Wu Zhongmei’s beauty lies not only in the green mountains and green waters, but also in the charm of food. Wuzhong people love to eat, but also eat, paying attention to "not eating from time to time", which is also regarded as the way to eat and drink in Soviet-style life. In good spring, this Wuzhong spring food picture book is for you. Go and have a good time!

　　Xiangchuntou

　　"Golden Cuisine" in Spring

　　Toona sinensis head is rich in nutrition and is the best among vegetables. Its most classic practice is scrambled eggs with Toona sinensis. In addition, it can also be pickled and made into Toona sinensis oil.

　　In Dongshan, Dongting, the local people blanch the Toona sinensis head and mix it directly with sesame oil. This is a very popular cold dish in Wuzhong restaurant.

　　Biluochun in water

　　Just as spring is blooming, the water shield of Taihu Lake, known as "Biluochun in Water", is quietly listed. Shepherd’s shield is a kind of jelly all over, which is very slippery, so it is difficult for ordinary people to catch it. Only an "old hand" can take it off with a stretch and a pinch. Because of this, there is a saying that "water shield is delicious but not easy to pick".

　　Water shield is rich in vitamins, amino acids, glucose, starch, protein and other nutrients, and has the effects of enriching blood, moistening lung, invigorating stomach and stopping diarrhea.

　　There are many ways to eat water shield. In Dongshan, Dongting, soup is the main favorite, such as water shield whitebait soup and water shield soup with thorn fish, so as to keep the purest water shield fresh.

　　Malan head

　　Delicious wild vegetables in they are tall once more in the spring wind

　　In the wild in spring, Malan heads are springing up from the ground like mushrooms after rain, which makes people drool.

　　Malantou is not only green and tender, but also has high nutritional value. Simply chop it, add salt and sugar, pour some sesame oil, press it in a small bowl and pour it on a plate. One spoon per person, a little taste, but not enough.

　　broad bean

　　Fresh and tender broad beans are cooked and eaten, but the meat taste can be forgotten.

　　In May, the broad beans are green and soft, and then melt, with a little salty fragrance and a little aftertaste, so tender that they can be eaten together with shells.

　　It can also be made into fennel broad beans, which has a crunchy taste. It is a snack that Suzhou people love to eat and a good appetizer.

　　snail

　　Old wine Mimi, snail Eee Eee

　　"Snails are meat no matter how small", not to mention "Qingming snails are better than geese"!

　　Snails have not been propagated before and after Qingming Festival. At this time, the meat quality is the most plump and the taste is the best. Whether it is spicy fried or soy sauce exploded, it is particularly delicious. Eat snails! This kind of spring is complete!

　　bamboo shoot soup with fresh and pickled streaky pork

　　The true meaning of "fresh" taste

　　Fresh salted meat and fresh meat are added with bamboo shoots and cooked into soup. Cured meat is generally cured in the twelfth lunar month, fresh meat must be pork belly of black-haired pig in Taihu Lake area, and bamboo shoots (also known as big bamboo shoots) should be fresh bamboo shoots in suburban forests and bamboo forests.

　　Shrimp with snail

　　A bud and a leaf come into the dish.

　　Biluochun in Dongting East and Xishan Mountain is fragrant, mellow in taste, green in soup color and slightly fruity. Shrimp with snail as a classic traditional dish has become a favorite spring delicacy of Suzhou people with its light, refreshing, delicious and attractive taste.

　　The pink shrimp and the emerald green Biluochun set each other off in an interesting way. It tastes both tender and delicious, and has the fragrance of tea. This wonderful combination of tea and vegetables has attracted countless diners.

　　Songhua tuanzi

　　Natural flavor from Shan Ye.

　　The pine flowers on the pine dumplings come from Pinus massoniana. When spring and summer alternate every year, the villagers in Wuzhong area go up the mountain to collect pine flowers, put them in bamboo plaques for drying, and then sieve the pine pollen with a sieve.

　　Made of glutinous rice flour with a ratio of six to four, wrapped in golden pine pollen, and steamed in a cage. The fillings are red beans, sesame seeds, Malan, etc., which are soft and glutinous, fragrant and unique.

　　Dafanggao

　　As the name suggests, cakes are "generous"

　　Dafang cake is square in appearance and white in color, which best represents the essence of Gusu cake, delicate and exquisite.

