and the best.

Guan Ji’s cooking is solid and suitable for local consumption.

As for the small restaurant in the alley, three dishes and one soup cost 48 yuan, and one has meat dishes and unlimited rice. , for this benefit, what else can you ask for.

Let me repeat it again, Luoyang is really cheap to eat, and the consumption in all aspects is low. It is a good place for budget travel. Even if you choose the most expensive one, it is really different. The per capita cost of eating in Luoyang will never be exceeded. Hundred.

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