Beijing is China's largest tourist city, with nearly 300 million tourists per year and 500 billion yuan of tourism consumption, of which a large part of the money is spent on eating, and all kinds of Beijing snacks attract the attention of consumers. But there is also a problem that does not need to be avoided, many people come to Beijing after traveling to the Internet to complain, Beijing snacks are not the same, especially the Beijing snacks of tourist attractions, is to deceive foreign tourists of money, expensive and unpalatable.
Are Beijing snacks really hard to eat? This problem should be divided into two, in the past old Beijing city, the flag people are more Hui people, popular in the folk traditional snacks, consumers are mainly the bottom of the social camel Xiangzi and the like, boiled fire, fried liver, stewed hanging, fried belly, fried enema, bean juice, scorched circle, hemp tofu ... Most of them use pig offal and food scraps as the main ingredients, and the cooking process is not exquisite, which is not comparable to the jiangnan fish and rice town with many merchants and rich people. Ordinary small households in the imperial city of Gen'er can eat several meals of white-noodle net meat stuffed dumplings a year, which is already a good family.
But after all, Beijing is the former seat of the imperial palace, according to the qing palace customs, the imperial kitchen is old to retire, after leaving the palace, the imperial kitchen mostly runs restaurants in the city, so that many imperial meals in the palace flow into the folk, the famous imperial cuisine has four big grabs, four sauces, four big crisps, roast duck, copper pot shabu lamb, boiled chicken breast, poached tenderloin, pea yellow, kidney bean yellow, door nail meat cake and so on. At that time, the eight famous buildings in old Beijing: Hongxing Building, Dongxing Building, Taifeng Building, Zhimei Building, Hongqing Building, Cuihua Building, Xinfeng Building, and Anfu Building were all places where the children of the royal family and the dignitaries and nobles often entered and exited. Nowadays, Beijing Fangshan Restaurant can still eat these tall court dishes, of course, the price is not cheap, and the average tourist will not patronize this kind of place.
The door nail meat cake is the most intimate Muslim snack in the imperial diet, and it is such a small meat cake that pulls Empress Dowager Cixi into two legends. According to a story, Cixi returned from a wild trip on the outskirts of Cixi with great interest, passed the Gate Tower of Desheng Gate, and at a moment of mischievousness, pointed to the gate nails on the city gate and commanded, "Eat this today." After returning to the palace, the father-in-law who accompanied him quickly conveyed instructions to the imperial dining room, which was difficult to spoil the imperial dining room, fortunately, there was a small kitchen called Xiao Lizi who was clever, imitating the door nails on the palace door to make a large stuffed beef pie, arranged in the shape of the door nails of the horizontal nine vertical nine city towers, so there was a century-old door nail meat cake. Today, the most famous door nail meat cake shop in Beijing is called "Door Nail Lee".
There is also a story version that says that in order to change the pattern of Cixi's recipe, the imperial dining room made a beef and scallion stuffed snack, Cixi after eating, felt very delicious, asked the chef what is the name of this thing, the chef of the imperial dining room was speechless for a while, and then thought of the nail hat on the palace gate, in a hurry, replied "door nail meat cake", so "door nail meat cake" was born. Of course, these are all some jianghu wild history, but in all fairness in Beijing snacks, the door nail meat cake is stained with the wealth of the royal meal, and almost no foreign tourists complain about this cake, unless they eat the door nail meat cake of the tourist attraction cottage.
Of course, this is also related to the fact that Beijingers love to eat cakes and make cakes. Beijingers love to eat stuffed food, dumplings, buns, boxes, pie... Every household has to say hello every few days. The TV station once did an interview, what is the greatest happiness of old Beijing? When I came home from work, I saw the kitchen steaming, heard the sound of the bread in the bread, the millet porridge rolling in the pot, a plate of small pickles, a plate of Wang Zhi and tofu milk, a plate of sauce beef, a bottle of small two, this is a work, happiness is as beautiful as a flower. And southerners do not fry a few dishes to make a soup, they feel that this day is dejected.
Door nail meatloaf old Beijing affectionately called it "door nail", omitting the word meatloaf behind it. Authentic door nail meat cake looks ordinary, but the method is very exquisite, first of all, its shape is about 3 cm high, 5 cm diameter cylinder, smaller and thicker than the general pie, secondly, the door nail meat cake filling to choose the best beef brain or waist nest meat, and to be fat and thin, hand chopped filling, the amount of green onion is very large, mixed with sesame oil, soy sauce, fresh ginger, pepper and other accessories.
The dough of the door nail patty is very thin, and the oil is brushed several times during the frying process, which looks like the skin is charred and oily, and the mottled dark paste reminds diners that this is fried in a thick pig iron pan for cooking. Meatloaf taste crisp, a bite down, the first boiling hot butter soup water will splash in the mouth, the butter juice is too fascinating, full of onion flavor of beef stuffing stimulates people's appetite, cake filling like a drug entangled on the tip of the tongue of the taste cells, people are reluctant to swallow.
The authentic way of eating door nail meatloaf is very exquisite, the meatloaf is full of butter soup, must not be cold to eat, butter condensation is too greasy, there will be a smell of meaty onion. Pour Zhenjiang balsamic vinegar on the plate, don't choose Shanxi old vinegar, it will be too sour. Use chopsticks to pick up the door nails, gently bite the dough on the side of the cake to open a small opening, let the hot air in the cake come out, you can see the meat filling and soup inside, and then scoop a little vinegar from the small mouth into the pie, and gently suck out part of the soup in the cake. When eating the cake, a bite down, of course, to be connected to the charred skin with fresh filling and soup in the mouth to be beautiful, bite slower, so as not to squeeze the soup out of it, must not forget to accompany a bowl of millet porridge, a small plate of small pickles, millet grain and meatloaf filling should be appropriately harmonized, pickles can dissolve the greasy gravy.
The official drooled here, right? Below we recommend a few old shops that eat door nail meat cakes. Old Beijing's most admired is "Mending Li", the old shop decades ago in the southeast corner of the intersection of Chaonei South Street, later moved to Shui Tuozi, and now moved to Tuanjie Lake, the specific location in changhong Bridge east of Tuanjie Lake Road North Exit about 150 meters. "Mending Li" has now set up a door nail Lee Catering Management Co., Ltd., opened a lot of branches in Beijing, the level of each is uneven, the old brand a chain will encounter this embarrassment, which is delicious which is not delicious, all by their own luck and the experience on the tip of the tongue, generally speaking, it is more reliable to go to the old store of the main store to eat.
In addition, there are Baorui Door Nail Meat Cake Shop, Jitian Snack, Tea Soup Li Jingwei Restaurant, Xiaoying Meat Cake, Huifeng Door Nail Meat Cake Shop, Lao Hui Hui Snack, Xiang Yun Xuan, Zengshun Lou Door Nail Meat Cake Shop, Old Beijing Door Nail Meat Cake Burst Belly... The cooking methods of these shops are similar, and the seasoning recipes are different, which is certainly better than the cottage meatloaf in tourist attractions. The price of door nail meatloaf is not expensive, generally about eight yuan a, of course, a meal to eat ten eight big stomach king except Ha. Door nail meatloaf do not buy too cheap, then it is estimated that it is not beef filling. Finally, I wish you a good luck with door nails and meat cakes on your Beijing food journey.
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