Safflower seed: It is made by grinding safflower seed into powder. It is a transparent gelatinous beverage with a smooth and refreshing taste. It is run by roadside vendors, mostly home-made, and the price is about 50 cents a cup.
Yichang famous food. At the end of the year, stepping on bean cakes has become a necessity for every household, just like making new year's goods. Even show wealth by the number of bean cakes. First, rice, mung beans, soybeans, etc. Must be soaked in water according to a certain proportion, and then mixed together and ground into slurry, which is scooped to the beach in a pot to form a cake as thin as a sieve. When the cake is cooked, it is slightly cooled and folded into a crease about one inch wide, then it is evenly cut with a spoon, and the cut crease is shaken on a dustpan or a roll seat to dry, thus making the bean cake.
Yichang's famous flavor snacks. The main raw materials are rice, soybeans and radishes. The method is: soak 90% rice and 10% soybean for 4-5 hours and grind them into slurry. Cut radish into shreds, mix with spices such as pepper noodles, pepper powder, garlic (onion) seedlings, refined salt, etc. When frying, first put the base pulp into a special meniscus iron spoon, then add the mixed shredded radish as stuffing, then cover the pulp and fry in an oil pan until golden brown. Crispy outside and soft inside, spicy but not stinging, delicious.
Xiakou tofu: a special snack in Xiling Gorge. Tofu (also called bean curd brain) is a special dish and delicious snack in Xiling Gorge of the Yangtze River. Because of its excellent water quality and fine production, its tofu is famous for its white and delicate, such as milk and fat.
Top cake: Take rice flour, glutinous rice flour and brown sugar as raw materials, put them in a special wooden lattice, steam them on the fire for 10 minutes, and then take them out with a wooden top. It is characterized by soft and waxy taste, sweet and straight, and is most loved by the elderly and children.
Houttuynia cordata Thunb : Also known as Jiejiegen, it is a perennial herb, named after its stems and leaves have a fishy smell, and the whole grass can be used as medicine. All the plants grow in Yichang, mostly wild and planted artificially in spring, especially the plants with tender stems. With ginger, garlic paste, soy sauce, vinegar, onion, monosodium glutamate, sesame oil and so on. This dish is crisp, tender, fragrant and refreshing, and has the effects of clearing away heat, detoxifying and diminishing inflammation. It is not only a great hobby of Yichang citizens, but also a delicious dish at the hotel banquet, which is deeply loved by European and American diners.
Butter: It is one of Yichang-style snacks. Steamed with glutinous rice, stuffed with white sugar and sesame seeds, made into prismatic shape, fried into golden brown. Crispy outside and tender inside, sweet and delicious.
Yiling Spring Roll: Made of eggs and flour, topped with fried leeks, bacon, dried bean curd and mushrooms, and fried until golden brown. This dish is crispy outside and tender inside, and it is fragrant and delicious. It is generally made by families during the Lunar New Year and is very popular among Yichang citizens.
Dried sweet potato: Yichang is called sweet potato locally. The specific method is to cook (steam) the sweet potato, cut it into strips, and then dry it in the sun, so it can be eaten. You can also bake clean coarse sand in an iron pan, and filter the sand with a sieve after it becomes brittle. The color is orange, crisp and delicious.
Xiakou flavor: Sambo Xiakou flavor has been passed down from generation to generation, forming a unique flavor of "original flavor, salty and spicy". Among them, three famous dishes, namely "Xiakou Pearl Soup", "Sanyou Fairy Chicken" and "Baisha Fat Fish", are well-known and are called "three treasures of Xiakou flavor". Xiakou Pearl Soup is a delicious dish with the magnificent scenery of Xiling Gorge as the background. Steamed eggs are made into the peaks of Xiling Gorge, floating on chicken soup noodles, and tricolor fish balls float in the mountains like pearls, which are vivid and poetic. The watch is fascinating and tastes fresh and refreshing. Three Tour Fairy Chicken, according to legend, Su Shi, a great writer in the Northern Song Dynasty, had eaten this dish when his father and son visited Sanyou Cave together. They think the food is delicious, and after eating it, they feel relaxed and carefree, hence the name. This dish is made by pouring the whole chicken with sesame oil and firing it with more than ten spices. The color is red, tender and tender, original and unique. White brake fat fish is a traditional dish, which is steamed with fat fish produced in Nanjinguan area. Fish soup is fresh and tender, and the dishes are light and original, which is deeply loved by Chinese and foreign diners. On this basis, there are embroidered fat fish, peony pearl fat fish and other colors.
If I do business in Yichang, I will have a leisure, called "family" or something. Besides selling some special snacks in Yichang, I also have the characteristics of a small bar. In the evening, I can sing, punch, drink and roll dice.