When it comes to the diet of the Mid Autumn Festival, the first thing you want must be moon cakes! But is there nothing to eat except moon cakes in the Mid Autumn Festival? What other foods are necessary for the Mid Autumn Festival? Today, sihai.com Xiaobian will take you to check the top 10 delicious foods you must eat in the Mid Autumn Festival. Let's have a look
1. Stewed sea bass with Ulva
In Hangzhou, stewed sea bass with Ulva is one of the necessary dishes for the Mid Autumn Festival family banquet. This is not only because the Ulva and perch in this season are delicious, but also because Zhang Han of the Jin Dynasty borrowed the homesick "Ulva and perch" and abandoned his official to return to his hometown, making Ulva a symbol of homesickness.
2. Water chestnut
Some elders will cook porridge with water chestnut on the Mid Autumn Festival and boil the shelled water chestnut with rice into salty white porridge. After eating sweet and greasy moon cakes, drinking a bowl of water chestnut porridge can not only relieve greasiness, but also help digestion. It is said that it can also make children grow smart.
3. Maodou
In Jiangsu and Zhejiang, some soybeans will be specially steamed during the Mid Autumn Festival. Maodou is also called Maodou pod locally, and the pod is homonymous with the words' Jia 'and' Ji '. Therefore, I hope to have good luck and everything goes well.
4. Shandong Maijian
The so-called 'wheat arrow' is to spread white flour into pancakes, add meat stuffing or plain stuffing, and then roll sorghum straw into a barrel and steam. On the day of the Mid Autumn Festival, in addition to having a good Mid Autumn Festival dinner, Qingdao people usually steam pastries, steamed buns and, of course, wheat arrows for breakfast and lunch. With seasoning, they taste very delicious.
5. Snail
Snail is an indispensable food for Guangzhou people and residents of the Pearl River Delta during the Mid Autumn Festival. The Mid Autumn Festival is the time when the snail is empty. There are no small snails in the abdomen. The meat is particularly fat. It is the best time to eat snails. Moreover, people believe that the Mid Autumn Festival snail can brighten the eyes.
6. Duck
For people in Nanjing, ducks have to eat during the Mid Autumn Festival. The custom of eating ducks on the Mid Autumn Festival originated in the late Yuan Dynasty, when Mongolian rulers bullied the Han people, who decided to overthrow the Yuan people. But at that time, the rule was strict and could not organize the struggle openly, so they used code words. At that time, the Han people called the Mongols' Dazi ', so they took the homonym' duck '. It was agreed that eating ducks on the Mid Autumn Festival was the Mid Autumn Festival. We took action together to overthrow the rule of the Yuan people.
7. Rice steamed bread
Rice steamed bread is a mid autumn festival food and gift for Ningbo people. " Rice steamed bread 'is a round filling free food steamed after the fermentation of wet rice flour of early rice. It tastes good, sweet but not greasy, smooth and sticky, accompanied by a slightly sour wine flavor. Ningbo Dialect 'steamed bread' and 'full' sound the same, with 'rice full head' to beg for color.
8. Ciba
Miao people have the custom of making Ciba every traditional festival or family celebration. In the traditional festival of the Mid Autumn Festival, glutinous rice Ciba is naturally essential. Ciba is very complicated to make: first, take the superior glutinous rice, preferably the red glutinous rice with thin and soft shell, process it into white glutinous rice, then soak the glutinous rice with water, put it into a wooden steamer to steam glutinous rice, and finally put it into a stone mortar and pound it with a pestle and hammer.
9. Crabs
"There is no autumn without crabs". Bouncing chrysanthemums and eating crabs during the Mid Autumn Festival is a great event for Zhejiang Jinhua people who love crabs. Crab meat is tender and delicious. It has high protein content and is easy to digest. The content of calcium, phosphorus, iron and vitamin A is also high, which has high nutritional value.
10. Reunion bun
In Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, every Mid Autumn Festival, every local family makes steamed bread and the whole family eats one steamed bread, which is called "reunion steamed bread". The bun has a top and bottom layer, with sesame in the middle. On the top of the bun, a big bowl is used to open a circle, symbolizing the night of the Mid Autumn Festival. A 'stone' is engraved in the circle, and a 'little monkey' eating flat peaches is standing on the top. After the steamed bread is cooked in the pot, it is cut into sharp teeth. Each family has one tooth. If the family goes out for a short time, they leave one tooth. For married girls, their parents send steamed buns to the door to show that the whole family will not forget.