This article is from WeChat official account:Authentic Scenery (ID: dialaofengwu), OF: September, from the head of FIG: ICOYO
Wenzhou people’s description of three meals a day is probably the most breath of life I have ever heard——
In the Wenzhou dialect known as “Ten Level Encryption”, early is called “Tianguang”, lunch is called “Sunday”, and dinner is called “Twilight”, imitating Buddha is following the footprint of the sun, The rotation of time is experienced at the table.
At the beginning of the morning, a bowl of steaming glutinous rice and pig dirty noodles are served on the table; the sun is shining in the afternoon, looking for some lamp cake, lard residue, sponge cake, and duck tongue in the old street as after dinner Snacks; in the evening, the business of seafood food stalls has just begun, with a wide variety of fish cakes, fish balls, fish soup, steamed midges(yóu měng, in Wenzhou dialect, yao mong, which means blue crab), is the uncooked “Jiang Crab”, which pushes three meals a day to a climax.
▲ Dengzhan Cake, a representative work of Wenzhou snacks. Photography/ICOYO
This ancient coastal city, which has been misunderstood for a long time due to the “Jiangnan Leather Factory”, “Wenzhou Real Estate Group” and “local tyrants everywhere”, finally emergedOut of her most real side-under everyone’s amazing business talent, Wenzhou people also have neglected gourmet genes, so that everyone who goes to Wenzhou to find the “wealth code” will get fatter when they come back:< /p>
“Hurt! I wanted to learn from other people to do business, but I patronized and ate!”
Early morning: A bowl of glutinous rice to solve the sweet and salty dispute
Glutinous rice is the first “out of the circle” food in Wenzhou flavor. Throughout Zhejiang and the whole country, there are mobile stalls selling glutinous rice balls along the streets. However, only Wenzhou people would sit down and solemnly pick up a bowl of glutinous rice.
In the local area, the more common name is “cooked rice”-the glutinous rice soaked in advance is white and fat, drain the water, and put it in a steamer to cook. The rice cooked in this way is fragrant and hard enough, and the grains are distinct. In Wenzhou city at three or four in the morning, every sleeping inhabitant will be awakened.
▲ Pork floss, glutinous rice and fried dough sticks constitute the peak of the fragrance. Picture/Food, Drink and Fun IN Wenzhou Photography/Van
When the diners smell the fragrance, they need to serve a large bowl of glutinous rice or a large glutinous rice ball, sweet or salty, and most of them will be served with a soy milk.
Pour the salty meat with smelt, and sprinkle the crispy pork floss, the refreshing chopped mustard tuber in a bowl, and it is as fine as fatFor the salted egg yolk, the most particular thing is the fried dough sticks, which must be deep-fried “double bubble fried dough sticks”. It is crispy enough to taste, and the mouth is full of fragrant. A bowl of sweet soy milk is mellow and moist. Salty rice and sweet pulp are a match made in heaven.
The sweet mouth is made with lard, the glutinous rice is covered with sesame seeds, and some fine osmanthus is sprinkled. The soft and waxy taste and the scent of osmanthus evoke memories of the late autumn season in Jiangnan. At this time, the salty soy milk loved by Jiangsu and Zhejiang people On the stage, it echoes with sweet glutinous rice.
Of course, the sweetness and saltiness of rice and soy milk are based on the diners. A bowl of glutinous rice can let the “sweet and salty party” calm down and enjoy the same table.
▲ At the moment when the gravy is poured, the glutinous rice is reborn. Picture/Network
In addition to glutinous rice, the other thing that went out from Wenzhou and became popular in the entire Zhejiang region is dried flour.
According to legend, in the Northern Song Dynasty, the southerners began to make powdered rice, a specialty of rice-growing areas. The harvested rice is soaked and ground into powder, then pressed into thin strips that are as light as hair, dried and shaped, and it is crystal clear, like a southern version of “dragon beard noodles”. Wenzhou people go out to do business, and bring dozens of packages at any time, each package is tied with rice stalks, wherever they go, they never forget their hometown.
▲ Fried rice noodles in a wok full of gas. Photography/ICOYO