As a well-known agricultural province, the local people of Zhengzhou take the cooked wheaten food as the major one in their daily life. Zhengzhou cuisine is called Yu Cuisine. Soups and broths are paramount in Yu Cuisine.
Local Cuisine
Huimian
Huinian (stewed noodles) is a traditional cuisine in Zhengzhou with a long history. Without exaggeration it is the No.1 dish in every Zhengzhou local’s heart. It cooks the noodle in the mutton soup and then adds some materials such as the cooked mutton, citron daylily and agaric. It tastes great with the fresh mutton soup.
Cooking carp in three styles
It is dish that you can have three tastes with the carp. The three cooking styles will used to cook the three parts of the carp. You will taste the fried carp, sweet and sour carp and the carp soup just in one dish. The carp grow up in Yellow River and before cooked it has been soaked in fresh water for three or four days.
Tube Chicken
Tube Chicken (Tong Zi Ji) used to be the famous dish of Kaifeng. After the store moved to Zhengzhou in 1954, Tube Chicken became one of popular dishes in Zhengzhou. It features bright yellow color, fat but not greasy and the more chewing, the more fragrant.
Men Bing
Men Bing is another improvement of flapjack. It is a mixture of shred flapjack, pot meat and some seasonal vegetable.
Hu La Tang
Hu La Tang is an important soup of Henan resident’s daily life. It is boiled with the mixture of cooked beef, beef soup, flour, vermicelli, kelp, spinach, pepper, ginger, salt, vigegar, as well as sesame oil.
Zhengzhou Restaurants
Xiaoji Restaurant
Xiaoji Restaurant is considered as a card of Zhengzhou cuisine. In Xiaoji Restaurant, Sanxian Huimian is the most popular. The soup is made of chicken, bones, and mutton.
Ma Yuxing Chicken and Duck Store
Tube chicken in Ma Yuxing Store has been a famous dish in Qing Dynasty in Kaifeng. In 1954, Ma Yuxing moved the store to Zhengzhou.
Fang Zhongshan Hu La Tang
The reason why a lot of residents keep drinking Hu La Tang in this store when they were children us that the taste of Hu La Tang in Fang Zhongxing Store is always as same as the origin.
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