What are the specialties in Shangqiu, Henan?

"Eggs in Iron Pot" is a very distinctive dish in Henan cuisine, which is burned red with a special iron pot cover on the fire. Beat the eggs into a bowl, stir well, add diced ham, diced water chestnut, dried shrimps, dried shrimps skin, monosodium glutamate, cooking wine and salt water, put them on low fire, pour large oil into the egg paste, and stir slowly with a spoon to prevent the egg paste from scratching the pan. When the egg paste is eight-ripe, hang the red-hot iron pot cover on the iron pot with a fire hook, coagulate and stir with the pot cover, and bake the egg paste at high temperature. Make the skin of the egg paste shiny, red and yellow. Its taste is delicious, its color is red and yellow, its oil is bright, its fragrance is tender and soft, and its aftertaste is endless.

Jiaran spiced fish

Jiaran spiced fish is made by Ranxian Cave in the old city of Xiayi County, which has a history of more than 200 years. During the reign of Qing Qianlong, it was listed as a tribute.

Spiced and bad fish is made from the fat and tender crucian carp, a specialty of Hucheng Lake in Xiayi, weighing about 200 grams. The whole fish is salted, fried and stewed with various seasonings, without scales. Its color is golden and reddish, its fragrance is rich and mellow, its bones are crisp and rotten, and its fish is delicious and nutritious. Hot food is not greasy, and cold food is not fishy. This is really a delicious banquet and a good accompaniment.

JOE sweet glutinous dumplings

JOE Tangyuan is a unique night made by Sansheng Restaurant, a famous restaurant in the ancient city of Shangqiu.

Because the restaurant was founded by Xu Shufu and his two other disciples in the 19th year of Guangxu reign (1893), Xu, the third descendant of the Xujia family, is still in charge of the kitchen, so it is called "JOE Tangyuan".

JOE glutinous rice balls are mainly made of glutinous rice and a proper amount of millet flour. After cooking, the skin is as white as jade and crystal clear. The stuffing is made of sugar, honey and various fruit materials. There are many varieties and different flavors, and they are known as "eight treasures and honey far away". JOE glutinous rice balls/kloc-can be cooked in 0/0 minute, soft and delicious, but not greasy for a long time. It is a famous flavor food in Shangqiu.

Shrimp burning element

Roasted shrimp element is a famous dish in the ancient city of Guide in Ming and Qing Dynasties. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the old chef Guan Heqing was good at cooking shrimp with vegetarian dishes every time he entertained ministers with poor drinks. In the Republic of China, chefs Chen Sirong and Chen Siming further promoted the cooking technique of serving dishes and extended it from official dishes to local dishes.

The main raw materials of shrimp vegetarian diet are gluten and shrimp, and the fear materials are chicken skin, mushrooms, tremella, chicken and duck soup, etc.

The production method is: deep-frying gluten with warm oil, tearing it into blocks, adding shrimp, chicken skin, mushrooms, tremella, chicken and duck soup, and simmering the soup with slow fire to collect juice.

Shrimp is fragrant, delicious and in good shape, with a strong flavor of eastern Henan-heavy color, strong fragrance, thick soup and thorough fire. Tangxia No.1 is one of the famous snacks in Henan.

Guocun red-cooked chicken

Guocun roast chicken is one of the traditional famous dishes in Shangqiu county, which has a history of more than 300 years.

This product is characterized by fragrant smell, good color and delicious taste, tender and white meat, complete shape, rotten but not greasy, and long aftertaste. If the chicken is hot, put your legs on the plate and shake them gently, that is, the meat is separated from the bones and the meat falls into the plate.

In 1950s, Meng Zhaoxing, a producer of roast chicken in Meng Jia, participated in Henan Science and Technology Exchange Conference twice, and was rated as "roast chicken expert" and "roast chicken technician" by Henan Province.

Song Yue brand white sugar tofu

Song Yue brand white sugar tofu produced by Shangqiu Brewery is a famous specialty of Youfeng Soy Sauce Garden in Guide House.

Founded in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, it has a history of more than 300 years. Li, the founder, is a man with rich words. At that time, the production of the sauce garden was booming. /kloc-in the 8th century, Meng Chunfa, the owner of the sauce garden, painstakingly studied the technology of pickles, absorbed the technical characteristics of North and South on the basis of the original technology, improved the operation, created a unique style and became famous all over the world.

