Snacks

"No.1 Scholar" porridge

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Updated: 2010-11-08 16:03

 

Jidi Zhou (Jidi Porridge): Jidi Zhou served in the Wuzhan Ji Restaurant is the most famous of all. It has been a noted snack bar since the early 1900s. Liuhua Porridge City: inside the Liuhua Park, Liuhua Lu, Guangzhou.
 

Major ingredients include pork liver, intestines, kidney etc.

Story

In the Ming dynasty, a boy who had a great gift in poems in Xiguan of Guangzhou city was too poor to go to school and had to sell vegetable for living.

One day he was starving and passed by a shop selling congee. Showing appreciation in the boy's gift, the shop owner bought part of his vegetable and offer congee to him for free. Since then, the boy can eat different congee with flavorings like pork liver, intestines or kidney in this shop everyday. After several years of schooling, the boy became the No. 1 Scholar at that time.

To pay back to the shop owner who offered free congee to him, the boy visited him as soon as he became the No. 1 Scholar. The shop owner prepared a congee with pork liver, intestines, kidney for the Scholar, hence "NO.1 Scholar" Congee came into being

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