Gong Qiang, the three eastern provinces of the picture worm creativity, the biggest winner of the cultural tourism economy this winter. From Harbin's New Year's Day three-day slash of nearly 6 billion tourism revenue, to Shenyang's luxury bathing center to break the circle again, to this day there is still a steady stream of southern friends, choose to go to the north to celebrate the Spring Festival, for a time the hotel is full, the ticket is sold out - so that the Northeast villagers around them, all mixed feelings: the ticket back to the Northeast is not easy to grab, this year it is estimated that you can only go to Sanya for the New Year. However, when the southern friends were still in the frozen pears that were cut and plated, they were immersed in the forcibly sweetened tofu brain, and they were amazed by the "affordability**" of Northeast cuisineThe hometown flavor that countless Northeast travelers miss most and haunt their dreams may be very unified: pig killing dishes. 
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Killing pig dishes, this is a cute name that reveals three points ** and seven points. In the narrow sense, pig killing dishes can be eaten in any authentic Northeast restaurant, and its main flavor is sauerkraut and fatty white meat with local characteristics, and blood sausage, pork liver, fat intestine ...... will be added according to the chef's habitsAll kinds of pig water elements, simmer over low heat, the more stewed the more fragrant. However, what is more hidden and difficult for tourists to experience - unless you become a son-in-law of the Northeast - is the pig-killing dish in the broad sense. It is not a dish, but a grand celebration that belongs to the people of Northeast China in the ice and snowWhen the New Year is approaching, the Northeast people will start from killing the pig, and carefully stew the meat of different parts of a whole pig into various delicacies to welcome the most important festival of the year, or the most important guests in their hearts. Every year, after Laba, a secret and vast ritual begins to sweep the entire three eastern provinces with the trend of "the countryside surrounding the city".Kill the pig
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Not every pig can be called a "pig of the year". The standardized "pig for pig killing" must be a little stupid pig that has been carefully fattened at home for at least a year and killed and eaten in the morning - in the context of the Northeast, the so-called "stupid" has a certain "local" simple emotion, just like stupid eggs and little stupid chickens, all refer to local native, home-raised mountain running livestock. This kind of non-assembly line production pigs often fall fat and strong, and the oil fragrance is moving. The day of killing the pig in the New Year must also be a good day and an auspicious day, and even the elders in the village who can pinch and calculate will be carefully selected, and then the host will call friends and guide each other, and welcome the villagers and gather together. The busiest time for rural people in the northeast may not be Chinese New Year's Eve, but the day of the pig killing. 
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On the morning of the same day, as soon as the sky was bright in the ice and snow, four or five Northeast men with tigers and bears and big shoulders and round waists began to sharpen their knives and murderous intentions. This is definitely a long-planned war, the men have a clear division of labor, some people hold hemp ropes, and carry pigs on scales; Some people are "pig killers", who are in charge of life and death; Someone took a basin to catch the blood and was responsible for the aftermath. In short, it is in full swing, busy but not chaotic.
Suddenly, only a tragic pig cry was heard, the white knife went in and the red knife came out, and the men, men, women, and children inside and outside the house began to get busy collectively - the aunts and sisters-in-law hurriedly added stoves, boiled water, and prepared bowls; The old and young masters who were responsible for killing pigs caught the hot red pig blood that had just been released; Gluttonous children are already on the kangtou, waiting for a plate of steaming pork sand liver (actually pork spleen) or a plate of fried golden and crispy "oil zila" (i.e. pork lard residue) that is the first to come out of the pan
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The rest is left to the experienced cooks to handle the work, and the hair is removed, peeled, disemboweled, the meat is dissolved, and the red and white water is ......The fresh big stick bones are the first to be stewed in the pot, and the pot of soup that comes out becomes the flavor base of this banquet; Then the elbow, fine row, backbone, loin, five flowers, pig's trotters, ......Fresh meat is sent to the kitchen one after another, and a "whole pig feast" is on the scene! The most significant thing in the pig-killing dish is the blood sausage. Just like the best beef hot pot restaurants in Chaoshan, they are all opened at the door of the vegetable market; The best blood sausage in the Northeast always comes from the "pig killing scene" - fresh pig blood, with the body temperature of the pig, poured into the basin, and constantly stirred with chopsticks until the coagulation substances in the blood are wound on the chopsticks and are removed, and the rest can be smoothly poured into the intestines; The casing also comes from the pigs that fall to the ground, and the most common is to use the small intestine (of course, the large intestine and the bitter intestine can also be used) as a container to carry the hot blood, fill and seal, and cook and shape. 
