If you use a food to represent Suzhou, the Su-style noodle soup that can be eaten all year round is definitely the best choice. It is said that northerners love to eat pasta, southerners love to eat rice, but Suzhou people eat noodles more than northerners. Maybe it is really a party that raises one side of the water and soil, and has eaten Beijing's fried sauce noodles, Lanzhou's beef ramen, and Wuhan's hot dry noodles, but Suzhou people, which have a bad bite of This Su-style soup noodles. When it comes to Suzhou, everyone often thinks of gardens, silk and biluochun, but only Suzhou people themselves understand, and Suzhou noodles cannot be copied. A bowl of soup noodles for Suzhou people has long gone beyond the scope of a simple breakfast, and has long been deeply integrated into the "Su-style life". A bowl of Su-style noodle soup in the morning is the right way for Suzhou people to start a good day!
Suzhou has been a rich place since ancient times, and material abundance has given Suzhou people more space to explore the exquisite craftsmanship of food. The degree of pickiness of Suzhou people in their diet can be seen in the soup of Suzhou-style soup noodles. The quality of the soup directly determines the quality of a bowl of Su-style soup noodles. Most of the soup noodles are made by mixing ingredients such as fan bones, chicken racks, pork bones and ham, and boiled over a low heat. In addition, each store will add its own secret recipe. So even though Suzhou now has more than 3,000 noodle restaurants, each bowl of noodles tastes different.
Why do Suzhou people love noodles so much but rarely have obesity? According to an old Suzhounese, it was because "we Suzhou people only eat noodles in the morning, and we eat noodle soup!" Eat at noon, eat at night, and don't come out to eat noodles again." Tou noodle soup is the first batch of noodles to be cooked every morning when the noodle shop opens. The pot for cooking noodles is very large, and the store does not pour out a large pot of noodle soup and refill it, but constantly adds water to it. The earliest boiled pot of water is the clearest, there is no flour melted into the noodles, Suzhou people think that the head soup noodles are the best. Suzhou people eat noodles without a spoon, when drinking soup, directly hold the bowl in both hands and send it to the mouth, a full bowl of noodles, and finally even the noodles with toppings with soup, it is easy to eat "fine". After eating the noodles, they were not in a hurry to go, holding a toothpick and talking leisurely with the guys in the shop, and the whole process was determined and casual.
In Su-style noodles, the basic requirements of soup are clear, delicious, do not see any impurities, noodles to be kind of fine noodles, eat smooth and chewy, but also pay attention to the appearance, yard in the bowl is not chaotic, showing a good-looking Guanyin head, carp back. The toppings of Su-style noodles are basically a recipe for Suzhou cuisine, and you can see dozens of kinds of toppings in a casual noodle restaurant. Braised meat, stir-fried meat, large ribs, shredded meat, fried fish, fried eel, eel paste, marinated duck, shrimp, crab powder, vegetarian... One topping is not enough, then double pouring, three pouring, is also the most conventional way to eat in old Suzhou. So many toppings to eat all over again, this is the dream of many of us!
Su-style noodles are inseparable bonds between Suzhou people and Suzhou. Su-style noodle soup is exquisite and delicious, but it must also be in Suzhou, a gentle and restrained city, which feels like a hot pot in Chongqing, a roast duck in Beijing, a morning tea in Guangzhou... Only staying here for a few years can you understand it in place. Perhaps it is the emphasis on eating and living that has formed the personality of Suzhou people who love their families, and Suzhou people are like a goldfish in the lake in a Su-style garden, resting in their own small world. For Suzhou people who love their families, Suzhou-style noodles sometimes not only fill their stomachs and satisfy their taste buds, but also carry the feelings of Suzhou people.
Why are Suzhou noodles so delicious? Some people say it's probably because of water. Suzhou eats Taihu Lake water, so the noodles cooked out, the soup that hangs out has a taste, otherwise there is no soul. All year round, you can eat according to the season. In the spring, the shredded cabbage meat noodles and dried marantou noodles; the summer spiced small meat noodles, three shrimp noodles, and the popped eel noodles; the pine mushroom oil noodles and stir-fried eel paste noodles in the autumn; the winter chicken noodles, red oil braised meat noodles, braised hoof noodles, etc. in the winter, there is always one that you will never forget. In this bowl of noodles, the days flew away.
Suzhou people's feelings for Su-style noodles are innate, this is the taste of eating big when I was a child, this is about the taste of memory, which is irreplaceable. Su-style noodles are the taste of Suzhou, it has been integrated into the blood of Suzhou people, Su-style noodles, Suzhou people are always proud! A bowl of Su-style noodle soup in the morning is the right way for Suzhou people to start a good day! Friends, do you like to eat Su-style noodle soup?