Why does Anhui cuisine taste with relish? What dishes do you like in Anhui?

Everyone who has been to Huangshan will have a profound impact on the scenery and food of Huangshan, with endless aftertaste. Huangshan was called "Huizhou region" before it became a municipal level, and "Huizhou cuisine" is also one of the important flavors of our eight major Chinese cuisines, with heavy colors and strong flavor. "Salt pays more attention to lust than rot" is a summary of Anhui cuisine. It seems that everyone will say it's bad for your health, but as long as you taste it, who cares about tomorrow? Everyone will eat it with relish and will always patronize it.

The most representative and well-known "Huizhou cuisine" should be hairy tofu and stinky mandarin fish. According to the elders, in ancient China, merchants in Tongling and Anqing, Anhui Province, invented stinky mandarin fish and hairy tofu to prevent the dry food on the road from deteriorating.

On the way, in order to prevent the fish from going bad, people pickled the fish with a lot of salt, but the taste was not added. In order to improve the taste of food, people opened their minds and brought rice wine with them. They sprinkled a layer of wine and salt all the way, and finally the meat was bright red, emitting a smell that seemed smelly but not smelly, indicating that the curing was successful. Wash it with water, cook it with pepper and it will be out of the pot. It's really a good dish for the next meal.

Let's talk about hairy tofu again. In CCTV's "China on the Tip of the Tongue" column, it is explained as follows: In the south of China, there is a kind of delicious food, which is unattractive, but attracts thousands of people's attention. It is covered with white hair and melts in the mouth, but it is tender and spicy. Everyone calls it "hairy tofu". Also known as "the first monster in Huizhou, tofu has long hair." When in use, you only need to prepare barbecue materials such as Chili sauce cumin, sweet sauce and chopped green onion. You can fry hairy tofu in a pot until both sides are golden, and sprinkle with seasonings. They can be found in streets and lanes and five-star hotels, which can be said to be low-key luxury with connotation.

Here I want to tell a legendary story about Zhu Yuanzhang. I can only say that Zhu Yuanzhang loves Huizhou very much. The old people said that Zhu Yuanzhang once again fled to Huangshan and Huizhou, where everything he brought was eaten up and the soldiers were hungry. So Zhu Yuanzhang asked his guards to go to a nearby village to find food. Finally, he found some tofu in the straw pile. Unfortunately, he had long white hair, but he was so hungry that he set them on fire. I didn't expect tofu to taste very fresh and tender. Zhu Yuanzhang was very happy after eating it. Finally, after winning the battle, he thought of naming this kind of tofu "Mao Tofu".

At present, hairy tofu is still made by hand, and no additives and preservatives are added in the production process, which is a veritable green dish.