What are the hometown snacks in Taizhou and talk about their cultural meaning (detailed version)

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Miyang Cake

A famous snack that has existed in Taizhou since ancient times. Shangyeshandong area is its traditional production area. It is as fine and white as snow, the inside is like a sponge, it is fluffy and soft in the mouth, the fragrance of rice is overflowing, and it does not stick to your teeth. Its method is a purely primitive operation. First, the early indica rice is soaked until soft, and the rice slurry is ground manually with a stone mill. The fine slurry is squeezed out of a cloth bag and filtered, and white sugar and yeast are added. Put the gauze in the steamer first, pour the rice milk into it, and steam it over low heat and then high heat. Zhuangyuan Cake

The same raw materials as rice Yang cake are sandwiched between two layers of brown sugar, sprinkled with some seaweed on the bottom, steamed and stamped with an auspicious and festive red seal, and it becomes "Zhuangyuan Cake". Fragrant, glutinous and soft-tasting, this special snack has a festive meaning. Relatives and friends often send it to express their congratulations when someone moves into college or is admitted to college. Milk Steamed Bun

Eat it on June 6 or when the child is one month old There are two kinds of salty stuffing and bean paste stuffing beside the pavilion; there are also steamed buns made into various animal shapes during the New Year)

Mai Jiao

Taizhou’s traditional snacks in Beijing It is a special snack that is indispensable during the Chinese New Year, Mid-Autumn Festival and other festivals. It is a food full of aroma and full of flavor that means reunion. First make the vermicelli as round as a full moon and set aside, then fry the dishes and wrap them into a bamboo tube shape for ready-to-eat Xi'an. This special snack can also be fried in a pot until golden brown and served on a plate. The main raw materials include rice noodles, shredded radish, egg skin, shredded potatoes, bean sprouts, celery, shredded pork, shredded bamboo shoots, dried shredded dried mushrooms, and glutinous rice noodles. etc.

Japonica rice (also called flat food)

is a special snack in Shanghai during the rice-planting season. Farmers use this as a snack to eat in the field. It is also called "Tian Jing". It is made of wheat flour and made into a square thin dough (sometimes add green juice to make Qing Jing), and is wrapped with pre-fried fillings to make it look like an ear. Dumpling-like food, it can be boiled in a pot or steamed in a basket.

Zanggang

Zanggang is a special snack in Nanjing during the Lantern Festival. Tangyuan is eaten in various places during the Lantern Festival. , while Taizhou basically eats shit, and the Lantern Festival is celebrated one day earlier than other places. Why is this? It is said that Qi Jiguang fought against the Japanese in Taizhou during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty. The general offensive was launched on the Lantern Festival night on the 15th day of the first lunar month. It was winter and it was cold. In order to keep the soldiers away from the cold and celebrate the festival in advance, the people in the city used this special cold-warming food made of rice milk soaked with distiller's lees and served with dishes to comfort the soldiers on guard. From then on, the custom of eating this cold-warming food on the 14th day of the first lunar month became known. This night, anyone can go in to eat Xi'an's special snacks, and whichever house has the most people will eat it.

It is divided into two types: salty and sweet. The main raw material of salty glutinous rice soup is rice milk, and the condiments are mustard greens, dried fragrant fish, dried shrimps, Sichuan bean paste, winter bamboo shoots, oysters, Peanuts, mushrooms, bacon, etc. are cut into cubes and mixed into a delicious paste snack.

Sweet glutinous rice soup is made of wet starch, red dates, candied dates, water chestnuts, kumquat cakes, longan, etc. It is made of boiled shredded carrots, peanuts, brown sugar, etc. It is usually a must-have for the new bride-in-law's family. It is also called bride's soup. On the wedding night in the area beside the pavilion, the mutton is shredded and boiled into soup and then mixed with wet soup. The raw materials of starch and sweet soup are Shanghai specialty snacks, which are cooked into mutton soup, also known as Zuitang soup and Hehe soup.

Rice dumplings

About " There is also a love story that has been passed down for thousands of years. It is said that there lived a mother and son who depended on each other on the Shibajian Ridge of Qishui Mountain. The mother was blind, but the son was a talented person. The filial son named "Tuan" lives by selling firewood and has difficulty getting married. The Dragon King's daughter "Yuan" often travels across Shibajianling in the rain. Seeing "Tuan" being hardworking and kind, she decides to marry him. When the Dragon King heard this, he was furious and threw "Yuan" into the 18th floor of the Dragon Palace and locked it up. However, "Yuan" protested with a hunger strike. The Dragon King could only come up with the topic, if the millstones and stone mortar heads of Shibajianling were rolled down from the mountain, they could be bonded together. If they eat Beijing specialty snacks together, they will be allowed to get married. One day of special snacks joining, the Dragon King sent the earth master to roll the millstone and the stone mortar down the mountain. In an instant, dark clouds rolled and thunder bursts.

