As the capital city of Shanxi Province, Taiyuan City has a history of more than 2,500 years and has been known as "Splendid Taiyuan City" since ancient times. It has a long history, profound cultural heritage and many tourism resources. Every year, many tourists come to Taiyuan for tourism. For everyone who comes to Taiyuan, in addition to the beautiful scenery and profound cultural heritage, the delicious local flavors here are also full of temptation.
Taiyuan is the "hometown of pasta", so it is natural to come here to have a bowl of Shanxi pasta, such as knife-cut noodles, sharpened noodles, scissors noodles, stewed noodles, and sangzi noodles. The food and snacks in the ancient city of Taiyuan are not only pasta, but also fragrant but not greasy haggis, the first taste of oily meat in Sanjin, delicious snacks Taiyuan enema, etc. They are an important part of the city and also a piece of Taiyuan. Business cards, and of course our "protagonist" Taiyuan Mind today.
For those who are not Taiyuan and have never been to Taiyuan for the first time, hearing the word "brain" will never associate it with food. But it is indeed a traditional snack unique to Taiyuan. According to records, it was invented by Fu Shan, a famous literati in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. It has a history of more than 300 years. It is a medicinal food and one of the unique delicacies in Taiyuan. Taiyuan really can't eat it anywhere else. Although the name is "brain", the ingredients used in it are both headless and brainless. It is made from eight ingredients such as astragalus, simmered noodles, lotus vegetables, mutton, long yam, rice wine, distiller's grains, and sheep tail oil. The name is "Eight Treasures Soup".
In the early days of Taiyuan, people went out to eat a bowl of brains before dawn. The locals called it "chasing brains". In front of every restaurant, a paper lantern would be hung as a mark. It is still popular in Taiyuan. with such a custom.Now the old Taiyuan people eat brains more often in the morning, and come to the breakfast shop they frequent at dawn, order a bowl of brains, and add a "hat box" (hat box: a special product of Taiyuan flavor, a kind of baked noodles) , When drinking the brain, break the hat box into small pieces by hand, soak it in the brain, and have a delicious meal with pickled leeks.
Because the brain is made of fat mutton, lotus root, yam and other ingredients, the soup is also added with rice wine and distiller's grains and other condiments, it will have a light wine aroma. However, many foreign friends are really not used to eating it for the first time. They will feel that the taste of wine is relatively strong, and the ingredients have no salt, so they can only be served with pickled leeks, so it is difficult for foreigners to accept, even many Taiyuan people. Some people don't like the taste. As a medicated meal for breakfast, the mind needs to have an adaptation process. The first time you drink it, you will feel that the taste is very strange, but don't prematurely conclude that the "mind" is not good. After you drink it two or three times, you will definitely fall in love with it, but remember Don't drive after eating.
Mind is a unique breakfast medicated meal in Taiyuan. After you get used to it, the aroma of mutton and yam mixed with the aroma of wine in your mouth is really unparalleled. It can be said that the more you eat, the more delicious it is. The next time you come to Taiyuan for a drink, you must go early in the morning, go out early in the morning, find an old-fashioned brain shop on the streets of Taiyuan, come to a bowl of brain, order a siu mai with pickled leeks, it is really satisfying and comfortable to eat. As a medicated meal, the price is relatively affordable. Most of the brain shops in Taiyuan are more than 20 yuan a bowl, and many old-fashioned brands are still quite good.
