After experiencing a century of history and been developed for three generations, the Cooked Qiaojiao Beef Soup has become an outstanding local dish of long standing in Leshan. Its medical function of dispersing colds and relieving coughs, and Chinese herbal theory of “compensating viscera with viscera” has greatly upgraded the taste and grade of this famous local dish. After several developments of the dish, attention has been increasingly paid to the taste of the soup. On the basis of the traditional soup taste, modern seasoning materials, such as black pepper, monosodium glutamate, sprouted broad bean and etc. have been added to augment the dish. Scores of Chinese medicines are combined and then the soup is boiled to the “essential soup”, which is more scientific and nutritional. For this dish, four major features come into being; they are a jade-green soup color, a continuous fragrance, crisp beef offal, and various methods of eating it. |