In order to prevent the millstone from rolling too fast, the Dragon Girl bribed shrimp soldiers to drill into the heart of the grindstone to stop the millstone from rolling down, but the stone mortar head would not roll. When "Yuan" was in trouble, Huang Doujing took pity on the lovers and mobilized countless people. The soybeans were used as wheels to help it roll, and the lovers finally got married. When they rolled to the East China Sea, the Dragon King was shocked. Half of the stone mill was already attached to the round stone mortar head covered with soybean powder. He thought it was God's will, and it was fulfilled. them.

To commemorate the perfect marriage of this pair, later generations kneaded it into a ball with high-quality glutinous rice flour and wrapped it with fillings such as minced meat, diced wild rice, mushrooms, and dried shrimps (homophone: shrimp soldiers). Put "rice balls" engraved with plum blossoms, orchids, bamboos, chrysanthemums, double happiness, harmony and other festive patterns on the inside to make a disc-shaped delicacy, steam them in a basket, and become a soft, glutinous and fragrant snack. And there are often matching "round" special snacks with rice balls, which means "round and round".

Yuan

Different from glutinous rice balls in other places, they are generally eaten during the Winter Solstice, also known as winter solstice dumplings. Usually, it is mainly placed in a Sichuan basket (a column-shaped bamboo product) paired with "rice balls" as a gift during festive occasions such as engagements. The "round" at the foot of Qiushui Mountain is filled with fillings but not inside. It is said that this is also the reason for this allusion. To make a "round", first mix glutinous rice flour with water and knead it repeatedly to make it the size of a ping pong. Put it in a pot and cook it. After it is out of the pot, roll a few Shanghai specialty snacks in the filling of soybean flour mixed with brown sugar. Eat it hot, it will be soft, glutinous and sweet. Later, because of the festive color red, it gradually evolved to mostly use red bean powder as the filling.

In Sanmen, "rice dumplings and circles" have become the tokens of love and festive gifts for the public. On weekdays, whenever there is an engagement, the bride has been waiting for three days (returning home), building a house, or dividing the family, relatives will send "rice balls and yuan" to each other. There are two kinds of wheat cakes: salty and sweet. The sweet sesame and seaweed wheat cakes, and the salty five-spice wheat cakes are stuffed with minced meat, green onions, dried shrimps, etc. The salty and sweet double-flavored wheat cakes are also called Yuanyang wheat cakes. Egg wheat cakes

Put the pre-made round noodles into the pot, add the fried fillings (similar to the fillings of five-spice wheat cakes), and add eggs to stick the fillings While holding it, fold the vermicelli in half into a fan shape and bake until cooked. Tofu cake

Used tofu and green onions as ingredients, folded into a half-moon shape and fried until the surface is crispy and brown. Shuijing cake

It was invented by fishermen. The earliest shuijing cake was made by removing the head, tail and spines of shuijing (also known as tofu fish), mincing it into fish paste and mixing it with flour, old wine and ginger juice. Wait, press into a round shape, and bake into two golden fish-flavored rice cakes. The modern water cake has been further innovated and developed. Red sausage minced is sprinkled on the surface of the cake to make it a more attractive delicacy. Songhua cake

Wuxy and sweet, you can never tire of eating it, and it has the effect of improving eyesight. It is made by mixing glutinous rice flour with a certain proportion of natural pine flowers and white sugar and then baking it over a warm fire. Mochi

As a festive food, Mochi is eaten during the Chinese New Year, Beginning of Summer, and Double Ninth Festival. It is usually used as gifts for weddings, bedrock, and moving in.

Colorful Xiangzi: Mixed with minced meat and diced bamboo shoots. Rice dumplings with green onions and eggs: yellow, green and white, attractive color and taste. Brown sugar rolls: loose on the outside, soft on the inside, sweet and not greasy. Five-spice glutinous rice?

It is a festival food that people eat on April 8th in the ancient calendar. It is said that eating on this day is mainly for the relay between spring and summer. Ingredients include white bream, peas, bacon, potatoes, red beans, soybeans, mushrooms, tofu, etc. With the changes in modern people's tastes, there is now glutinous rice blue crab rice with crab meat, razor clam meat, etc. removed, which has been awarded the famous dim sum of Taizhou. Fried glutinous rice balls

There is another allusion to the origin of fried glutinous rice balls. It is said that King Chen fled to Sanmen Bay by boat. In order to resist hunger and nourish himself, the imperial chef specially refined the glutinous rice balls when he fled from the palace. (Sauteed with eggs) as a snack. After the descendants of King Chen lived in seclusion in Sanmen Bay, they carried forward this royal snack and added dried mudskippers or boneless mullet meat and other seafood. From then on, it entered the homes of ordinary people and became a high-end snack for coastal people to treat their relatives and friends. Nowadays, some big hotels have made innovations, making the meatballs smaller, and the pieces are like pearls falling on a jade plate, which is more interesting and delicious.

Blue Crab Bean Noodles