Tingzi Yu Guangzhou is one of the most famous specialties to fish, eggs, silk, jellyfish, fried peanuts and other ingredients added to the porridge is made. Tingzi Yu slip Ruanmian to porridge, aromatic flavor is known, either in the streets or in the large restaurant in Guangzhou, you can taste this specialty congee.
Tingzi Yu History
Old western suburbs of Guangzhou, lychee trees planted on both sides of the river, called Lychee Bay, one of the famous ancient Guangzhou “Liwan night to sing” will refer to here. Every summer evening, there are many literati and all visitors to this play, swim the river boat shuttle. There dinghy (Guangzhou dialect known as “agents”) which specializes in “Tingzi Yu,” it said, “Liwan Tingzi Yu.” If the shore or another boat needs of tourists, the boat owner will be a bowl of porridge bowl of congee handed to put the past to sell, very popular. Gradually, even the land of the small food shops also sell this Liwan Tingzi Yu called congee it.
The main features Tingzi Yu
Tingzi Yu Guangzhou is one of the most unique dishes, and is rich and smooth porridge Ruanmian, aromatic flavor is the most important feature of Tingzi Yu. Tingzi Yu’s main ingredient is fish, lean meat, fried dough sticks, peanuts, green onion, also adding floating skin, jellyfish, beef, squid and so on. Traditional Tingzi Yu Guangzhou people think eating in the boat, and the river water boiled porridge only flavor, less water currently used previously.
Tingzi Yu legend
About Tingzi Yu Guangzhou, there are two different legends:
① According to legend, there is a Family Decline in Guangzhou “West Off Kuoshao”, he was the dilemma of economic constraints, bought a boat, at the start of the selling porridge Lychee Bay to make a living. With fried peanuts, fried squid, fried rice vermicelli, lettuce silk, jellyfish silk, silk, etc. for tripe cooked porridge material, guests eat, put the material into a bowl porridge, temporarily adding fresh fish, The flavor into boiling porridge (flavored porridge this multi-purpose poultry or raw fish bones boiled), then sprinkle with coriander, onion, basil leaves, and finally add a handful of shrimp, a few drops of sesame oil, hot, fragrant end before the tourists. This porridge because the boat Aberdeen (PRD said about 4 meters, covered deck, in the middle or posterior segment with canopy boat as “agents”) to sell, it was called “Tingzi Yu.” Since the use of materials rich in umami taste, deeply welcomed.
② According to legend, a girl named Goldwater boat people, very kind hearted. Day her father caught a carp put back into the river. After a few years Goldwater’s father is seriously ill, she was very sad, came to bless the river pray immortal. Then a fairy out of the water, said: “I was a few years ago you saved carp you just cook some fish porridge add some oil to sell people things crisp, you can change money with your father to see the doctor, within 10 days can be cured. “Goldwater did so legally cure his father’s illness, from which porridge was named” Tingzi Yu. ”
Tingzi Yu is not only delicious specialties in Guangzhou, but also precipitated the Guangzhou people’s cultural history. In the present, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Guangdong congee shop, Tingzi Yu are essential snacks.
