Xiao Fei couldn't wait to look at the menu intently, suddenly his eyes lit up, and he said to me with a hippie smile: "Ziyue, look, aren't you writing about the dragon flying and phoenix dance, you see, this Hubei actually has this kind of cake with the same name called the dragon and phoenix cake, you have to order a little, take a look, don't miss it." "I suddenly remembered that there is also a detailed description in Ba Jin's "Home" - the man's box arrived in the morning, and it was carried into the middle gate all the way, with a total of 30 shelves, loaded with phoenix crowns, dragon and phoenix cakes, etc., which were escorted by two servants.

Curious in my heart, so I did not hesitate to order this cake, the shop Xiao Er acted quickly, and after a while, the yellow Chengcheng, fragrant round cake handed us over, only to see that its diameter is larger than the bowl, there is a dragon and phoenix auspicious pattern, the middle is refined by sesame, sugar, sesame oil, osmanthus and other raw materials, the color is golden, pine crisp and refreshing.

While we were eating sweet and delicious cakes, we listened to the shopkeeper Xiao Eryang sprinkled and said: "Fengxi cake is also known as dragon and phoenix cake." Chinese folk marriage etiquette supplies. After receiving the dowry from the woman, the man gives the woman a gift in return, and also gives it to the woman as a dowry. This cake is made of flour, with dragon and phoenix patterns and exquisite decoration, with the auspicious meaning of reunion and dragon and phoenix. Give it away in pairs. It is refined with refined flour and various fillings, which is a traditional snack in Hubei and a good gift. There is also a popular historical story, during the Three Kingdoms period, Liu Bei wanted to win Jingzhou, but he couldn't start. Zhuge Liang offered advice for him and borrowed Jingzhou. In order to get back Jingzhou, Sun Quan pretended to be willing to marry his sister to Liu Bei as his wife. After Zhuge Liang learned of this letter, he hurriedly said to Liu Bei that we might as well plan and do a fake show. You can first make a gift to the subjects of Eastern Wu, so that the matter of the lord marrying Sun Quan's sister will become a household name. At the same time, he designed to inform Wu Guotai of this matter, Wu Guotai has always had a good face and loves her daughter very much, she will not let Sun Quan treat his sister as a victim of beauty, so this marriage will be faked. Liu Bei said that all over the country should be able to make gifts for him to go to Soochow to get married. There is a master, who has made sugar snacks for most of his life, and is quite famous in Jingzhou, after seeing Liu Bei's notice, he wants to show his skills, and makes a kind of big cake with dragon and phoenix patterns, symbolizing the matching of dragons and phoenixes, auspiciousness. This cake not only has the crispy flavor of Jingzhou, but also has the sweet characteristics of Dongwu, which is very refreshing. As soon as the dragon and phoenix cakes were sent to Jingzhou, they were selected by Zhuge Liang, who ordered the master to quickly make 10,000 pieces, and asked Zhao Yun to lead 500 soldiers to send the dragon and phoenix cakes to every household in Nanxu City, and made up a ballad: Liu Bei Dongwu came to get married, and the dragon and phoenix cakes were the media. Within a few days, all the people in the city knew about Liu Bei's marriage in Eastern Wu. At the same time, Liu Bei also personally told Qiao Guolao about Sun Quan's marriage of his sister to him, and took out the dragon and phoenix cakes and asked Qiao Guolao to transfer them to Wu Guotai. When Wu Guotai learned about it, he hurriedly asked Sun Quan, but Sun Quan didn't admit it at first, but later saw that he couldn't hide it, so he explained that this was Zhou Yu's beauty plan. When Wu Guotai heard this, he immediately became angry, beat his chest, and shouted loudly: "You are all smart people, how can you do such a foolish thing! You used my daughter as bait and killed Liu Bei, wouldn't my daughter become a widow." Qiao Guolao listened to it and said,

"It's better to really recruit Liu Bei as a son-in-law. Soon, Wu Guotai really married his daughter to Liu Bei. Zhou Yu's beauty plan is completely bankrupt.

The people of Jiangdong smiled and said: "Zhou Lang has a clever plan to settle the world, but he lost his wife and his soldiers." Liu Bei later specially rewarded the master who made dragon and phoenix cakes for him, and built a dragon and phoenix cake shop in his hometown.

Zhuge Liang nominated the store and wrote a plaque of Wu Yongfeng. Since then, the dragon and phoenix cakes have become the supreme gift for the people in the Zhujiahe area to marry their relatives and daughters.

In the southeast of Fujian, there is also the custom of sending wedding cakes, here called wedding cakes as gift cakes, has always been the dowry of men and women engagement, and the gift cake is also a good product for the elderly during the Mid-Autumn Festival.

In the south of our country, there are even ceremonial cakes as a ceremony, and other sayings that are not polite. We smiled and said, "It's so good, the owner is really knowledgeable, knowledgeable, and eloquent." What a hidden storyteller. The shopkeeper looked shy, he smiled embarrassedly and said: "Ashamed, ashamed, these are stories that women and children know, a piece of cake." "It seems that there are really all kinds of wonderful stories hidden in the folk.

