Taiyuan ten traditional specialties introduced

1, Taiyuan knife-shaved noodles:

Taiyuan knife-shaved noodles to knife work, cutting skill is excellent and is known as flying knife-shaved noodles. The knife used is a special tile-shaped knife. The noodles should be kneaded into a foot-long tube, and when peeling the noodles, the person standing in front of the pot, one hand to support the noodles, one hand holding the knife from the top down to the pot to cut. The noodles are three-pronged and the width and thickness of the noodles are the same as the length of the noodles. Craftsmanship of the chef chipped out of the noodles a drop pot, a floating in the air, a just out of the knife, root chipped noodles like a fish leap. Eat up inside the virtual, outside the tendon, soft and smooth, easy to digest.

2, Taiyuan Mouse Cave Lanterns:

Mouse Cave Lanterns is a local traditional snack in Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province. The skin is thin and full of filling, sweet flavor. Long lived in Taiyuan or temporary to visit friends and relatives in Taiyuan, traveling people, are to go to the "mouse cave" to taste. This Lantern skin sheep in the sticky, sweet filling with incense, white and bright color, ingredients, unique flavor, has been included in the intangible cultural heritage of Shanxi Province.

3, Taiyuan mind:

"Mind" is a unique flavor of Taiyuan snacks, soup food. In a bowl of soup put three large pieces of fat lamb, a piece of lotus root, a yam. The condiments in the soup include yellow wine, wine lees and astragalus. When you taste it, you can feel the mixed flavor of wine, medicine and mutton, which is delicious and the more you eat, the better it tastes. Characteristics: Benefiting the qi and regulating the energy, nourishing the deficiency, activating the blood and strengthening the stomach, rich in nutrients, with the effect of soothing the cold and wheezing and strengthening the body, prolonging the life.

4, Taiyuan haggis cut:

"Haggis cut", also known as "haggis", is a local snack in Shanxi. Walking in the streets of Shanxi, everywhere you can see the operation of the "haggis cut" store, not a big front, business is booming. Generally every store is to put a pot on the fire, there is old soup, with a good haggis are put together and waiting for the pot. Every time a guest comes, the boss will ask you to eat a few taels. It means you want to add a few taels of meat, and the price is determined by how much meat you want. Don't think that haggis is pure meat, oh, it will be accompanied by vermicelli. Each family's old soup with different ingredients, made out of different flavors.

5, recognize a force of beef and mutton steamed dumplings:

Confirm a force of beef and mutton steamed dumplings is one of Taiyuan's famous food, created in 1930 or so, the location is also in the Qiaotou Street. The dumplings are made of thin skin, small sides, large filling, half-moon shape, no opening, no filling, and more than a dozen ingredients, including cardamom, nut, Angelica dahurica, Atractylodes macrocephala, cinnamon, cloves, cumin, peppercorns, dashi, and chenpi, which is known as the "Thirteen Spices", and the dumplings are made of beef and mutton. The dumplings are fat but not greasy, juicy and flavorful. If you can't eat enough steamed dumplings, the store also has haggis soup, beef meatball soup, beef wontons, red bean congee, millet rice and other choices, each of which is very tasty, as long as you walk into the store door, you can ensure that you eat to the warmth of going out.

6, a little plum:

A little plum (also known as siu mai, shou mai, a little wheat) is also a famous flavor of Taiyuan snacks, with a special rolling pin into a pleated, shaped like a plum blossom. There is a saying that "a little plum is difficult to eat and noodles, thin skin, pick filling difficult to hit the flower", the production of a little plum technical difficulties, hit the flower with a special rolling pin, the more pleats, a little plum flower buds, the more beautiful. Good a little plum skin as thin as paper, round as a disk, the side of the flower more, picked a little plum filling large, fragrant, sharp, placed in the cage, like a snow plum. Thin skin, filling, flowers like not all open plum is a good a little plum.

7, egg mash:

Egg mash is also Taiyuan's specialty snacks, Rongmao Park, Haizibian snack department's egg mash has long been famous, and still rumored to be "Haizibian mash king, wine is not as strong as mash." Although there are many places in the country that have egg mash, the flavor is very different. Legend has it that Zhao Kuangyin abandoned the civilization and practiced martial arts, crossed the Yellow River to Jiangzhou, and was starving without money or food. The shopkeeper saw that he was so handsome that he made mash for him. Zhao Kuangyin did not know what, the shopkeeper said: "bad soup only". Later, Zhao Kuangyin became the emperor, miss "bad soup", please shopkeeper to Beijing again, and said "bad soup sweet and sour, wine fragrance refreshing spleen, and then change the name of the mash it." Golden mouth, the name of the mash was then passed on, and has been inherited to this day, the northern part of the river is mostly called mash, while the southern part of the river is mostly called river rice wine.

8, tannin oat:

Tannin oat (tannin kǎolǎolao) is a famous traditional noodle snack in the alpine region of Shanxi, belonging to the Jin cuisine. "Quebracho is a kind of noodle food made of oat flour, which is called "Quebracho" because it is shaped like a "fence". Avena sativa is one of the top ten noodle dishes in Shanxi. It is a delicate process, the perfect combination of beautiful molding and strong taste, coupled with the "mutton bacon mushroom soup, a family eating ten fragrant", it has become an authentic cuisine, even the Kangxi Emperor's pilgrimage to the Wutai Mountain, but also to taste this for the pleasure of life.

9, over-oil meat:

Over-oil meat is commonly seen in Shanxi and even in the north of the dish, Taiyuan larger hotels to make over-oil meat is the taste of the authentic. September 10, 2018, "Chinese cuisine" officially released, "Shanxi over-oil meat "was named the top ten classic dishes of Shanxi. Authentic over-oiled meat selected pork tenderloin or Yuanbao meat as the main material, finely sliced into copper-thick slices of meat, add egg yolk, starch, refined salt, cooking wine and other mixing, put into the frying pan to break up and stir-fry, add fungus, slices of yucca, scallion whites, spinach and other auxiliary materials cooking and stir-frying, golden yellow color.

10, buckwheat enema:

Buckwheat enema is a snack everywhere in Taiyuan, neighboring counties and cities called "Bowl of To". Production method is to make buckwheat noodles into a paste, held in a container, steamed on the fire, cooled from the container, called "bowl off" is more graphic. But from the point of view of famous snacks, enema to illustrate the core of the problem. Shanxi enema production method is mysterious, mostly family generations. The taste is strong and delicate, smooth mouth, eaten for a long time, not greasy, modulation is simple, eat as you cut, add the secret marinade, taste better, although the name of the sausage but buckwheat sausage and the general enema is completely different, there is no any animal offal.