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Known as the traditional food "living fossil" is what?

Shaxian snacks, known as the "living fossil" of traditional food.

Shaxian snacks have a long history, a long history, originated in the Xia, Shang and Zhou, Jin, Song, the Yellow River valley in the Central China food culture, in the folk with a strong historical and cultural basis, especially with a wide variety of unique flavors and economic and affordable known. The food culture of the Central Plains spread to Shaxian County with the many southward migrations of the Central Plains people. Shaxian has become the gathering place of Chinese traditional food culture, which is one of the main reasons why Shaxian snacks are famous all over the country.

Shaxian snacks is actually a branch of the ancient Central Plains food culture tradition, many snacks in Shaxian, still retains the characteristics of the ancient traditional culture of consciousness, and some snacks production methods and even retained the original characteristics of the traditional food culture of ancient China can be called a "living fossil".

Shaxian snacks why Fujian diet in a strange flower

Shaxian snacks are not only popular in Sanming City counties (cities, districts), but also in Nanping, Fuzhou, Xiamen can be often encountered with "Shaxian snacks" signboards of the snack bar, and even the north to Beijing, the south to Shenzhen, as well as in Singapore, Malaysia and the United States of America's Pacific Ocean resort - Saipan, there is also a "Shaxian Snacks". The traces of "Sha Xian Snacks" are also found in Singapore, Malaysia and Saipan Island, a Pacific Ocean tourist destination in the United States. It is clear that the influence of Shaxian snacks, the spread of the wide.

According to incomplete statistics, there are hundreds of various types of snacks in Shaxian, dozens of year-round supply, steaming, boiling, deep-frying, baking, pickling, processing methods, rice, noodles, taro, tofu raw materials, unique local characteristics, and a rich source of households can do on a few kinds of urban streets and lanes, day and night, 24 hours a day, should be marketed snacks, very convenient.

Features a

is affordable. The unit price of Sha Xian snacks is usually more than a few dollars. Spending a few dollars, a person can eat a full meal. Summer heat, a bowl of green grass jelly down, clearing the summer heat to remove fire efficacy, more than ice cream, cold winter months, spend a few dollars, a few pieces of dried beans, a dish of chili bean oil, enough to make your body hot, forehead sweating.

Feature two

is fresh and delicious. Operators of Sha Xian snacks almost all have a **** the same historical tradition of making a small number of snacks every day, usually made on the same day and sold out on the same day. From the perspective of raw material procurement and food preservation, this tradition effectively ensures the freshness of the food. On the other hand, according to connoisseurs, the flavor of snacks can go off if the ingredients are stored for more than half a day. Therefore, experienced snack operators would rather shorten their business hours and reduce their turnover in order to maintain the reputation of their snacks. This ensures the freshness and deliciousness of Shaxian snacks.

Feature three is green and healthy. From the point of view of dietary science, Shaxian snacks and is in line with the scientific health food. Shaxian snacks are basically low-fat, low-calorie light food. Shaxian snacks one of the most important raw materials is soybean, soybean, the content of its nutrients in a variety of foods is among the top. Many of the ingredients and condiments of Sha Xian flavor snacks are rich in nutrition. Some of them can be used as medicine with food, and have the role of health care. In order to carry forward the tradition of health care of Shaxian flavor snacks, some people have also opened a medicinal stew pot, which is welcomed by all walks of life.

The enjoyment of Shaxian snacks is also a kind of countryside, full of interest in the spiritual enjoyment. Shaxian snacks throughout the streets and alleys, with the majority of residents have a natural emotional connection. Street snacks is a major street scene in Shaxian, which Buy dried beans is particularly distinctive. Five or six people around a small square table on the street, with chopsticks holding dried beans, dipped in seasoning, sent into the mouth. The food stalls are also a natural place to socialize, enjoying the snacks while listening to the diners chatting, which can be very insightful. Strictly speaking, without these moods, without this atmosphere. It does not reflect the cultural connotation of the real Sha Xian snacks.

Because of this, Shaxian snacks for its variety, unique flavor and affordable, green and healthy and known as the garden of Fujian's food culture in a strange flower

The following introduces a few Shaxian snacks in the classic food

1, Shaxian flat meat

Shaxian flat meat is evolved from the wonton. It is a traditional local specialty of Shaxian, Fujian Province, and belongs to the Min cuisine family. There are many north and south flat meat, and most diners feel that Sha Xian snacks are very famous, in Sha Xian a wide range of food, flat meat is the most popular snacks, which as early as 1997 was awarded the title of "Chinese famous snacks". According to the field study, Shaxian flat meat is wrapped with the famous specialty of Fuzhou, Fujian Province, "Swallow Skin", so it is called "Flat Meat Swallow". Swallow skin is lean pork with a wooden stick pounded into mush, into the top sweet potato flour made of thin slices, created in the late Qing Dynasty during the reign of Emperor Guangxu, which is characterized by thin as paper, white in color, tough and strong, long cooking does not rot. It is named because it is soft and smooth, delicate and refreshing, and rich in the flavor of bird's nest.

2, Shaxian duck

Shaxian duck is a traditional family cuisine in rural Shaxian, folk known as "duck". The origin is from the Zhou Dynasty, which is three thousand years old. As early as the Zhou Dynasty, there will be chicken, duck and goose meat waxing practice. Its name is "wax" refers to the production of such food time in the lunar month, the court had a "wax man" position, in charge of the processing of dry meat affairs, the processing method is generally smeared with salt and ginger and other ingredients cured meat after air-drying, sun-drying or drying, so that the meat dehydration, to prolong the preservation period, food over the steaming and cutting blocks can be. Now the traditional practice of Shaxian preserved duck, with the above is more or less the same, but slightly more or less in the ingredients, the baking method is also more elaborate.

3, Shaxian dried tofu Shaxian snacks in the tofu series of hot mouth tofu, true tofu, baked dried tofu, smoked dried tofu and so on, many varieties, it is difficult to list, although the flavor is different, but all are very tasty, which is the most local characteristics of the mast dried beans. Dried bean curd with mast, as the name suggests, is made from masts, and the method of making it is very simple. Mast flower fruits are crushed and soaked in water, then the tofu is put into the soaked water and dyed yellow, then picked up and put on the grill to dry slowly over charcoal. This way the dried tofu is not only colorful and attractive, and eat when there is a kind of light gardenia fragrance.

For shaxian snacks, some people put forward, "shaxian snacks only snacks, there is no big dish" point of view, in fact, as a single species, snacks certainly "small", but many snacks together, can also form a big scale, big style. Sha Xian snack culture contains a strong sense of excellence. This fine meaning throughout the whole process of snack production. Shaxian flat meat filling most of the mallet into the mallet, it is understood that a ball of lean meat into flat meat filling, to play 10,000 times up and down, the degree of hard work can be imagined.

If you use a meat grinder, certainly save energy, but the texture and toughness of the stuffing is far worse than the mallet. Therefore, many flat meat operators gave up the easy, simple modern operation methods, rather than stand in front of a half-human-high table, one by one, waving a cumbersome mallet, to provide the community with more refined food.