The origin of Husband and Wife Fei Pian

From “Husband and Wife Fei Pian” to “Husband and Wife Fei Pian” - the little-known origin of Husband and Wife Fei Pian

As we all know, Husband and wife's beef slices is a famous snack in Chengdu that is well-known to everyone in Sichuan. It was founded by Guo Chaohua and Zhang Tianzheng. After the public-private partnership, the Guo couple merged into the Chengdu Catering Company, and the company registered the "Husband and Wife" brand trademark for "Husband and Wife Fei Pian". Through the concerted efforts of several generations of the company, the workmanship and formula of Husband and Wife Fei Pie have been continuously improved. Feipian has become one of the 23 Chinese time-honored brands of Chengdu Catering Company, the largest catering company in Sichuan, and has successively won the titles of "Chengdu Famous Snacks", "Chinese Time-honored Brands", "Chinese Famous Snacks", "Chinese Famous Dishes", and "National Green Catering Enterprises" , "Chinese Time-honored Brand" and other honors, it has become one of the famous snacks that foreign tourists must try when visiting Sichuan.

But this is only the approximate origin of Husband and Wife Fei Pian. If it is not the old Chengdu, it cannot be truly detailed. As everyone knows, "Husband and wife's lung slices" were not originally called "husband and wife's lung slices", but "couple's waste slices". The historical origin of Husband and Wife Fei Pian is little known.

It is said that near Chengdu, there is a place where Chengdu’s ethnic minorities live together, especially the Hui people. Most of these ethnic minorities do not eat pork because of their Islamic religion or their own customs. Beef and mutton are the bulk of the meat consumed there. Moreover, they generally only eat beef and mutton, and they usually discard the offal. Every morning, after the religious Islamic butchers (we in Sichuan who manage this business are called "knifemakers") chant sutras, the cows are slaughtered and cut up, the meat is sent to the market for sale, and the cleaned internal organs are discarded in the slaughterhouse. One corner, piled high.

At that time, there was a young couple, the man named Guo Chaohua and the woman named Zhang Tianzheng. They saw these discarded offal being thrown away and felt it was a pity. The young couple had nothing to do anyway. I was obsessed with making a living, so I went to the slaughterhouse early in the morning, rummaged through the pile of offal, picked out the useful ones and took them home. I carefully sorted them out, cooked them in a pot, and after many experiments, Control the heat just right, and then use a knife to carefully slice, pick, cut, shave and process it. It really makes the tripe white and tender as paper, the tongue as red as birch, and the scalp as transparent and slightly yellow, combined with The couple carefully combines red oil, pepper, sesame, sesame oil, monosodium glutamate, fine soy sauce, fresh celery and other seasonings, so the cold "slices of lung" are bright red in color, soft and glutinous, spicy and fragrant, and tender. Characteristics of slag. Chengdu was a place where poor people lived together at that time. Because of its low price and delicious taste, the Guo couple's cold beef offal was popular not only with the poor who could not afford meat but wanted to eat meat, but also with the citizens who loved its delicious taste. Soon It became famous. Because the raw materials were picked out from the pile of discarded offal and cut into thin slices during processing, it was called "waste slices". Also, because the husband and wife went into battle together, the word "husband and wife" was added to the front. Later, this dish gradually became more and more famous.

After the public-private partnership, the Guo couple merged into the Chengdu Catering Company. The company felt that the word "waste" did not sound very good, so it changed the word "waste" to "lung" and registered "Husband and wife's Feifei" ”, this is the origin of the name of this famous dish in Chengdu. This dish has beef tongue, beef heart, tripe, and beef scalp. Later, beef was also added, but there was no beef lung, so it was also called "lung slices."

Mr. Chongyang, Chairman of Chengdu Catering Company of Sichuan Province (Executive Director of China Cuisine Association, Director of National Functional Technical Appraisal Institute, Vice President of Sichuan Cuisine Association, President of Chengdu Cuisine Association, famous Sichuan Cuisine Theorist) wrote a poem for "Husband and Wife Fei Piece" in the book "Ode to the Elegance of Sichuan Cuisine" which he devoted half his life to writing: "Husband and Wife Feifei Shop, a time-honored brand in China. The couple has been in business for sixty years. The development is more elegant. The taste is popular among the people, and the love spreads all over the world. There is a saying: Fei Pian is not lung, but spicy and spicy. The taste is harmonious, and the love between the couple will last forever. "So, this is the reason why "Husband and Wife Fei Pian" has no lungs.

This is the origin of Husband and Wife Fei Pian.