　　As thin as cicada’s skin is wrapped in stuffing, at first glance, you can see rose sauce and sugar mint rolling inside. Each face is printed with exquisite patterns, which makes people love it before they even take it.

　　Cauliflower pond bream

　　As stunning as rape blossoms.

　　When rape blossoms are in full bloom, it is the season when mud bream lays eggs. At this time, mud bream has the highest nutritional value. Suzhou people call this fish "cauliflower mud bream" alongside the stunning rape blossoms.

　　The water shield and pond slice, which is made of water shield and pond bream, a special product of Taihu Lake, is a soup in Su Bang’s famous dishes. The fish tastes smooth and delicious, and the soup is delicious and fragrant.

　　Sauce meat

　　"The first piece of meat in spring" must be eaten.

　　Square sauce meat is generally made of pork belly with suitable fat and thin, which is carefully pickled and cooked for several hours and then drenched with marinade.

　　The sauce meat that just came out of the pot is bright in color, with a ruddy and attractive luster. It tastes sweet but not greasy, crisp but not rotten, and melts in the mouth.

　　A red sauce meat with fresh green cauliflower is an indispensable delicacy in spring for Wuzhong people who are used to sweet and glutinous.

　　Jiuniang cake

　　The cake is not intoxicating, and everyone is intoxicated.

　　Su-style dim sum, which is seasonal in spring, takes the local winter wheat and distiller’s grains in Wuzhong as the main raw materials and only sells for one season.

　　It’s better to eat the cakes with hot food. When you take a bite, the skin is soft, sweet and sour, the taste is waxy, and there is the fragrance of the wine. Remember to eat while it’s hot!

　　The food is exquisite, with endless aftertaste. Look for seasonal food and taste this delicious spring. Which "taste" is good for you?

　　(Source: Wuzhong Publishing, Editor/Cheng Mengqing)

All-media reporter Tan Faxin

Entering the twelfth lunar month, the pace of the Spring Festival is getting closer and closer, and handling new year’s goods and preparing for the reunion dinner has become a matter of concern to most citizens. Recently, the reporter visited a number of hotels and restaurants in the city and learned that before the New Year’s Eve, the reservation for New Year’s Eve dinner was "hard to find". Many hotels and restaurants were fully booked after the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month, and only a few halls had seats left.

Through the reporter’s visit, I learned that in addition to going out to eat the group annual banquet, many citizens choose to make the group annual banquet at home, and some also invite chefs and cooks to come to the door to serve and leave the group annual banquet at home, which not only saves trouble but also has the atmosphere of the New Year.

Reservation for the annual banquet of the restaurant group is "hard to find a table"

In order to seize the rare business opportunity of the Chinese New Year, the merchants took precautions, put up a publicity banner to book the annual banquet of the group one or two months in advance, and some even launched a series of preferential activities, making the idea of the Chinese New Year early. In anticipation of the Spring Festival, the citizens put the group annual banquet on the family’s important agenda early, and willingly "pay big money" for a comfortable year.

On January 10, Mr. Wang, who worked in a public institution in the city, was depressed. On the morning of the same day, he called six hotels in the city to book the group annual banquet, and they were all told that the reservation was full and only a few seats were available for reservation. "I didn’t expect that I couldn’t book it more than ten days in advance. It didn’t seem so popular in previous years?" Mr. Wang introduced that in the past two years, he and his family had a reunion dinner in the city hotel, and the booking time was equivalent to this year. Although the price of the banquet was higher than usual, there was no phenomenon that seats could not be booked.

"We don’t have a private room now. If we want to book the group annual banquet, we can only spell the table in the hall." The staff of a restaurant near the sewage treatment plant in Zhoucheng said that at the end of December last year, the reservation of the group annual banquet had already begun, and even the reservation hall should be "the first to strike first."

The staff of a large restaurant in Shinan Ancient City told the reporter that there were many people who booked the group annual banquet this year. As early as last October, someone called to make an appointment, but the hotel didn’t start accepting reservations until December. "The private rooms from the 24th to 28th of the twelfth lunar month have already been booked, and there are few big private rooms left at noon." It is understood that the restaurant began to have a holiday on the 29th of the twelfth lunar month.

The reporter found that compared with small private rooms and large private rooms, during the Spring Festival, thousands of families were reunited, and large private rooms were obviously more popular.

