Recently, "chili pepper Hot Pot", a special food in Baoji, became popular. In the past 10 days, every chili pepper hot pot restaurant in the urban area was full of people. Some people even drove thousands of kilometers to Baoji and waited in line for four or five hours just to taste this bowl of chili pepper as a hot pot dip.
People in Baoji are used to calling peppers chili pepper. A bowl of spicy oil is the soul of Baoji cuisine, and it is also an indispensable condiment on every family table. Therefore, when people from other places thought about it, they even ate many delicious foods and snacks in Baoji, mainly in chili pepper, and called the city "Hot Baoji".
Hot and spicy online celebrity cuisine.
A rough bowl is filled with a large area of red pepper noodles, then crushed peanuts are put on it, sesame seeds are sprinkled on it, and a spoonful of hot oil is poured down. With a "squeak", a "bowl of chili pepper" in online celebrity chili pepper hot pot is delicious.
This bowl of chili pepper can be dipped in hot pot or steamed with Chili, and it’s all satisfying and enjoyable to eat in one bite. Some netizens even quipped, "It smells good to eat with this bowl of chili pepper on the soles!" Of course, this is an exaggeration, which shows the charm of a bowl of oil in Baoji.
"We have been eating chili pepper hot pot for many years, and we always feel that this way of eating is very common. I didn’t expect it to be so hot now!" Zhang Xuan, a citizen, told reporters that he had seen many foreigners punching in the chili pepper hot pot in Baoji recently. He originally planned to take his family to eat it again during the Qingming holiday, but he didn’t expect to wait in line for more than an hour when he came to a hot pot restaurant on Xinjian Road in the city at noon on the first day of the holiday. From the conversation, he heard that many people who came to eat were foreigners, so he went home with his family and left the opportunity to taste delicious food to foreign guests.
Chili pepper hot pot dipping is the standard of "Laogujia" hot pot, and it is also a distinctive feature that distinguishes Baoji hot pot from other places. Therefore, Zhao Hui, the owner of Laojiajia Hotpot in Qingjiangpo, the city, felt the deepest. He said that since last year’s "May Day" holiday, he found that many foreigners came to the store to eat chili pepper hot pot. After that, every holiday, the traffic in the store will increase greatly.
During the Qingming small holiday this year, the average daily reception capacity of their four direct stores was above 350 tables. During the three-day holiday, employees arrive at the store at 7: 00 a.m. every day, and begin to line up at 10: 30 a.m., sometimes after 10: 00 p.m., there are still people waiting in line at the door of the store.
Regionality is uniqueness, so when Baoji’s bowl of oily spicy seeds is constantly screened on Tik Tok, it becomes a trend and phenomenon to rush. Zhao Hui introduced that some foreign guests didn’t eat on the first day, so they stayed in Baoji for one night and queued up early the next morning before the door opened, so the store had to start business ahead of schedule. They are in the hottest Qingjiang store and Yintai store. Every day, the number is more than 400, and it is normal to queue for four or five hours. Some took the old people and children around and even took a nap on the stool, but they still insisted on waiting. What moved him most was that a guest from Beijing had been waiting until about 10: 30 in the evening and had not eaten. The employee was ready to get off work at this moment, but felt it was a pity that the guests had come all the way to eat this chili pepper hot pot, so they delayed getting off work and arranged it specially for the family.
The hot scene of chili pepper hot pot is not only in a store or a street. After visiting, it was found that during the Qingming small holiday, more than 40 hot pot restaurants in chili pepper were full. Not only are brand stores near urban main roads such as Qingjiang Road, Xinjian Road, Xinfu Road and Jintai Avenue very popular, but some shops hidden in back streets and alleys are also crowded, and almost every family will queue up at the dining point.
The traditional taste of scalding.
"Spice a dish with oil", which is especially suitable for Baoji in Shaanxi’s "Top Ten Monsters". People in Baoji love to eat hot and spicy oil, which seems to be a traditional taste memory rooted in genes.
Baoji is a pearl city on the ancient Silk Road, and its planting history can be traced back to the Ming Dynasty, so when other places are still experimenting with planting, peppers have been planted in Baoji on a large scale and become the main condiment of food. The Qin pepper planted in Baoji is of high quality and is a national geographical indication product. This kind of pepper has the characteristics of slender body, uniform texture, bright red color and beautiful spicy taste. It is not only deeply loved by local people, but also quite famous in the international market.
