Wugang Braised Food
2023-10-31
Waking into Wugang City, you will first smell the aroma of stewed food before you see the ancient street.
This small city with the smell of brine permeating the air has been rated as the “city of braised food in China”.
Wugang people are good at stewing vegetables and meat. More than 20 kinds of Chinese medicinal herbs are added with mellow bone broth to make brine, and the ingredients are put into the brine to boil and cool. After repeating this process 5 times, and then coloring the food with caramel, you will get a pot of delicious Wugang Braised Food.
In Wugang, where everything can be marinated, the most popular food must be tofu. The secretly made tofu is full of tenacity, so it is especially suitable for making marinated tofu and salt tofu.
After further marinated and processed, it becomes chewy stewed dried tofu. The aroma of beans and herbs slowly emerges on the tip of the tongue between each bite with a long aftertaste.
In Wugang, 150 streams and rivers are densely crisscrossed. The copper geese, which love water and grass, live by the streams and rivers.
As one of the ten most famous geese in China, it is named copper geese because its beak, webs and feet are coppery, and the sound it makes is like that of knocking a copper gong. The copper geese, which live among mountains and rivers all year round, are also delicious when made into food.
Wugang people have innovated a number of ways to cook copper geese. One of them is to braise the geese. In particular, Wugang Copper Geese are more suitable for being marinated than other varieties of geese. Stewed with tangerine peel, perilla, cinnamon and other spices, and after pickled, colored, oiled, and marinated, copper geese will transform into fragrant and tasty braised geese in about a week.
As early as the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Jiajing praised the copper geese. In the Qing Dynasty, Wugang Braised Food became royal tributes.
In the streets and alleys of Wugang, there are braised food stalls everywhere. The scent of brine permeated the entire Wugang City, drifting into the world farther away. The unique combined taste of medicinal herbs and various food with original flavors is loved by all people.
