After eating too many pizzas and hamburgers, try to think about it. How long has it been since you ate soybean milk and fried dough sticks? There are so many traditional Chinese snacks, why do you have to eat foreign food? Today, let's recall the top ten snacks in China. We still need to carry forward some traditional things! Look at these famous snacks. Do they have the characteristics of your hometown?
10. Guilin rice noodles
Guilin is not only famous for its landscape, but also for its rice noodles. It is round, smooth, flexible and has a unique flavor. Its workmanship is exquisite. First of all, the top quality rice is ground into pulp, bagged and dried, put into dough, cooked and pressed into round roots or flakes. It is called rice flour in the garden, rice flour in the flake, and rice flour in general. Its characteristics are white, tender, soft, smooth and refreshing. There are many ways to eat it. The most exquisite brine is made of pig, beef bone, Siraitia grosvenorii and various kinds of condiments, with rich flavor. The flavor of rice noodles is different with different materials and methods of brine.
9. Hot and dry noodles
Hot and dry noodles is one of the most famous food in Wuhan. It is an integral part of the life of the people in Wuhan. It has become the representative of Wuhan food in their mind, which occupies a place in the national snack representatives. The noodles are thin, strong, yellow and oily, and delicious. Mixed with sesame oil, sesame paste, shrimp, spiced pickles and other ingredients, more distinctive. In the face of Wuhan people or friends who have been in Wuhan for a period of time, it is no longer just a snack, but a kind of feeling. It is full of nostalgia without food, and delicious.
8. Shandong pancake
Shandong pancakes originated from Mount Tai. They are thin enough and made from grains. They are common people's food. They can be eaten with relish by rolling green onions or other vegetables. The raw materials of pancakes are finely ground from grains. They are neither pure fine grains nor pure coarse grains. They are nutritious and easy to digest. Because the raw materials of pancakes are made of husks and contain a lot of crude fiber, which is very helpful for digestion. It is a good prescription for the health condition of urban residents.
7. Chongqing hot and sour noodles
Hot and sour noodles spread among the people in Sichuan a long time ago. It was made from sweet potato flour made by local people. It was named for its hot and sour taste. After continuous evolution and modulation, it was officially put on the streets and became a special snack in the streets. Hot and sour rice noodles are handmade in Sichuan. The main ingredients are sweet potato powder made from more than 20 hand-made sweet condiments, such as pepper and vinegar. Without adding any flavor or pigment, the flavour of hot and sour powder is most incisive and eaten. 6. Hanzhong hot noodle
Hanzhong hot noodle is a famous snack in Hanzhong area of Southern Shaanxi Province. According to legend, it began in the Qin and Han Dynasties. Generally, rice was soaked and ground into rice paste, steamed into thin skin, then smeared with rapeseed oil while it was hot, and cut into strips. According to personal taste, seasonings such as spicy oil, monosodium glutamate, refined salt, vinegar, soy sauce, and mashed garlic were mixed to eat (local hot food, called hot dough), or placed in a ventilated place to cool down and then cold mixed (local cold dough or cold dough). The side dishes (bottom mat) mainly include soybean sprouts, shredded potatoes, celery, spinach and other seasonal vegetables, which taste soft, waxy and spicy. When it is not needed to eat immediately, it can be dried and fried. There are also stewed, fried and other eating methods.
5. Ningbo Tangyuan
Tangyuan is one of the famous snacks in Ningbo and one of the representative snacks in China, with a long history. It is said that Tangyuan originated in the Song Dynasty. At that time, there was a new kind of food, that is, using various kinds of fruit baits to make stuffing, rubbing glutinous rice flour into balls outside, and eating it sweet and delicious after cooking. Because this kind of glutinous rice ball is floating and heavy in the pot, it was first called 'fuyuanzi', and later it was renamed Yuanxiao in some areas. Different from northerners, Ningbo people have the traditional custom of sitting together in the Spring Festival morning.
4. Lanzhou beef Ramen
It is said that Lanzhou beef Ramen originated in Tang Dynasty, but it can't be verified. At present, there are historical records that Lanzhou beef Ramen is evolved from small car beef noodle soup. After hundreds of years of innovation and development, Lanzhou beef Ramen has won the praise of domestic and even worldwide customers for its rotten meat, fresh soup and fine flour quality, and has become a business card of Lanzhou. In 1999, Lanzhou beef Ramen was identified as one of the three pilot varieties of Chinese fast food by the state, known as' the first noodle in China '.
3. Fried dough sticks
Fried dough sticks is one of the traditional popular food in China. It is not only cheap, but also crisp and delicious, suitable for all ages. Fried dough sticks have a long history. In ancient China, fried dough sticks were called "Hanju.". Liu Yuxi, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, describes the shape and making process of fried dough sticks in a poem about cold utensils: "the delicate hand rubs the jade for several times, and the green oil is fried to make it tender yellow and deep; it's not important to sleep in spring at night, and a beautiful woman's arm is wrapped in gold.". How vividly this poem depicts fried dough sticks! Fried dough sticks is the most common snack in Beijing, which is usually served as breakfast.
2. Xi'an paste spicy soup
Paste spicy soup, one of the most classic snacks in Shaanxi, can be said to condense the essence of Shaanxi snacks. Almost in Xi'an, as long as people live there will be paste hot soup. Walking through the back streets and alleys in the morning, you can smell the smell of broth from big pots everywhere. You can hear the master selling paste spicy soup shouting in Shaanxi dialect. Paste spicy soup, hot steamed bun and so on, and watch the lines of soup pulled up by wooden spoon. Boiling paste hot soup is a unique skill of the Hui people in Xi'an. It seems that there is no legend about it. Almost all the shops selling paste hot soup have halal brands, and some of the Hui people's paomo restaurants also sell paste hot soup in the morning.
1. Glutinous rice ball
Glutinous rice ball is the traditional breakfast of old Shanghainese, which can be seen on some stalls in Ningbo and Shanghai. The glutinous rice is rolled into a thin piece of flour cake, on which some mustard tuber is put, a fried dough stick is sandwiched and rolled into a ball. In this way, the pure Shanghai glutinous rice ball is completed.