The first thing you see is the color
Then what is heard is the sound
Because light is faster than sound
But the first thing heard here is the sound
This is Liangui South Road
Chengdu is the hottest time
Cold cups here can fill a street
With a golden crescent moon hanging in the sky, I rode a carefully selected small green orange bicycle and turned into the Lotus Community on the edge of the second ring road, and immediately got lost. The alleys here are accessible in all directions, the residential buildings are sewn with needles, the sidewalk trees cover the sky with one hand, and the darkness is permeated with the unique colorful blackness of the city night. The dim yellow street lights that appear every three forks and five minutes are like a small piece of night faded by boiling water.
The purpose of the trip was to find the cold cups hidden in this neighborhood, and it is said that in the middle of the night, three more will fill the entire street. Do you know the ghost diet in Chengdu? It specifically refers to those who are out of the blue and do not set up stalls in the middle of the night to eat at dawn. Boiled peanuts, chickweed beans, edamame carob, dried tofu, marinated chicken wings, marinated duck feet, soaked chicken claws, fried snails, fried lobsters... Wait, with a dozen beers, you can blow shells with your little old classmates for a night. In addition to the cold cup, there are also night hoof flowers.
When I was eating a supper at the Minghong Hoof Flower in the nearby Dongguang Community, I heard a Chengdu person who told a traditional ghost story to a Xi'an person centered on ghost food. The gist of it is that a worker drinks from a roadside stall after the night shift, blows with all kinds of people, and wakes up in the morning to find himself lying in a broken wall.
I think he may have encountered demolition.
There are no ghost stories in the Lotus community, and the boiling at night is full of human voices, and it is even more lively during the World Cup. Enthusiastic people often report them for disturbing the people. This area is a demolition and resettlement community decades ago, and residents have a deep sense of belonging, and the stalls hidden in it can only be found by authentic old Chengdu.
01 Sound and color of the cold cup
At seven o'clock, the cold cup stalls in Lotus South Lane were already spread out, and white plastic armchairs and folding tables were lined up along the street, leaving only a one-way street. In the evening, the neighbors all came out, leading their puppies and children for a walk, greeting each other.
"Tinker Bell, you changed your pants so quickly."
"It's wet." Adults pick up.
At the intersection at a glance to see the source of the fresh cold cup, it next to the intersection is a small commissary, the store planted gardenia flowers in the Yibao bucket, turn is to sell lottery tickets, and then the first point is the name is the old Chengdu cold cup, sporadic tables, it seems that the outside of the momentum is not as big as the other several.
On the other side of the fresh cold cup is an old mansion, a former large family, a white-walled red lantern in Dewa, which hides several quite stylish shops. The first sign reads Runze Flower and Tree Academy, Cat Forest, I don't know what the focus is on selling, it feels more mysterious. Down is a steamed hot pot that has been open for more than a year.
This shop is quite famous in chengdu literary and art media circles, and it is said that the owner used to be engaged in literature and art. Go inside, through the hall, there is a patio, and the fish swim around in the pool below, surrounded by a circle of private rooms. I've been there a few times, and the waiters inside are all talented and have an interesting conversation. There are also tables and chairs with cold cups in front of the hot pot restaurant and in the gaps in the parking, and it seems that the merchants in this area are a model of harmonious coexistence.
There were edamame, crayfish, marinated pork head meat, and brine chicken feet on the table, and beer bottles were piled under the table, and the diners who drank three points of wine and seven points of wine sat on the side of the table, and told stories while touching glasses. Some people don't have their hands idle when they speak, and the lobster shells are piled up more than any one on the table.
A couple of gracefully dressed concubines were swinging the dragon gate array, "Let me tell you the truth, my boyfriend is much younger than me." ”
"How's your boyfriend?"
"74 years."
The other table didn't know what it was putting on, only to hear everyone exclaim in unison, "So superb! ”
"I'll tell you the truth."
"Hammer!"
"I'll be in Hangzhou next year, and you're going to come and play with me."
There were two people at the table, and the girl sandwiched a pickled pepper root, "Then this woman will definitely not get that house." ”
The man on the other side shook his head, "Strictly speaking, she can get that house in many ways, mainly depending on the idea." "I suspect this man is from an advertising agency or a new media.
A plump aunt wearing a pink cheongsam suddenly rushed to the middle of the densely packed eaters and laughed, "Second sister, you are still eating, I went back to a trip and you are still eating, you have to wash the dishes after you eat." ”
Turning around, a middle-aged uncle with a serious hairline moving backwards was telling a story to a young man, just starting, "At that time, Chongqing was still zoned to Sichuan——""
"Women are made of water, don't you know why?" A man in a white crewneck asked a question to a table sister.
"Why?"
"Women have more fat than men, and there is 10% water in fat, so women have more water content in their bodies, so women are made of water."
The owner of Weiyuanxian wears a white old man's shirt and wears a red waist, sitting halfway to brew a cup of tea, while telling people how to do business. "Some people don't look at doing business, and they don't have to, they rely on forks to others."
"I also get up early, he also gets up early, I don't want people to shout about my business."
The two children discussed on the side of the road, "Anyway, your father is watching TV now, so you take his mobile phone and play tricks." ”
I found that most middle-aged people are talking about the past, young people are talking about the future, and only children are still alive in the present. Maybe people will feel that the most beautiful things are the past, and after the aftermath are all afterglow, and for young people, the future seems to have unlimited possibilities, three years and five years is a lifetime. But as they grew older, their hopes dashed, and they began to reminisce about that year. Therefore, the best thing in life is actually now. Oh, how I'm so deep.
