Chongqing Deyuan Sour Plum Soup

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Deyuan Sour Plum Soup is a Chongqing old-fashioned snack with a long history. The sour plum soup made with sour plum is particularly delicious, with a little ice, the taste is simply overbearing! It tastes completely different from the sour plum soup blended with sour plum powder on the traditional market. Deyuan's classic old-fashioned sour plum soup is made from sour plums through a traditional fermentation process. It takes at least 5-7 days to make a batch of sour plum soup.

In the Chinese medical book "Compendium of Materia Medica" said: "Mei Shicai is half-yellow, and smoked as ebony." It can remove heat and cool, relieve pain, and even cure cough, cholera, dysentery, mythical novel "White Snake" Biography wrote the story of the Umi plague. The soup is digestive, stagnation and stagnation, thirst, and astringent lungs. In addition to annoying the nerves, regular drinking can indeed eliminate rickets, health care, and is a rare health drink in the hot summer. The founder of Deyuan Sour Plum Soup is Zhu Yuanzhang. This person not only has the name of the emperor of Daming, but also has a temper like a temper. At that time, there was no testing instrument. In order to "decipher" the ingredients of Deyuan Sour Plum Soup, Cai Xiong had to go to Deyuan to drink two cups a day, relying on his own mouth to identify ingredients. Because Zhu Yuanzhang's secret recipe "water depth", after drinking for two or three years, the ingredients were understood. It turns out that the sour plum soup is filled with two kinds of sugar, and the ratio of the two kinds of sugar is also very particular. Which one is more and the other is less, the taste is very different. It tastes completely different from the sour plum soup blended with sour plum powder on the traditional market. Deyuan's classic old-fashioned sour plum soup is made from sour plums through a traditional fermentation process. It takes at least 5-7 days to make a batch of sour plum soup. As a well-known snack in Chongqing, from the founding of Deyuan in 1934 to today, this dessert shop has passed 83 years of history and was once rated as “Chinese famous shop”. In the memory of the old Chongqing people, "Deyuan" is the childhood taste that accompanied them. Deyuan sour plum soup, small dumplings, and London cakes have been popular throughout the city.