Dietary Customs in Hengshui, Hebei Province

1, Raoyang bean curd

Han Yu, the founder of Raoyang Tofu, used to sell tofu for a living in Raoyang Chengguan. Han Yu's operation method is to cook soup with chicken and pork, then add cinnamon, clove, fennel and aniseed, and then add fried sauce. Cook until the chicken is crisp and rotten and the soup is mellow and not greasy. When eating, the bowl is filled with fresh and tender bean curd, then poured with the cooked brine soup, and then added with Chili oil, sesame oil and coriander.

2, Wuyi buckle bowl

Since the Song Dynasty, there has been a custom of holding banquets with buckle bowls in Wuyi rural areas. Whenever we get married and have children, the elderly are buried, friends get together and other important activities, we always entertain guests and friends with buckle bowls. In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Wuyi buckle bowl became famous. In the thirty-ninth year of Kangxi (1700), it became one of the court meals.

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There are many famous places in Hengshui, such as Julu sausage, Wuyi buckle bowl, Jizhou red sesame seed cake, Jizhou Caoji donkey meat, boiled roast chicken, Wangji soup dumpling, Jingxian powder roasted noodles, Fucheng comprehensive, Zaoqiang sole biscuit, Hengshui Lake fish banquet, Hengshui Lake fisherman banquet and so on. The well-known inventor of "Quanjude Roast Duck" in Beijing is also from Jizhou, Hengshui.

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