Raw fish has always been a precious delicacy in Hengxian County. It is the highest standard to entertain VIPs with raw fish. Raw fish, which has been widely eaten by people in Hengxian County, Guangxi for a long time, is a real environmental protection sashimi food that Japanese three fish dishes can't match, both in ingredients and taste. Once, a Japanese chef came to Hengxian, Guangxi from Japan and saw the raw fish craft made by the raw fish master in Hengxian. After tasting this famous dish, the Japanese chef threw his own Japanese food into the trash can in shame and shouted, Ah, this is the real sashimi dish! As for how delicious the raw fish in Hengxian is, you can only tell the secret by tasting it yourself! Chinese herbal medicines such as perilla leaves and houttuynia cordata in raw fish ingredients have the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, eliminating dampness, and caring skin.
A sticky smell, a sticky smell
Guangxi specialty Hengxian bulk "Sticky Fragrance" brand won the gold medal of Southeast Asia International Tourism and Food Festival for two consecutive years, and it is the most famous traditional snack in Guangxi. Originally a folk food, Zongzi, which is said to have originated from the Dragon Boat Festival, was processed by Hengxian people for generations and was widely enjoyed in Tang and Song Dynasties. During festivals, family banquets reward guests. Hengzhou Zongzi is not only big (the biggest is three or four kilograms), but also delicious. Its outer layer is made of fine glutinous rice unique to Hengzhou, with mung beans, chestnuts, barbecued pork, bacon and semi-fat pigs as stuffing, and the outer layer is wrapped with Hengzhouxiang palm leaves. After cooking, even if it is unopened, it is delicious and mouth-watering. Hengzhou Zongzi is super-positive! Crispy and delicious! Sticky and fragrant top-grade rice, with high-quality mung beans, chestnuts, red dates and ancestral processing. The appearance is wrapped with fresh rice leaves, made by traditional techniques, and then put into a large pot filled with clear water and heated with firewood for 5 to 6 hours. It is full of color, flavor and nutrition.
Hengxian sesame seed cake Hengxian sesame seed cake
Hengxian sesame seed cake is famous in Qin Jin for its crispy characteristics, and it has become a necessary food for people to visit relatives and friends. It pays attention to the selection of materials, complicated procedures, exquisite craftsmanship, and pays great attention to color, fragrance and taste, which is unique among ethnic cakes. Named after the cake is covered with sesame seeds. The good white flour above Hengxian sesame seed cake is the main material, with sesame seeds, ghee, alkaline noodles and other accessories, baked in the furnace. Butter is made by boiling sesame oil in a pot, and frying appropriate amount of white flour in the oil until it is thick yellow. Sesame seeds should be full of particles, which should be treated in advance, soaked in cold water and swollen. After taking it out, empty the water, put it in a basket, rub it with your hands and peel it, winnow off the peeled skin and wet it. Heat the pot with vinegar, add proper amount of flour and stir it into a thick paste, then boil it, continue to add vinegar, and adjust it into a thin paste with wet boiling water. Sesame cakes are tough and delicious when they are hot, and crisp and delicious when they are baked. It is not only a gift for visiting relatives and friends, but also a dry food for long-distance travel, the elderly, children and pregnant women. Long-term consumption of dry sesame cake still has the effect of appetizing and strengthening the spleen.
Hengxian County, Li Fen Hengxian County, Li Fen
Li Fen in Hengxian County is mostly cylindrical, with a radius of about 4 cm and a length of about 25 cm, which is white. For the sake of beauty, people in Hengxian often tie several small thorn tubes into flowers, mix them with "safflower powder" and cover the top of Li Fen with several "flowers". Its raw material is mainly high-quality rice from Gantang town, which is made by ancient manual operation. Therefore, the finished product is well-known both inside and outside the region for its delicious, smooth, refreshing and long-term cooking, and has become a delicious food for the people in Hengxian County during the New Year.
Hengxian rice cake
The rice cakes eaten on holidays are mostly seasonal foods made of glutinous rice (glutinous rice) or glutinous rice flour with different accessories. There are many kinds of rice cakes, such as the white rice cakes in the north, the yellow rice cakes of farmers in Saibei, the Shuimo rice cakes in the south of the Yangtze River, and the red turtle rice cakes in Taiwan Province Province. Rice cakes have different flavors from north to south. There are steamed rice cakes and fried rice cakes in the north, both of which are sweet; In addition to steaming and frying, southern rice cakes are also sliced and cooked in soup, which is both sweet and salty. It is said that the earliest rice cakes were used to worship gods and ancestors on New Year's Eve, and later became food for the Spring Festival. The rice cake is not only a kind of holiday food, but also brings people new hope with the passing of a year. As a poem in the late Qing Dynasty said, "People's hearts are high, and food is harmonious, so that the year is better than the year to pray for the year." The rice cake contains protein, fat, carbohydrate, nicotinic acid, calcium, phosphorus, potassium, magnesium and other nutrients.