Su Dongpo has a poem "three or two peach blossoms outside the bamboo, the prophet of the plumbing duck in the spring river." Artemisia is full of short reed buds, it is the time when the puffer fish wants to go", this poem vividly depicts the beautiful scenery of Jiangnan in March, and also expresses the main food of Jiangnan at that time: artemisia, asparagus, and pufferfish.
Artemisia roast pork slices, crispy, tender and fresh, mellow and luscious, has always been a must-have dish for major restaurants and ordinary people in Yangzhong; Asparagus soup, the soup is mellow and fragrant, which makes people want to stop; Fugu, not to mention, is now our signature dish in Yangzhong, famous at home.
In fact, there is another kind of food in Yangzhong that outsiders don't know, that is-bamboo shoots.
There are many bamboo shoots in the market as an ingredient, but I always think that only our Yangzhong bamboo shoots are the most delicious.
Swallow bamboo is a unique bamboo species in Yangzhong, slender and slender, not as thick as the five big and three thick bamboos in the mountains; The swallow bamboo shoots are also slender and long, and they are very delicate.
Bamboo shoots, generally unearthed in March, after the Qingming Dynasty, the bamboo forest is full of sharp and thin bamboo shoots, and so there are more than ten or twenty centimeters, bamboo shoots can be eaten.
Anyone who has eaten bamboo shoots knows that bamboo shoots under 20 cm are the most delicious, and bamboo shoots beyond this length are not suitable for eating because the fleshy part of the bamboo shoots begins to fibrosis.
After the bamboo shoots are dug out, the skin is peeled off, cut into bamboo shoot slices, you can fry alone, you can also braise with pork belly, stir-fry with leeks, and simmer soup with crucian carp and silver carp, no matter which way to eat, these dishes are the best food, the bamboo shoots integrated into it are particularly chewy, the taste is extremely special, a few pieces of bamboo shoots in the mouth, the supreme delicacy makes each of our taste buds stretch out to the fullest, and enjoy the taste given by God.
When I was a child, due to the constraints of conditions, most of the ways to eat were to stir-fry bamboo shoots with other vegetables or simmer soup with fish. Among them, the bamboo shoot fish soup is the most delicious. The fish we often eat is nothing more than crucian carp, silver carp and black fish, no matter what kind of fish soup is simmered with, the fish soup with bamboo shoots is definitely more delicious than any other fish soup processed with ingredients, when a pot of simmered fish soup is boiled, the room is full of an indescribable tempting umami, just smelling this taste makes people salivate.
I love to eat bamboo shoots, I love all the food made of bamboo shoots as ingredients or processed as raw materials, whether it is vegetables, soups, vegetable rice or wontons, if there are bamboo shoots in it, I will inevitably have a great appetite and increase my appetite, just like an addict encounters tobacco. It's just that now there are fewer and fewer swallow bamboos in Yangzhong, and the bamboo shoots produced in the only bamboo forest have also become a scarce luxury, and money can't buy them. Therefore, tasting authentic Yangzhong bamboo shoot dishes has become more and more a luxury.
Nowadays, the bamboo shoots on the market are mostly bamboo shoots, a large number of them are listed in March, occupying large and small vegetable markets, bags and baskets, the price is not cheap when it is first listed, but there are still a lot of people who buy it, in fact, this thing is far worse than the bamboo shoots in Yangzhong, but some dishes are really not good without this thing, especially the puffer fish burnt bamboo shoots, less bamboo shoots, the taste of the puffer fish is afraid that it will have to be greatly discounted, so although I know that the bamboo shoots in Yangzhong are not as delicious, but "there is no general in Sichuan." , Liao became a pioneer", so this foreign bamboo shoot occupied the dining table of the people of Yangzhong in various grades of hotels and restaurants and even ordinary people's homes, and was full of domineering for a while.