Jinxi cuisine in Jinxi scenic spot
(2) Sauced meat is a famous dish in the Red Star Pavilion. Its cooking history is long. At first, it was a home-cooked meal, and later it was extended to a formal banquet. The selection and cooking of sauced meat are more particular. Be sure to choose fat and thin pork belly and cut it into four or five inches square. Put it in a pot, first boil it with high fire, and then burn it with slow fire for three to four hours to make the meat crisp and tender. Sauced meat pays attention to the word sauce, and neither soy sauce nor other food pigments are used. The sauce color is completely made of white sugar, which not only shows the chef's skill, but also makes the meat bright, pure and healthy. Sauced meat in Red Star Hotel is characterized by crisp but not rotten, fat but not greasy. Because of the long cooking time and the infiltration of seasoning, it is very tasty both inside and outside. When the dish is served, it is lined with chicken feather spinach, which is brightly colored and very popular. Instant in the mouth, suitable for men, women and children.
(3) koi fish is a business carp unique to Wubao Lake in Wuxi. Fish have red fins and some have red backs, so they are called koi fish. Because the color is different from ordinary fish and the meat is delicious, it is quite popular with people. Koi fish, also known as gift fish, is a necessary wedding ceremony for children in Jinxi, which means good luck. In the old society, at the end of each year, every household had to prepare a few koi fish to meet the God of Wealth on the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, which meant that carp yue longmen won a good favor.
(4) Man Tuffy, commonly known as Crystal Shrimp, is a freshwater shrimp with a long body and a shell. Its living body is turquoise with brown spots, thin and transparent, hence the name. Shrimp's head has a pair of long and short horns, and there are rows of thin feet. If you put it in the basin, it will jump in all directions on the table, so it is called dancing all over the table. Flying all over Taiwan Province, there are crops everywhere in the lakes and ponds of Jinxi, especially in summer. Because there are many yellow plums, shrimp soy sauce is chosen at this time. The famous dish of Jinxi is Taiwan Province flying all over the sky (that is, drunken shrimp), and crystal shrimp in spring and autumn is generally chosen as raw material. Everyone who has tasted it thinks it is particularly delicious. Black clam soup, crystal shrimp, stuffed fish and other authentic water dishes are light but extremely delicious.
(5) Black clam is a specialty of Jinxi. The shell is divided into two parts, triangular in shape, each side is about 3 to 4 cm long, and the shell is grayish brown and nearly black, so it is called black clam. People usually cook clam meat into milk soup, which is delicious and nutritious. Has good dietotherapy effect on patient with liver disease and hypertension. In recent years, Lotus Lake and Fishery Village in Jinxi Town actively use the rich lake water resources and vigorously carry out artificial breeding. Thousands of tons of black clams are exported to Japan every year, which is the main foreign exchange earning product in sideline business.
(6) Eleocharis tuberosa is an annual aquatic herb with floating leaves, which is one of the high-quality varieties of Eleocharis tuberosa. Because of its bright red shell, it is called water chestnut. Water chestnut in Jinxi has the characteristics of tender, thin shell and thick meat. It is listed every Mid-Autumn Festival, and it has been competing for the tastes of small town people. Jinxi is adjacent to Dianshan Lake in the east and Hucheng Lake in the west, and a large area of water-red water chestnut has been planted only by using the corner of the lake. Water chestnut has great vitality. Generally, after planting, it will thrive without too much management. Long-term cultivation has created the unique ability of diamond farmers to use diamond pots flexibly to pick diamonds. Before and after the Mid-Autumn Festival every year, people will magically see that farmers, men, women and children, paddle a wooden bathtub that can only accommodate one person, and freely play and carry water in the pond, as if showing their water skills. Jinxi people are very particular about eating water chestnut. Fresh water chestnut stays in the lotus root and never eats it picked the next day. Therefore, no matter how hot the weather is every day, water chestnut farmers should go down to the lake early and send the water chestnuts picked that day to the market early to meet the needs of diners.
(7) There are many rivers and lakes in Jinxi Town, and the area of various aquatic products is about 50,000 mu, accounting for 40.3% of the total area of the town. The richness and variety of aquatic products can be imagined. Therefore, for different fish, there are different ways to eat, emphasizing cooking, cooking characteristics, eating famous dishes, forming a variety of precious fish in the ancient town. Crystal soup-boiled carp with slow fire, boneless and me removed. The mutton soup is cooled and solidified into crystal white fish jelly, sliced and eaten, delicious and nutritious. Perch-Perch is a high-grade aquatic product, which is more tender and delicious than mandarin fish. In Jin Dynasty, Hans Zhang thought of perch, resigned and returned to his hometown to become a perch gourmet. Jinxi also produces perch, which is cooked and eaten, and the eating method is different from Wujiang and Songjiang. Unfortunately, cooking techniques were lost in the early Qing Dynasty. Squid stuffed with meat squid, small and scaleless, like puffer fish, with thorns in its abdomen. In other places, chopped lean pork is stuffed into the belly of fish and steamed in braised or cage. Jin Xi eats differently. Cut the lard into small pieces and put the sugar into the fish belly. Cooked with wine, salt, ginger and onion, it is fragrant and appetizing. Braised crucian carp with meat-the technique is the same as that of squid, but the taste is slightly inferior. Pickled herring and mandarin fish-take herring or mandarin fish as raw materials, add bacon, cut into pieces together, and cook with fermented green pepper. Stewed puffer fish with chicken-puffer fish is delicious and the highest among fish. Chicken and puffer fish are cooked together, and the soup is as straight as jade liquid. Smoked white fish in sauce-marinate in white fish sauce for two days, take out and cook. Smoked and roasted with sawdust, the more you stay overnight, there is no smoke smell. The food is excellent. The above methods of eating fish are all traditional dishes of Jinxi. When developing tourism, you can restore them and add special food to tourists, which will definitely be popular.
(8) Sock bottom pastry is said to be copied by Jinxi people according to the tea in Song Xiaozong. It is shaped like the bottom of a sock, with layers of shortbread as thin as cicadas. It tastes sweet and crisp when bitten, and sweet and salty when eaten in the mouth. It has always been a traditional tea that people in the south of the Yangtze River compete to taste. The popularity of sock bottom crisp lies in its exquisite materials and exquisite workmanship. When using pastry and dough, knead it five or six times repeatedly until it is completely uniform, so that the baked pastry can be thin and crisp and refreshing. The stuffing is exquisitely made and the proportion of raw materials is strict. For example, the salt used to make pretzels should be boiled in a wok and rolled finely, and the shallots should be chopped into pieces, not perforated and not exposed. Baking is very technical. When baking, the master must stare at the stove step by step until the shortbread is bright and fragrant. In recent years, on the basis of inheriting the traditional characteristics of sock bottom crisp, Jinxi food industry has reformed its production technology, expanded its production scale, constantly brought forth the old and improved its packaging, which is not only more beautiful, but also fresh-keeping and more convenient for giving to relatives and friends.