Old Beijing is a traditional name for the ancient capital Beijing. Beijing, as one of the seven ancient capitals, the core of old Beijing culture is to stress rules, etiquette and inheritance. Special snack
As a famous historical and cultural city, Beijing has a long history of snacks. Beijing snacks, commonly known as "instant food" or "vegetable tea", are formed by combining the characteristics of many folk snacks and court snacks in Ming and Qing Dynasties, with a wide variety and unique flavor.
There are about 200 or 300 kinds of snacks in Beijing, including side dishes and wine (such as boiled sheep's head, fried belly, roasted sheep's head in Bai Kui, pickled mustard tuber chopping board, etc.). ), pasta used at the banquet (such as steamed buns, minced meat biscuits, yangyaner steamed buns, Five Blessingg Shoutao, Ma Rongbao, etc.). ), as well as various snacks as snacks or breakfast snacks (such as Aiwowo, snowballing, etc.). ). Among them, bean juice, enema, fried liver, Mapo tofu and Zhajiang Noodles have the most Beijing flavor.
Some time-honored brands specialize in their specialty varieties, such as Wo Wo from Fangshan Hotel, minced meat biscuits, pea yellow, kidney bean rolls, silver silk rolls from Fengzeyuan Hotel, cream fried cakes from Donglaishun Hotel, large enema from Heyizhai Hotel, baked steamed bread from the same family, mashed potatoes from Beijing Hotel and sugar packets from Dashunzhai Power Plant. Other snacks are sold in snack bars and food stalls in Beijing night market.
"Du Men Zhu Zhi Ci" in Qing Dynasty wrote: "The three big money buy flowers and cut cakes, and there is a bowl of sweet porridge in the morning before eating tea and noodles; Fried sweet ears with preserved fruit cakes, sesame seeds baked in the oven, forks just sold on the fire, and hard noodles are called cakes; Steamed dumplings and wonton are all vegetables, and the newly added dumplings are good ... "This also shows that Beijing has always had many flavor snacks.
In the past, many famous snacks in Beijing have long since disappeared, and some of them are rarely seen. However, most of the snacks have been preserved, and some snack bars have been opened together, which greatly facilitates customers.
At Donghuamen Night Market, there are snacks such as bean jelly, scones, lotus seed porridge, sour plum soup, red fruit cheese, almond tofu, mutton skewers, grilled lobster, grilled squid, fried grasshoppers, fried scorpions and fried silkworm chrysalis. It is safe and hygienic to be collected. The Beijing snacks handed down from the temple fair "Will Eat" operated by Huguosi Snack Bar have become exquisite after improvement, without the roughness of "big and complete, full of food" in the past, and the pier cakes and jujube rolls are small and lovely; Ginger fork and sugar ear are exquisite. Jinfang snack is a snack bar founded in the Republic of China, which includes hemp pills, almond tea, Aiwowo, cream fried cakes, fried bumps and so on. Yuanxiao is the most famous, with more than a dozen fillings such as hawthorn, green plum, sweet-scented osmanthus, bean paste, assorted foods, cream and coconut. Jiumen Snacks was organized by Beijing Snacks Association at the initiative of several famous brands in the past. There are many time-honored brands here, such as rice cake Yang, buttermilk Wei, Xiao Changchen, Fried Chicken, Ruibin House, Baishui Yangtou, Yueshengzhai and so on. There are also famous snack streets in Beijing: Wangfujing snack street, Shichahai snack street (the original Qianmen snack was moved) and so on.
Summer diet
Old Beijingers call cold drinks "iced food". China people have a long tradition of eating iced food, which has a history of more than 3,000 years. In ancient times, the premise for nobles to enjoy ice food in hot summer was to store ice cubes. At that time, the royal family built an ice storage room.
During the Zhou Dynasty, there were officials in charge of ice affairs in the imperial court, who were responsible for cutting and storing ice. Because of technical limitations, in China,