Nanyang, formerly known as Wan, is a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Henan Province, located in the Nanyang Basin at the junction of Henan, Hubei and Shaanxi provinces. It is named because it is located in Funiu Shan Zhinan, north of Hanshui River. Nanyang has a long history. As early as 400,000 to 500,000 years ago, Nanzhao ape-man thrived in the upper reaches of the Baihe River. About five or six thousand years ago, villages and houses appeared here, resulting in handicrafts such as agriculture, animal husbandry and pottery making. People in Nanyang mainly eat pasta, and rice is the main food in some areas. Jiaozi's ancestors? Joule? It originated in Nanyang. Nanyang, as a city with a large population in Henan, has a wide variety of food and snacks. Let's take a look at 10 Nanyang's gourmet snacks, which are regarded as delicious by local people and praised by foreign diners.

1, Xinye sister-in-law

Xinye Saozi, also known as Sanguo Saozi, is one of the famous snacks in Henan and one of the specialties in Nanyang. It is a traditional snack made of fresh beef and mutton with anise, pepper and other seasonings by special technology, belonging to Henan cuisine. This dish has a history of 1800 years, with special technology and unique flavor. It is characterized by delicious taste, fat but not greasy, long storage time and can be eaten alone. A family can enjoy the taste of hot pot and cook with vegetables.

2. Nanyang steamed cuisine

Nanyang steamed cuisine is a traditional famous dish with full color and flavor, belonging to Henan cuisine. It has many kinds, convenient operation, good color, smell and shape, fresh and delicious taste and high nutritional value, which is a must in Henan Province. Many Chinese and foreign guests from afar have come to Nanyang, and they don't eat steamed dishes, which is not a famous dish with local flavor in Nanyang.

3. Xinye Board

Xinye Noodle, also known as Zhang Fei Noodle, is a traditional noodle snack in Nanyang. Zhuge Liang once set fire to a famous local dish in Xinye, a historic city in the Three Kingdoms. It is famous for its refreshing taste, chewiness, pan-spicy taste and thorough fragrance.

4. Tanghe bean jelly

Tanghe bean jelly is a delicious traditional snack. As early as 400 years ago, Tanghe people used pea powder and dried potatoes to make bean jelly. Because the bean jelly made from these raw materials is brittle and should not be stored for a long time, many people have an idea: can other raw grains be used instead of peas and dried potatoes to make bean jelly? After many experiments, by chance, an old master surnamed Duan found that bean jelly made of mung beans was not only soft and elastic, but also cool.

5. Fangcheng steamed dumplings

Steamed dumplings originated in Fangcheng and spread all over the country, but no one sold them or bought them. Fangcheng is the ancestral home of the Zeng family in the world, but few people are surnamed Zeng. These two characteristics are actually very easy to explain. Later, when Fangcheng people cooked snacks, steamed dumplings spread all over the country. Because Fangcheng steamed buns, fried dough sticks and Chili soup are mainstream breakfasts, which are affordable and easy to sell, few people make steamed dumplings to sell. During the Guangxu period of Qing Dynasty, Kaihuasi Street in Fangcheng County was founded in steamed dumplings. At first, steamed dumplings were not called dumplings, because their names were indecent. It was renamed steamed dumplings, because its edge is like a rapidly maturing ear of wheat.

6. Deng Zhou Hu La Tang

Dengzhou hot soup has become famous. The ingredients of Dengzhou Hula Soup are mainly fresh fat mutton, gluten and batter, mixed with more than 20 kinds of vegetables such as onion, ginger, pepper, pepper, fennel and Flammulina velutipes. Its color is brown and its taste is fresh. Add a few drops of ground sesame oil and old vinegar before eating, which is more fragrant. Every time a foreign guest comes to Dengzhou, he will always have a quick taste. Smart Dengzhou people, while consolidating the market in this city, look around the world and extend in all directions. They not only opened Dengzhou Hulatang branch in dozens of large and medium-sized cities such as Beijing, Zhengzhou, Wuhan and Guangzhou.

7. Wang Bo Guo Kui

Wang Bo Guokui is a traditional snack of Han nationality in Henan. The tendons are fragrant and elastic, and there is no feeling of being caught. It is made by repeatedly kneading fermented flour and dry flour into a shield-shaped pot kang. After the two sides are solidified, several pot helmets are stacked in the pot and steamed with slow fire until cooked without adding water. The baked pot helmet is not burnt or burnt, and it has the color of raw noodles and the taste of cooked buns. It weighs about 2-2.5 kilograms and has a diameter of over 33 centimeters. Although the thickness reaches 0.6 cm, it looks like raw noodles when cut with a knife, but it tastes fragrant and elastic, and there is no feeling of being caught. Wang Bo Guokui is a special food baked with white flour. It looks like a pot and a helmet, all white, as if it had been dried. It is more than a foot in diameter and two inches thick, each weighing four pounds. It's crisp, fragrant and refreshing, chewy and hungry, and it won't go bad after a long time.

8. Tanghe hemp candy

Tanghe sesame candy is made of popcorn, chopped flowers, mixed sugar, heated, cooled and cut into semi-circular slices, which is very crisp. Sesame candy is made by mixing white sesame seeds with sugar, heating, cooling and cutting into rectangular slices. Peanut candy is made of fried peanuts and covered with a thick sugar coating. The regular production of sesame sugar, put a tablespoon of syrup, a little honey and white sugar in the pot, boil it with low fire, add fried peanuts and popcorn, stir while frying, and control the proportion of raw materials, and finally form a high-viscosity dough, like the big dough used for steamed bread.

9. Guotan roast chicken

Tanghe county Guotan roast chicken is famous far and near, known as "tender meat" and "spiced and boneless", and it is a traditional dish in Nanyang, Henan. It began in the heyday of the Tang and Song Dynasties and has a long history of more than 400 years. The finished meat is rotten, the bones are brittle and the skin is not broken. When eating, the flesh and blood automatically separate, fat but not greasy, delicious. It is rich in various nutrients, high in protein and low in fat.

10, Wozi noodles originated from Regan Noodles, Wuhan. After it was introduced into Xinye, Henan Province, it went up a flight of stairs, adding mung bean sprouts and diced beef, and pouring butter and pepper to improve the taste. Extremely spicy, changed its name to Wozi noodles. At present, Wozi noodle restaurants are mainly distributed in Xiangyang, Hubei, Dengzhou, Henan, Xinye and Nanyang. Wozi noodle restaurant is becoming more and more popular all over the country. It is one of the necessary choices for local people to have breakfast, and it is also a famous snack in Dengzhou, Henan.