If I ask you what the most delicious food in Tianjin is, you might say Goubuli steamed buns. However, Goubuli steamed buns live in travel guides and Tianjin tourism promotions. In Tianjin, drinking mutton soup every day is what real life looks like. No, if you look at the cans of mutton soup all over the streets, you can tell that Tianjin people love mutton soup to the core. What is mutton soup like?
Looking at the mutton soup restaurants all over the streets in Tianjin, isn’t it obvious that Tianjin people’s love for mutton soup is deep in their bones. Mutton soup is the general name for mutton soup, whole sheep soup, haggis soup, and haggis soup. Tianjin mutton soup refers to mutton offal soup, also called mutton offal soup. Authentic halal mutton soup, the soup is milky white and the offal is neat.
Tianjin people love mutton soup so much, of course because the mutton soup is delicious.
Each family’s mutton soup has different flavors, some are simple and some are traditional, so-called “one hundred families and one hundred flavors”.
For a simple mutton soup, just add a few pieces of chopped old ginger to the main ingredients. As for the complex mutton soup, dozens of Chinese medicines must be added - this is the secret to the different tastes of each family.
Making mutton soup is very particular. First put the whole pieces of mutton liver, mutton heart, mutton tripe, mutton lungs, mutton intestines, mutton head meat, etc. into a white water pot and boil them until they are eight or nine times ripe, and then cook them according to different Cut the parts into strips, pieces, slices, and sections for later use; use beef bone, lamb bone, and chicken bone to stir-fry the soup until it becomes thick and milky white.
When selling, place the haggis on a grate, simmer it in a soup pot, blanch until cooked, put it in a bowl, pour the cooked broth into the bowl, and sprinkle with chopped coriander.
Although it is mutton soup, the soup is very delicious and has no smell at all. If you like red oil, you can add a spoonful of it yourself. Interestingly, there is no salt in the mutton soup. Sesame paste, soybean curd, monosodium glutamate, refined salt, chive flowers, chili oil, coriander powder and other condiments are placed in a bowl and placed around the mutton soup utensil for the eater to choose.
The best way to drink mutton soup is in the biscuits and chili. A piece of crispy and fragrant sesame cake, and rich and fragrant red pepper, paired with a portion of old tofu or gaba vegetables, the most authentic taste of old Tianjin.
It is said that drinking mutton soup is the happiest thing in winter, but in fact, it is also suitable to drink a bowl of mutton soup in summer. It can remove moisture, warm the stomach, promote body fluids, and protect the gastrointestinal tract, which is good for improving health. It is very beneficial to people's physical fitness and disease resistance in hot weather. Recommended places for delicious mutton soup:
For Tianjin people, mutton soup and mutton offal are really inseparable. A bowl of mutton soup with a beef sesame cake or sesame sauce sesame cake is what you will eat. So beautiful. Buy some haggis, go home and make soup or stew, whatever you want to make it delicious.
Where is the best mutton soup in Tianjin? Every Tianjin person has the mutton soup restaurant downstairs. If you come to Tianjin for the first time, you can also try these famous shops on the way.
One is Yiyangyitang (Fuxing Road store). The store is not big, just a reliable old-fashioned shop. The portion is very generous. The ordinary mutton soup is haggis soup, but the taste is bland. There are many condiments on the table, such as chili, soybean curd, and chive flowers. A heavy-mouthed person like me has to adjust it a little.
Junling Sheep Soup Restaurant. Located on Bawei North Road, this store was featured on TV and was very popular for a while. The mutton soup doesn't have a strong smell. Add some spicy food and have a sesame seed cake, it's really delicious. If you are not satisfied with a bowl of mutton soup, you can add the signature dishes, roasted mutton offal, cold mutton brains, and mutton tails. The price is also very affordable. You will become a repeat customer after eating it!
Da Shunzhai Liujia Shaobing , near Tonglou Hotel. To be precise, it's not a mutton soup restaurant. Their main business is sesame seed cakes, and their signature is beef sesame seed pancakes. But their mutton soup is also delicious. From time to time, you have to queue up to get a drink. There are so many old customers that every time you pass by, you feel like you can’t walk. You have to have a bowl of mutton soup with a beef sesame cake before leaving. I love it!