"China serves the best flour food in the world; and Shanxi ranks first in China in preparing flour food." Shanxi Province boasts nearly 1,000 kinds of flour food,made of a wide variety of materials.Shanxi flour food may serve as staple food,snacks or art works.
Classical Shanxi Cooked Wheaten Food
Soup Pot Types:Jiaozi dumplings,wonton,hand-stretched noodles,shaved noodles,dough strips pulled with hand and so on.
Fried Types:Pancakes,green onion pancakes,sweet cakes fried with fat,1,000layer cakes,fried pies with meat or vegetable filling,etc.
Baked Types:Crunchy sweet cakes,baked sweet cakes,baked salty cakes and sliced cakes.
Deep Fried Types:Various kinds of fried cakes,fried dough twists,oily flour,etc.
Steamed Types:Steamed nine-dragon Jiaozi dumplings,steamed cakes,cakes wrapped with lotus leaves,steamed bread of corns or sorghum,etc.
Soup Types:Wuhu tea,flour fried in beef tat with sugar and sesames,Ban soup,etc.
I've got a new delicious item to add to my favorite foods list - You Ge Ma!(pronounced something like "yo-ga-ma") This treat comes from Chinese countryside in the Shanxi province.I was visiting my wife's birthplace near the city of Jin Cheng and this food is apparently really common in the area and it is actually very delicious.It seems it's usually enjoyed with a meal of noodles or noodle soup.I probably packed a few pounds during my two days there!
The recipe is simple - dried persimon (though not completely dried as you can see from the pictures) covered in noodle batter (which is basically flour and water mixed,similar to pasta) cooked in oil.I guess you could call them deep fried persimons?
