Food, as the name suggests, is delicious food. The expensive ones include delicacies from mountains and seas, and the cheap ones include street snacks. In fact, food has no distinction between high and low. As long as you like it, you can call it food. China is known as the "Culinary Kingdom". In the big family of China, we have fifty-six small families, and each family has its own specialties.
There are expectations before eating food and aftertaste after eating. It is not just a simple taste experience, but also a spiritual enjoyment. Enjoying delicious food also depends on the occasion. If the occasion is good, the food will also taste good. Food culture around the world is extensive and profound, with different nutrients. Taste more food, enjoy more health, and make people eat more happily.
Good food is more than just food on the table. It also includes snacks, various biscuits, pastries, sugars, candied fruits, dried fruits, meat products, tea brewing and other products, each with its own flavor, which can be called delicacies.
"Food is the most important thing for the people." With the rise of returning to natural food, traditional food is becoming more and more popular among people. In fact, the origin of these foods has its own wonderful legends.
[ Mung Bean Cake ]
Mung bean cake, also known as dried bean cake, is one of the famous traditional pastries. Mung bean cakes can be divided into southern and northern ones according to taste. The northern one is Beijing style. It does not add any oil when making. Although it is soft in the mouth, it does not feel greasy. Southern style includes Su style and Yang style, which requires adding oil when making, and the taste is soft and delicate..
It is said that mung bean cake is a tradition in ancient China. During the Dragon Boat Festival, in order to seek health and safety, people not only eat rice dumplings, but also drink realgar wine, eat mung bean cake and salted duck eggs. These three cooling foods can avoid the diseases caused by the arrival of the summer solstice. Diseases of summer.
Mung beans are sweet and cold in nature, non-toxic, have the effects of clearing heat and detoxifying, dispelling heat and thirst, diuresis and swelling, improving eyesight and reducing nebula, and beautifying the skin. It is a good snack for relieving summer heat. Mung bean cake is one of the famous Beijing-style pastries with four seasons. It has the characteristics of regular and neat shape, light yellow color, fine and moist texture, and soft and non-sticky taste. There are two types: meat and vegetarian. The flavors are divided into rose, date paste, bean paste and unfilled filling (called clear water). Its characteristics are small and oily, embedded with fillings, clear printing, and delicious numbness. Among them, the mung bean cake made from Jiao Zhi is the best, and the "Wu Jun Fuli Zhi" written by Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty called it "the best one in the area". The main raw materials are cooked mung bean flour, steamed potato flour (or wheat flour), vegetable oil (sesame oil), cooked lard, soft white sugar, sugar roses, black date meat, osmanthus sugar, etc. Among them, bean paste and mung bean cake contains a certain proportion of adzuki beans, which can have diuretic, anti-inflammatory, and detoxifying effects after consumption. The raw materials for making mung bean cake include mung bean flour, pea flour, brown sugar, osmanthus, etc.
【Tiedan】
Tiedan is a famous snack in Tamsui District, New Taipei City, , Taiwan Province. According to legend, a restaurant was run by the ferry bow and was nicknamed the "Haijiao Grand Hotel" by the seamen (Haijiao). Huang Zhang of the small noodle stall, one rainy day, because the business was not good, so he kept reheating the braised eggs. Because the sea breeze kept blowing, the braised eggs became smaller and darker, and he did not expect the customers. But she fell in love with this kind of chewier and more delicious black braised eggs. Later, in 1983, Minsheng Daily reporter Lin Mingyu interviewed her and wrote a report titled "Grandma's iron eggs, she insists on getting them." The report caused a lot of It attracted people’s attention, and some media even came from as far away as Japan to cover it. After that, the iron egg became a famous snack in Tamsui.
[Medicated Diet]
Medicinal diet originated from my country’s traditional diet and traditional Chinese medicine diet culture. Medicinal diet is based on the theoretical guidance of traditional Chinese medicine, cooking and nutrition, and strictly follows the medicated diet formula to match Chinese medicine with certain foods with medicinal value. Delicious food with a certain color, aroma, taste and shape made using my country's unique cooking technology and modern scientific methods. (In short, medicated diet is a delicacy made by matching medicinal materials and ingredients.) It is a product of the combination of traditional Chinese medical knowledge and cooking experience.It "combines medicine with food", not only uses medicine as food, but also gives food medicinal properties. Medicine borrows food power, and food helps medicine power. The two complement each other and bring out the best in each other; it not only has high nutritional value, but also can prevent diseases. Cure diseases, maintain health and strengthen the body, and prolong life.
[Steamed buns]
Steamed buns, also known as steamed buns or steamed buns, are one of the traditional Chinese pasta dishes. They are a kind of food fermented and steamed with flour, round and raised in shape. Originally with fillings, those without fillings were later called steamed buns, and those with fillings were called steamed buns. Usually northerners choose steamed buns as their staple food.
Steamed buns, with wheat flour as the main raw material, are one of the main daily staple foods in China. But with the improvement of living standards, people begin to pay attention to the health properties of staple foods. Nutritional enhancement and health-care steamed buns are mostly made of natural raw materials.
[Dumplings]
Dumplings originated from ancient slots. The original name of dumplings is "Jiao Er". It is said that it was first invented by Zhang Zhongjing, a Chinese medical saint. It has a history of more than 1,800 years. It is a traditional specialty food loved by the Chinese people, also known as dumplings. It is a staple food and local snack in northern China, and is also a New Year food. There is a folk saying: "During the great cold and the small cold, eat dumplings to celebrate the New Year." Dumplings are mostly made of dough and stuffed in water.
【crystal cake】
Crystal cake is the famous snack of in Weinan, Shaanxi Province. It is characterized by crystal cake, gold surface and silver side, with peeling skin and crispy texture, cooling tongue and teeth, sweet and delicious. It is said that Kou Zhun, Prime Minister of the Song Dynasty, was an upright and fair official and won the hearts of the people. One year, Kou Zhun returned to his hometown of Weinan from Bianliang, Kyoto, to visit relatives. It was his fiftieth birthday. The village party members sent birthday peaches, noodles, and birthday plaques to express their congratulations, and Kou Zhun hosted a birthday banquet for him. After drinking for three rounds, his subordinates suddenly brought an exquisite paulownia wood box. Kou Zhun opened it and saw that it contained 50 snacks that were as bright as crystal stones. On top of the snacks, there is a piece of red paper with a poem neatly written on it: "The public has crystal eyes and a crystal heart. It can distinguish between loyalty and treachery, and it is innocent and untainted." The signature is an old man from Weibei. . Later, Kou Zhun's chef also made this kind of snack, and Kou Zhun gave it a nice name based on its characteristics, called "crystal cake".
