Jinzhou assorted dishes

Origin: Jinzhou, Liaoning, China. Allusion: Jinzhou assorted dishes were founded in the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, with a production history of more than 300 years. It is said that there was a village called Nitrate Pot in the south of Jinzhou near Bohai Bay at that time. A family named Li lived in the village and made a living by fishing and catching shrimp. Sometimes he pours the leftover shrimp into the jar and sprinkles salt on it. After a long time, it gives off a shrimp fragrance from the jar, and the rest becomes shrimp sauce. Every time he eats, he scoops up shrimp sauce and gives it to his neighbors to taste. Everyone who eats it praises the shrimp sauce for its delicious taste. Later, he carefully managed, increased the number of insolation and stirring, and the shrimp paste tasted more delicious, which was sold in the market and was well received by people. One day, the Li family suddenly found a thin layer of oil in the shrimp sauce jar, tasted it, and it was quite fresh, so they filled some and put the cut celery and the like in it. Take it out a few days later and taste it. It's very delicious. Soon he added cucumbers, black beans and oil peppers to the shrimp oil to make four kinds of shrimp oil dishes, which were named "shrimp oil dishes". In September of the 21st year of Emperor Kangxi in Qing Dynasty (AD 1682), Emperor Kangxi went to Shenyang to worship ancestors and passed through Guangning Town. The government of Jinzhou sent shrimp oil side dishes to the pavilion in the south of the palace in Guangning Town. After tasting them, Emperor Kangxi repeatedly praised them. Since then, shrimp oil side dishes have replaced tribute shrimp and become a tribute of Jinzhou. Features: Jinzhou assorted side dishes are mainly made of 10 kinds of fresh and tender vegetables, such as cucumber, oil pepper, Jiang Dou, celery, kohlrabi, eggplant, bean, pear, shredded ginger and almond, and shrimp oil. There are strict quality requirements for all kinds of raw materials. In terms of color, cucumbers, oil peppers, celery, Jiang Dou, peas, etc. are green, ginger is yellow, almonds are white, kohlrabi is red and yellow, and pears are dark brown. In taste, it is fresh, crisp and palatable, and has no bitter and salty taste. Appearance, vegetables are fresh, without impurities, not coarse and not broken.
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