What are the specialties of Yangxi?

Yangxi gourmet ash: Yangxi people like to eat ash. Throughout the year, people sell ashes everywhere in the streets and lanes. Eat one, cool and refreshing, smooth and tender, sweet and crisp. Guests come and go, eating the ash from the west, and dreaming afterwards. The method of making ash paste is to use fresh glutinous rice flour and first divide the flour into two parts. Part of it is wet with water, pressed into a round cake the size of a small hand, and cooked in an iron pot. Scoop the cooked dough with a spoon and mix it with another part of flour to make a cake blank. The next part is to put the juice of Sophora japonica into the wok, and put the cake blank into the juice of Sophora japonica and cook it thoroughly. Then scoop up the cakes made in the basin, and when the heat subsides slightly, mash the cakes with a wooden stick and knead them into cakes again. These cakes are golden yellow, sweet and delicious with sugar juice. Shrimp dumplings: Shrimp dumplings are popular snacks in Yangxi. Its history can be traced back to the Song Dynasty. It is said that Su Dongpo passed through Taipinggang in Zhigan when he was in Lingnan, and became fascinated by the shrimp dumplings here. He stayed for three days in a row and refused to eat litchi. Later, in order to commemorate him, Yangxi established Taiping Academy in Taiping City, which recorded his tragic history of relegation to southern Xinjiang. It is said that the earliest shrimps were not cooked in a wok, but were fried in a wok and sprinkled with water to form various rice balls. Later, the more refined it was, the more it was rolled with oil. This kind of shrimp is crisp, sweet and refreshing, and it is a common flavor snack in Yangxi. Yangxi gourmet worm porridge: Yangxi gourmet worm porridge is a unique seafood snack. People in the coastal towns of Yangxi like to eat worm porridge. On the seashore of Yangxi, there is a reptile similar to earthworm, which grows in sand and soil. Insects are not only delicious, but also have the effects of promoting blood circulation, removing blood stasis, strengthening kidney and strengthening yang. Locals like to cook porridge with them. Worm porridge was first popular in families, and later it was used to run porridge stalls, and worm porridge became a thousand-year-old snack. The practice of ascaris porridge is very particular. The first procedure is to cut the worm and take out the internal organs. Instead of using a knife, cut the worm with a wooden stick with a diameter of two or three millimeters, sharpen one end and turn the whole worm over. Yangjiang Yangxi calls it a sand worm. This is the unique skill of coastal people. Outsiders don't know how to turn it, and the bug dies. Therefore, the sand-turning worm should be fast and accurate. After the sand is removed, the wormwood should be soaked in clear water, then put into a wok with seasoning once, then put into the cooked porridge and simmer for ten minutes. Yangxi traditional snack powder cake: also called rice cake, the raw material is fried rice, ground into powder, mixed with sugar gum and eggs, printed, cooked on a rice sieve with charcoal fire. Xinyangxi powder cake is sweet and crisp, with rich flavor, and is a traditional food of Yangxi people. In the past, there were many workshops for making powder cakes, which were very famous in the local area, and there was no shortage of powder cakes all the year round. Although the cake making is simple, the taste is far from the same, and the ingredients are the main barrier. At present, there are many pastry factories in Yangxi, Yangjiang, and each one keeps the secret recipe of ingredients. Yangxi food rubbing thread: Yangxi people are used to eating rubbing thread when they are working in the fields. The so-called grain line is to use glutinous rice spring powder, mix with sugar or salt, soak it in water, and rub it into strips, such as rice ears, commonly known as grain lines. The meaning of rubbing lines is that the ears of rice grown by the planted seedlings are like grain lines, so the rubbing lines are generally full and the thumbs are thick to indicate a bumper harvest in one year. The technology of rubbing lines is simple, and farmers can do it at any time, which is especially popular with children. In the past, life was difficult, and eating a grain store was equivalent to a holiday. Children expect adults to rub threads for them every day. Besides rice flour, other materials such as sweet potato, millet and sorghum can also be used for rolling. At present, there are still rice noodles on the noodle stalls in restaurants, but they are fine products, and the taste of rice noodles kneaded by rural farmers is very different, and children are still very unpalatable. Braised pork: Braised pork is a famous dish in Yangxi. Yangxi braised pork was popular in the local area as early as 200 years ago, and generations of talents came forth. Many people are still proficient in production methods. It is best to choose a pig that has been raised for one or two years, choose a pig breast (commonly known as five layers), cook the meat in soup, and then cut it into two-inch square pieces. Add dried tangerine peel, cassia twig, soy sauce, refined salt, garlic, soy sauce, fragrant powder, ginger and other ingredients, marinate for 10 minute, then stir-fry with peanut oil in a wok, simmer for a while, add wine and sugar during cooking, and turn off the fire when the pork is soft and cooked. There are two key points, one is the amount of ingredients, and the other is the temperature of stew. Both should be just right, otherwise it will affect the taste. There are many famous chefs who cook stews in Yangxi. They have their own secrets and don't tell anyone easily. A good stew is hard-skinned, soft-pocketed, mellow and mouth-watering, and only skilled people can make it. Steamed grass insects, a special snack in Yangxi: Yangxi is surrounded by mountains and seas, with rivers and many shallow streams flowing, which is an excellent place for grass insects to grow. In May and August every year, when the weather changes abnormally, a lot of grass will appear in closed fields and rivers near the sea. The grasshopper looks like an amusement centipede, and the colors of its whole body are changing, such as red, yellow, cyan, blue and purple, which are very distinctive. To catch insects, you only