Yancheng, located in the north-central part of Jiangsu Province, is one of the three coastal cities in Jiangsu Province. In ancient times, it was surrounded by salt farms, hence the name "Yancheng".
Every Yancheng people heart, have a belong to their own food. The night market that people in Yancheng covet is not the Netflix cafes and literary bars, but the street stalls at the end of the streets and alleys.
This barbecue restaurant is the late-night canteen for countless people in Yancheng. Chicken skewers, a variety of vegetables, to the frying pan so a put, pungent aroma filled the street.
The owner of the stall said that this fried snack is delicious, the key to their own secret sweet sauce, spicy sauce and sweet and spicy sauce.
In the nooks and crannies of Yancheng, there are many delicacies hidden. And these are time-tested delicacies, no luxury facade, relying on word of mouth, precipitated by the loyal diners.
This wonton stall, unobtrusive soup pot, but is a mandarin duck pot, the right side of the pot to cook wontons, the left side is the shrimp soup pot.
The owner of the stall said that the soul of his family wontons, is a bowl of shrimp shells boiled soup.
As night falls, Yancheng's nightlife markets light up one by one.
The new landmark of nightlife is the best synonym of fashion in Yancheng - Xinlangli. Xinlangli neighborhood night market is located in Yannan High-tech Zone, in the southeast side of the square, gathering all kinds of snacks from north and south of the Yangtze River "food bazaar", street food hot and steamy.
To say that this new lane in the neighborhood, can be Yancheng snacks and food all in one, when the taro cavity. Taro cavity, "cavity" full, a wide range of snacks dazzled people, overwhelmed.
Yancheng green bean cold noodles, silk clear, crystal clear, with cold powder brush so a brush, pour peanut rice, cilantro, sauce cucumber and soup stirred, this is the simplest summer temptation.
Yancheng stinky tofu from Dongtai, thickness is twice as thick as other places, and is sweet and sour flavor.
Yancheng is located in the plains, and the locals love pork. Pork, as well as pig's tail, pig's ears, pig's door cavity of the four parts of the gazpacho made out of the texture of the strong smooth, different flavors.
This big pot is being pasted, is the northern Soviet pot sticker cake. After the fermentation of the cooked noodles, it is quickly put on the pot, which is the authentic northern Sudanese farming method of eating.
Jianhu Lotus Root Vermicelli is the most famous snack in Yancheng, with a history of more than 200 years.
Lotus root powder as raw material, mixed with sugar, date paste, and then sesame seeds for the filling of the pill, blanching in boiling water several times.
The cutting is Funing big cake, mainly made of glutinous rice flour, cake white as snow, with glutinous rice sweet and chewy.
Wang Yan, head of the restaurant:
"The Qianlong Emperor gave the imperial gift, called the jade belt cake, glutinous rice fragrance, sweet and sticky, but also particularly chewy."
Yancheng people in the past, three times a day will eat yam, in the season of no yam, the people will be raw yam into dry, and then cooked with barley into dried yam porridge.
Fava beans slowly fried, without oil, so that has been fried crispy fried black, with a little burnt color, with boiling water, add star anise, green onions, ginger, about 25 minutes to cook through, fished out to dry, and then mixed with vegetable oil, garlic and salt, this fried fava beans is also unique to the city of Yancheng.
Boiled dumplings you have eaten, fried dumplings you have seen? This is a very memorable hometown dish in Yancheng, the glutinous rice and into the surface and then hot, rolled into a small round, fried in a frying pan until golden brown, and then with black and white sesame seeds, sugar, it is to the guests of a distinguished cuisine.
Northern Suzhou sauce duck head, with star anise, cumin, pepper, cardamom, onion and ginger, dry chili peppers, Hua Diao wine to maintain the sauce techniques and technology, in addition to adding sweetness, making the taste more in line with the taste of people in Yancheng.
Yancheng night market can also eat what special food it? This Su Bei grass chicken soup, definitely worth a taste.
Grass chickens, is the local people free-range in the fruit forest, eat fruit, worms, the growth cycle for a year of hens.
Grass chicken soup is quite simple, but cohesive with a lot of techniques. After blanching with water, it is then combined with mountain spring water, put into the chicken blood and stewed for three hours.
After the soup is ready, a little salt is added to the pot, and the soup is carried in a sedan chair and delivered to the diners, usually to be opened by the honored guests, and of course, before the soup is served, there will be a quick song to cheer up the party.
Chef Zhang Xu:
"This bowl of soup is clear and bright, the chicken is fluffy, there are a lot of foreign customers, not far from hundreds of kilometers to drive over, just to drink this bowl of chicken soup."
