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What traditional foods do northerners eat at the vernal equinox?

1, spring pancake. A delicious food that northerners eat at the vernal equinox is called spring cake. The so-called spring cake is to spread the flour into a thin dough, then shred all kinds of fresh vegetables such as shredded cucumber, shredded carrot, green onion and broccoli, add a thin layer of egg skin, and add sauce to shred pork and wrap it in the flour cake, which is called spring cake. Eating spring cakes at the spring equinox is a traditional diet in the north. Eating spring cakes can go smoothly all year round. This is also the yearning for a better life.

2. Spring bamboo shoots. Bamboo shoots are the freshest. There used to be no bamboo shoots and vegetable leaf nets in the north, but now with the development of economy, bamboo shoots from the south have also entered the northern market; So now northerners have the habit of eating bamboo shoots at the vernal equinox. Stir-fry dried bamboo shoots with shredded pork, or add sauerkraut unique to the north, or chop them to make dried bamboo shoots jiaozi.

3. stew. Stews in Northeast China are very famous, so in China people pay more attention to the vernal equinox, stews are naturally indispensable. Among the traditional stews, stewed pork with vermicelli, stewed chicken with mushrooms, stewed goose in iron pot and pork-killing dishes are all very classic northeast stews. So at the vernal equinox, these traditional stews naturally come to the table.

4. Toona sinensis buds. Toona sinensis bud is not a fresh vegetable that can be eaten all year round, but a kind of fresh vegetable unique to the vernal equinox. It is the leaves of Toona sinensis on the Toona sinensis tree that germinate. The buds of Toona sinensis are very tender at this time. Scrambled eggs or pies are delicious. If you miss this season, you will have to wait another year. So whenever the spring equinox, northern Renye Fang likes to buy some Toona sinensis buds for cooking.