Besides snail noodles, another side of Liuzhou
Many people know Liuzhou because of the bowl of spicy and sour snail noodles.
In recent years, Liuzhou, an industrial city, has turned itself into an internet celebrity place based on its bowl of noodles. Tourists come from all over the country just to find a bowl of authentic taste in the streets. The locals even jokingly call their hometown "Liuyue", which is quite proud.
But if you come to Liuzhou and only eat snail noodles, it will be a big loss.
Surrounded by rivers, this city has its own unique understanding and treasures in terms of food. The authentic flavors hidden in the streets, counties and towns truly constitute the daily taste memories of Liuzhou people.
Filter powder: the white moonlight in the heart of melting water people
In Rongshui Miao Autonomous County, which is located to the north of Liuzhou, and in Rong'an County, which is also north of Liuzhou, there is a kind of powder that is particularly loved by the locals, and that is filter powder.
This kind of rice noodles has a history that can be traced back to the Qing Dynasty. It is said that farmers in Rong County created it for convenience and satiety.
The production method is very interesting. With the help of a large colander, the fermented rice milk is evenly filtered into the boiling water. The rice milk is formed in an instant. After it is taken out, it is paired with delicious soup and rich ingredients.
The taste of filtered powder is between rice noodles and vermicelli. It is smooth and tough, and has a light rice fragrance.
Local people like to add roasted pork, peanuts, and sour beans, and then pour a spoonful of special brine. The taste is the taste of hometown that countless Rongshui people working hard outside dream about.
Beef Laba: A hard-core snack that gets better and better the more you chew it
If you like chewy meat snacks, you must try Liuzhou’s Beef Laba.
This is a snack with traditional characteristics. It uses the best beef, which is marinated and then slowly dried over charcoal fire.
The color of the finished product is dark brown, and minced spices can be seen on the surface. When eaten, it has a dry and chewy texture, a very rich five-flavor, and an extremely spicy taste.
It can be a snack that can be paired with beer and chewed while talking. It can also be directly used as a snack, eating a piece when watching TV dramas or during leisure time, and it will become more fragrant when chewed.
The intertwined taste of salty, fragrant and spicy makes people unable to stop eating.
Oil tea: the way of hospitality of ethnic minorities
Some minority ethnic groups live in Liuzhou, such as Sanjiang and Rongshui, where oil tea is an indispensable part of daily life.
This is not just a simple tea, but a snack full of ritual.
Put the old tea leaves, ginger, garlic, peanuts, etc. into a special oil tea pot, beat it repeatedly with a wooden mallet, and then add hot water and let it boil after the aroma is released. The final filtered tea soup has a very rich aroma. When you enter the mouth, it is bitter at first and then sweet, which makes people have endless aftertaste.
When drinking oil tea, it is usually paired with rice crackers, peanuts, glutinous rice, chopped green onions, etc. After drinking a bowl, the body will be warm and the spirit will be refreshed.
For local people, Camellia oleifera is not only a drink that can quench thirst, but is also an important way to entertain guests and connect emotionally.
Yunpian cake: sweet memories of Liucheng people
In Liucheng County, Yunpian cake is a traditional dessert with a history of hundreds of years.
The raw materials are quite simple and ordinary, mainly including glutinous rice, white sugar and lard, but the production process is quite particular.
The made cloud cake is as thin as paper and as white as snow. The pieces are stacked on top of each other. When you tear them apart, you can see clear and delicate lines.
Put it in your mouth, it is soft and sweet, and it seems to melt as soon as you take it. The fragrance of the glutinous rice and the mellow taste of the lard achieve a perfect fusion.
In the past, this was a must-have gift when visiting relatives and friends during the holidays, and it was also the sweetest snack memory in the childhood of countless Liuzhou people.
Snail and duck feet pot: an advanced version of snail noodle carnival
If snail noodles are entry-level, then snail and duck feet stew is the ultimate feast that snail lovers can enjoy.
