"White mountains and black water by Xing'an, pine duck Liao Run Wo Yuan", the northeast is a magical land, obviously three provinces, but good like a family. Northeastern people are bold and warm-hearted, Northeastern words "swept the world", Northeastern food salty and sweet clearly. Vast territory, and sitting on the mountains, rivers, lakes and seas of the Northeast, known as the "world's breadbasket", with countless specialties.
One of the wild mountain treasures
The Northeast has a wealth of wild forest resources, the mountains grow a lot of wild plants, such as ginseng, hazelnut mushrooms, fungus, monkey head mushrooms and other wild mountain treasures.
Ginseng has been a valuable medicine since ancient times, and is hard to find in many costume dramas, but ginseng, which is known as the "king of all herbs," can be easily seen in the Northeast. This piece of land in the northeast is rich in ginseng, ginseng has also become one of the "three treasures of the northeast", is one of the specialties that many people must buy in the northeast. There is also the national reputation of the wild fungus and hazelnut mushroom, fungus soaked meat thick color, with a good gloss and elasticity, the mouth crisp and tender, rich in gelatin.
Hazel mushrooms are known as the "fourth treasure of the Northeast", and they are one of the few wild mushrooms that can't be cultivated artificially, so they're an absolutely natural ingredient. Hazel mushrooms have a rich aroma, thick meat, tender and delicious, the Northeast famous dish "chicken stewed mushrooms" used in the mushroom is the Northeast wild hazelnut mushrooms, eaten fresh and mellow, who can not refuse this mouthful of delicious.
Two, Northeast black fungus
Black fungus national output, but the quality of the Northeast is significantly higher. The size of the Hinggan Mountains and other mountain ranges are the output of high-quality black fungus place, Northeast winter long summer short, slow growth of black fungus, ear piece thick, good taste, excellent quality, nutrition is also richer.
The three northeastern provinces have large-scale production of black fungus origin, such as Heilongjiang Dongning, Linhai, Jilin Jiaohe County, etc. are one of China's largest production base of black fungus, buy black fungus to choose the northeast of the right.
Three, Northeast Kimchi
Northeast people have an obsession with kimchi, where kimchi generally refers specifically to spicy cabbage. Northeast winter is especially long and cold, everything outside the house will freeze into ice, in order to survive the winter, kimchi has become essential, the most representative of the Northeast characteristics of the food, generally speaking, in the fall after the collection of Chinese cabbage began to pickle, stored in the cellar.
In the past, the traditional families in Northeast China, rich or poor, there are two things that can not be missing at home, one is the pickle jar, the other is the pressure of the pickle stone.
Four, gully smoked chicken
China has "four famous chicken", Texas baked chicken, Dokou roast chicken, Fuli set of roast chicken, there is one that we may be relatively unfamiliar with the gully smoked chicken, this is the Guangxu period on the food, production fine, there are sixteen procedures, made out of smoked chicken color jujube red, crystalline Bright, tender and fragrant, very tasty, not too easy to buy in other places, properly one of the specialties of the Northeast, is to the Northeast must eat a bite of delicious.
Five, Harbin red sausage
Harbin red sausage is the representative of the Northeast sausage, although it originally originated in Europe, but later took root in Harbin, and gradually became Heilongjiang, and even all the Northeast people in the heart of the standard Northeast specialties. The table on the New Year's Eve festivals to set a plate of red sausage, work and study outside to bring some red sausage to share with their roommates, and then left a little left for their own food.
Smoked red sausage is full of fruit and wood, crisp and tight, full of meat flavor, and the fat in the sausage is permeated with the smell of oil. Hidden in the red sausage in the garlic and pepper aroma, with time and again chewing gradually emanate out, filling the mouth, the flavor of the layered sense of eating people can not be forgotten for a long time.
Six, Wu Chang rice
With the fertile black soil of the Northeast, cultivated China's best rice, which is the most prestigious also counts the Heilongjiang produced Wu Chang rice. Wuchang rice is grown in a favorable environment, where not only is the soil fertile, but the irrigation water is also pooled from mountain springs and alpine snow, which allows the rice to accumulate a lot of nutrients.
Wu Chang rice grains full, white and transparent texture, steamed rice aroma overflowing, rice grain oil shiny and glossy, eat up the texture of soft, fragrant back to the sweet, so delicious that people do not want to leave. However, with the Wu Chang rice steamed rice even if it is really left, will not return to life, which is also one of its major advantages, eaten Wu Chang rice will basically become its "loyal fans".
Seven, hazelnut
Nuts are many people's best snacks, whether it is chestnuts, walnuts, or almonds, pistachios, are fresh and nutritious favorite. In the Northeast, as one of the four nuts of the hazelnut most people love, on New Year's Eve when it is inevitable to prepare some on the coffee table to entertain guests, there are Northeastern people say "eat hazelnut, all flavors do not smell", which shows that hazelnut in the Northeast in the heart of the status of the people.
Northeastern people love to eat hazelnut, but also because of the hazelnut produced in the northeast taste good, pure domestic hazelnut particles in the northeast, although small, but the color is brown and bright, peeled off, the kernel is round and full, eat up with a natural aroma, taste mellow, strong flavor. In addition, the Northeast also produces a large number of crossbreeding from the introduction of Europe, "flat European large-fruited hazelnut", large nuts deep color, eat smooth and sweet, but also very tasty.
