What are the specialties of Yixing?

Ceramic purple sand tea set? He Qiao dried bean curd

Zisha tea set: Yixing, Tao Dou, with beautiful and rich Taihu Lake in the east, is located at the junction of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shanghai and Anhui provinces, and in the centers of Shanghai, Nanjing and Hangzhou. It is an emerging city with developed culture. Yixing, formerly known as Yangxian and Jingxi, has a history of more than 2,200 years since the establishment of Yangxian by Qin Shihuang. Neolithic pottery pieces, celadon kiln sites in the Tang and Five Dynasties and fragments of purple sand cans before the Ming Dynasty have been unearthed in this area. As early as the Song Dynasty, brown and black kiln-made tea sets were deeply appreciated by all drinkers, so in the Ming Dynasty, Yixing teapot masters came forth in large numbers, and purple sand tea sets became popular. Known as the "land of fish and rice" in the south of the Yangtze River. Yixing has superior conditions, rich products and a wide variety, and the catering industry is relatively prosperous. For a long time, it has initially formed the characteristics of "many local products, good taste and antique tableware". Yixing's natural cuisine is characterized by birds flying in the sky, whitebait and white shrimp swimming in the water, lily and wild mushrooms growing underground, chestnuts and gingko growing on trees, hairy crabs in the lake, steamed ribs, braised fish head soup and spiced wild ducks. Yixing flavor is characterized by fine selection of materials, teaching students in accordance with their aptitude and different seasons. He is good at stewing, stewing and frying in cooking. Pay attention to soup mixing, tableware, original flavor, fresh flavor, thick but not greasy, light but not thin. Crisp bones without losing shape, smooth and tender without losing taste, can be described as the hometown of food. Yixing cuisine absorbs the characteristics of Huaiyang cuisine and Suzhou cuisine, and selects local specialties as the main raw materials. The main cuisines have gradually become Huaiyang cuisine, Sichuan cuisine and Cantonese cuisine. In addition, Yixing's flavor snacks are also quite famous. Special snacks include small wonton, turtle jiaozi, crab yellow steamed bread, bean curd, sugar taro, and begonia cake. At present, the area of Nanyue Qiaodi in Yixing City has become a food street. There are Yixing Hotel, Lu Yi Hotel, Garden Hotel, Guotai Hotel, Jinlong Hotel, Old Place Hotel, Sanjiang Hotel, Yueyang Pavilion, Kelin Hotel and Haitian Hotel, which have formed a certain scale and characteristics in the local area. Some delicious dishes in Yixing are crispy yellow birds: the yellow birds are small and fat, made by crispy cooking, crispy outside and tender inside, with unique style. Hairy crabs in the lake: the lake is unpolluted and the water quality is fresh. The shell of hairy crabs is clean, and the crabs are fat, fragrant and fresh. Braised whitebait: milky white in color, crisp and tender in outside, spiced pheasant in inside: crisp and mellow in chicken, drunk in marinade soup, golden in color; diced chestnut chicken: chestnut-flavored, waxy and tender in chicken, ribs soup in sliding steamer: temple specialty pot-cooked, tender in meat, mellow in soup, and bright red in taste: roasted silver carp head soup, supplemented by. Sweet-scented osmanthus lily soup: lily is sweet, fragrant, crisp and glutinous, clearing away heat and diuresis, moistening lung and relieving cough, calming the heart and calming the nerves, and nourishing the body.

He Qiao dried bean curd: He Qiao old oil spiced dried bean curd was used as a tribute in Qing Dynasty. Dried tofu is dark sauce-colored, shaped like a silver dollar, and has a net pattern. It is characterized by exquisite selection of materials, fine production, tough quality, salty but not astringent, sweet but not greasy, fragrant but not bright, moderate flavor, slow chewing and endless aftertaste. It is a good gift for relatives and friends, travel, dining table and wine.