Family dinner chefs come to cook.

Do you want to eat New Year’s Eve at home or in a hotel? This is a problem. Eating at home has an atmosphere, but the food is more homely and it is also very troublesome to cook. Eating food and service in the hotel is good and easy, but there is no feeling of Chinese New Year more and more! "Many city residents began to consider the issue of reunion dinner.

As the Spring Festival approaches, the group annual banquets of major hotels and restaurants have already been booked out. Don’t worry, just buy a table of semi-finished reunion dinner home, or book a chef’s home service directly, without doing it yourself.

"When a chef cooks at home, he can enjoy the chef’s special service at home". The reporter visited and learned that there are not a few people who provide on-site service for the chefs of the group annual banquet. Some chefs usually pick up the business of cooking at home, but at the peak of the group annual banquet at the end of the year, orders are constantly coming, and some can’t accept orders because of schedule conflicts. Citizens only need to make a phone call to make a reservation, and determine the number of people to eat and the contents of the menu, so they can wait for the chef to cook at home. Some citizens are too busy to ask chefs to help them buy food.

In addition to booking a chef through usual contact, you can also invite a "cook" through a housekeeping company.

Liu Feifei, a citizen, works in an enterprise in could, so he can have a holiday on the 28th of the twelfth lunar month. In previous years, the group annual banquet could only be booked in the hotel. This year, she chose to do the group annual banquet at home. "I was busy with my work and didn’t have time to prepare. I heard that a friend usually invited chefs to come to the door for family dinners, so she tried to contact several chefs. After several times of communication, the chef’s schedule was finally confirmed. At noon on the 29 th of the twelfth lunar month, the chef was invited to make a group annual banquet. " Liu Feifei said, before eating the group annual banquet in the hotel, I always felt almost the atmosphere, so I had the idea of inviting the chef home. Unexpectedly, many citizens have the same idea. She contacted several chefs to determine the right time.

Why did you choose to invite a chef to cook at home instead of going directly to the hotel? Mr. Zhang said that on the one hand, it is more economical to have a family dinner, on the other hand, it is more convenient to invite chefs to visit and reduce waste. "All the ingredients are purchased by yourself, which is cheap and reassuring. Counting the remuneration for the chef saves a lot of money than in the hotel. Moreover, everyone also likes the atmosphere of reunion at home. "

"The raw materials of dishes can be purchased by customers themselves or given to us, because some ingredients, ingredients and sauces are difficult for customers to prepare at home, which will affect the taste of some dishes." Master Xie said that before, he used to cook and cook for others empty-handed. Now, many people try to save trouble and simply let them arrange the whole banquet.

The group annual banquet is a "lively and convenient"

The purpose of the vast majority of citizens booking the group annual banquet is very clear — — That is lively and easy.

Wang Yuchen, a 29-year-old citizen, said that he and his wife are both working in the company, and they are under great pressure at ordinary times, especially at the end of the year. Almost all the preparations for the Chinese New Year are carried out in a hurry. A few days ago, they were busy doing cleaning at home until late at night, so tired that their backs ached. Therefore, he decided to change the group annual banquet from home to the hotel. Although the cost is much higher, there is no need to prepare dishes a few days in advance and clean up after meals. The picture is convenient and easy, and you can take the opportunity to make time to chat with your family and free your wife from the tedious housework. "It is worthwhile to spend more money!"

Ms. Xiao, a citizen, said that in the hotel for the New Year, she can feel the joy and excitement of the Spring Festival. She believes that the Chinese New Year is to be lively, and it is very pleasant to have a reunion dinner in a happy atmosphere.

Liu Yuhang, who works in other places, just returned to Enshi on January 6th. As soon as he got home and put down his luggage, he rushed to a nearby hotel to book a table for the New Year’s party and informed his relatives and friends. He said that according to the usual practice in previous years, in order to spend the next year, he would go to various food markets and supermarkets to buy vegetables, chickens, ducks and fish, and then rush home with big bags, wash vegetables, kill fish and cook, and work hard for a while … … After eating a reunion dinner, he felt extremely tired from running around. This year, he decided to entertain relatives and friends in the hotel. Liu Yuhang told reporters with a smile, comparatively speaking, it is much easier to have a group dinner in a hotel, and it can relax the body and mind.