Dear Steemit friends:
Are you addicted to hamburgers? Would you choose a hamburger as your lunch if you're pressed for time? Did you know that in Asia, there is another popular kind of hamburger?..
Firstly let’s see a little story about hamburgers:
According to data statistics, McDonald’s sell 75 hamburgers every second, they sell 6,480,000 a day. In some countries such as Australia, USA etc, they have National hamburger day on 28th of May.
Talking about Hamburgers, maybe you guys will be more professional and knowledgeable than me. But today, I'm going to introduce everyone to a close relative of the Hamburger -- The Chinese Hamburger, Rou Jia Mo, or Meat burger. It looks some what similar to a Hamburger but you'll find that it tastes rather different. Some people even say that Hamburgers originated from Rou Jia Mo, lets discover this different kind of hamburger!
*All pictures below other than those marked with sources are of my own photography*
Rou Jia Mo & Hamburger
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The birth of Rou Jia Mo
Rou Jia Mo is perhaps one of the most famous foods in Xi'an. In Chinese, Rou Jia Mo actually means to press the bun with meat from both sides. Obviously you can see it's actually the bun wrapping around both sides of the meat. Actually, the original pronounciation is Mo Jia Rou which means loaf with meat. But in Chinese, this sounds similar to didn't add meat. That's why people started calling it Rou Jia Mo.
Traditional Rou Jia Mo
Meat
It has 2 types:
Dried meat Rou Jia Mo is made of pork.
The dried meat is not large slices of pork, traditionally the meat is cut into very fine and small pieces and then finally the soup source is added. The meat is then put into the bun and served warm!
Dried beef meat Rou Jia Mo
Dried beef meat is made by the Hui ethnic minorities, and should be Halal.
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Steamed bun
Bai Ji Bun: The general style of Chinese rolls are naked pie styles, however, Bai Ji Bun is made in the shape of a bowl. It's one of the main ingredients of Rou Jia Mo so should be baked crisp, fragrant and slightly yellow.
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Multi-layer baked bun ；It's much thinner than the Bai Ji Bun, and is thin with multi-layers making it really crispy.
My experience
1. Rou Jia Mo tastes fatty rather than greasy, but by contrast, I prefer the dried beef meat Rou Jia Mo. It tasty more salty than the pork one, but the taste is just right when eaten with the bun.
2. It hardly tastes like a hamburger. With normal hamburgers, the meat inside is a whole piece, with Rou Jia Mo, it's ground meat with many pieces.
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3. The bread of a hamburger is very soft, Rou Jia Mo tastes a little bit harder, crispier and chewier.
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4. People love eating Hamburgers with fizzy drinks.
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We love eating Rou Jia Mo with porridge.
Millet congee----You can only taste a slight scent of rice, I think it’s better to add some sugar.
The famous snack - Paste hot soup. It's a bone broth soup mixed with natural Chinese herbal medicine. The cooking liquor is a mixture of thickening cornstarch and water which is both viscous and spicy. For extra texture and flavour we add meat balls and vegetables to the soup.
The famous snack---Jujube foam paste. It uses ormosia to boil, then add red date juice and transfer the batter to boil. It has a nourishing function.
Glutinous rice wine with boiled eggs----This is my favourite soup and has the added effect of beauty. I always eat it with fired dough sticks. It’s really yummy!
Fired Dough stick
5. As with hamburgers, it’s a very convenient street food, saves a lot of time to eat and it’s easy to make.
If you live in the west, I will recommend the restaurants below:
1.USA——Xi’an Famous Foods in Manhattan, Queens and Brooklyn：http://xianfoods.com/locations/
2.UK——Xi'an Impression in London: http://xianimpression.co.uk/
Also has similar restaurant in Sydney, Singapore.. .
Last but not least, let’s see the cooking process of Rou Jia Mo!
亲爱的Steemit朋友, 你是不是汉堡包的钟爱者？在你赶时间的时候，会不会选择美味的汉堡包作为午餐？那你有没有听说过在亚洲有另外一种特别的汉堡包也很受欢迎？说起汉堡包，你们也许比我还专业。不过今天我想和大家分享汉堡包的亲戚——中国汉堡包，我们叫它Rou Jia Mo或者Meat burger。它的长相和我们熟悉的汉堡包有些相似，但是等你吃过它，又会发现不太一样。甚至有人说汉堡包就是起源于Rou Jia Mo，今天我们就来探索一下这一款与众不同的汉堡包吧！名字的起源Rou Jia Mo是Xi'an 最著名的小吃之一。在中文里是肉夹着馍的意思，可是看看它的外形，明明是馍夹着肉呀？其实原来人们是叫它“馍夹肉”的，后来因为在方言里的发音类似于“没加肉”，没加肉可不行呀！所以就改名为Rou Jia Mo了。 传统的Rou Jia Mo传统的肉夹馍分为2种： 用猪肉做成的腊汁肉肉夹馍，腊汁肉不是一片一片的猪肉，传统的做法，是把肥瘦相间得肉，剁的很细很小，然后浇上汤汁，放进馍里，然后加热片刻，就做好了。腊牛肉肉夹馍，将回族人民善于制作的清真腊牛肉夹在馍中。白吉馍：一般的烧饼为饼状，而白吉馍为碗状。它是制作肉夹馍的主要材料。制作得时候烘烤到双面松脆微黄即可。千层烧饼；它比白吉馍要薄很多，它的千层皮非常松脆。 我的经验肉夹馍吃起来肥而不腻，相比之下，我更喜欢腊牛肉肉夹馍。腊牛肉比猪肉的肉夹馍咸一些，但是有了两边的烤馍，香脆的口味中和，让整体味道刚刚好。吃起来和汉堡包很不一样，汉堡包的肉是一整块，而肉夹馍里的肉是切的很碎的。汉堡包的面包很软，而肉夹馍的馍咬起来很硬，比较有嚼头。吃汉堡包我们喜欢搭配各种饮料,而吃肉夹馍我们搭配粥。小米粥——本身只有米香味，我觉得加入白糖更好喝。著名的小吃糊辣汤——把天然中草药按比例配制的汤料，胡椒和辣椒加进骨头汤，汤汁就会像勾芡一样，非常粘稠，味道香辣可口。汤里加入肉丸和各种蔬菜。著名的小吃枣沫糊——红豆熬汤，放红枣汁，调入面糊，煮熟热食。有滋补功效。糯米甜酒煮鸡蛋——有美容的功效， 是我的最爱。经常搭配油条一起吃。 和汉堡包一样，是最方便的street food，吃起来非常节省时间。并且做法也很简单，是可以快速做好并食用的食物。
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