The down-to-earth atmosphere of life is the most direct feeling of Chongqing, and the hot pot, string incense, noodle restaurants, Sichuan restaurants, snack bars, etc. on the street together form the city's food context. Most of the Sichuan restaurants on the street are small businesses, with no standardized products of chain restaurants and no well-trained service standards, and most of them rely on authentic tastes to attract diners from the surrounding areas.
Sichuan cuisine is inseparable from the taste of home. The dishes of traditional Sichuan restaurants can also be eaten in ordinary families in Sichuan and Chongqing. And if an ordinary restaurant wants to win the approval of the locals, it must be surprisingly successful. Linhua Restaurant is on the ramp at the intersection of Linhua Road, operating for more than 20 years, in the past when the network was not developed, it has become the taste of Sichuan cuisine in the hearts of Chongqing people by word of mouth.
Linhua Restaurant is just a small restaurant on the street, and the store is not big. Long tables and round tables are all placed in the hall, using all the space where tables, chairs and benches can be placed, and there is no distinction between private rooms and dining areas. The menu on the wall is written by the boss with a brush on rice paper, and the rice paper is broken and simply glued with transparent glue, but the specialties and traditional Sichuan dishes are clear at a glance.
Frying, stir-frying, steaming, boiling, and frying are all the same here, chicken, duck, fish, beef, rabbit and other ingredients are all-inclusive, spicy, sour and spicy, sweet and sour, pepper and salt, salty and fresh, light and other flavors are complete, and there are nearly 20 kinds of dishes just by using pork ingredients (including offal ingredients) to cook. If it is not for the extremely high requirements for environment and service, it is enough to taste authentic Sichuan cuisine in Linhua Restaurant.
In Sichuan cuisine, oil and heat are also crucial to the dish. Rapeseed oil is indispensable for frying, stir-frying, and frying, and the aroma of the oil blends with the ingredients after high temperature, so that the aroma of the oil also penetrates into the food. The control of the heat determines the final taste of the dish, the same ingredients and seasonings are cooked with different heats, the taste may be completely different, the fire is too small to precipitate the fragrance of the seasoning, it lacks spicy, and too large it is easy to cause the ingredients to be burnt and bitter. Linhua Restaurant controls the oil temperature and heat properly, and the ordinary home-cooked taste can also be recognized by local diners.
Pickled pepper-flavored dishes are a must-have for almost every table, with eel, rabbit, chicken and other ingredients available in pickled pepper flavors, and even pickled pepper scrambled eggs. Pickled pepper eel is Linhua's specialty dish, the eel needs to be fried quickly over high heat after being cut into sections, and the oil should be sufficient to ensure that the eel is crispy and smooth and will not be too mushy, and the pickled pepper, Sichuan pepper and other seasonings are fried in high temperature oil, the aroma is overflowing, and the garlic moss is full of spicy flavor.
Fish-flavored eggplant cake is also Linhua's signature. Usually the sauce is poured on the eggplant, but Linhua's fish-flavored eggplant cake is served in a small bowl with the fish-flavored sauce, so that diners can control the amount of sauce they dip. Fish-flavored dishes are also classics in Sichuan cuisine, with salty, sweet, sour and spicy flavors, and fish-flavored shredded pork and fish-flavored eggplant are representative dishes. In fact, there is no real fish in the fish-flavored dishes, but it is borrowed from the method of cooking fish seasoning, hence the name. Linhua's fish-flavored eggplant cake, slices the eggplant, adds the pork filling in the middle, coats it with flour and then deep-fried it in an oil pan, the skin is crispy and the meat filling is tender, and the prepared fish-flavored sauce is sticked, which can be served with rice or as a snack.
Although Linhua is small but clean and tidy, it can also be cleaned up in the delivery room, but the service is slightly delayed during the main meal. Although the small shop is a little noisy, it still has the lively atmosphere of the market. Order some boiled, stir-fried and other dishes, accompanied by a few bottles of beer, you can relieve the spicy and greasy. If you want to have a good meal, the variety of stir-fried dishes is enough to satisfy the appetite of diners, not only to eat well, but also to eat full.
