In the 1990s, a dish suddenly became popular in Shimen County in northwestern Hunan and the adjacent Liyang Plain. Not only is it popular, it can be said that there has never been a dish that has achieved its status! Not only do people only order this dish when they go to restaurants, but there are countless restaurants of all sizes on the street named after it - "Shimen Sausage Restaurant". At that time, it was still called "Shimen Changzi", the name of the local family.
It was born out of the northern dish of pig intestines, but after improvement by Shimen people, they first dry-fried pig intestines, served with pepper, cinnamon, chili, bean paste, and stewed in the traditional Tujia method. eat.
When this dish became popular, because people at that time did not have the awareness of chain franchises or brand protection, for a while, large and small intestine restaurants opened on the streets of Shimen. , especially on both sides of the Shimen Railway Station leading to the market, sausage restaurants have sprung up like bamboo shoots, forming the famous "Shimen Changzi Street".
The Shimen intestines at that time were actually a quick, economical and delicious lunch! You can often see Shimen people, whether they are government officials, teachers, students, or traffickers and lackeys, invited to eat around a coal stove in the smoking and fragrant sausage restaurant. People not only eat up the vegetables in the bowl, but also end up asking for a large bowl of rice, pouring all the soup on the rice, and eating the soup rice with big mouthfuls.
Now, Shimen intestines have left this small mountain town and gone to big cities such as Changsha and Guangzhou, becoming a representative dish in Hunan cuisine. Now, not only has it been renamed to a formal name like "Shimen Fat Intestine Pot", but the utensils have also been changed, its value has doubled, and it has gradually moved away from the daily lives of Shimen people.
In addition to Shimen, fat intestine bowl has also been developed in Liyang Plain.