It's time for Qingming Festival. During the holiday, many people will choose to go out for a walk or travel. As the capital of China, Beijing has a variety of tourism scenes, such as the Great Wall, the Forbidden City and Tian'anmen Square, which is very suitable to visit. So what are the delicious specialties in Beijing? Listen to what the local people in Beijing say and see how much you know?
1. Beijing roast duck
Beijing roast duck is the representative of Beijing specialty. It is known as the most delicious food in the world. Quanjude is the most famous roast duck restaurant in Beijing. The store has a history of more than 130 years. Quanjude's roast duck is jujube red, bright and oily, with crisp skin and tender meat. The roast duck is cut into thin slices by the chef, and each slice is thin and fat; then it is placed on the table, next to the simple and delicious ingredients such as flour cake, green onion, flour sauce, etc. Now that kind of vacuum bag can be easily taken home.
2. Sweet scented osmanthus wine
In the feudal dynasty, only the imperial dining room mastered the formula and brewing technology of Osmanthus aged wine. The wine was made in August when osmanthus was fragrant. It was sealed in the jar for three years. The wine was sweet and mellow, and had the effect of appetizing and refreshing. The wine produced is called 'osmanthus old wine', which is specially used by emperors and dignitaries in the imperial palace. It is rare for ordinary officials and people.
3. Poria cocos cake
Poria cocos cake was originally belonged to the palace food at the end of the Qing Dynasty. Modern tuckahoe cake, according to the classic taste and add new technology, materials, fine workmanship. Choose a variety of nuts, plus osmanthus, honey, seaweed, Poria powder and other food. It tastes sweet and delicious, and melts at the mouth. It is a popular Beijing style snack. Poria cocos is sweet in taste and flat in nature. It is also beneficial to soothe the nerves of the spleen and promote diuresis and dampness. So it's not only delicious, but also good for your health.
4. Painted teapots in Beijing
The inner painted pot, also known as snuff bottle, is a kind of material (formerly known as glass in China), and also has crystal texture. It is a kind of national handicraft developed in the late Qing Dynasty because of its large quantity and great influence. Like Teng's cloth paste painting, it enjoys a high art price. In the past, Westerners did not believe it was painted directly, until the technology was open and the production site could be visited. In the beginning, it was just a decorative snuff bottle. Later, it gradually developed into a handicraft. In general, it was made of translucent materials, such as glass, and high-grade ones were also made of crystal, agate, jadeite, etc. As an exquisite ornament, the inner painted pot is famous at home and abroad.
5. Da Mopan persimmon, a specialty of Beijing
Beijing's big Mopan persimmon is also very famous. It is one of the specialties of Beijing. This kind of persimmon is very big, usually about 250g. The big one weighs a kilo. Da Mopan persimmon is delicious and nutritious. It can also reduce blood pressure, stop bleeding and moisten intestines.
6. Beijing Mianren
Beijing dough figurine, also known as dough sculpture, is a kind of simple but highly artistic folk arts and crafts. According to their needs, dough makers first use flour and glutinous rice flour as the main raw materials, and then use color, paraffin, honey and other ingredients to make various kinds of soft color dough after anti cracking and anti mildew treatment. They use these dough to knead, rub, rub and lift in their hands for several times, and use a small bamboo knife to skillfully point and mold Cut, carve, carve, shape body, hand, head, put on hair ornaments and clothes, in an instant, all kinds of artistic images will be out of hand, there are graceful and elegant beauty, there are innocent children, there are all kinds of fairy tales, drama roles and historical figures.
7. Beijing crisp candy
Beijing crisp candy is one of the three famous sugars in China (Shanghai milk candy, Guangzhou fruit candy and Beijing crisp candy), especially red shrimp crisp candy. Crisp candy has a long history in China, and Beijing's crisp candy has always enjoyed a high reputation.
The characteristics of red shrimp crisp can be summarized as' crisp, crisp, fragrant and sweet '. In the production, we concentrate on the essence of traditional crafts and make the materials look exquisite. All of them are made of high-quality durian granulated sugar, high concentration glucose syrup and 'Erba sesame paste' after repeated refining, pulling and folding. This kind of sugar skin is thin and crisp, the sugar filling layer is clear, it tastes sweet and delicious, does not stick teeth, does not greasy mouth, and does not leave residue after eating. At present, Beijing's major supermarkets have sales.
8. Aiwowo, Beijing
Aiwowo is a small halal flavor product made of glutinous rice in Beijing. It is spherical in shape, soft in texture and sweet in taste. Not only Beijing people like this snack, but also foreigners who come to Beijing often want to taste this famous halal snack.
9. Snacks in Daoxiang Village
In 1895, Guo Yusheng, a native of Jinling, who had the unique food making skills and business strategy of Daoxiang village, came to Beijing with a few assistants. He made the name of "Daoxiang Village South store" in Guanyin Temple of Qianmen. Since then, Daoxiang village has settled in Kyoto.
Daoxiang village pays attention to "four seasons and three festivals". It sells zongzi at the Dragon Boat Festival, moon cakes at the Mid Autumn Festival, New Year cakes at the Spring Festival and Yuanxiao at Shangyuan. The materials should be authentic. Walnut should be from Fenyang, Shanxi Province, because the peach is white and the meat is thick and the flavor is strong. The roses should be from Miaofeng Mountain, West Beijing, because the roses are thick and fragrant. They must be picked with dew before the sun comes out. Longan should be from Putian, Fujian Province. Ham should be from Jinhua, Zhejiang Province. For example, when the boiled sugar can be taken away depends on the master's experience. One minute before the heat arrives, one minute after the heat passes. This is the so-called "by the eye"; the "by the hand" refers to cutting the boiled sugar into various shapes, which is all manual work.
10. Baijiu Erguotou
Erguotou liquor is a traditional liquor in Beijing, which belongs to common liquor. How did the name of Erguotou liquor come from? It has to start from the history of liquor making in Beijing.
Beijing has a long history of brewing liquor. In the Jin Dynasty, Beijing was designated as the "capital of China" and liquor steamers were introduced to make Shaojiu.
In the middle of the Qing Dynasty, in order to improve the quality of Shaojiu, the Beijing Shaojiu workshop carried out technological reform. In steaming wine used as a cooler is called tin pot, also known as Tianguo. When steaming wine, it is necessary to put the distilled liquor into the tin pot for the first time to cool the 'liquor head' and the 'liquor tail' after the third time to change into the tin pot to cool the 'liquor tail'. Because the liquor cooled in the first pot and the third pot contains a variety of substances with low boiling point and boiling point, only the liquor cooled in the tin pot for the second time is taken Wine, so it's called Erguotou. It's a very pure good wine, and also the best quality wine. At present, the methods of "cutting off the head and removing the tail" and "taking the wine according to the quality" adopted by distilleries all over the country follow the technological principle of "Erguotou". At the end of the Qing Dynasty, Erguotou craft had spread all over Beijing and was praised by scholars. In his poem, Wu Yanqi praises that "since ancient times, talents have been hated for thousands of years, but now they are in Erguotou.". Compare Erguotou to Ganli.
Red Star Erguotou liquor is a typical representative of Beijing culture, worthy of Beijing specialty.
Summary: what are the delicious Beijing specialties to take away. This article introduces ten special products of Beijing, which are representative of Beijing flavor. Of course, Beijing's specialties are far more than these. You can go out and take what you like home. And it should be portable. It's very suitable to visit relatives and friends, to send people and friends.