After the duck feet are fried, the skin becomes crispy. Together with more than ten kinds of ingredients, including fresh field snails, sour bamboo shoots, peppers, taro, potatoes, quail eggs, and yuba, they continue to cook in the pot with a sizzling sound.
After being stewed for a long time, the duck feet become soft and delicious, and can be removed from the bones with a gentle suck.
The taro has soaked up the soup, making it glutinous and sweet.
At the end, sprinkle a handful of perilla, which not only removes the fishy smell and increases the aroma, but also further improves the layering of the whole pot to a new level.
Sitting around a table with three or five friends, chatting while eating duck feet, is the most pleasant thing on a summer night in Liuzhou.
Hibiscus cake: a crispy symphony of more than a dozen ingredients
Hibiscus cake is a traditional dish that tests the chef's skill. There are as many as ten production processes.
It uses lean pork as the main raw material, and then mixes it with eggs, dried shrimps, yam, mushrooms, winter bamboo shoots, and more than ten kinds of meat and vegetable ingredients such as water chestnuts, and carefully prepares the fillings.
Then place the filling on the egg skin, press it flat, then cover it with a layer of egg liquid, then put it into the oil pan and fry until it turns golden color.
The hibiscus puff pastry, freshly cooked out of the pan, is crispy on the outside, and the fillings inside are delicious and juicy. The flavors of various ingredients blend together in your mouth, creating an extremely rich and diverse texture.
It is placed at the end of the banquet. It is still a home-cooked, delicious food that every household will prepare during the holidays.
Melting duck: the delicacy of National Geographic Indication
There is a specialty called Rongshui Fragrant Duck, which comes from Rongshui Miao Autonomous County in Guangxi and is also a national geographical indication product in China.
This kind of duck is small in size. Its feathers are mostly brown with gray spots. The subcutaneous fat is very thin, but the meat is quite tender. It is high in protein, low in fat and extremely delicious.
It is often heard from some local people that the meat of such a duck has a naturally occurring aroma and does not require an excessive amount of seasoning. Cutting it white can best show its original taste and flavor.
Of course, it also has a unique flavor when made into roast duck or roast duck.
It would be a pity not to eat a fragrant duck when you come to Rongshui.
Liuzhou Beef Offal: A Fragrant Feast for Two in One Pot
In Liuzhou, beef offal is an integral part of daily cuisine.
With fresh beef as the main material, fresh tripe as the main material, and fresh beef tendon as the main material, there are different ways to eat it according to different seasons.
In summer, Liuzhou people’s favorite thing is cold beef offal.
The blanched beef offal is mixed with secret chili oil, plus cucumber shreds and peanuts. The texture is crisp and delicious, sour and spicy, and appetizing. Even if it is just a side dish, it is enough to make people eat it cleanly.
In winter, beef offal hot pot has become a good choice to warm up the cold.
There was a group of people gathered around the steaming hot pot, simmering all kinds of beef offal and boiling white radish together. Then the soup became more and more delicious as the cooking time continued. Finally, after one of them drank such a bowl of soup, his whole body warmed up from the inside out.
Water and oil pile: the temptation of oily fragrance in the streets and alleys
This kind of food called Shuiyoudui is commonly known as Youdui in the south. It belongs to the unique snack category of Zhuang family. Among them, the one produced in Luoman Town, Liujiang District, Liuzhou City is the most famous.
This snack recipe seems simple, but is actually very sophisticated.
In front of an old oil pan, when the master put the glutinous rice dough into the oil, he continued to flip and press it with a spatula. The dough slowly expanded in the hot oil and turned into a golden color. The air was filled with the fragrant smell of glutinous rice and sesame.
The water and oil pile has just come out of the pan, crispy on the outside and soft and waxy on the inside. When you take a bite, the sweet syrup melts in your mouth, leaving a fragrant aroma all over your mouth.
You can often see stalls like this in many old streets or around schools. It is not only a type of snack, but also carries countless people's childhood memories.
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