Hu Jiaojiao said curiously: "Xiao Er, what is the Yunmeng fish noodles on this recipe, it is very poetic and dreamy to listen to the name, I eat this on my waist." Xiao Er said patiently: "This Yunmeng fish noodles is one of the characteristic traditional foods in Hubei, mainly produced in Yunmeng County, Hubei Province, and is named after it. Yunmeng fish noodles are made from flour and fish meat such as herring, carp or grass carp. This kind of food is very nutritious, easy to digest and absorb, and has the effect of warming and nourishing qi, and is praised as longevity noodles. It is one of the characteristic traditional foods in Hubei, mainly produced in Yunmeng County, Hubei Province, and is named after it. Yunmeng fish noodles have a long history and are well-known. Yunmeng fish noodles are selected

The fish of "White Crane Diversion", the water in the osmanthus pond, the new wheat flour and sesame oil are refined as the main raw materials, white as silver, fine as silk, so it is also called

"Silver Fish Noodles". It has two ways to eat, one is that the noodles are cooked immediately after they are made, and then they can be eaten with condiments, and the other is that the noodles are dried and packaged after they are made, which can be stored for a long time and cooked when eating.

The reason why Yunmeng fish noodles taste particularly delicious is inseparable from the unique product resource conditions of Yunmeng.

"Mozi Gong Losing Chapter" once recorded: Jing has a cloud dream, the rhinoceros and elk are full of foothills, and the fish and turtles of the Jiang and Han Dynasty are rich in the world.

Because it is rich in all kinds of fresh fish, it is most famous for its fish noodles. Yunmeng folk songs have - to get the beauty of the fish, the osmanthus pond takes water, the phoenix platform is dry, and the fish is in the white crane mouth.

It is said that there is an osmanthus pond in the suburbs of the city, which is clear to the bottom, and the water of the pond is luscious; the phoenix platform is not far from the osmanthus pond, the terrain is high and broad, and the sunshine lasts for a long time.

In the diversion of the white crane in the river in the west of the city, the bream, white, carp, crucian carp produced, the fish is fat and delicious, and it is the best in the aquatic products.

Hu Jiaojiao was probably addicted to listening to the story, she said curiously: "This little brother, do you have any other good stories about Yunmeng fish noodles?" The shopkeeper said proudly: "Of course there are, there are two, one legend is that a long time ago, there was a very prosperous business in Yunmeng City, Xu Chuanxuan, because there were many foreign businessmen who came to this cloth shop to do business, the cloth store opened an inn, specializing in receiving foreign businessmen. The inn has hired a chef Huang who is skilled and good at both red and white cases. One day, when Chef Huang was mixing noodles on the table, he accidentally knocked over the fish puree prepared for the fish balls, which was not easy to use again, and it was a pity to discard it. Chef Huang had an idea, so he easily mixed the fish puree into the noodles, rolled them into noodles and cooked them on the table, and the merchants ate them, and they all praised the delicious taste of this noodles. Later, Chef Huang did the same and simply called it

"Fish noodles", in this way, fish noodles have become a well-known specialty of the inn. Later, Chef Huang made too many noodles and left a lot of them before they were cooked, so Chef Huang dried them.

When the merchants want to eat, they cook the dry noodles and send them to them, but the taste is even more delicious. In this way, in the continuous exploration and improvement, the unique flavor of Yunmeng fish noodles has finally become a famous spot.

Chef Huang, who made fish noodles by accident, later devoted himself to the development of fish noodles, and he used the fish of Baihezui, which was chopped into puree and used

The water and noodles of "Osmanthus Pond" are added with sea salt, blending, rolling and other processes, and placed on the phoenix platform to dry and collect.

The well-made fish noodles are not only used to entertain merchants, but also used by the boss as gifts to cloth guests from all over the world, making Yunmeng fish noodles widely spread.

There is also a good legend that a long time ago, there lived a royal aunt at the foot of Yuntai Mountain in the north of Yunmeng City.

One day, my aunt poured freshly cooked fish soup into the noodles, and the family said that the noodles tasted fresh.

The clever aunt thought, if you add some fresh fish meat to the flour to make noodles, wouldn't it taste better? So the aunt took the clean meat of the fresh fish, chopped it into meat puree and put it into flour, and made the first bowl of Yunmeng fish noodles.

The news that the aunt of the Wang family would make fish noodles soon spread in Sixiang, and people came to learn the art and made up a ballad - rolling out the dough paper, cutting the dough like a flower thread, turning around in the pot, and serving it in a bowl like a peony.

Hu Jiaojiao happily clapped her hands and applauded: "It's good, it's so good, it's so good, it sounds like it's imaginative, I want to get into it, my saliva is about to flow out, okay, Xiao Er, give each of us a big bowl of this, what Yunmeng noodles." Xiao Er said hello heartily and quickly, and went to the back kitchen to serve Yunmeng fish noodles, we looked at his distant figure one by one, and the inside of his mouth was already surging, turning over the river and the sea, and the waves were turbulent.