Xi'an, famous snacks. Hulu, when the market comes from the Song Dynasty food "fried white gut" medical scientist Sun Ssu Tang reportedly eating a monopoly in Chang'an pig intestine small shop "chop suey" smell after eating that big, greasy and more, asked stores, production may not know the law. So Sun Simiao told the trick, and stay drug stores gourd for seasoning. Since then "chop suey" changed the old flavor, scented, full of customers every day. Sun Ssu stores grateful, especially the medicine gourd hanging door first. "Hulu" hence the name. Prior to 1929, Xi'an, there are two "miscellaneous lamb Tan" (ie production of food pig offal), which He Leyi-run lamb mixed with pig intestine dominated most famous. Due to thick fat pig intestine, shaped like a gourd, so called Hulu. To the 1930s, Hulu meat has been developed to include many varieties of seafood category, pork Hulu also been some changes in the use of materials. Such as increased bone soup and chicken, to make Flavored more mellow, quality improvement, autumn and winter season to become snacks.

Hulu practice, and eat steamed mutton similar, now south of the courtyard "Spring occur" best for its authentic quality.

large intestine head methods

First, the basic production process

The basic production process is: the pig colon clean by baking, slicing boiled or filaments. The ginkgo break it into large grain steamed in a bowl, and then the large intestine, cooked meat, squid or chicken, cucumber pieces neatly on the discharge steamed grain, water 3 to 4 times with authoritarian broth boiling points of the bowl impregnating the steamed soup block, then into the wine, water, spices, monosodium glutamate, coriander and garlic wire, and finally poured from the broth. Edible served with garlic, pickles, hot pepper sauce. Its characteristics are, soup strong mellow, delicious taste. Spring occur Hulu has been identified as "Chinese snack."

Second, the specific production process

Gourd head Paomo reason popular cooking process and its fine and rational use seasoned are inseparable. Its cooking process are three program processing intestinal stomach, soup, steamed. To move through the gut belly, stroke, scratch, turn, pick, turned back, drift, and then stroked, cook, dry more than 10 processes in order to achieve decontamination, fishy, ​​greasy requirements.

1, the process intestine, stomach

Take 30 kg pig intestines, pig stomach each with 24 kg salt (240 g), vinegar (300 g) were rub their hands for 20 minutes to remove greasy and smell. The salt, vinegar kneaded into the water in the intestines, intestinal left hand and hold the head, right hand clenched intestines, first the intestines stroke net mucus adhered to the wall of the outer, dirt, and then flattening the stomach, thin knife scrape the skin and then washed with water in the intestine into the belly (stomach will take over and rinse). The intestines into the water, with both hands to turn the index finger from the colon head starts to be turned over after all, on the wall greasy dirt tear off a clean, dry water after water rinsing stroke. Intestine, stomach turned over back, each with salt (240 g), vinegar (300 g) was kneaded for 10 minutes. Then rinsed with water first, and then flushing the water repeatedly, until the intestine, stomach color white, shiny, odorless until the smell of urine. The fire in a pan with hot air, the washing intestine into the pot, while baking low heat while stirring, about 10 minutes, the heat shrinkage by the large intestine, with the discharge water smell of fish. Removed, then rinse twice. At about 35 cm away from the cutting head colon, gourd head removed. Water was added to about 60 kg wok, stir boiled, into the intestine, stomach, several Shaozhu roll, skim foam, use medium heat for about 30 minutes, during which stirring to 7-8 times, then pressing iron grate, cover and simmer for about 4 hours, plus 600 grams of salt. After 10 minutes, remove the large intestine with a colander head (i.e. gourd head), and then fine fishing intestine, stomach final fishing. A bamboo with a fine, suspended take large intestine, drain water, then broken section of the intestines and colon head into the bamboo screen to dry.

2, pig bone processing

Weight 2.4 kg pork cut into blocks. Insertion of iron in the large water about 72 kg, stir boiled, into the bone, pork, and cook for about 10 minutes, skim foam, see when the white liquor, the hens and the salt (900 g), and then cook for 30 minutes, the inner pepper, aniseed, cinnamon, strawberry charged net cloth bag, tie the bag, under the wok, use simmer 3 hours, poured into a thick soup until the pot in large.

3, steamed

Iron juice was poured in a large soup about 18 kg, 9 kg of water, stir to boil. Break it into pieces to eat steamed bread pieces into the bowl (usually 200 g per bowl), were then cooked large intestine, the stomach of each was cut into three cooked long slope eight blades; cooked pork cut into two pieces a half inches long, thick-half meat; chicken into two one half inches long, the width of a quarter sheet. Then, in the discharge breaking them neatly on a good bun, with the boiling pot soup poured repeated 3-4 times to block steamed soaked soup bowl. Then add cooking wine, water, seasoning, monosodium glutamate, coriander, garlic silk, topped with lard (15 g), and then poured the soup into the amount of roll can be eaten.

Key Features

Hulu characterized by: cleaning block steamed Baijing Liang, Ruanmian sliding tough, tender Tangxian, fat and not greasy, mellow aroma. Kimchi is accompanied by refreshing when eaten. Hulu features: Tangnong mellow, fragrant oil palatable, for all ages, that is food, but also a superior tonic.

Specific eating

Bread and steamed bread mutton gourd head Paomo used slightly different, little soft texture, break it into blocks is relatively larger; and by the chef and the large intestine chamfered pork, chicken, where the biggest names in the place block the bun, add appropriate amount of fans, with pouring foam Feitang 3 to 4 times (a bit like the way steamed mutton), so that the permeate soup steamed block; then add an appropriate amount of lard, water, spices, monosodium glutamate, parsley, garlic , chili oil, and finally poured the amount of boiling soup and serve. When eating, with garlic, pickles, hot pepper sauce, such as chewing, it is refreshing liqueur. The pig was washed soup, smashed, fat hen with the pot boil, skim foam, add seasoning packet, straight boiled white. Spring Paomo gourd head occurs by feeding bun will break it into the bowl chopsticks block header size, and then by the chef's knife-shaped groove cut into intestinal stomach bubble three or four times, so that soup steamed infiltration block, then plus a small amount of mature oil, water, seasoning, monosodium glutamate, parsley, garlic, chili oil, and finally poured the amount of boiling soup and serve. When eating, served with garlic, kimchi, it is refreshing liqueur, people appetite.