Where is the most famous pork in Shanxi?

Changzhi pork in Shanxi is very famous, Shanxi is also a province with a lot of food, but if you say famous pork, then I can think of is the white pork, also known as "Changzi pork". Pork is the meat from the head of a pig. Its deliciousness has long been known in the folklore, and it is said that the "grilled whole pig's head" in Huaiyang cuisine has the most elaborate fire work and the longest history, and is a famous dish in Huaiyang. It has rich nutritional value. The therapeutic effect of pork, flat, taste sweet and salty, tonic deficiency, nourishing Yin, blood, moistening dry .

Changzi County, located in Changzhi City, Shanxi Province, is rumored to be the fiefdom of Dan Zhu, Yao's eldest son, in ancient times, hence the name. Pork is popular in many parts of northern China, but Changzi pork is the most distinctive, with a "natural flavor, thin as a cicada's wing, colorful but not greasy, fragrant and cool".

According to rough statistics, Changzi County pork stores consume an average of more than a dozen tons of pig's head a day. According to each pig head 13 kilograms, a day is 1000 pigs, a year is more than 300,000 pigs, a strong drive to the development of the local and neighboring areas of the breeding industry. It is understood that the most authentic Changzi pig head meat is Jiaojia pig head meat, Jiaojia pig head meat history can be traced back to the end of the Qing Dynasty. The owner of the store, Jiaojia pork in addition to the general characteristics of Changzi pork, there are four other unique features.

Recently, the local government in Changzi County, led and supported by a company in Changzi County, Shanxi Agricultural University Food College, Beijing Meat Research Center and other scientific research and technical units, attacked a number of key processing technologies, developed a special slicing machine, changed the previous can only rely on the manual workshop manual slicing of the meat of the situation, for the standardization of the Changzi pig head meat, industrialization, industrialization and lay the foundation for the production. Local officials said that they hope that the popularity of Changzi pork, this local food to the country, when the time is ripe to apply for intangible cultural heritage.

Harbin characteristics of the pig's head meat color red, glutinous mellow, salty and sweet moderate, meat, fat and not greasy, meat has a glossy . It tickles the cravings and mouths of the eaters. Pork head meat contains high quality protein and essential fatty acids, can provide heme (organic iron) can improve iron deficiency anemia.