No one can refuse the charm of frying. Breakfast, snacks and cakes have always been the key units of the frying show.
From evergreen trees on the breakfast table to inby children and hemp balls, which are Beijing people's favorite. From the sugar and oil Baba of Changsha people to the egg buns of northern Henan people, frying has almost become the most tacit and intimate secret between breakfast stalls and diners.
In Changsha, there are several shops specializing in sugar and oil Baba in almost every alley. There is a round rice cake in the big iron pot open at the door. The rice cake that has just entered the pot is light and white. With the increase of the temperature in the pot, brown sugar oil is gradually infected. After diving into the bottom of the pot, they expanded into a round and big ball.
Don't be impatient when eating sugar and oil. The sugar oil Baba, which has just been fished out of the pot, has a beautiful golden crispy shell, and the hot air passes through the pores of the shell, emitting wisps of curly white smoke. If you are not careful, you will burn your tongue. So Changsha people like to do everything, but they have no temper in front of sugar and oil.
Have some local snacks after breakfast. For example, Tianjin's dough twists, Guangzhou's oil angle, Henan's Camellia oleifera, Anhui's Artemisia, and Gansu's hollow fruits are almost all just fished out of the oil pan.
Although Cantonese cuisine is mainly light, there are many fried foods in Guangdong specialty snacks. Entering the oil pan is a sense of ritual in Guangdong for the New Year. Early life is not rich. Only during the Spring Festival can traditional snacks such as oil angle, egg rolls, doughnuts and dates be fried at one time.
In Guangdong people's mind, "frying pan full of gold and silver" symbolizes a safe and prosperous frying pan, which means a new year in China. Fried piles are also called hemp balls in the north. The stuffing is wrapped in glutinous rice flour and sesame seeds, and fried in oil pan. In hot oil, the volume of the fried pile gradually "expands".
Just out of the pot, the fried pile will make a sizzling sound, and the crispy skin will be attractive golden yellow. Take a bite, the glutinous rice feels soft and sticky, and the stuffing inside is cotton-scented with the sweetness of sand. Even the sesame seeds that fall on the plate are fragrant and crisp.
Crisp, loose, fragrant and crisp, fried food can always bring people simple and direct happiness, but it is an out-and-out "hot bomb". Heavy oil, heavy sugar and heavy salt may be the price of happiness.