White sugar bean curd is golden and reddish in color, with well-proportioned carrion, delicate texture, rich aroma, moderate hardness, non-corruption, salty and palatable, and delicious taste. It is an appetizer and a gift for friends.

Gu Song brand pickles

Gu Song brand pickles produced by Shangqiu pickles factory are exquisite in craftsmanship and exquisite in production. It takes the melon as the skin and contains more than a dozen side dishes such as peanuts, almonds, antlers, embryo blue, dried tangerine peel and shredded ginger.

The finished product has beautiful appearance, luster and brown sauce. When eating, each melon is cut into 2-3 knives to form a lotus petal shape. Spread on the plate, the melon looks like a flower heart, and the sauce is brown, golden and dark green. Colorful and full of flavor.

Weimazhuangtang

Wei Zhuang hemp candy is a traditional specialty of Shuangba Town, Shangqiu County. Up to now, it has a production history of more than 200 years, and has a long-standing reputation for its four characteristics of sweetness, fragrance, looseness and crispness.

This sesame candy is made of high-quality rice, sugar, sesame and malt. The operation process is: rice distillation, adding sugar catalytic enzyme, squeezing sugar juice, decocting, pulling and cutting, adding sesame seeds and white flour. Sesame sugar is uniform in thickness and length, sesame is wrapped without skin, both ends are sealed airtight, not hard and non-sticky, crisp and sweet, and palatable.

Jingjiama tablets

Jingjia hemp chips are traditional famous products in Yucheng County. They were handed down by a man named Jingjing in Chendian, and now they have been passed down to seven generations, Jinglianhe. According to Yucheng County Records, Jingjiama was once listed as a tribute by Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty.

Jingjiama tablets are well-selected and finely made. Made of refined powder, sesame oil, sugar and other high-quality raw materials. Its characteristics are discerning and transparent, sweet and crisp, refreshing and delicious, and it is suitable for all ages in Xian Yi. 1984 was selected into the list of industrial and commercial enterprises in China, and was rated as a high-quality product by the provincial light industry system.

Chicken feet dough twists

Chicken feet twist is named after it looks like chicken feet. It is a famous product of Anping in Zhecheng County, which was once listed as a tribute during Yongzheng period of Qing Dynasty. At first, Wang's ancestors took this as their profession. To the Wang Anping generation, because there is no heir, it was passed on to his good friend Zhou Dajiang. Up to now, the Zhou family has been passed down for four generations, which has been more than 100 years.

Chicken feet twist products are light yellow, bright, crisp and refreshing, and have a unique flavor. It is still crisp after being stored for half a month; Soak in boiling water for more than ten minutes, still crisp as new; Fold off a wisp and use it as a piece of paper to light a cigarette. If it is lit one by one, a chicken claw twist can light up a mile.

Yu cheng hei Jing Guo

Yucheng Heijing Country is also known as Rice Well. Mo Jing fruit was made from glutinous rice, sugar, honey, sesame oil and osmanthus fragrans by crushing, fermenting, adding ingredients and frying. It has a unique flavor of crisp, sweet and fresh, which melts in the mouth, sweet but not greasy, fragrant but not greasy. During Jiaqing period of Qing Dynasty, it was listed as a tribute.

Mahuazhuang

Mahuazhuang Mahuazhuang is a specialty of civil rights and has a history of more than 200 years. At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, the Zhang family settled in Minquan County, one kilometer south of the town, and fried dough twists for a living. Because of its exquisite production and unique flavor of crisp, fragrant and crisp, it was listed as a tribute during the Qianlong period, and the place where Zhang lived was named "Mahuazhuang".

Someone has done an experiment: put the twist in a plastic bag for one winter and one spring, and the color, fragrance, taste and crispness remain unchanged. People summarize its characteristics as follows: "When you are fragrant, light a lamp at night, and it will be all broken when you fall to the ground, and it will smell fragrant indoors."

Jiazhai dried bean curd

Jiazhai dried bean curd in Yucheng County has a production history of more than 200 years, and it was once listed as a tribute in the late Qing Dynasty. The products are made of high-quality soybeans, and the auxiliary materials are star anise, pepper, tsaoko, cold ginger, cinnamon, clove, etc.

