/ Some secrets ◆ Hidden in the alley /
Stepping into the city gate with green tiles and gray walls, on both sides of the bluestone road, there are rows of wooden buildings with window bars, and the small alleys are crowded, and from time to time there will be people pushing bicycles to sell, and time seems to return to the last century.
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Along the stone road, slowly walking along the alley, the store is located in a corner of Dinghai Ancient City Middle Street - No. 31 Dinghai Middle Street, which is integrated with life.
Although the store is small, the items are arranged in an orderly manner, and the layout of the store remains the same as that built in 1870. The food hidden here is a delicacy that has amazed you in time.
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"Grandma, what time do you start making these preparations every day?"
"I start doing this at 6 o'clock!" But I'm old, I can't do it."
In this small alley, 80-year-old Grandma Chen runs this small shop alone, rain or shine. When we went to shoot, the sky was still gray, but Grandma Chen was already busy with noodles and filling, just to let customers eat at ease.
"Handmade, additive-free, preservative-free"
"Grandma, how many years have you been doing this pastry shop?"
"Oh wow, did it for a lifetime"
Ruihe Cake started with Ruihe Sugar Mill. Because the ancestors only made candy, did not make pastries, and only sold in the countryside around Baiquan Gao.
Later generations have a little savings in Dinghai City to buy a house and settle down, in the 1930s from Ruihe Sugar Factory to "Ruihe Cake Shop", and developed a special variety of strip cake, Shujia's Lao Rui and strip cake became "fist" products.
"Four generations, starting in the late Qing Dynasty, the times changed, still thriving."
The antique storefront, a red sign with the words "Hot Strip Cake", the simple storefront, the old wooden door, the simple decoration, reveal the ancient atmosphere, but it is difficult to hide the seductive fragrance it emits.
The tools in the store are simply stacked on the table, and the ground rice noodles are sprinkled on the small workbench on this side, cluttered but not rough, and even the machine has traces of age.
Although Grandma Chen has a high life expectancy of 80 years, but 60 years of craftsmanship has been deeply imprinted in the brain, for the rice milling, mixing powder, filling, steaming cakes these a series of actions are still flowing water, in one go, full of sophistication.
"Make a strip cake, you must have osmanthus flowers"
"Without osmanthus flowers, the strip cake would not be delicious"
"I use cotton white sugar, not as sweet as white sugar, the taste is better than white sugar, it is not easy to get on fire when I eat it" Grandma Chen carefully taught us the secret of making strip cakes...
"Grandma is old and can't do it"
"I used to make some small pastries, but now I mainly make strip cakes."
The small shop is characterized by "four seasons tea fruit", spring strip cake, summer steamed bun, autumn moon cake, winter festival stove fruit, day after day, the four seasons rotate, the pastries in the old street are fragrant, and the taste of the season is constantly changing.
So don't be surprised if you see that there are not many types of them!
"9 yuan per pack, 8 yuan for more than two packs" has become a tacit point for customers. There are all the regular customers, or passing by with a bag to go home, or coming from three to five places, and ordering and checking out quickly.
"There are also many people who rushed from Shenjiamen to buy mooncakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival, and there was a long queue!"
"Because it is exclusive, it is also exported to both inside and outside the province."
Before leaving, Grandma Chen handed us a bag of strip cakes, and a happy smile filled her brows.
This piece of strip cake that carries love and care is sweet in the mouth and warm in the heart.
The apprentice from the previous years also left the pastry shop for various reasons
I really hope to find someone who loves this craft
Young people who love this culture, who love this kind of cake
Can pass on the Shu family's unique craftsmanship. ”
Ruihe Cake has been on CCTV, and the owner is quite proud. "The ze is long and far away, and the mountain is high because of the accumulation of stones." The old brand can become the old brand, and it has its own survival password.
Ruihe cake is not only the taste itself, it is a memory, a bond of family reunion, a love and inheritance of traditional tastes for four generations, and I hope that this taste that contains love and emotion can continue.
This article is compiled and edited by Zhoushan Islands Tourism Public Account