need to use bamboo utensils to catch them on the water. Sometimes one person can catch four or five barrels. The nutritional value of cereal insects is extremely high, and it is a good meat dish with lean eggs, ginger, onion, oil and salt. We should grasp the time and choose the rainy season. As soon as the worm appeared, it was all over the river, but it disappeared in a blink of an eye. Only experienced cultivators could catch it. At the same time, there are many cooking methods for insects, and each person measures his own taste. At present, insects have generally become a delicacy in restaurants, and the average person has been unpalatable. Yangxi gourmet boneless preserved duck: boneless preserved duck is a kind of meat duck, in which the head, chest cage bone, neck bone, wing curved tip and duck feet are removed, leaving only leg bones, wing bones and dried meat, which is called boneless preserved duck. Only the head, jaw, intestine, kidney and liver of the duck are removed, and the whole body is dried, which is called bone-cured duck, which is called "Nan 'anzhuang" in the market in the province. In the drying process of dried salted duck with bones, the duck neck bends and clings to the duck body, forming a duck garden. Therefore, the weavers in Nan 'anzhuang are also called "elbows". Yangxi snacks wrapped in brown: Yangxi people are used to wrapping a kind of zongzi on important festive days. This zongzi is more than ten times bigger than ordinary zongzi. There are pork, chicken, duck eggs, mung beans, ham and so on. Cut open and eaten by a group of people. It is the most delicious yangxi snack. Because it takes a lot of time to make, it is difficult to prepare materials. At present, this kind of wrapped brown head is rare, only in rural areas, when the daughter returns to her family. Scones in local snacks in Yangxi: scones are a very popular non-staple food in Yangxi, and people in Yangxi often regard them as the main course of their families. Rotten cakes are bean products. Usually, there are water tofu, fried tofu and rotten cakes on the market. Rotten cake is a traditional product of Yangxi, and water tofu and fried tofu were introduced from other places after liberation. Many farmers in Yangxi town will make their own rotten cakes, which are delicious, not spicy or dry, and are most favored by the masses. The process of making rotten cakes is similar to that of making tofu with water. First, grind the soybean milk, filter and precipitate it, then put it in a wok for stewing, and then put it in a wooden lattice after pickling. After taking out the water, put the rotten cake on a rectangular iron screen and bake it with charcoal below, and then bake it when it turns brown. When baking, open flame should be used, the curing barn should be ventilated, and the baked rotten cake should be soaked in water to get the finished product. The process of baking rotten cakes is complicated, from bean selection to halogen baking to rotten cakes, it must be accurate and moderate, and the operation must be fine. Many rotten cake workshops in Yangxi are time-honored brands passed down from the Qing Dynasty. Baked eggplant in Yangxi cuisine: There are always fresh eggplant on the roadside stalls in Yangxi, Guangdong. Since people here roast beef and mutton, the method is the same as roasting beef and mutton, but the difference is to put some spices on it constantly. It tastes really tender, and it is also very enjoyable to eat in your mouth, not worse than meat. The best food is roasted eggplant. Put the whole eggplant on the grill and bake it endlessly. Yangxi snack cuttlefish cake: cuttlefish cake, also known as "cuttlefish cake", is a kind of fish processed food. The internal organs of squid (male testis, female ovary and ovulation gland) are used as raw materials. The raw materials (first separated from the internal organs of squid) are put into a container, crushed and evenly mixed to form a colloid. Then put it in a pot and fry it into cakes to cook. You can eat it fresh or dry; It can be used for seasoning and soup. Don't use cuttlefish cake to cook soup, which is especially fresh and sweet; The dried and aged squid cake can also be used as medicine to clear away heat and reduce fire. Yangxi special snack sweet potato porridge: Yangxi gourmet sweet potato porridge Yangxi people are used to putting sweet potatoes into rice to cook porridge, commonly known as sweet potato porridge. Sweet potato porridge has been the staple food of Yangxi people for a long time in the past, and many poor families in Yangxi depend on it to survive. Both are sweet potato porridge, and different areas in Yangxi have different ways to eat them. Some places are cooked in sweet potato porridge and then fished out. Eat sweet potatoes first and then drink porridge; In some places, clean sweet potatoes are put in dustpans, cooked in porridge pots, and porridge is drunk while eating sweet potatoes; In other places, sweet potatoes are simply boiled into porridge and eaten in one bite. No matter how you eat it, the purpose of eating it is the same, that is, to save some rice and survive the famine. With the reform and opening up and the improvement of living standards, people's food and clothing problem has been solved, and Yangxi people rarely eat sweet potato porridge. Sweet potato is generally used as feed for raising animals. Only in some restaurants, sweet potato porridge's recipes are reserved for people who have experienced it. However, eating sweet potato porridge is not a hunger, but a kind of enjoyment, and many people regard it as the top grade. Yangxi gourmet oyster rice: Yangxi people like to eat oyster rice. The cooking method of oyster rice is to cook the rice in a pot, then stir-fry the oyster meat and ingredients in a wok, and mix it into the rice after cooking. Yangxi dried oyster rice is fragrant and crisp, which has the function of tonifying kidney and strengthening yang. People in Yangxi are never tired of eating. The key to making oyster rice is the ingredients and mastering the heat. It's ok just now, but after cooking for a long time, the meat is not crisp and the oysters are raw, which is difficult for experienced chefs to grasp. There are countless delicious foods in Yangxi, and each snack has its own unique flavor. Foreign tourists who come to Yangxi can't wait to find Yangxi cuisine, and they can't get tired of eating it!