What is bitter juice?

Brain juice is a popular local folk snack in Chaoshan area. In Chaoshan Street, there are food stalls selling brain juice everywhere.

manufacturing process

The practice of Chaoshan juice seems simple, but it is actually very particular. Generally, the soaked glutinous rice is ground into rice flour slurry with water, and then an appropriate amount of rice flour slurry is poured into a steamer for steaming. Before pouring the rice noodle paste into the steamer, apply cooking oil evenly on the bottom of the steamer to avoid the steamed rice noodle paste sticking to the steamer. Steamed bitter juice slices should be picked up to collect cigarettes and hung on the autocratic rack to dry bitter juice. Dry the peel in the sun, usually for three hours, so it tastes delicious and not easy to get moldy. The dried juice skin is crystal clear and the rice flavor is rich. Then, cut the concentrated juice skin into small triangular pieces. It's more curly and looks better when rolled up.

Make ingredients

Juice peel is the main component of Chaoshan juice, but if some ingredients are added, the juice will be more delicious. In addition to the fragrant onion beads, the ingredients are also indispensable, such as marinated eggs, tofu, fat intestines, pork and pig offal. When cooking bitter juice, put the skin of bitter juice into boiling water, add glutinous rice flour slurry and cook slowly, stir while cooking to make each piece cooked, soft and tough, then put it into a bowl, and add ingredients such as onion beads and marinated eggs. Bitter juice fully highlights the original flavor of rice. After adding glutinous rice flour paste, the soup of bitter juice looks like thin rice paste. Eating juice while it's hot is refreshing, and the more you eat, the better it tastes.

Related characteristics

Although bitter juice is one of Chaoshan snacks, different towns have different ingredients and tastes.

Chaozhou nang juice: white soup is thick, tender and smooth, and melts at the entrance. The main flavor is bittern soup, pickled food powder, salty and delicious.

Battery juice: thick but not greasy, with brine, braised pork intestines, braised pork and braised eggs.

Hongyang brain juice: the soup is clear and delicious, including shrimp, pig offal, seafood and shellfish. The taste is fresh and sweet, and a fried ghost will be added, which is quite distinctive.

Guo Long juice: There is a bacon juice in Guo Long morning market; Opened next to the pork stall, a bowl of white glutinous rice was drenched with salted lean meat and salted fungus slaughtered by local pigs early. The taste is unique and unforgettable. It is said that people used to eat glutinous rice juice and bring their own pork to the store.

Wide juice is a traditional snack in Chaoshan area of Guangdong Province. Wide juice is different from kway teow, and its taste is more elastic than kway teow. In addition, Minnan, Chaoshan and Taiwan Province provinces all call any food made of rice flour, flour, potato flour and other processed foods "pot". Therefore, the so-called cake in Chaoshan dialect is actually the cake referred to elsewhere, but it is not a simple "cake".

In 1960s, glutinous rice juice was one of the most economical traditional snacks. At that time, the salary of an ordinary worker was about 30 yuan.