The same free-range earth geese raised in the reeds are a great choice for Yancheng people to make hanging roast goose. The goose is blanched in a large iron pot, and then stir-fried with canola oil and lard in the iron pot in order to make the flavor of the goose meat burst out. After that, green onions, ginger and spices, sauces, beer and stock are the key to simmering the hanging roast goose.
In Hanging Roasted Goose, goose blood, dried orchids and other ingredients are added and simmered slowly over a gentle fire for an hour, with the oily goose oil soaking through the goose meat, making it mouth-watering.
YANFU SOFT POCKETS is a traditional dish of Jiangsu, and one of the most prestigious dishes in Huaiyang cuisine. The soft pocket is eel, Yancheng people also called "long fish", do YANFU soft pocket with a pennant long fish. The long fish is boned, then the leeks are spread on the bottom of the casserole, and the black pepper sauce is quickly poured in.
When you eat, and then use the alcohol stove to heat underneath, the flavor of the wine, the flavor of the leeks, the freshness of the long fish fillet, multi-taste fusion.
Yancheng lotus root dumplings, the practice is also different from other places. General lotus root dumplings or steamed, or stewed, but Yancheng lotus root dumplings with deep-fried. The lotus root is diced and mashed, the water is squeezed out, and eggs, green onions, ginger, and minced meat are added and mixed well, and the dough is formed into the shape of a ball. The rice-coated lotus root dumplings are deep-fried to give them a grainy appearance and a fluffy, fatty, but not greasy interior.
The fat Luo shrimp, cut from the inside, high oil temperature in the pot to burst incense, and then stir-fried with homemade sauce, sauce, both crunchy and meaty.
Yancheng's Dazhong Lake, abounds in shrimp and crab, a large yellow more. After washing, they are soaked together with Yancheng's Chenpi wine, white wine, lemon, star anise, cinnamon, coriander and sesame leaves.
Chef Zhang Xu:
"Some ladies and children, in fact, are very fond of drunken crabs, but they can't accept the punchy flavor of Huadiao wine. Chenpi wine is different, it's back to sweet, with a little bit of wine flavor, add it in with this crab combination."
After two to three hours, the tender meat, rich flavor, drunkenness of the drunken crab, the aroma is overflowing.
At night, Binhai County in Yancheng City is illuminated. Binhai County is named for the east of the Yellow Sea, with a beach area of 106 square kilometers and 6,000 hectares of salt flats. The rich marine resources also provide endless ingredients for the locals.
Binhai people love to make sausage, using the best thigh meat, cut into pieces, mixed with homemade seasoning, and then poured into the small intestines, sun-dried, steamed, sweet and fragrant.
Of course, the coastal people are also good at cooking small seafood. Sun-dried tamarind, small squid, cleaned with water, white radish blanching, and then sautéed with green onions and ginger. Add broth, adjust the flavor, radish and squid braised mussels simple and refreshing.
Binhai people call the mackerel "mixer", the pot put homemade fish soup, mackerel, plus wine, boiled for 10 minutes, put in the soaked peanuts, pickles, broth burned thick, Binhai mixer taste delicious.
"Drunk", is still the main character on the table of Binhai people.
Drunken mud snails, drunken small crabs, drunken method is the same, sprayed with white wine, and then add ginger, garlic and other homemade seasonings, soak for more than 6 hours.
When you are in Binhai, how can you miss this local home-brewed vegetable and rice potpourri?
Wash the rice, bok choy, salted meat diced, onion, ginger stir-fried incense, add salted meat, chopped bok choy, and then into the rice, boiled with water or steamed. Put vegetable oil in the pot, and then put the steamed vegetables and rice fried crispy, it becomes a potpourri with vegetables and rice.
Marina people eat yams, eat a variety of ways. The dry amaranth greens, soaked in water and cleaned, chopped and added to the minced meat, green onions, ginger, seasoned. Then the taro slices steamed, and pure taro flour kneaded into a dose, wrapped into the amaranth filling steamed, is the taro dumplings.
Desserts made of taro are also very popular, rock candy taro in the first place. Taro peeled and washed, put rock sugar, honey, water, burn one and a half hours, taro soft, soup thick.
Nowadays, the nightlife, full of fireworks, shines every night in Yancheng.
Xinlangli is lively and bustling, and Begonia Garden is crowded. Large-scale unmanned boat light and shadow show - "the boat said begonia" is brilliantly staged. Drone ship formation carrying light dynamic appearance, begonia fairy dressed dancers dancing, *** with the creation of a colorful symphonic poetry. The city of Yancheng, the city is becoming more and more "night" more wonderful!
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