Pea Yellow The legacy is independent and bright

Source: China Women's Daily

Cai Haojie

This year, beijing has more rain than in previous years, ticking on glazed tiles, and the low roof is more clear and bright than ever seen. The temperature dropped badly, and it was very interesting to eat Wu Yutai's matcha ice cream in Wangfujing on a cold and rainy night. When I walked back from Wangfujing to the Four Seasons of Minfu, the taste of tea in my mouth had not yet dissipated.

The aroma of roast duck fills every table, the crisp duck skin is exchanged for the amazement of a table with the sound of "Kaz", jujube red roast duck, emerald green cucumber silk, dark brown sauce, round dough cake lying in front of him, constantly showing the enthusiasm and arrogance of the imperial city to the eight diners.

"You can't miss this!" A friend brought a plate of food made into brick mountains, light yellow, shiny and dangling pea yellow. "Bean noodle cake, Ai wo roll, sugar roll fruit, ginger shredded fork, sugar ear, noodle tea, steamed bun twist flower, toad spit honey, scorched circle, sugar fire, pea yellow, fried liver, cream fried cake", the "thirteen best snacks" in old Beijing has the figure of pea yellow.

Like a gold brick transparent and bright, mysterious but close to the people, it is a kind of experienced light yellow. The peas are soaked and peeled and ground into condensed pieces to achieve morphological transformation, and after thousands of grinding blows, they are topped with a touch of the remaining independence, which amazes the time and surprises the taste buds.

Pick a piece and put it in your mouth, only to feel a cool sweeping in, and the calm between your lips and teeth seems to be particularly tacit, looking forward to the upcoming sweetness. Then there is the pea aroma of that model, after several cultivations, the peas are no longer strong, the aroma slowly lingers on the tip of the tongue, this silky and warm, like an open heart of old friends talking about each other's past under the window lamp, noisy or low-key, so the cold field between the know- is always only just right. It can be described as "one after another, not aware of the dusk of the moon".

The sweetness of pea yellow is comfortable, as if the first spring water melts between the teeth, slowly passing, falling in a colorful way, the water flow is mixed with the past hay and the first petals, with a cool breeze to quietly deliver the good news. And if a pleasing pea yellow is hidden in a clear ice cube, it is "drunk and big, iced pea yellow", the heavens and the earth are clear, and only everything is cute.

Even more cute is the shape of pea yellow, in the old days, the store would pinch the pea yellow into a minion, or a cute little yellow duck, the little yellow duck is lined up on a smooth white porcelain plate, cute and cute.

Like other Beijing snacks, pea yellow is also carried with a roar, and it is said that Cixi summoned the pea yellow vendor into the palace because she listened to the drink, and the pea yellow has since gone through the clouds. However, the palace meal during the Qianlong period did have records of pea yellow.

Stepping out of the small shop, the rain has been much less, and the red lights are nestled with the reflection on the road, making the night in Beijing bright and romantic, just as pea yellow is a shallow favorite, which is a rare brightness.