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The top ten must-eat food in Weixian County

Weixian ten must-eat food are: five spices dried tofu, Nuanquan Tuesday dumplings, powder lumps, yellow cake, eight bowls, sugar hemp leaves, sweet paste, Weixian pepper cake, Weizhou apricot flat, leakage tadpole.

1, five spices dried tofu

Weixian tofu is very famous, including five spices dried tofu is the most famous soybean products. There are soft and hard five spice dried tofu, soft porcelain, hard sinewy. The more you chew, the more fragrant, mixed with eating flavorful and delicious, both as a wine dish, but also can be done with tea, and young and old alike.

2, Nuanquan Tuesday dumplings

Nuanquan Tuesday dumplings, is the award-winning brand of the Weixian snack contest. Usually we see are three-dimensional triangle of the big dumplings, Urumqi County, Tuesday dumplings body small, flat triangular miniature version.

While, the county has "rice dumplings sprinkled with sugar, eat to the belly through the cold" proverb. But in the past, due to the limitations of material exchanges, it is difficult to see the river rice in Weixian, and the local dumplings are generally yellow rice (millet peeled) and rice to do, sticky sweet, that is a special, only Weixian people can appreciate the "nostalgia".

3, powder lump

Weixian powder lump soft but not sticky, slippery but not greasy, clear and cool. When eaten with a knife cut into thin strips, poured with soup, mixed with mustard, vinegar, chili oil, unique flavor.

4, yellow cake

Huang cake is not only a staple food eaten by local people in Uiju every day, but also appears in various traditional festivals or occasions. Like the first day of the New Year, wedding birthday celebration to eat fried cake, take the reunion of the meaning; cover the house on the beam to eat fried cake, to take the meaning of good luck; to welcome the bride on the table intentionally cake to do life, to take the meaning of step by step (cake life).

5, eight bowls

Eight bowls, is the people of Weixian New Year's festivals, wedding marriage, welcome guests a special attention to the traditional dishes. According to legend, during the Song Dynasty, the government family used the "eight bowls" to set up wine banquets and entertain guests. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the "Eight Big Bowls" were already popular in Weizhou. It is also known as the "full banquet" in Weizhou County, which is a very sophisticated and dignified way of serving the guests.

The government, down to the common people, the "eight bowls" as a special and generous dishes. The eight bowls of Uixian County include: silk chowder, buckled meat buns, steamed meat, tiger balls, braised meatballs, longan meatballs, steamed meatballs, dried apricot meatballs.

6, sugar hemp leaves

Sugar hemp leaves up and down the two layers of white noodles wrapped in a layer of attractive brown sugar, neatly yards on the board above, waiting for the metamorphosis into human food. After deep-frying, they are soft and crispy on the outside, full of aroma, red and yellow, and quite colorful.

7, sweet paste

Sweet paste, made of black dates, dried apricots, in the shape of a piece of agate. It tastes sweet and sour, cool and smooth, and is one of the favorite snacks of people in Weixian.

8, Ulsan Pepper Cake

Ulsan Pepper Cake is a specialty of Ulsan County, which is famous for its crispy and sweet taste and unique pepper flavor. During the production process, the crispy noodles and the scent of the peppercorns are fused to create a unique taste.

9, Uizhou apricot flat

Uizhou almonds are one of the most famous gifts of Uizhou, after more than two decades of cultivation, Uizhou County has formed a considerable scale of benevolent apricot bases, Uizhou apricot flat kernel has an excellent taste, attracting a lot of food lovers like.

10,Leak tadpole

Shaped like a tadpole, tender and sinewy, smooth and smooth. The practice of tadpole is relatively simple, and the raw materials are not limited to one, white flour, corn flour, oat flour, pea flour, buckwheat noodles, yam starch, etc. can be used as tadpole raw materials.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Weixian