1. Wuwei Zhou

Eating breakfast during the Spring Festival varies from place to place. Eat all kinds of porridge in Tiantai urban and rural areas.

The so-called "five-flavor porridge" is porridge made of five kinds of food: white rice, red dates, tofu, jar beans and taro. It comes from Buddhist monks who prayed for "Five Blessingg" in the New Year and cooked this mixed soup. Tiantai is known as the "Buddhist country", and the aborigines believe in Buddhism, so this custom has spread in order to pray for good weather, peace and prosperity for the country and the people, and the people can live and work in peace all year round.

2. Tiantai fragrant fish

Tiantai fragrant fish is mainly produced in Youxi at the eastern foot of Cangshan Mountain, only 40 miles away from the East China Sea. In autumn, fragrant fish lay eggs in the deep pools of swimming streams. After that, the stream gradually became cold and the larvae swam downstream. When winter goes and spring comes, the stream gets warmer, and the small fragrant fish goes upstream again, grows up in the swimming stream and lays eggs after autumn. This unique habit, like swallows and geese, is very interesting. In earlier years, there were a few fragrant fish in Lingjiang, which were called "Five Treasures of Yanshan Mountain", but in recent years, due to water pollution, it is not easy to see them. Yongxicheng in Tiantai Mountain is the only producing area. Here, the water is clear and the stone is clean, the vegetation is lush, and the fragrant fish is infested, which is like entering a paradise.

3. jiaozi omelet

Jiaozi omelet is the only unique food on the rooftop. Every year, in Tomb-Sweeping Day, during July 30th, winter solstice and China New Year, every family wraps them as holiday food. I also ate Mid-Autumn Festival in long summer in recent years. There is a custom of eating jiaozi to entertain relatives and friends.

4.wheat cake on the roof

Wheat cake can be said to be as famous as Tiantai flavor food and jiaozi tube. The wheat cake is round, which means reunion. On the fourth day after the bride gets married, she will make meatballs and wheat cakes in the kitchen, which are called "reunion wheat cakes".

5. Face to face

Noodles and brain noodles, the main ingredients of noodles and brain noodles are: handmade noodles, black fungus (or mushrooms), tofu skin, meatballs, shredded carrots, day lilies, egg skin, oily tofu, dried tofu, vegetables, winter bamboo shoots (or water bamboo shoots). At the same time, we should pay attention to making noodles and thinking. When making meatballs, be sure to chop the meat and add the egg white to stir. On the rooftop, noodles and brains are symbols of hospitality. I hope a bowl of noodles and brains can also bring enthusiasm to customers in other places!

6. The paste is hot and boiling

Spicy paste cooking is a kind of salty soup made of rice flour or stone powder. The dishes are cut into small cubes. The main ingredients are lean meat, winter bamboo shoots, water chestnuts, dried coriander, oil bubble, peanuts, Sichuan beans, spinach, pig ears, black fungus, roasted glutinous rice, and a little Chili powder, which is boiled steaming. Now there are sweet ones, longan ones, red dates, apple slices and lotus seeds, and they all taste different.

The diet of a place is closely related to the cultural environment.

Tiantai can be said to be a mountain city with sage like style, the birthplace of Tiantai Sect of Buddhism and a Taoist resort. In addition to the most famous National Assembly Temple, there are more than a dozen temples, such as Gaoming Temple, Zhenjue Temple, Xia Guang Temple and Jigongyuan. I was chatting with the master in the taxi, and he seemed to give me a bunch of temples.

In addition, many people in Tiantai are from Henan, so they also brought the skills of making pasta. Coupled with the integration and merger of the day after tomorrow, there is a unique food culture.

Knowing these backgrounds, it should be easy to imagine the flavor of Tiantai, a small town. There are many vegetarian dishes and pasta, and the taste is mainly salty and fragrant. The cooking method is not complicated, so the original flavor and taste of the ingredients are more vividly reflected.

Let me share with you the "food map" I collected on the rooftop.

The left side is similar to the new town, where large-scale restaurants and shopping malls are located. The menus of restaurants and restaurants also cover rooftop snacks, which are suitable for people to have dinner together. By the way, order two special snacks to try.

On the right is a truly authentic snack concentration camp similar to the old city, including the pedestrian street, which is suitable for three or two friends to stroll around and eat leisurely and dig up old treasure shops in the corner.

Next, we go from the new city to the old city. According to the store, I ate something good on the roof!

Don't be confused by the name of the JOE snack on the roof. When I found the gatehouse of this store with the mentality of eating food stalls, I was surprised that it was a very imposing restaurant.

Self-help tea is a pot of hot soybean milk, which is my first time. It's good to go to dinner. Almost every table is occupied, but the queue time is not too long. That's great. This menu is super rich, with almost everything. Of course, special snacks are worth introducing.

Paste stretching fixture

Drag the batter into a cake in the pot and wrap it with various fillings: shredded potatoes, mustard greens, eggs, dried vegetables, tofu, etc. , and then superimposed. Does it sound simple, unremarkable and nothing new? But when I took a bite, I shouted "It smells good".

I ordered tofu paste, and the overall flavor can be supplemented by Shandong miscellaneous grain pancakes with onion-flavored tofu. The shell is crisp and dry, and the filling is simple, which is the tofu paste with fresh and salty onion fragrance.

I will eat more and more miscellaneous grain cakes, but this paste-pulled tofu stuffing just makes up for this. If I bite down, the crispy bread shell, soft tofu paste and egg fragrance are still there. I really can't help taking one bite after another. Don't do anything, remember to eat while it's hot.

