Dongjiangyin Street Vegetable Market is located in the old city of Shanghai, although the area is not large, but it is an indispensable presence in the minds of surrounding residents.
With the Spring Festival approaching, Dongjiangyin Street Vegetable Market not only serves the residents of the community as always, but also becomes a good place for many citizens who purchase traditional New Year goods to go to punch in and purchase.
The façade of the Dongjiangyin Street Vegetable Market is a large row of traditional snack bars, of which the sales point of the Dafugui Restaurant looks the most magnificent, occupying half of the shops along the street.
Cooked foods such as duck with sauce, smoked fish, and square meat are already very popular with residents. It was the Spring Festival, and the eight treasure rice in the big rich and noble store was also sold.
Entering the vegetable market, people instantly understand why Dongjiangyin Street has recently been banned as "Shanghai's Most Old-fashioned Vegetable Farm". The first thing that catches your eye is the "Ocean of Flesh" hanging low.
All consumers entering the vegetable market must first pass through this "waxy forest".
Whether it is the traditional Jiangsu and Zhejiang flavor of sausage duck or Cantonese flavor of pork belly, they are all from the hands of shops that run butcher shops in the vegetable market. The store told reporters that the sharp increase in sales of wax flavor during the New Year is an old tradition for decades, and both locals and new Shanghainese will come here to purchase. On the one hand, the quality of home-made wax flavor is more reliable, the taste is good, no various additives are used, and the price is also competitive.
In addition to bacon, a variety of fish and fish are also the focus of attention in the vegetable market. Fish carp was first featured by ningbo people, fresh catch fished ashore, in order to extend the storage time, the catch is pickled and dried into dried fish, that is, fish carp.
Shanghainese New Year, yellow fish and eel fish are regular customers at the dinner table Chinese New Year's Eve.
Ma Zongmei is from Anhui, and her husband has been opening a fish stall in Shanghai for more than ten years. Every year, when it's time for the New Year, her husband is going to dry eels and mackerel in front of her house.
Ma Zongmei's old customers, buying eels and mackerel regardless of the pound, often buy several pieces, their own family does not eat enough, but also to buy more to send to the relatives and friends of the hometown.
Ma Zongmei said that his own fish and fish sell well, first, because the selected eels are fat and fat, and second, because her husband's pickling skills are good, and the guests recognize the flavor of their fish.
After the winter solstice, Ma Zongmei must prepare at least a few hundred fish and fish, and the sales rhythm of more than ten or twenty pieces a day can be sold until a few years ago. In the past two years, many old guests and Ma Zongmei have added WeChat and directly transferred goods online, and this form of procurement accounts for a large proportion of her business.
Ma Zongmei proudly held up his own eel and told reporters that such a good fish and mackerel, take home without soaking water to salt, and do not take it and braised meat, it is a waste. You should add some onion and ginger cooking wine directly to the pot to steam, the taste is very fresh.
There are several seafood stalls like Ma Zongmei in the vegetable market, and in addition to fish and fish, they mainly specialize in fresh seafood. Yellow croaker, striped fish and pomfret are the most popular species, and most of the catch is transparent and fresh. The store told reporters that some customers buy a large bag and put it in the refrigerator to freeze, so that the seafood stalls will not be broken during the New Year.
Recently, the price and supply of vegetables have also been a topic of great concern to the public. The reporter saw in the Dongjiangyin Street Vegetable Market that the vegetable stalls are very rich, and the price has also fallen relatively back relative to the previous big rise. In addition to the regularly purchased vegetables, you can also see the winter shoots from Fujian, the spring shoots from Zhejiang, and the small greens from Ningxia on the vegetable stalls.
In recent years, Shanghai's internet red vegetable markets have emerged in an endless stream, fresh design style, diversified services and shopping experiences, so that the concept of vegetable farms has been continuously extended.
Traditional vegetable farms like Dongjiangyin Street, although they are not as glamorous and decent as new vegetable farms, have established a relationship with the community's consumption habits because of decades of precipitation, further forming a unique local commercial culture, and even becoming a unique commercial landscape.
A city with a wide range of rivers and rivers, but also because in some corners, for such an old vegetable market, the old taste of some space, so that people who live here for generations can leave some warmth, memories, thoughts, and get real convenience.
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Source: Author: Dong Tianye