Squeeze the colored rotten pieces out of the water and cook them in a chicken soup pot. Dried bean curd is a square thin slice, with black and red color, red penetration, black luster, rich five flavors, salty but not astringent, fragrant but not greasy.

Shangqiu shui chicken mo

Shangqiu Shuiji Steamed Bun, formerly known as Jinshui Steamed Bun, originated in Guidefu, the ancient city of Shangqiu, and its founding time has not been verified. According to legend, every time Shen Li (a native of Shangqiu County) entertained guests in the Ming Dynasty, he served steamed bread with water from home.

The main raw material of water-induced steamed bread is hard-faced steamed bread. The production method is to cut the steamed bread into ingots of inch length and finger thickness. After drying in the sun, soak it in hot water of about 40 degrees, and then fry it in boiling oil until golden brown. Take it out and quickly put it into the prepared dilute sugar juice. After taking it out for two or three seconds, the finished product is bright in color, rich in burnt fragrance, sweet and delicious. Because there is water in the sugar juice, the steamed bread should be stirred in the water after being fried, so it is called "water-stirred steamed bread".

Yudong hotel Xiao sesame seed cake

The sesame cake in Yudong Hotel was originally a famous brand in Guide, which was founded by the famous chef Wang in Qing Dynasty and has a history of 100 years. The chef of Yudong Hotel in Shangqiu is Wang's apprentice. On the basis of inheriting the traditional technology, he constantly improved the production method of small sesame seed cake and formed a unique production process, so it was called "Yudong Hotel Small Sesame Seed Cake".

Small sesame cakes are divided into four categories: sweet, salty, meat and vegetarian. More than 20 varieties of sweetener are made from jujube paste, hawthorn, rose, red bean paste, brown sugar and white sugar. Salty and fleshy, stuffed with meat oil, ham, salted duck, chicken, beef and mutton, fish. The finished product is about 8 cm in diameter, golden yellow, sweet in mouth, crisp to eat, thick outside and fresh inside, and delicious.

Ninglinggang Mozi

Ningling Gangzi steamed bread is a kind of food with a long history in East Street of Ningling County. The thick stick steamed stuffed bun tastes pure, soft and hard, beautiful in color and exquisite in heat. This kind of steamed bread looks like a cake when soaked in boiling water. When pressed with a spoon, it becomes mushy and looks like milk with sugar. It can feed children instead of milk, so it is also called "milk steamed bread".

Sizhuang bath bully

The yuba produced by Sizhuang in the eastern suburb of Xiayi County is a unique product of Sizhuang, which has a history of more than 400 years. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it was exclusively used by local officials as a tribute.

Sizhuang yuba is refined from high-quality soybeans. It contains protein, fat, sugar and crude fiber. Golden and transparent color, good toughness, storage and transportation resistance, rich nutrition, easy digestion and absorption, is a high-quality health food. Enjoy the reputation of "super vegetable meat".

Shangqiu, as one of the birthplaces of Chinese culture, is also the gathering place of ancient food culture in China. Shangqiu cuisine combines ancient and modern times in one furnace, with more than a thousand kinds of local specialties. Tasting antique dishes and snacks has become one of the purposes for many tourists to come to Shangqiu.

Shangqiu is the birthplace of Yi Yin, the originator of China cuisine. For thousands of years, perhaps the cooking skills and dishes created by Yi Yin, the originator of cooking, have been lost elsewhere. Today, you can only eat them in Shangqiu, its origin, and you can also taste the taste from ancient times. Shangqiu cuisine is almost natural, with authentic materials, original flavor, good color and fragrance, and is not flashy. The utensils used are also large plates and bowls, which are eye-opening to watch and magnificent to eat, which is far from some flashy and artificial cooking styles popular in the market today. Among them, the more distinctive dishes that can fully display the traditional cooking skills of the Central Plains are casserole mutton, turtle stewed pork, black-bone chicken stewed pork, stewed mutton, gourd chicken leg stewed with cordyceps sinensis, gourd duck fried with eight treasures, scallion roasted plum ginseng, emerald fish belly, Sanqiu roasted eel, Sanqiu hot and sour soup and so on. There are also some special snacks, such as flowering sesame seed cake, scallion cake, Hu spicy soup, camellia oleifera, etc., which are also very famous and memorable.