Ji'nan on the tip of the tongue: little sweet foam shows "Ji'nan demeanor"
[color=#000080]: "people do not eat, fresh can know", for food, everyone has its own unique sensitivity and experience. Oil spin, sweet foam, bag bag... These fresh names always stir up the taste buds of everyone. In Ji'nan, this long, fragrant, ancient and fashionable city has a lot of similar cuisines. They hide in people's hearts and float on the tip of people's tongue. Different elements and different feelings blend into a unique culture, and out of this culture. From today, Lu net reporter will go deep into the streets and alleys of Ji'nan, explore the unique technology of Ji'nan food, understand the history of the inheritance of Ji'nan diet, try to restore the shape of this culture and restore the unique taste on the tip of the tongue of the Jinan. [/color]
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[color=#000080] Ji'nan famous food picture source: network [/color]
[color=#000080] like the Jinan people like The picture source of the sweet foam: the network [/color]
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obviously salty, but is called "sweet foam". On the Baidu business card, the definition of sweet foam is the most inexpensive and excellent "signboard" famous snack in Ji'nan. Its hot and spicy flavor is loved by the Jinan people. Why is it salty? What kind of process and cultural heritage does it have? Today, we strive to restore the true taste of sweet smells for you. The source of
[b] sweet foam: it's sweet [/b]
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the south people like to drink sweet foam, and the outsiders will go to Ji'nan as well as a bowl, but most people who have drunk it will ask this question, why the sweet foam is salty. Indeed, under the "sweet" sign, it is not surprising that salty taste buds play a role. How did the name of the sweet foam come from? Among the many claims, there is one of the most widely circulated.
according to the late Ming Dynasty and early Qing Dynasty, a large number of refugees poured into Ji'nan city due to natural disasters. There is a small family porridge, often giving gruel relief, and the victims are telling each other that gruel shops are gradually increasing. The porridge shop is difficult to satisfy all kinds of requests, then add a large amount of vegetable leaves and salty spicy seasoning in the porridge. Before the bowl of the gruel was served, the victims saw the froth in the big pot of the porridge, which was affectionately known as "Tian Mo", which is the gruel of Tian boss's relief house. When there was a hard student who came to the exam, he came here to get this gruel, and the food was so sweet that he thought "sweet foam" is not empty. Later, after the scholar took the name of the official to do the official, he made a special journey to drink sweet foam, and had no sense of the former. The official realized that he had only heard the mistake of listening to the word "sweet foam" and chanting a poem: "mistaken the field to be sweet, only for the first time; it is always sweet after reading the world's vicissitudes of life." It means that after suffering hardships, salty porridge tastes sweet. Since then, this salty porridge is called "sweet foam", and all kinds of shops that make sweet foam are also thriving.
according to legend, Emperor Qian Long went down to the south of the Yangtze River and went through Ji'nan. Once Ji Xiaolan came to Ji'nan with the emperor Qian Long, after enjoying the light and mountains of the lake of Daming Lake in Qianfo Hill, he entered a morning shop. At the morning, Emperor Qian Long thought it was difficult for the emperor to be arrogant and unruly "Ji Da bag". "The post game" is "especially good", and Ji Da sac immediately recited, "eat a white steamed bun, drink a bowl of sweet and sweet foam, not fault hair" ("fault hair" Ji'nan dialect "bad").
[b] sweet potato Tang Ji'nan old shop [/b]
"oil to eat oil spin Zhang, sweet foam to drink sweet Tang." In Ji'nan, the fame of the Tang Dynasty is not small. In the early morning of May 25th, reporters came to sweet spot Tang near the intersection of Shan Da Road and Heping Road to explore the unique production process of sweet potato soup.
the boss's wife is Li Huanling. When it comes to sweet bubbles, she always talks. "Other porridge is sweet and tender, sweet and spicy." According to Li Huanling, the production of sweet foam first use good Longshan millet, the millet blistered into batter, and wear paste when the paste, in order to prevent the batter to block. Put the peanut oil in the pot and cook it to medium well. Then add the scallion and ginger to fry until fragrant. Pour the oil into the bowl and prepare for the pot. This is only the preparation stage of raw materials. After the above process is completed, the sweet foam is formally produced.
