Su Dongpo has the poem "Three or two peach blossoms on the outside of the bamboo, the spring river plumbing duck prophet. The sagebrush is covered with short reed buds, it is when the pufferfish is about to go", this poem vividly depicts the beauty of the south of the Yangtze River in March with just 28 words , It also reveals the main delicacies of Jiangnan at that time: Artemisia selengensis, asparagus, and pufferfish.
Roasted pork slices with Artemisia selengensis is green, crisp, tender and delicious. It has always been a must-have dish in major restaurants and ordinary people in Yangzhong; asparagus soup, the soup is mellow and the mouth is fragrant, which makes you want to stop; puffer fish, not to mention Now it has long been our signature dish in Yangzhong, and it is well-known at home.
In fact, there is another kind of food in Yangzhong that outsiders don't know, and that is bamboo shoots.
There are many bamboo shoots as ingredients in the market, but I always think that only our Yangzhong bamboo shoots are the most delicious.
Yan bamboo is a unique bamboo species in Yangzhong. It is slender and slender, unlike the five big and three thick moso bamboos in the mountains. The bamboo shoots are also long, slender and delicate.
Bamboo shoots are generally unearthed in March. After the Qingming Festival, the bamboo forests are full of sharp and thin bamboo shoots. When they reach a height of more than ten or twenty centimeters, they can be eaten.
Anyone who has eaten bamboo shoots knows that bamboo shoots less than 20 cm in length are the most delicious. Bamboo shoots that exceed this length are not suitable for eating because the fleshy part begins to fibrosis.
After the bamboo shoots are dug out, peel off the skin and cut into slices of bamboo shoots. They can be fried individually, braised with pork belly, fried with leeks, and simmered with carp and silver carp soup. No matter which way they are eaten, these dishes are the best. The delicious food, the bamboo shoots incorporated into it are very chewy and the taste is extremely special. With a few pieces of bamboo shoots in the mouth, the supreme delicacy allows each of our taste buds to expand to the full and enjoy the taste bestowed by heaven.
When I was young, due to the restriction of conditions, most of the way of eating was to stir-fry bamboo shoots with other vegetables or simmer them in fish soup. Among them, the bamboo shoot fish soup is the most delicious. The fish we often eat is nothing more than crucian carp, silver carp, black fish, no matter what kind of fish simmering soup, the fish soup with bamboo shoots is definitely more delicious than any other fish soup processed with condiments. After the simmering fish soup is boiled, the whole room is filled with an indescribable tantalizing umami. Just smelling this taste makes people mouth-watering.
I love eating bamboo shoots, and I love all the foods made with bamboo shoots as a condiment or raw materials, whether it’s vegetables, soup, rice or wontons. If there are bamboo shoots in it, I will definitely have a great appetite. When the addict encounters tobacco, the wind and the remnant cloud are eaten up and wiped out cleanly, and the chopsticks will not stop until he is full. It's just that the number of Yanzhu in Yangzhong has become less and less, and the bamboo shoots produced in the only bamboo forest have become scarce and luxury items, and money can't be bought. So tasting authentic Yangzhong bamboo shoot dishes has become a luxury.
Nowadays, most bamboo shoots on the market are moso bamboo shoots. They are listed in large quantities every March, occupying large and small vegetable markets, bag by bag, and the price is not cheap when it first goes on the market, but there are still many people who buy it. In fact, this thing is far worse than the bamboo shoots in Yangzhong, but some dishes are not good enough, especially the puffer fish burned with bamboo shoots. Without the bamboo shoots, the taste of the puffer fish will be greatly reduced, so even though Knowing that the bamboo shoots in Yangzhong are not as delicious as they are, but "there is no general in Sichuan, Liao Hua is a pioneer", so these foreign bamboo shoots occupy the dining tables of various grades of hotels and restaurants of the people of Yangzhong, and even the dining tables of ordinary people's homes.