Ning fu Liu Xi yuan

Ningfu's "Six Happy Circles" has exquisite craftsmanship, a long history and a special taste. On May 18th, 2002, CCTV's "One Song" column went into Funing to hold the "Ningfu Food Culture Festival" with the theme of "Six Happy Birthdays". As early as the middle of the Ming Dynasty, Funing reached the sea through the river, with convenient land and water transportation. In Wanli, it became an important town in Huaidong. The salt industry is booming, and the business is booming. It is known as "the inexhaustible southeast and the inexhaustible northwest". Businessmen from all over the world gather in Funing to do business. In order to suit the tastes of people from different regions, local chefs in Funing have produced the "Six Happy Rounds", which symbolizes good luck and happiness. Chop the lean pork leg, add the egg to taste, add the fine powder of ginger and onion and fine salt, add a certain proportion of starch to stir, then make it into a ball with a spoon and fry it in an oil pan. Bake the skin with strong fire and cook it with slow fire. The meatballs cooked in this way are fried but not greasy, but meaty and not greasy, light and gentle, moderately salty and sweet, oily but not greasy, light but not thin, fresh and mellow, and unique in taste. It can be braised in brown sauce and boiled in clear water, which is very popular among merchants from south to north. Because meatballs mean complete auspiciousness, local people eat meatballs on holidays, birthdays, to be no.1, friends' visits, weddings and celebrations, and building houses and houses. Over time, people call this "six happy circles". When Qing Qianlong visited Jianghuai privately, he tasted Liuxiyuan. When he returned to the palace, he unconsciously sang a poem "I have traveled three thousand miles in Jianghuai, and I still remember the meat dumplings". Nowadays, meatballs, which are peaceful, light, fresh and mellow, have become one of the main brands of Huaiyang cuisine. In recent years, the meatballs in Funing have been constantly brought forth new ideas, from the traditional pork balls to beef balls, fish balls, celery balls, lotus root balls and lion heads. The packaged "Liuxiyuan" products of Funing Ningfu Food Company won the high-quality brand-name products of the Ministry of Light Industry and the excellent characteristic products of Yancheng City.
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