• What is Hula Soup?

Hula soup, also known as hot pepper soup or spicy soup, is a common traditional soup for breakfast in Henan, with pepper, pepper, beef, bone soup, cornflour, noodles, day lily, peanuts, agaric, bean curd skin. Hula soup is a soup made from a variety of natural Chinese herbal medicines in proportion, followed by Pepper and hot pepper, with bone soup as the base. The soup is characterized by its rich taste, beautiful color, thickness, spicy and delicious, it’s perfect for other early meals. Has developed into Henan and Shaanxi provinces and other surrounding provinces are fond of and know one of the snacks. Hula soup is China’s characteristic soup food, is loved by everyone, often as a breakfast, its characteristics are spicy delicious, nutritious appetizer, suitable with fried dough sticks, steamed stuffed bun, scallion oil cake, pot helmet, thousand layer cake, and other noodles.

• History

For the history of hula soup. Since its main ingredient, pepper, was introduced into China only in the Tang dynasty, the upper limit of its production should not be earlier than that of the Tang dynasty, despite the folklore that hula soup was invented in the Zhou dynasty and the Cao Wei period. The Song Dynasty said that is quite credible, Hula Soup is a folk snack, classics rarely involved. According to experts, the ancestors of Hula soup should be hot and sour soup and meat congee, according to the “Tai Ping Hui Min He Ji Ju Fang” which was widely spread in the Song dynasty, it is estimated that the social trend at that time was to add spicy, warm and dry medicines to food, so Hula soup is based on these two foods. The function of the sour and hot soup is to sober up the wine and digest the food. The meat is added presumably to suit the taste of the people at more levels and to nourish the deficiency of the Qi. Then it is supplemented with spices such as ginger, pepper, star anise, and cinnamon, to soothe the liver and revive the spleen. Therefore, the main tastes of Hula soup are sour and spicy. In the Northern Song dynasty, when the capital of Kaifeng was settled, the Commodity developed rapidly, and the folk snacks flourished with great variety. “Taiping and Huimin Agent Bureau Fang” and other popular medical literature at that time that the addition of pungent, warm, fragrant, and dry drugs in food is beneficial to health, so spicy food is popular. The utility model relates to a meat congee combined with a sour and hot soup having the function of emulsification and digestion, which becomes the rudiment of hula soup.