Why is Hu La Tang, a cold-dispelling food, not popular in the north (northeast)?

Because for the northeast people, the cooling and heat preservation performance of soup, even Hu spicy soup, is far from enough.

The appearance and popularity of food largely depends on natural conditions.

Hot clear soup is almost as cold as winter in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River. Forget who Lai Yaodong is. I wrote that when I was a child in Suzhou, I went to school early in the morning to eat a bowl of meaty noodles. Like a rickshaw puller, I buried the meat under the noodles and ate it. Hot soup melts the fat, the noodle soup is delicious, and the big meat is not greasy. Try it in the north, not to mention the fat in the meat can't melt. The fat on the soup curdled before two bites of noodles were eaten.

In the middle reaches of the Yangtze River and Qinhuai, although clear soup is still the main thing, it has to be embellished. After all, the thermal insulation capacity of oil is much stronger than that of water.

In Henan, Hu spicy soup is sticky, sticky and has a large dose of pepper, and its heat preservation ability has reached a new level.

Further north, southern Hebei eats bean foam (some parts of Shandong eat sweet foam). Some interviewees said that sweet foam and hot soup have similar meanings. My feeling is that bean foam is thicker than Hu spicy soup and has better cold-proof effect. Of course, there is also a question of economic conditions. The soil in southern Hebei is relatively poor, the economic conditions in the farming era are not as good as those in Henan, and the snacks used in Hu spicy soup are not as exquisite.

Further north, after crossing the 38th parallel, Jizhong, including Shijiazhuang, had already changed to eating beef patties, which were covered with fire, and the noodles were too thick to keep out the cold, relying on thick oil and solid cakes. When I was a child, it was colder than now, let alone in the morning. At noon, I went to the stall to eat fire, or a drop of soup fell on the table. It was a white round block. After a few bites, my lips were covered with butter, so I didn't eat fast enough. I asked for a big bowl, and when I got to the bowl, it was all white oil. I can't imagine what it would be like to switch to sticky soup.

After Baoding, it is the world of mutton offal soup. The staple food is chop suey. Besides heavy oil and bread, you have to rely on meat to keep out the cold. Add soup while eating. Sesame cakes should not be soaked in soup, or they will cool too quickly. Shanxi mutton offal also put vermicelli, Hebei mutton soup has never seen vermicelli. Why? A chopstick vermicelli froze as soon as the soup came out, and it was cold and unpalatable to hang on your mouth.

(Add to this place that Shanxi at the same latitude is definitely colder than Hebei, so the mutton soup line in Shanxi is farther south than Hebei. Shijiazhuang and Taiyuan are similar in latitude, Shijiazhuang and Baoding are still keeping warm by butter in soup, and Taiyuan has begun to eat mutton offal. Shanxi goes further north, including Zhangjiakou next to Shanxi. If there is not enough mutton soup, we will eat yellow rice cakes. Yellow rice cakes are sweet as snacks in Jizhong, and delicious with scrambled eggs with vegetables in Yuxian.

I really passed the customs and went to the northeast. Hey, hey, look, there are so many answers to this question. Is there anyone in front who answers the traditional Kanto? Now I'm filling in my hometown in Northeast China. In fact, our family has been transferred from the northeast for more than 60 years. I really haven't heard the old man say that we eat out in the northeast in the morning. It's not good to sit on your own hot kang and eat something. Why do you want to go out for dinner? There is no modern urban system (such as commuting system, heating system, public transportation system, material supply, etc.) in the climate of Northeast China. ), there is no breakfast culture at all. There are also things similar to the texture of spicy soup, such as camellia noodles. In the early years, people were well-off and the old people cooked something to drink. Young people went to the temple to buy a bowl to drink, and now they drink it as a snack, not the kind of thing that is covered in cold. If you really want to cook a pot of hot soup outdoors, you may not have enough money.