Photography |atBlood sausages are violent, ambiguous. The mouth is as tender as fresh tofu, with the fierce flavor of animal offal, and the pleasure of drinking blood is covered by a casing as thin as a cicada's wings, giving people the courage to eat blood；To deal with a plate of blood sausage, the unique garlic sauce of the Northeast is indispensable, and the garlic is mashed in a garlic jar - if you want to be lazy, you can put it in a plastic bottle and smash it to release a strong and enticing allicin, which is then seasoned with soy sauce. This simple and effective seasoning is especially common in pig-killing dishes with a strong meat smell. The mellow white meat taken out of the sauerkraut soup is dipped in garlic sauce; Tight strips of meat broken off on the side of the big stick bones and dipped in garlic sauce; Blanched fresh pork liver out of the pot is crushed and dipped in garlic sauce - this coarse and uneven "hand-broken liver" has a larger surface area than cutting, and can fully absorb the flavor ...... of the sauceIf blood sausage is a "miracle soldier", then the white meat of pig-killing vegetables is the "main force". White meat, and the sauerkraut of the Northeast can be called the best partner. Sauerkraut is to white meat, just like a supporting role is to the protagonist, praise is to tease, Wu Mengda is to Stephen Chow, and Yu Qian is to Guo Degang. The winter snow in the Northeast closed the door, and in the days when there was a lack of fresh vegetables in the past, the pickled sauerkraut was clear and sourA year ago, it happened to be the best time for the flavor, so using sauerkraut with white meat is the only way for Northeast people to resolve greasy. 
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Fresh pork is at its fullest in the first few hours after slaughter, and it only needs to be boiled in plain water to have a different sweet aroma. The fire is blazing, the heat is churning, and the greasy white meat is silently dissolved, leaving only the beauty and mellowness; The acid of the sauerkraut is also softened by the aroma of fat, making it gentle and pleasant. The two met and knew each other in the cold and freezing, just like the golden wind and jade dew met, and it was the victory that countless people in the world. Of course, with the Northeast people's culinary attainments at the pinnacle of pork, every part of a pig's body will be treated accordingly on the stove. The heart meat (also called Luodi meat) with a slightly hard taste and the tenderloin with a slightly chai taste are just stir-fried with green peppers and shallots over high heat, and they become fragrant and tender; The fat intestine with a slightly greasy taste and the pork liver with a slightly dry taste are just hooked with a thin sauce to make the taste rich and layered, becoming a famous dish of fat intestines and liver tips; Then slice the marinated pig's head meat, cut the pig's ears into strips, cut the pig's elbow into rolls, and cut the gelatin after the condensation of the pigskin into the pigskin jelly, and the plates of cold dishes have also been ......So a few plates of liver sausages were served, a few bottles of beer were served, and the people on the kang were already drunk, complaining to each other in the sound of gongs and drums. Killing pigs is the New Year's flavor of the Northeast people, but beyond the New Year's flavor, it is also the food totem of the Northeast people. In the cities of Northeast China, whether it is the popular Erbin Shenyang or a small border town, if a restaurant can do a good job of killing pigs, whether it is sauerkraut and white meat, stewed blood sausage, bone-breaking meat or boiled meat, then the store has its own confidence and signboard, and has the "underlying logic" that can be called Northeast cuisine。If you have watched "A Family in the Northeast", you will know that Niu Xiaowei, a well-known street godfather in Changchun, Detroit, in the East, has only become the only designated CEO of Dada Pig Killing Dish throughout his life. 
Photographer 161326093926986 Picture Worm Creative and in the rural areas of the Northeast Great PlainsA pig-killing dish is the highest courtesy to the guests. Especially, if you love a Northeast man or a Northeast girl, when you accompany him and her home, a beautiful and lively pig killing dish represents the deep recognition of the other party's parents. In this land of icy environment, but with unwavering passionA meal of killing pigs is a grand festival in itself: relatives, friends, and villagers gather together early in the morning, killing pigs and helping the cooks, and the rest gather in the house to drink tea and chat, chatting for a short time, narrowing the distance between each other and smoothing out the dust of the four directions. After all, if you eat pig-killing dishes, isn't it a festival? Where is not the township?