What food does Xu Wen recommend?

Although Xuwen is only a small county, famous for its local pineapples, there are many unknown delicacies hidden here. Locals strongly recommend the following kinds of food:

First, Xuwen pineapple

Xuwen pineapple is a specialty of xuwen county, Zhanjiang City, Guangdong Province, and a geographical symbol of agricultural products in China. Commonly known as Fan Zhangzi, also known as Asako, is an important crop of Xuwen. Xuwen pineapple is big and juicy, crisp, sweet and fragrant.

Xuwen pineapple has full fruit, cylindrical shape, shallow eye groove, light yellow or golden flesh, crisp meat, little fiber, small core, rich and lasting fragrance and moderate sweetness and sourness. The soluble solid content of fruit juice is 12- 15%, and the organic acid is 0.4-0.5%. Canned pineapple tastes tender, crisp, fragrant and moderately sweet and sour.

Second, eight-treasure rice

Babao rice is a famous dish in xuwen county and an essential snack for Xuwen's wedding banquet. Now all kinds of restaurants sell them, which are not only auspicious, but also delicious. The main raw materials of eight-treasure rice are glutinous rice, red dates, lotus seeds, red bean paste, wax gourd sugar and white sugar. Species, hence the name "Babao" rice.

Babao rice has a long history. When making, the glutinous rice is washed, soaked and dried; Put cooked lotus seeds, eggs, red dates and other condiments in the "eight treasures" in an empty bowl to form patterns such as flowers and birds; Stir-fried glutinous rice, pig's foot soup and so on with lard. Until it is ripe, add sugar, sesame oil, etc. After stirring, put it in a bowl with bean paste in the middle, then steam the glutinous rice and buckle it in the dog food plate to expose the flower and bird patterns in the original bowl. This is eight-treasure rice. Eight-treasure rice is sweet and delicious, and has the effect of moistening lung and tonifying kidney, so it is suitable for all ages in Xian Yi.

Three flavors of sheep

Because of its excellent variety and unique style, Xuwen mutton is famous all over the country. Xuwen mutton has the effect of nourishing yin and tonifying kidney, and is used to develop many health foods because of its low cholesterol and fat content. In addition, Xuwen mutton tastes delicious and can be used as breakfast and supper. So in Xuwen, everyone from the rich to the poor and the middle peasants loves mutton.

In Xuwen, in addition to the famous all-lamb banquet, white-cut mutton, mixed mutton and braised mutton, there is also a very famous snack-"Sanwei mutton". As the name implies, "three flavors of sheep" are actually sheep porridge, sheep soup and sheep bone soup that can be seen everywhere in Xuwen.

Because of its good quality and low price, Xuwen's mutton porridge shop is busy from around 9 pm every day. Diners include men and women, young people and middle-aged and elderly people. Many of them often put a few fried dough sticks when eating mutton porridge and mutton soup, which makes them taste more delicious. By one or two o'clock the next morning, many mutton porridge shops were still full of customers, and all the mutton porridge shops were open until dawn.

Fourth, dried red fish.

The red fish produced in Zhanjiang Beibu Gulf is healthy and strong, and generally can live for 4 to 5 years, with a life span of more than 7 years. However, its individual size is also large, its meat is thick and prickly, its meat is delicious, its protein content is high, and its nutrition is rich. It is listed as a high-quality marine fish and a famous seafood delicacy. The annual output of red croaker in Zhanjiang is relatively stable, and it can be caught all year round, mainly in spring and winter.

Xuwen dried red fish has a long history. The method of "long-line fishing" is generally adopted for the red fish produced by Xuwen dried red fish in Beibu Gulf. In the spring flood season, the fresh red fish caught on the hook is immediately turned over and dried on the deck of hundreds of kilometers of ships, which is natural. Therefore, Xuwen dried red fish is famous for its natural air drying.

In addition to these Xuwen delicacies introduced above, there are chicken oil rice, sweet potato porridge, large yellow croaker, tree pineapple and so on.