Chengdu snacks
2 min readDandan Mian
Dandan Mian,a kind of hot-spiced noodles or spicy peanut noodles,is a famous Chengdu snack.It is flavored with a sauce containing dried shrimp,shredded preserved vegetables,crushed roasted peanuts,sesame seeds,chilli oil,soy sauce vinegar and garlic.The dish is widely spread in Sichuan region,which is often served as banquet snack.
Sichuan Pancake
Sichuan pancake is characterized by its diverse kinds and unique flavors.Sliced chicken,beef,steamed meat,and entrails of oxen are often used as its fillings.
Oxen Soup
Oxen Soup served in Lao Huo Cheng Traditional Pancake Restaurant is distinctive.
This traditional restaurant has clear tables and white wallpapers,making it fresh and fashionable.
Zhu Er Ba(Meat ball with glutinous rice wrapped outside)It is featured by careful selection of raw materials,delicate cooking and superb quality.Glutinousness and softness are two features of this snack,making it one of the most famous snacks of Luzhou City.Salty filling and sweet filling areadopted in Luzhou Zhu Er Ba.Salty filling is cooked with fresh pork,winter bambo shoot,scallion,MSG and salt;sugar,dried orange skin,osmanthus sugar or rose sugar and sesame are used in sweet filling.The wrapper of this snack is cooked with glutinous rice and rice starch.The newly steamed ball is white and shining,which resembles a cooked piglet,so the snack got its name,which literarily means Piglet Cake.
Jellied bean curd
The main procedure of jellied bean curd cooking lies on bean curd making.Soy bean milk,gypsum and braised sauce are needed in preparation of bean curd.
Cold noodle with shredded chicken
As a traditional Sichuan snack,it has a long history and great influence on the whole province.It has spread to all parts of the country in recent years,particularly the vast northern areas.Its cooking method:put machine-made noodle into boiled water.The noodle shall not be boiled too soft.Vegetable oil should be added into the noodle while it is still hot,then shake the noodle so as to lower its temperature.When the noodle do not stick to each other,the dish-cold noodle is finished.
Pearl Ball
The Pearl Ball of the North China tend to be made by meat which are with salty flavor,while the Sichuan Pearl Ball is featured by its sweetness and fragrance,with fillings such as sesame and white sugar inside.Glutinous rice is wrapped outside,which appeals to us by its crystal outlook.The Pearl Ball could be taken to ease the hot flavor of other Sichuan dishes.