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A summer getaway
It has to be "delicious"
After the summer continues to be hot, the weather is getting hotter and hotter, and people are becoming less and less appetizing. My answer is –
It is rich in ethnic customs
It's a foodie paradise
Yanbian Prefecture, Jilin Province
What does Yanbian taste like?
In Yanbian, there are more than 10 kinds of barbecue alone, and the subtle adjustment of barbecue dipping sauces, pots, and pickling methods is the Yanbian people's seriousness about food and the development and innovation of ingredients.
The time-honored Yanbian cuisine is still enriching its breadth of flavors, and the Russian seafood imported from Hunchun Port and various Russian delicacies have also taken root in Yanbian and become an important part of the taste of Yanbian.
In Hunchun, Yanbian, you can eat Russian food. Photo by Wu Xuewen
Traditional Korean-style dishes. Photo by Wu Xuewen
Nourished by the long history and abundant products, Yanbian Korean rice cakes, cold noodles, kimchi, rice sausages ...... It not only shows the rich food culture of Yanbian area, but also is an important carrier for inheriting and promoting Chinese culture.
Wild vegetables, ginseng, mushrooms......
Delicious!
In addition to the shaping of history, the delicious taste of Yanbian also comes from the rich local terrain. The mountainous area is rich in mushrooms, ginseng, wild fruits and other mountain delicacies, and with the change of seasons, there are different umami flavors throughout the year.
In spring, the thorny sprouts, willow artemisia sprouts, mother-in-law, and small roots of garlic all over the mountains have just begun to emerge, and they will be picked home by the lady who digs wild vegetables up the mountain, and then scrambled a bowl of egg sauce with stupid eggs to make a dipping pickle, and the pure and primitive freshness in the mountains and fields of Yanbian is served to the table.
After the autumn rains, the mushrooms under the trees grow vigorously, and you can directly fry the meat with fresh mushrooms, or you can dry them and store them until the winter when they are stewed with chickens and geese. In addition to wild vegetables and mushrooms, Changbai Mountain also grows hundreds of special mountain treasures such as ginseng, pine nuts, matsutake mushrooms, and ganoderma lucidum, which constitute the umami of Yanbian's mountains.
Mentai fish, king crab, scallops......
Not by the sea, but with more delicious seafood!
Many people on the southern coast have the impression that they don't eat seafood. But they may not have imagined that Yanbian Prefecture, backed by the Changbai Mountains, has the largest mentai processing industry in Northeast Asia, and even 80% of South Korea's mentai fish come from Yanbian. Mentai fish is also the favorite fish of Yanbian people, and there are many restaurants in Yanbian that specialize in the theme of mentai fish, such as glutinous rice wrapped in fish skin, fried fish skin, steamed mentai fish with bean sprouts and chili, and mentai fish soup...... Nearly 100 kinds of mentai fish delicacies show the creativity of Yanbian people for food to the fullest.
A mentai fish feast with the theme of mentai fish. Photo by Wu Xuewen
In addition to the freshness of mentai fish, Yanbian also has another shocking deliciousness - Russian seafood! Arm-long pine leaf crabs, scallops with large bowls, and king crabs sold for 2,000 yuan in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou supermarkets...... In Hunchun, Yanbian Prefecture, you can buy a lot of seafood imported from Russia at affordable prices.
This kind of happy daily life is inseparable from the special geographical location of Hunchun. Hunchun is the easternmost city in Jilin Province, located at the junction of China, North Korea and Russia. In recent years, driven by Sino-Russian trade, Russian seafood can enter the Chinese market in just one day, and every day freight trucks loaded with fresh king crab and snow crab enter the country from Hunchun Port, enriching the dining table of Chinese.
Charcoal-grilled scallops are already very delicious just by grillingPhoto by Wu Xuewen
As the first foothold of seafood landing, in Hunchun, eating seafood is not only cheap, but also delicious, and simple steaming is already a top delicacy. But the Hunchun people, who love to eat and eat, did not stop at steaming, they removed the meat of the pine leaf crab and mixed it with seaweed and rice to make a delicious crab bibimbap; Scallops, arctic shells, and mapes can be grilled on a charcoal fire to make two flavors of garlic and hot sauce, especially the huge scallops are the most delicious, after eating the scallop meat, the scallop shell still has a little soup on it, plus instant noodles, beef grilled on the charcoal fire, it is even fresher.
The red crab imported from Russia is delicious with crab roePhoto by Wu Xuewen
Bibimbap, gimbap, pancakes......
The staple food of Yanbian is bold and fine!
Yanbian rice is oily and fragrant, and it is already very delicious to eat empty, but the people of Yanbian do not stop there, they will make the rice into bibimbap and gimbap. When the rice is cooked in an iron pot, the pot baked at the bottom of the pot is also a delicious ingredient for Yanbian people, which can be used to cook pot soup or eaten directly as a snack.
Bibimbap is popular all over the country. Photography / LUNANAS, Picture / Picture Worm Creative
Pancakes are also one of the staple foods eaten daily by Yanbian people, pancakes are thin, soft, loose, sweet and fragrant, with flour, corn, millet, potato flour and other ingredients as raw materials, integrating Jilin high-quality grain. In Dunhua, there are also ultra-thin pancakes with a thickness of only 0.23 mm, and the 0.5-square-meter pancake weighs only 50 grams.
Thin-to-light pancakes. Photo/Visual China
Not only is the staple food rich, but the dim sum of Yanbian people in their leisure time is even more exquisite. Cake is a traditional Korean food, which is indispensable on the table during the New Year's Festival. Rice cakes, which have been selected as provincial intangible cultural heritage, are made of rice flour as raw materials, or steamed, boiled, fried, or beaten, small and exquisite. Li Xiangdan, the intangible inheritor of rice cakes, has twice participated in international cooking competitions and won the championship twice.
Exquisite Korean rice cakes. Photo by Wu Xuewen
Grilled runf, barbecue ......
The way to eat meat is ever-changing!
The yellow beef in the mountainous area of Yanbian is made into a variety of delicacies in the hands of Yanbian people. A bowl of beef soup and rice in the morning starts the day full of vitality. Barbecue in the middle of the night, in the whole Yanbian one place, Hunchun skewers are influenced by Russian skewers, the size is huge, the largest piece of meat needs three chisels to be skewered, the marinated beef is fresh and sweet, very delicious.
Hunchun special skewers: Hunchun skewers. Photography / Flightless balloons
Beef soup rice, breakfast for Yanbian people. Photo by Wu Xuewen
Come to Yanbian and you will find
In addition to the unique ethnic customs
The most amazing thing is the food
Yanbian has a cool climate, which is especially suitable for escaping the heat
While enjoying the view
From the taste buds, to the stomach to the mind
It is also a full range of satisfaction
Source: Yanbian release, authentic scenery, leisurely travel in Jilin