Today's society pays attention to the fast pace, instant noodles to facilitate, occupies an important position in people's lives, accompanies the overtime workers to spend countless nights, but also soothes countless hungry but lonely stomachs, and I also found a kind of noodles in Taiyuan this time that are comparable to the convenience and speed of instant noodles - bowl dumplings.
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When I was wandering around the alleys in Taiyuan, I saw a stall that caught my eye, and there were three rows of shallow bowls neatly stacked on top of each other.
I looked at the name of the stall and called it Bowl Ball.
I thought, "Oh, what's this?" Have not heard, but also so cheap, 3 yuan, this must be tasted, and the boss said: "Boss, I want a copy." "Only to see the boss bring an upside-down shallow bowl, I saw that the bowl was pasted with a layer of crystal but not clear gray-white noodles, he used a knife to cut the noodles a few times, cut into a field grid, and then added a spoonful of chili oil, peanut crushed, garlic juice, and finally drizzled with some vinegar.
Just handed it to me, called me a bamboo skewer to pick up, this operation has a feeling of lightning speed, I took two bamboo skewers, I sat down in the shop very naturally, slowly ate up, I used the bamboo skewers as chopsticks,
Pull down a thin bowl that has been cut open, and then dip some more ingredients in the middle, put it in the mouth to taste, first of all, the impact of the seasoning on the sense of taste, spicy with incense, incense and without losing the sour and refreshing taste, instantly overflowed the entire mouth, although the seasoning is very fragrant, but it will not cover up the original aroma of the bowl, the sweetness of the grain is just right, plus the chewing brought by the creamy and has some small soft glutinousness, although it is not as chewy as glutinous rice products, but also makes me want to stop, taste carefully, it seems to have a little bitter taste. While I was eating, a girl came to share a table with me, and she asked me if I was here for a tour, and I replied, "Yes, how do you see it?" I thought to myself: I haven't spoken, and she can't hear from her accent that I'm out of town. She said: "Because our people eat this bowl of dumplings, they all eat it standing in front of the stall, and they will not eat it like you." I was shocked, looked back, and sure enough, there were a few diners standing in front of the stall, holding bowls and sticking them up with bamboo sticks to eat there.
I smiled awkwardly and said, "I really don't know, this is standing there eating, what is this bowl made of?" It's a taste I've never tasted before. She told me, "This is made of buckwheat, but it may be mixed with some white noodles." "Oh, I haven't eaten this buckwheat, but I've slept on this buckwheat-husk pillow, and such a special way of eating must have its own history, right?" "Yes, in the last years of the Western Jin Dynasty, the Later Han general Shi Jin led an army to attack the Western Jin Dynasty, when the military food was tight, the whole army only requisitioned buckwheat, grinded and made thin porridge for food, once a few soldiers went out, missed the meal point, the porridge was formed after the porridge was cooled, they could only eat it with condiments, and they had a different taste.
So it spread in the military, and later spread to the people, and the bowl, also because it was made in the bowl to eat in the bowl and named, with a round bowl, steamed out of the round bowl, also symbolizes the reunion. Of course, there are many names, also called bowl holders, bowl bald, etc."
Between the words, I finished eating this bowl of dumplings, and before parting with the girl, she said that if I think it is good, I can buy some vacuum packaging to go back, this tear open and mix it can be eaten, which is very convenient.
So I bought some and went looking for other snacks. I found a shop next door called enemas.
There are quite a few diners inside. Out of curiosity, I went in, looking at the name I thought it was a sausage-like meat product, and then I looked at the introduction, it was written that it was a kind of soba noodle snack, and why it was called an enema, because the stickiness of soba noodles was large, and when you ate it, you could accidentally eat the debris (hair, pig hair, etc.) that you accidentally eat into your stomach in your daily diet and excrete it.
He muttered, "It's all made of soba noodles, so isn't it the same as the bowl next door, so let's call it different." Heard by the master who was adjusting the enema, he said: "Enema and bowl balls are twin brothers, or some small areas, Oh, the bowl ball, just like its name, is based on the bowl, born in the bowl, grows up in the bowl, mainly cold." The enema is made of a saucer, born from a saucer, which can be eaten cold or fried.
As for the taste, it is also a little different, you can try a bowl to know. "Then come on a bowl." "Buy a ticket at the door." Ah, this way of selling is the same as the taste of Ala Ningbo, I went to the door and bought an enema food ticket,
I went in again and gave it to the master, and the master brushed it twice and adjusted the enema,
Handed it to me,
I took a random seat and looked at the enema.
I feel that the juice of this enema is thicker than the bowl, the ingredients are more than the bowl, not only peanut kernels, but also bean skins and kelp silk, and this enema is also slender and long, much thicker than the bowl just eaten, as for the color is closer to the color of the taro paste. I mixed the enema to better integrate the enema and the juice, and found that although the enema was soft, it was tough, unchanged, not cracked, not adhesion, and sandwiched an enema.
Put it in your mouth, compared to the sour and spicy taste of the bowl, the enema has a more rich and mellow taste. Maybe because the enema is thicker, it is harder to eat than the bowl, for my glutinous rice control, this enema is not chewy, there is no ning knotted taste, not so Q bomb that looks, and this juice is like the soy sauce juice of the hook, and it is too thick, and I don't want to eat it without two chopsticks.
But I saw a diner sitting next to me eat two bowls of enemas in two clicks.
Although it is shameful to waste food, I am a foreigner who is really not used to eating enemas made of 100% soba noodles.
EDIT: Some of Betty's images come from the web