Eight, frozen pears
Frozen pears is one of the Northeast's winter fruits, this dark frozen pears in the cold winter will appear on time in the northeast provinces of large and small fruit stalls. Northeast China is rich in products, also produces a variety of pears, such as pointed handle pear, flower cover pear, south fruit pear, autumn white pear and so on. In the past, fruit preservation technology and storage, transportation conditions are backward, can only use the sub-zero outdoor temperature as a "refrigerator", the fruit frozen preservation, the pears produced in the fall has become the first choice of winter frozen fruit object.
Frozen pears can stand out from the many frozen fruit, but also because the pears after freezing and then eat does not affect the taste, eat sweet and juicy. Especially long time to stay in the heating room and eat a greasy meal on a, sip on a mouthful of ice cool, as if drinking sweet honey, and then eat a mouthful of white flesh, soft and refreshing, ate the first on the second.
Nine, Liao Sen
Northeast China is rich in mountain treasures, but also rich in seafood, three provinces in Liaoning south of the Yellow Sea and the Bohai Sea, a variety of fish and shrimp, shellfish, is a real seafood province. Speaking of Liaoning seafood, we have to mention the sea cucumber, Liao cucumber has a long history, "Compendium of Materia Medica" has recorded "sea cucumber from Liaodong Bay has a better texture". Although there are sea cucumbers in the south, they are still a little inferior to the northern ones.
Liaoning sea water is deep and the water temperature is low, so the growth rate of sea cucumbers is relatively slow, plus there are many reefs and dense seaweed in the sea, which provide more nutrients for the cucumbers. Harvested sea cucumbers have thick and smooth skin, long and thick spines, and less impurities in the body. After cooking, the meat of Liao cucumber is full of texture and tastes sinewy, elastic, full of freshness and excellent flavor, and its nutritional value needs no further explanation.
Ten, cold noodles
Northeastern people have frozen pears in winter, then summer must have cold noodles, in the northeast without cold noodles in the summer is not complete. Northeast cold noodles are divided into three major schools, respectively, Liaoning Xita cold noodles, Jilin Yanji cold noodles and Heilongjiang Jixi cold noodles. There is no major difference between the three types of cold noodles, just slightly different flavors and side dishes. Xita Cold Noodles are salty, with a salty broth made from soy sauce, freshly pressed noodles in cold water, beef in soy sauce, spicy cabbage and chili noodles, making them salty, spicy and refreshingly cold.
Yanji cold noodles is the cold noodle world "ancestor", is made of beef, beef bones stewed into the soup, after refrigeration into the soba noodles boiled over water, plus sugar and rice vinegar, yards of beef, kimchi, eggs and cucumbers and other side dishes, and then thrown into the two slices of apples, pears into the eat sweet and sour, soup fresh noodles. Jixi cold noodles are simplified, a bowl of soy sauce broth with smooth noodles were served on the table, the bowl of side dishes only cucumber, eggs and kimchi, only to eat with a plate of spicy oil with a good mix of beef, orange, big head of vegetables, etc., both to eat noodles is to eat vegetables.
Eleven, venison
Velvet antler is one of the "three treasures of the Northeast", venison is also the Northeast table of the "high level of delicious". Changchun, Jilin is by far China's largest deer breeding base, known as "China's hometown of the sika deer", therefore, venison in the Northeast was created a variety of different flavors. Liaoning people are good at kebabs, so they make kebabs of venison, which are savory and delicious. The honey venison made in Yichun, Heilongjiang, is sweet and tender, and you can eat it for a long time.
Jilin is the venison to make a "venison feast", fresh and delicious cooking deer meat, venison, venison, deer jumping wall, braised venison, venison soup, brined venison and so on. The taste of venison in Northeast China confirms what Yuan Mei described in the Qing Dynasty's "Food List in the Garden", "venison is not to be taken lightly, and when it is made, it is as tender as roe deer meat". If you really want to taste the freshness of venison, the best choice is venison from the northeast.
Twelve, Northeast sticky corn
Northeast not only rice is good, corn is also very good quality! In Qiqihar, Heilongjiang, where there is not only square dancing, there is the famous Northeast sticky corn, sticky corn, as the name suggests, eat fragrant, tender, sweet, sticky, the street sells boiled corn vendors, fast-food restaurants with corn, most of the sticky corn in the Northeast, the cooking method does not have any fancy, boiled on the line, depending on the quality of the ingredients to win the word of mouth.
The specialties of the Northeast, in addition to the eight mentioned above, there are many more, seafood abalone, yellow clams, oysters, etc.; dried fruits such as pine nuts, hickory nuts; grain soybeans, black corn, yellow rice, etc.; fruits such as strawberries, mushrooms, cherries, langzhong fruit, etc.; as well as specialties in the gourmet category of sauerkraut, daliba, soy sauce, blood sausage, Gervase, and so on. If you have the opportunity to go to the Northeast, must taste these Northeast characteristics, feel the Northeast specialty "charm"!