first, let the pot boil water, then add five spices and refined salt such as star anise, cook it slightly, then add spicy dried tofu, spinach and vermicelli. Pour the smell in the pan and pour it into the millet paste. At this time, you should pay attention to stir the side to ensure that the rice paste spreads evenly. Then cover and simmer for 10 minutes. Pour the fried onion and ginger oil into the pot. Li Huanling said, "this oil has a certain proportion, put too much to be tired of it, put it less, not enough flavor, put it wrong, it will not come out of that flavor at all." After that, add the cooked peanuts and cowpeas and stir them with a spoon until the aroma is overflowing.
the sweet smell and aroma that has been cooked has attracted many repeat customers. Li Huanling said, not only the people in nearby communities like to eat, but many people are coming from all parts of the city. The reporter asked for a bowl, and saw that it was covered with a little white, a little green, and a little bit of pepper on the surface of the yellow thick surface. Drink a bite, a salty, spicy dense liquid across the taste buds, mixed with millet face fragrance in the stomach, the whole body is hot.
Li Huanling is also proud of the "sweet Tang" sign. According to her, in 1981, her father opened a sweet store in Yonghe street with his ancestral formula, which attracted many neighbourhoods to taste and became famous. Later, the father was old and inherited from his brother-in-law Tang Lingui. At that time, the sweet paw was called "Gui Hua hall", from the last word of the name of the two brother-in-law and sister. Later, the brother-in-law found that the name "sweet and sweet Tang" was loud and easy to come to the mouth, so it was called "sweet foam".
with good taste and good taste, plus decades of old technology, Tang Tang has become the "signboard" snack in Ji'nan. "Now there are two sweet potatoes in Ji'nan, and the other is run by the son of the brother-in-law. We all hope that "sweet potato soup" can continue to make Ji'nan's folk snacks loud and loud. Li Huanling said.
[b] small foam product "Ji'nan style" [/b]
in the Huimin District Yong The Strip street corner, there are also three sweet stall, as long as it is sunny, to eat sweet people always in a continuous stream. The three stalls are next to each other, and dozens of tables and chairs are placed in different places. If no three signboards are placed there, people may be mistaken for a family. Pick a place to sit down and shout "come to the bowl of sweet foam". The nearest stall owner will bring up a bowl of fragrant sweet foam. Is there a customer asking, won't you rob one another? The three stall owners said that everyone was humility and never chew on their customers.
"sweet foam -" - "sister Ma" has been stall here for nearly ten years, and every morning her long cry is like an alarm clock that wakes people, and in a moment the seat beside the stall is filled with people. There are too many people to drink sweet foam, and others can't wait to get the bowl. Some young people eat a lot, and Ma Da Tai will add a spoonful of them free. Have a good job. " Welcome, Ma Da Jie always put a smile on her face. A customer said, "here is a good mood to drink sweet foam."
aunt Ma is busy, customers will put money in a box in front of the stall, and change money from the box. Aunt Ma never asks. The reporter asked her, is not afraid that someone will not give money or take more money? Sister Ma said, "where do we have such people?"
[b] sweet smells, Ji'nan's unique flavor [/b]
in Ji'nan, such as sweet smells Tang and Ma Da Jie such as sweet foam spreads all over the streets and alleys. Through the sweet booth, people could not help stopping, waiting for a bowl of hot sweet smelling bubbles. There are men and women, old and young, a leisurely retired old man, with an enamel bowl waiting for a bowl to go home and tasting them. What charm does sweet foam have to make Jinan so fond of it? Some people tell the reporter that it is because the spicy fragrance of sweet foam is especially in accordance with the taste of the people of Shandong; others say it is because after drinking sweet foam, it is warm in the stomach and hot in the throat, and it is hard to do anything in the day. But in the interview, an old man's words let the reporter remember the most, he said, drinking sweet foam is a habit, drinking from childhood, for decades it has become a part of life; generations of ancestors to drink it, love it, it is like a traditional culture, let a person can not cut back.
Yes, a small bowl of sweet foam, after a hundred years of precipitation and refining, it has become the unique flavor of Ji'nan.