Are there any delicious snacks in Danyang?

"Fried stinky tofu" is a special flavor of Danyang with a long history. Once tasted, it often makes people want to stop. The pressed tofu is soaked in amaranth stalk salt water and becomes stinky tofu. After frying, it is the color of Huang Liang, crisp outside and soft inside, and has a special flavor. Pick it up and put it on the plate. Take spicy powder and dip it in vinegar when eating. Stinky tofu is not worthy of the name, ugly on the outside and beautiful on the inside, plain and peculiar, and charming in flavor. It is made by selecting materials, blending brine, soaking, fermenting, air drying and frying. Its characteristics are: Huang Liang color, crisp Marie Laure Gigon outside and rich aroma.

Lion's head, commonly known as chop meat, is also called "meatball". Choose pork belly, neither fat nor thin. Batch first and then cut with a blade, and cut the meat into rice grains. Then add onion ginger juice, Danyang yellow wine, shrimp, eggs, cold chicken soup, a small amount of starch and a proper amount of refined salt into the cut rice, and stir in one direction to make raw lion head. Blanched pork ribs are lined in a big casserole, with green vegetable hearts as the bottom. Put the prepared raw meatballs into the casserole one by one, put the cold chicken soup on it, cover it with a lotus leaf, cover the casserole tightly, boil it over high fire and simmer for about two hours. When serving, bring the casserole to the table. Open the lid at once and take the lotus leaf away. At this time, the soup is fragrant and delicious, and it has an endless aftertaste after tasting.

Pig's trotters with skin are steamed with slow fire and made of rock sugar and other seasonings. The color is like braised pork, but it tastes as crisp as tofu without going out of shape. It is characterized by bright red color, crisp bones, oily but not greasy, salty and sweet. Suitable for eating in winter and spring.

Radish cake is a snack with Danyang flavor. Wash and shred radish, marinate with a little salt, squeeze out water, add chopped green onion and mix well. In addition, flour and cold water are mixed into paste, and then an oval mold spoon made of white lead skin is used. Spread batter on the bottom layer, add shredded radish, spread batter, fry in oil until golden brown, and demould. It tastes delicious.

There is also an ordinary but unusual food here: barley porridge. As long as you have tasted it, you will never forget the endless aftertaste brought by Huang Chengcheng rice porridge.

Tang Yan fish is commonly known as "stupid tiger and idiot" in Danyang. Every February and March, he swims in the stream and beside the lake pond ditch in the hilly and mountainous areas. When you are caught, you often look stupid and don't know how to escape, hence the name. When cooking, take two pieces of meat from fish gills and fry them with mung bean vermicelli produced in Danyang Douzhuang. It is characterized by hot but not hot, delicious taste and strong local flavor.