Slurry boiling

It can't be said that it is exactly the same as the paste, but it doesn't matter! It is actually a soup made of starch, in which diced bamboo shoots, mustard greens, peanuts and oil bubbles can be added ... a bowl of the same delicious sauce. Perfect for breakfast.

I feel that this dish is related to the designation of Hu spicy soup in Henan, but it tastes simpler, fresher and makes people tired of eating. I can't help but use the cliche of "mother's taste" to describe it, because it really resembles the noodle soup supper my mother cooked for me when I was hungry.

Since Xu's snacks didn't give me advertising fees, I'll recommend its nearby competitor (Duan Shui Master). They are all shops with rich menus and can eat all kinds of special snacks in one stop.

Jade Qing Zhai Jade Qing Zhai is said to be built in 193 1, a famous time-honored brand, which can be said to be an online celebrity restaurant. It is located on a pedestrian street in the old city. I suggest you have dinner first, and then you can take a walk.

Jiaozi omelet

In a jiaozi container, there must be more than a dozen materials, such as meatball cake, egg cake, pork liver, fat meat and other vegetarian dishes, as well as lily, fungus, vermicelli, shredded bamboo shoots, vegetable stalks and so on. Roll it on the batter skin in a certain order and fry it again.

I call it luxury feeding supreme cylinder paste fixture, delicious! The shell is crisp and the stuffing is rich, so it is very satisfying to eat it in one bite. The taste is always simple, but it is delicious.

Jiaozi or wonton?

It's a bit like wonton, but the skin is thinner. It's the vegetarian stuffing of radish, peanut and diced water bamboo. You know, I am a carnivore who always wants to eat meat when I go out to eat! But plain food conquered me.

It's refreshing, and I feel particularly healthy, and I don't feel guilty about eating a lot. It can be steamed, boiled and fried. I like the way I dip in soy sauce and vinegar after frying. At the moment I tasted it, the position of steamed stuffed bun in my heart was in jeopardy. And this can also have meat, depending on your choice.

Xiu Yuan Gao Zheng

The same seemingly ordinary food is actually the "intangible cultural heritage" of Tiantai!

It is made of glutinous rice, which is said to be soft and delicate. It was once used to entertain distinguished guests. But I haven't tried. This looks top-notch and won't fit in. Friends who have eaten can speak out.

The old urchin dried vegetable cake beef blood soup is a famous local old shop, which can be seen from the fading degree of the signboard. There was no place to sit in the shop, so I bought a prune cake. I want to say when I buy it, where is the prune cake? How delicious can it be?

But the result is really delicious, not to mention how special the taste is, that is, the filling is full, the bread is crisp outside and tough inside, freshly baked, giving people the feeling that it is really made with heart, an extreme prune cake!

8 yuan each, I share it with my friends, not greedy, and I really want to finish eating.

Cow blood soup is also a special food in Tiantai. The old urchin has it, but there is no place to sit and eat, so he dare not try (in fact, I dare not). Large pieces of beef blood and white radish stew, super big. I'll get you a bowl. Tell your boss whether you like radish or cow blood. Full of flavor, you can try what you like to eat in water.

The old authentic wheat cake shop is also an irreplaceable time-honored brand in the hearts of local people. The wheat cake is now packaged and ready, and the filling is optional. Use three chopsticks when eating, just like eating western food. One chopstick sticks to the other and the other two chopsticks pick it up, which is also called "roof pizza".

Mix a favorite dip, vinegar, soy sauce and pepper. It's really delicious!

Although it sounds similar to paste, it tastes different. This kind of cake is soft, with a thick crust, which is a little brittle after frying. Salty and sweet shredded pumpkin is recommended as the filling, and shepherd's purse meat stuffing with the same style in jiaozi is recommended.

Hou Bing has finished a series of roof specialties, and finally I will end up with an ice shop. It's the last store I ate on the rooftop. I hope it will be chained nationwide as soon as possible!

I noticed this "thick ice" dessert shop that was always mentioned when I was doing a rooftop food strategy in Little Red Book. I'm curious, mango ice and strawberry ice, aren't they everywhere? Is it better than online celebrities because of beautiful decoration? I didn't know that thick ice was really different until I went in person.

The fruit ice I eat in most dessert shops is the feeling of sand ice, such as water+milk frozen, my heart is cold and my brain hurts.

The thick ice is amazing, and it feels like it is made directly from milk or thin cream. The color is beige, and the shape of ice is like filiform. Because it is slender ice silk, it is gathered in a bowl. They are fluffy together and have an "air sense" when they eat, that's right! It is air!

As fluffy and soft as cotton, only when the temperature in your mouth melts it slightly will you feel cold and refreshing.

The ice melts slowly, and the melted liquid is only at the bottom of the bowl. Unlike other sand ice, it is basically a pool of water in the end, and thick ice hardly melts.

There are similar kinds of tastes, so you can choose whatever you like. This unique ice cave is really worth a try.

To sum up, in Tiantai, a small county town, prices are low and taxis are cheap. The personality of Taizhou local cuisine is "unpretentious but hidden surprises". Although it looks unremarkable, the ingredients themselves and practices seem ordinary, but the taste is really good. Every meal is less than 50 yuan, and cakes are basically a few dollars. I really like it! Be sure to go again when you have the chance!

There are many delicious things on the rooftop, such as jiaozi tube, Lamian Noodles paste, noodles and brains, dog beef, fragrant fish, Jiushou, flat food, wheat cake and so on. There are several local food shops in Tiantai, such as Tiantai Mountain Snacks and Tiantai Hot Spring Villa.