The first time I went to Huzhou is also this season, the impression of Huzhou delicious so much, thousands of buns, rice dumplings, stinky dried tofu, hooves, eel silk, etc., are amazing to our taste buds from the north. Later, in Nanxun, the old street of Jiangnan Ancient Town, randomly walking into a shop is the beginning of a food journey. Nanxun's cuisine maintains its own unique flavor in the many small bridges and flowing water families in Jiangnan Water Town.
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The most famous surface of Nanxun is the double crossover, especially the surface of the Zhuangyuan Building and the Wufu Building. The noodles are Nanxun thin noodles, and the taste is smooth and tough. Unlike the northern noodles, which focus on noodles, Gangnam noodles win over a variety of toppings. Diptych refers to the two toppings in the noodles: fried fish and crispy meat. Fish and meat are made in the Soviet style, with a sweet taste in the crisp. In addition to the double noodles, there are also popular braised lamb noodles and blackfish shrimp noodles.
Lianshi lamb noodles only use lake sheep, every year in mid-to-late October, the weather begins to get colder, lake sheep grow fat. Cut the lamb into large pieces and cook it in a pot with rice wine, soy sauce, sugar, dates, ginger and other condiments. "Mutton is hot and can replenish the deficiency of blood." According to the Ming Dynasty's "Compendium of Materia Medica", "Mutton tonifies the qi, is sweet, and hot." "In the winter of the south, a bowl of lamb noodles is the best food to replenish the sun and keep warm.
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Rose crisp
Nanxun's traditional pastries are incomparable. My favorites are the orange red cake, rose crisp candy and "wild water chestnut" Dingsheng cake. In addition, there are loquat stalks, salt and pepper peach slices, brown candy, and peach cakes that are almost common in the Gangnam area.
Dingsheng Cake
Loquat terrier
Orange red cake
Salt and pepper peach slices
Orange red cake, small one by one, made of glutinous rice flour, the color pink orange is white, sweet but not greasy, soft but not sticky, bite up Q bomb. Rose shortbread is a traditional famous spot in Huzhou area, with sesame, white sugar, rose as raw materials, the color is snow white, there is pink rose sandwich filling, crispy and rich, food does not stick teeth, but must not be because of delicious non-stop eating, will feel greasy. Dingsheng cake is made of rice noodles, generally light red, with bean paste in the middle as the filling, the traditional Dingsheng cake is large at both ends, narrow in the middle, and now there are various flower types. The hot Dingsheng cake is the best to eat, sweet and soft, it will become hard when it is cold, and it will taste powdery, so it must be steamed before eating. My favorite pretzels, along with rose puff pastry, brown candy, and jujube peach cake, are known as the "Four Treasures of Tea". The color is thin, with peach and hemp aromas, and the taste is crunchy, sweet and salty.
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Embroidered brocade
Nanxun's embroidered brocade, the famous town of Jiangnan, is a famous dish unique to Nanxun. The shape of the embroidered brocade is similar to that of ordinary green vegetables, except that the stem is slightly thinner, the edge of the leaf has a fine zigzag shape, and the veins on the leaf surface are rich in a curved beauty. After this dish is cooked, it is still turquoise, and it is reluctant to touch it.
This kind of green vegetables that can only be grown in Nanxun, so the green vegetables that can only be eaten in Nanxun have their own fragrance, as long as they are stir-fried, they are very delicious, especially the embroidered brocade in the middle of winter, which is more delicious and sweet than the general leafy vegetables. Here I recommend you the splendid flower ravioli that only exists in Nanxun, which is worth eating.
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The most famous tea in the Huzhou area is Anji white tea, followed by traditional smoked bean tea.
Smoked beans should be in the autumn, when the edamame is full and not old, the best green edamame meat is cooked and smoked, until the water evaporates and the edamame crumples. Tea is mainly prepared with lavender beans, sesame seeds, orange peel, dried carrots and other "tea fruits", but also according to their own preferences and conditions, add a little tea, dried bamboo shoots, osmanthus and other ingredients, flushed into boiling water, that is, smoked bean tea. This kind of tea reminds me of the three-bubble Taiwan tea in the northwest, which is really a tea of one side and one side of water and soil.