Golden jade fish
Chess piece cake
Yesterday, the 2016 Luoyang Water Seat Culture and Food Festival was officially launched, and from the feedback of a number of water seat experience stores, many tourists went to taste authentic Luoyang food that day. Among the Luoyang water seats, which have a history of more than 1,300 years, which dishes are famous? Which dishes are popular? Taking advantage of the 2016 Luoyang Water Seat Culture and Food Festival, the reporter will take you to find the answer.
Experts say: the most exquisite water mat – retro “Tang cuisine”.
金齑 (jī) 玉鲙 (kuài), soup bath embroidery pills, not nai soup, chess piece cake…… Have you ever heard of these names? In the retro water seats launched by catering enterprises in our city in recent years, they are all special dishes with exquisite materials and complex craftsmanship.
Yesterday, at the Luoyang True Restaurant, the chef superimposed crystal clear fresh sea bass slices and golden orange peel slices on top of each other, accompanied by emerald green snow peas, and a famous dish of the Tang Dynasty court banquet – golden jade fish was presented in front of reporters.
“Among the retro water mat dishes, it is one of the cold dishes.” Yao Yanli, the fifth-generation inheritor of Luoyang water mat and the representative inheritor of national intangible cultural heritage, introduced that the water mat originated in the Tang Dynasty and was a banquet for the court and nobles.
Yao Yanli said that the golden jade fish has been praised by great poets such as Du Fu and Li Bai, and with the recovery of more “Tang cuisine”, more citizens and tourists will taste the water seat dishes eaten by historical and cultural celebrities.
The restaurant said: The most popular item – fried eight-treasure rice
In the traditional water seat, there are a total of 24 dishes, in order to facilitate the citizens and tourists to taste, the city’s catering enterprises have launched a la carte service of water seats. There are also some companies that have launched single and double water mat sets, each dish is not much, and consumers can taste several classic dishes without spending a lot of money.
There are so many famous dishes in the water seat, which dish is the single-point “popular king”? From the ordering records of some water seat experience stores, it can be found that the sweet and delicious fried eight-treasure rice with attractive color is suitable for all ages, and is very popular.
The ingredients of fried eight-treasure rice are roughly selected from eight kinds of grains, beans and preserved fruits, which is one of the three beets in the water mat, which is said to be related to Wu Zetian’s “changing Tang (sugar) to Zhou (porridge)”, after thousands of years of inheritance, this dish is endowed with the beautiful meaning of “abundant grains, sweet and sweet”.
Chen Yutian, president of the Municipal Celebration Cultural Industry Association, introduced that the water seat was gradually introduced to the folk since the Song Dynasty, and the people of Luoyang combined their wisdom to inherit and continue many classic dishes, which embody the essence of Heluo food culture and are the cultural business card that opens the taste buds of tourists.
Consumers say: the most well-known dish – peony swallow vegetables
In your mind, which dish is the “big star” in the water mat? Yesterday, the reporter asked consumers in a number of water seat experience stores, and nearly eighty percent of the answers were related to peony swallow vegetables, and many people could also tell the legend of peony swallow vegetables.
The reporter saw in the Luoyang Water Seat Garden, as the first dish of the water seat, as soon as the peony swallow dish appeared, a table of foreign tourists praised and amazed, and many people raised their mobile phones to take pictures and quickly shared them on the Internet. Xue Lingling, a college student who came to Luoyang from Xi’an for tourism, said that before leaving, she deliberately searched for Luoyang food on the Internet, and many netizens said that “if you don’t eat peony and swallow vegetables, you won’t be able to come to Luoyang.”
“In the Luoyang water banquet, almost every dish has a legend.” Yao Yanli said that the production and inheritance of the classic water seat dishes are related to Luoyang’s region, history, people, and products, and the water seat is the taste of Luoyang, and it is the history and culture of Luoyang. (Luoyang Evening News reporter wisdom/text Duwu/picture)
