China News Network Jiangmen, March 3 Topic: After "Crazy Speed", the smell of pig's trotters in Taishan, Guangdong is more fragrant
Written by Li Xiaochun Guo Jun
"When I was a child, I ordered a bowl of pork foot noodles, my sister ate pig's feet, my younger brother ate noodles, and I drank soup." In the mainland TV series "Crazy", Pig's Foot Noodles condenses Gao Qiqiang's memories of the three brothers and sisters. However, in Taishan City, Jiangmen, Guangdong, where "Crazy" was filmed, the food cooked with pig's trotters not only haunted the wanderers' souls, but also gave them good intentions.
The curd bamboo stewed pig's feet sold by the pound in Fucheng Market, Taicheng Street, Taishan City, are widely favored by the local people Photo by Li Xiaochun
Pig's trotters, which are subdivided into pig hands and pig feet in Guangdong, the front hooves are shorter, called pig hands, and the hind hooves are large and long, regarded as pig feet. For Cantonese people who pay attention to everything carefully, eating pig hands has the good intention of "windfall wealth". Pig's feet are the most favored in Longjiang Town, Huilai, Jieyang, and later became famous in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area as "Longjiang Pork Foot Rice".
Photo by Baiyun Pig Hand Li Xiaochun
Good quality ingredients, just simple cooking, can make people "eat and find taste". "Every time I take my friends to visit Yinxin Memorial Site and Nanyue Ancient Yidao Outlet Memorial Site Taishan Duanfen Town, I want to go to Dunzhai Village to eat two bowls of pig's foot soup from local tea houses before leaving. The master used to use four flavors, or peanut beef vigorous, or horse poop amaranth head pot. Mr. Liang, a citizen of Zhuhai, said that eating pig's feet while drinking soup is a special satisfaction.
The Meijia courtyard in Duanfen Town, Taishan City, where the TV series "Crazy" was filmed, attracted many tourists to check in Photo by Li Xiaochun
"Yesterday, when I saw the photo of 'pig's foot acid' (or 'pig's foot vinegar') sent by Xiaomei's WeChat circle of friends, my saliva flowed down without contending." On March 3, Ms. Li, a native of Taishan, who now lives in Auckland, New Zealand, said that when living in Taishan, her mother often ate "pig's foot acid" in a pot of pig's feet, peanuts, ginger, yellow cauliflower, fungus, papaya, sweet vinegar, eggs, etc. The amount of one tile pot can be eaten for several days, and the "pork foot acid" is boiled every day and then served, and the sweet and sour taste is still endless.
"Pig's foot acid" cooked with pig's feet, ginger, peanuts, papaya, fungus, yellow cauliflower, etc., is the taste of happiness shared by Taishanese people with relatives and friends when they add Ding to their mouths Photo by Li Xiaochun
Compared with Laoguang "Pig's Foot Ginger", Taishan "Pig's Foot Sour" is richer in ingredients, selectively matched, and the taste is among the same as big sweet and sour, which is a nutritious delicacy often eaten by local confinement mothers. Acid, homonymous with "sun" in Cantonese and some Taishan dialects. Whenever someone added Ding to their home, the main family would warmly treat relatives and friends who came to greet them with pig's feet to eat a bowl of "pig's foot acid", and the elders would laugh when they heard their relatives and friends call them "good sour" (good grandson). Today, individual restaurants in Taishan Township have turned "pork foot acid" into a signature dish serving rice markets.
Baked pig hand with shrimp paste Photo by Li Xiaochun
Also endowed with good intentions, there are lotus root stewed pork feet, oyster stewed pig's feet, and curd bamboo stewed pig's feet, which are large, fragrant and delicious. Many old overseas Chinese in Taishan returned to their hometowns to cook "fortune dishes" and like to stew pig's feet, "eat pieces of pig's feet, replenish the bone strength of the feet" (with the meaning of preparing strength to move forward and seek development), the taste is good and the meaning is good.
"After watching "Crazy" on the Internet, my mother told me that it is not difficult to make a bowl of pork foot noodles, just use stewed pork feet and eat it with a bowl of noodle soup, and she can let us achieve 'pig's foot noodle freedom' at any time." Ms. Mei, a post-80s generation who now lives in Chicago, said that after immigration, her mother insisted on cooking during the New Year holidays, especially stewing pig's feet, sometimes with lotus root, sometimes with curd bamboo.
Soy sauce emperor raw baked pig hand photo by Li Xiaochun
"Recently, many tourists have come to our restaurant to check in, sit on the edge of the fish pond (one of the filming locations of "Crazy" to take pictures or eat." Recently, the staff of Taishan Taicheng Lexing Restaurant said that in addition to stewed pork foot dishes, the restaurant also has shrimp paste raw baked pork hands, (sand ginger) soy sauce emperor raw baked pig hands, Hewei pig hands, jellyfish pinning Baiyun pig hands, salty fragrant roasted pig hands and other pig trotter series to serve the rice market.
Taishan City Taicheng Lexing Restaurant daily dinner limited supply of salty fragrant roasted pork hands Photo by Li Xiaochun
"Lexing's salty roasted pig hands are very special, after the roast is baked, the whole one is hung in the roast stall, looking at the golden can. Cut and served on a plate, the mouth is crispy and fragrant, the taste is similar to ordinary roast pork, but it seems to have an extra 'domineering', which makes people feel addicted. Mr. Huang, a Taiwanese diner, said.
Salty and fragrant roasted pig hands, with crispy skin and salty meat Photo by Li Xiaochun
Similar to the German salted pig hand, there are also many in Taishan. "Last week, we followed in the footsteps of "Crazy", and after visiting the Meijia compound in Duanfen Town, Taishan, when we went to eat at a nearby restaurant, we found that the restaurant's signature golden fragrant pig hand tasted good." Ms. Zhao, a tourist from Henan, said that the golden fragrant pig hand tastes crispy on the outside, tender and refreshing meat, and has a rich sense of layering.
At present, Taishan has launched a "crazy" cultural tourism boutique route, and more and more tourists go to the attractions in the play for immersive experience, and there are many local pig's trotter delicacies, which cannot be easily missed. (End)