Since I was a child, I have the impression that this kind of food is a cold dish, translucent, when I buy it back, it is a whole piece, I need to mix it myself, and the taste side dishes are all in my own hands. Later, I learned that there is a traditional snack in Kaifeng, Henan, called fried cold powder, which belongs to the Yu cuisine family. Frequent appearances in various farmers' markets and night market snack streets have subverted my original belief that cold powder is just a home-cooked dish.
40 years ago, I walked the streets and alleys, and now I make cold powder to sell food stalls
Kaifeng has an uncle, from the beginning of primary school graduation, making cold powder has been nearly 40 years, decades ago the uncle sold cold powder is to push a car, riding a tricycle to walk the streets and alleys to sell, those years only sold 8 cents 1 pound. In recent years, there have also been fixed wholesale and retail small shops, mainly to provide cool powder for various night market stalls, and now he supplies many people who have done business together decades ago, and it can be said that a lot of fried cold powder is now from his hand.
Uncle's craft is with his sister to learn, when he was a child, learning is not good, simply after graduating from primary school, he began to learn to make cool powder, the original production of cold powder requires pure labor, need to be stirred constantly, over time the shoulders, arms are also branded with disease, fortunately, now there is a machine, the body is gradually getting better, and the output has also improved.
Every time the uncle sends cold powder to people, he generally will not be in a hurry to ask for money, he will write it down himself, and he is not afraid of what others owe him, so many years, all the merchants will give him a checkout on the day. The uncle said that doing business is to talk about integrity, to trust others, business can be done for a long time. The original people who do fried cold powder are few, in recent years the tourism industry has developed, people love to visit a night market, so the uncle's business has also improved, although the daily income is very stable, the income is also a lot, but do not want to continue to do it, hope to retire early, travel everywhere. Unfortunately, the children in the family cannot pass on his craft, so it is also contradictory now.
Cool powder that requires patience and experience
In fact, it is relatively simple to make cold powder, put the water into the pot, and then pour in the powder, stir while adding water, until the ingredients in the pot become viscous, you can put it out. The difficulty is that it requires a great deal of patience, as well as the ratio of powder to powder and a mastery of the heat. The uncle still uses firewood to burn the fire, and the cold powder from each pot is very good.
The uncle repeats the work day after day, can make 5 large pots a day, can sell 2,000 pounds a day, and the good cold powder is put into a large basin to cool, a pot only sells for 20 yuan, and a fried cold powder like the night market can sell for 10 yuan.
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Simple uncle, there are also simple dreams, although it is a pity that the traditional craft is not passed on, but I also hope that the uncle can realize the desire to retire and travel around as soon as possible.