In fact, since the economy developed, New Year’s Eve dinner in many places has begun to become a national standard. After all, there is nothing affordable now, and seafood can also be kept fresh and transported to the mainland.
However, there are still many things in my memory that are unique to Shaanxi, and I can share them.
1. Yanyousi Donkey Meat
Having a bag of Yanyousi Donkey Meat when I was a kid was a luxury to the extreme. Every Chinese New Year, my grandma would open a bag of Yanyousi. When I was thinking about it, our grandchildren gathered around to see if there was any loose meat that we could eat right away without waiting for it to be served.
2. Bring elbows
As a hard dish, elbows are actually available in many places, but because our family has a relative in Dali, we receive it every year from Dali's elbow is a whole elbow with bones. When you put it on the plate (actually it's a bowl), it immediately raises the level of the entire dining table.
3. Huang Guichou Liquor
Now it seems that you can only buy it on Taobao. When I was a child, I drank this in addition to champagne at home. It can be drunk cold or heated, and it will be a little bit The smell of alcohol made me drunk when I was a kid. I imitated Li Bai with my brother and sister (not Li Ronghao, but the one who drank alcohol, thank you).
4. Bingfeng
This one is definitely unique to Shaanxi. Now when we eat skewers during Chinese New Year and summer, we always have several cans of Bingfeng. Don’t compare Mirinda to this one. Two different things that only children in Shaanxi can understand. They are a kind of tsundere and very cheap (Dr. Jay: They are both tsundere brands, only sold at cute prices).
5. Zeng cake (zeng, four tones)
This is not a standard part of the New Year’s Eve dinner. It is a traditional snack unique to Shaanxi. My grandma used to buy it as a New Year dish. In fact, it’s like steaming glutinous rice, red dates, or candied dates on an iron steamer, and they are layered. When you buy it, you will be cut into a piece (cut into a cake, cough cough). Children in the south can think of it as you. The eight-treasure rice bar.