Xuwu Temple Hou A-Po Rice Cake Introduction
In Xuwu, returning locals will certainly visit Shuntian Temple and look for Grandma to eat a bowl of her rice cake served with meat soup, easing their homesickness. Many people in Xuwu have been eating Grandma's rice cake since their elementary school days. As they grow up and move away for school or work, they eventually return with their families to eat, telling the younger generation that this is the rice cake they have cherished since childhood, which they still remember fondly while living in a foreign land. Grandma's name is Li Xie Juhua (born in 1939), originally a farmer who, during the off-season, would sell groceries using a cart. With relatives running a business in the nearby market, she decided to set up a stall there for an easier life, leading to the production and sale of rice cakes. The ingredients for Grandma's rice cake include scallions, fried scallions, salted eggs, pork, and indigenous rice. The preparation method is: 1. Stir-fry the pork, scallions, and fried scallions, then set aside. 2. Grind the indigenous rice into a rice paste and dilute it with boiled water. 3. Place the stir-fried pork and salted eggs in a bowl, pour in the diluted rice paste, and steam until cooked. It is customary to enjoy rice cake with soup. Grandma's soup originally featured nine-mother fish, but due to the scarcity of the fish, it has been replaced with meat soup. The preparation of meat soup involves blanching the pork, blanching the bok choy, boiling water with cornstarch, adding the blanched pork and bok choy, bringing it to a boil, and then adding seasoning to finish. The meat soup noodles are served with boiled oil noodles in a bowl, then...