Lv Huaili is the founder of Baoji Deyoulin Food Co., Ltd. Fengming Town, Qishan County, where he was born, used to be one of the main planting areas of Qinjiao in Baoji City. He grew up growing peppers in the fields with his father, and he has deep feelings for peppers. In 2010, Lv Huaili resigned from his original job and started his current company, mainly dealing with Baoji peppers and processing various pepper products. Now the pepper products produced by their company not only supply all kinds of shops in Baoji, but also supply many high-end catering chain stores across the country, such as Baixiang, Xibei, Haidilao, Xiaoliu Tangbao and so on. Some time ago, after Tianshui Mala Tang was hot, the pepper noodles sent by their company to Tianshui, Gansu doubled, from 1 to 2 tons in a batch, and now it will be about 4 to 5 tons in a batch.
Spicy oil is not only the "finishing touch" of Baoji hot pot, but also the soul of many delicacies in Baoji. Chili is the most important seasoning for Qishan noodles with minced meat, which is called "the food of god". With the refreshing of Chili, the flavor of noodles with minced meat is "sour and spicy". Cut the pork into diced meat, pour it into an iron pan and simmer it with a small fire. After the oil comes out, add the spiced powder, and then pour a spoonful of vinegar brewed by grandma. The smell of the scorpion comes to the nose instantly. That’s not enough. You have to put it in chili pepper noodles. With chili pepper, the meat of SAO Zi suddenly became red, with a look and aura at once.
Chili pepper endows Baoji with more authentic food, which is mainly sour and spicy, not only conquers the taste buds of Baoji people, but also goes abroad. It is understood that in recent years, Qishan County has been committed to developing a "bowl of noodles" economy. Last year, its output value reached 14.8 billion yuan, and the transaction volume of e-commerce exceeded 2 billion yuan, making it a veritable industry to enrich the people.
Pasta is an easy-to-get-fat carbohydrate, but Baoji’s rolled dough is affectionately called "a rolled dough that is not fat" by netizens. The reasons are as follows: First, the rolled dough is a fermented food, and some sugar is dissolved in the process; Another reason is that chili pepper gave Baoji handmade noodles a unique taste, and diners enjoyed it and wanted to eat it again.
When the kitchen knife flies, the dough is cut into strips or rhombic pieces, put into a big iron spoon and poured with salt water. At this time, the dough is not delicious, but when a few spoonfuls of oil are added and stirred with chopsticks, the dough is instantly colored, just like a red flame, jumping with chopsticks. At this time, the diners’ appetite suddenly increased from 0 degrees to 100 degrees, and the taste impact brought by this vision is the magic brought by Baoji chili pepper.
"The annual online and offline output value of Baoji handmade noodles reached 5.55 billion yuan, which has developed from local snacks to a big industry." Zhang Xinhuai, president of Baoji Handmade Noodles Industry Development Promotion Association, said.
Baoji is rich in land and beautiful in water, and the best chili pepper has been planted. Chili pepper endows Baoji with unique flavors of various foods, and Baoji people cook the most delicious food with the least seasoning.
In fact, there are two seasonings for this delicious food, one is salt, and the other is oily and spicy. Salt is only the basic seasoning, but Youwangwang chili pepper endows ordinary soybean milk soup with magic and delicacy, making bean curd dance on the tip of the tongue and bloom on the taste buds …
Baoji people have played the role of chili pepper to the extreme. The cold dishes and hot dishes of Xifu cuisine are all spicy. Baoji snacks, except sweets, are mostly flavored by chili pepper.
Spicy in Baoji is a taste, a character, and a long-lasting culture and custom. This is probably one of the reasons why Baoji Oil’s pungent subnet is red.
A booming city card
Food is the most attractive business card of a city. Sichuan people are not afraid of spicy food, Hunan people are not afraid of spicy food, and Baoji people are afraid of spicy food, which is the business card of "hot Baoji".
The popularity of hot pot in chili pepper has once again strengthened Baoji people’s confidence in food.
In fact, Baoji cuisine is "spicy", and in recent years, it has been "attacking the city and plundering the land". Baoji Zhanghui noodles, joined 100 companies in the country, and opened to the United States and Japan; The live broadcast of Baoji dough roll set a record of 300,000 copies of light in 8 seconds; "Chuan Xiang Qi Xiang", with Baoji pepper and Zanthoxylum bungeanum as the main ingredients, is more spicy, with 2,500 franchise stores nationwide, becoming a dazzling pearl in the industry.
At present, it is an era of personality display. Cities should have personality, and food should have personality. Fast transportation and information have broken the original eating habits. Netizens and young diners prefer distinctive food, and chili pepper in Baoji has given the city the most distinctive food. Hospitality Baoji will further increase the promotion of food, optimize the travel and experience environment, and make Baoji’s "a bowl of oily spicy food" louder, farther and more attractive.
A bowl of chili pepper carries Baoji people’s wishes for a prosperous and happy day. If you want spicy food, come to Baoji!