The way and taste of yaorou.

features: crisp, fragrant and delicious, fat but not greasy, and crystal clear with brine.

How to eat: open the bag and eat immediately. It should be frozen first and then sliced and put on a plate. It is not fragile, and served with shredded ginger and Zhenjiang balsamic vinegar.

As the saying goes, "There are three eccentrics in Zhenjiang, the vinegar is not bad, and the meat is not a dish, and the lid is cooked in the noodle pot", which is what "the meat is not a dish" means.

After years of evolution, Zhenjiang meat has many brands in Zhenjiang, among which "Jingjiang meat", "Banquet spring meat" and "Yuanchun meat" are among them. Different people have different opinions.

"It's not greasy, slightly crisp and fragrant, and it's purplish and tender and frozen crystal dishes". This is a poem praised by modern poets for Zhenjiang Yaorou. "Crystal Yaorou", also known as "Zhenjiang Yaorou", is a famous Zhenjiang dish at home and abroad.

It is said that hundreds of years ago, the owner of a small hotel in Jiuhai Street, Zhenjiang, bought four pig hooves a day, and prepared to eat them in a few days. Because of the hot weather, he was afraid of deterioration, so he salted them with salt. But at that time, he mistakenly salted the pig hooves with a pack of nitrate bought by his family for firecrackers. It was not until three days later that his family looked for nitrate that he quickly opened the salting jar and saw that not only the meat quality had not changed, but the pickled hooves were hard and fragrant. In order to remove the smell of nitrate, it was soaked in clear water for many times in a row, then boiled in a boiling water pot and fished out. Then, he put the pig's hoof into the pot, and added onion, ginger, pepper, fennel and cinnamon to stew at high temperature, in order to remove the toxicity and odor. Unexpectedly, after the onion was boiled for half an hour, there was an abnormal fragrance, which tasted delicious and had no odor. Since then, the shopkeeper has used this method to make "nitrate meat", and more and more customers come to taste it, which soon became famous in the city. Later, due to the similar pronunciation of nitrate and food, it was renamed "Crystal Food Meat". Also, because of the bright red meat color and glittering and translucent skin color, it is also called crystal dish hoof. This dish is made of pig's trotters as raw materials, pickled with nitrate and salt, mixed with onion, ginger, yellow wine and other condiments, simmered in wide soup until crisp and rotten, and then frozen and coagulated. It has the characteristics of beautiful shape, mellow and fresh fragrance, smooth oil, fat but not greasy, and is a traditional flavor dish in Zhenjiang area