Let’s talk about some delicious food during the holidays—Jinhua Pork Bone Pot

Wednesday, May 2, 2018 ? Sunny

Speaking of Jinhua Pork Bone Pot, Jinhua locals and outsiders who often come to Jinhua should know about it. Because Jinhua people often choose the famous Guozhuang Street in Jiangnan to entertain guests or friends for dinner!

Jinhua carcass stew is a delicious casserole stew. It uses more than 20 kinds of traditional Chinese medicine and spices, which are carefully blended, and then cooked together with pork carcass (stick bones) for more than 20 hours to create a nourishing and healthy dish with a unique taste, low price and good quality.

The owners of the pot house later developed many varieties of Jinhua pot, including snake pot, dragon and phoenix pot, pigeon pot, old duck pot, pickled fish pot, mushroom pot and so on. Of course, the star of the show is Jinhua Pork Bone Pot.

It was in the late 1970s that Jinhua Clay Pot really flourished. At that time, Wenzhou people began to go nationwide to promote the Wenzhou products they produced. All people and goods going in and out of Wenzhou and Lishui must be transited in Jinhua. People from all over the country running to Wenzhou and Lishui must also stop in Jinhua. Therefore, Jinhua Railway Station became the transfer hub for Jin Liwen.

People who are a little older should have an impression of the prosperity of Jinhua Railway Station at that time. In fact, the Jinhua Railway Station at that time was not only prosperous. In my impression, there was a constant flow of people 24 hours a day.

At that time, the South Bus Station and the Railway Station were both on the same Zhongshan Road, less than 500 meters apart. Every day, merchants come and go on this street, which is less than a kilometer long. All the shops on both sides of the street are open 24 hours a day, and restaurants and food stalls abound.

In that era when we didn’t know what hot pot was, Jinhua Pork Bone Pot came into being in such an atmosphere. After years of polishing, it became a famous dish in Jinhua and created a wide range of Jinhua Pot series. With footprints all over Zhejiang, as well as Jiangsu, Shanghai, Hunan, Guangdong and other places, Jinhua Claypot is very famous and its business is very prosperous.

In recent years, Chongqing hot pot, Macao Doulao, Haidilao, etc. have spread all over the world, and Jinhua is no exception. Coupled with the demolition of the old Jinhua Railway Station, Jinhua Guozhuang Street has lost its prosperity after several moves.

It’s been a long time since I’ve had Jinhua Claypot. On a whim that day, Xianxian and Huohao, a couple, made an appointment with their friends to relive the taste of pork bones in clay pot.

After ordering, the boss ladles the long-stewed carcass and soup prepared with traditional Chinese medicine from a vat filled with carcass into a casserole, then adds thousands of pieces and large oil bubbles, and puts it on the fire Bring to a boil, then sprinkle with chopped green onions and ready to serve!

There is a hole in the middle of the dining table. At first, a small coal stove was used, and later a small gas stove. Now it is more refreshing, and an induction stove is installed directly in the middle of the table.

After the carcass stew was brought to the table, the waiter turned on the induction cooker and provided us with disposable gloves and straws. Guohuo looked at these objects and said curiously: "Hoho, such high-end people now use straws to suck out the bone marrow."

Yes, the main essence of eating carcass pot is to suck out the bone marrow. Bone marrow is said to be supplemented by whatever you eat, so there has been a rumor that eating carcass bones is a supplement for calcium.

Then the clerk brought us fresh chili, soy sauce, vinegar and other seasonings. We also ordered some lotus root slices, enoki mushrooms, coriander and other side dishes.

As soon as we opened the pot, the fragrant carcass soup hit our hearts, and we couldn’t wait to eat it. Drinking the fragrant carcass soup, chewing the stewed carcass meat, and sucking the delicious thick bone marrow, we were intoxicated by this long-lost delicacy.

The two of us were more elegant and slowly sucked the bone marrow from the bones with straws, while the guy still grabbed the bone stick and sucked hard against the bone hole with his mouth. Making a loud "chichi" sound, he shouted while eating:

"Enjoyed, enjoyed it." After a while, he was sweating profusely after eating. My best friend and I also had beads of sweat on our foreheads.

Looking at the pile of bones and dregs piled in front of him and the little soup left in the pot, Huo Huo wiped his mouth with satisfaction: "It is indeed delicious, but it is also very laborious. Look at me, I’m sweating all over. Eating is actually a very tiring task!”

Oh, I understand, it turns out that the word “difficult” comes from this.