Go down, selling native eggs, blind massagers, selling barbecues, and another fat brother's old-fashioned cold cup. The signature title of the fat brother's long-established cold cup is Xiaolang wine, and the weiyuan fresh cold cup is Jiang Xiaobai. But sweep around, everyone still likes to drink draft beer. Standing in front of the stalls, it is easy to walk, brine pig trotters, brine hoof tendons, brine pork liver, brine pig tail, fried small fish, fried crispy meat, crayfish... There are also various pigmented dishes (vegetarian dishes do not match the list). In addition to these regular cold cup items, there are also a variety of dry pots and small stir-fried meats. The glasses touched together, and they were all the sounds of wine and food.
As I walk through the jungle of cold cups, I always think of a few years ago when I was selling Lebao beer on a crayfish street with my magical partner Chow Tai Sin. We uniformly wore green sleeveless tops and black high-waisted shorts, wore a rivet collar that was difficult to say, sold out to take pictures and said logen "Leburg beer, pull away happy". We encourage each other before going to work, and today we want to buy Leburg beer at every table. I sometimes timidized the stage, sold into the scene of a car accident, eager to find a slit to escape, she immediately stepped forward to break the siege, a few words of guests and hosts to enjoy. The aroma of crayfish is overflowing, we swallow and say that we have been paid to eat, but in the end we are still reluctant to eat, but when eating buffet, there will be a tacit understanding to only take Lebao beer and take a lot.
When I leave work in the early hours of the morning, I'll grab a beer bottle in my bag, and I didn't know that hitting someone with a beer bottle was also a weapon. One day when the class encountered a rainstorm, she took off her seven-centimeter high-heeled shoes and treaded water on her hands, singing Jay Chou's "Double Stick" while walking, the bigger the wind and rain, the louder the song, I was stunned. She told me that you don't need to carry a beer bottle to walk at night, and you can be bold when singing.
At this moment, although I am also wandering around in various black alleys, I am working, so I am righteous and not afraid to walk at night, but singing is impossible to sing, according to the tradition of the Lotus community, I will definitely be reported by the enthusiastic masses.
02 A food city hiding in the yard
Coming out of the Lotus Community, all the way I heard the Hongqi supermarket pulling up the horn and shouting, "Cauliflower, special price, 9 corners 9 a pound, 9 corners 9 a pound, leafy leaf leaf vegetables, lettuce are all 30% off, radish radish 50% off 50% off -"
Other voices came and went, but relatively weak.
"Breeze paper 9 pieces 9 a mention -" "Jackfruit 10 pieces two boxes"
"2 watermelons 5, 2 watermelons 5, 2 watermelons 5, 2 watermelon 5..."
However, all this can not overwhelm a crazy middle-aged male voice selling small tomatoes.
"Fruit tomatoes! Only sell for ten dollars and three pounds! delicious!! Delicious!!! Only so delicious!!! ”
I almost bought 3 pounds of small tomatoes, 3 yuan a pound I may not buy, but as long as someone pulls up the throat and roars 10 yuan a lot of pounds I can't control myself, no wonder now live streaming with goods so hot, immersive, who can stand it?
Accompanied by the Chengdu Street Symphony Orchestra, it passed through hot pot restaurants, foot-washing cities, bookstores, and many uncles and grandmothers who had danced in the first two decades. At this time I could distinguish a song among the various voices, coming from an alley.
I parked the little green orange on the side of the road to see it, a little uneasy, and pushed in. Once I owned a bicycle, once parked accidentally by a thief Guevara rushed performance, so many years later, I still have the urge to lock when I park my shared bicycle.
The singer is a little brother who sells potatoes. On the light box sign is a small potato at the entrance of the school, and next to it is a small speaker, singing A song like a mesmerizing K. Opposite him was a gate, a few big glittering words, "Old Street Street Spicy Hot." Looking inside, the flowers are green, drunk and dreaming, the signs are staggered, it seems to be a food gathering place, and I don't know such places.
The little brother of the potato at the school gate is surnamed Li, he has been selling potatoes here for a year, before selling in a foreign trade company, it is said that he became the sales director, and later decided to start a business, the first project is to sell small potatoes. But the business in the yard was not good, so I moved outside the door. "Actually, I was thrown out, I used to be in the car inside." He thought about it and said.
This courtyard is a food courtyard built with the theme of the retro style of the old Chengdu in the 80s, and it was only newly built in 19 years, which is very ancient and very fashionable. "I just like his theme, I have marketing ideas in it." I sell potatoes, also because I have eaten potatoes at the school gate since I was a child, which is also a retro feeling. Now it is not enough to eat, but also to give customers spiritual consumption. His potato recipe came from his hometown in Ya'an, and after frying, it was sprinkled with chili noodles and sprayed with incense. I suggested he could consider selling ice powder in the summer. He was hesitant and felt that he could not give up the little potato.
There are all kinds of food in the yard, spicy hot, skewers, hot pot, milk tea, crayfish, flower nails, field snails... There is also an internet café. About the collective memory of internet cafes, it is estimated that there are more post-90s, seeing this Internet café and the sensational copywriting on the wall, I can't help but think of the time when junior high school used the time before the evening self-study and the boys in the class went to the opposite Internet café to play games on the street. At that time, while our class leader wanted to play, he also said at the class meeting not to go to the Internet café, and his life was very divided at a young age.
Walking inside, you will find many small details of old Chengdu that are worth playing with. Curly yellow "Chenggong Bao", green wood board red lacquer characters, meat factory, marriage service station, old popsicles, classic lines of Hong Kong films, old teahouse, Dam Dam Film Hall... You can play carefully for most of the day.
"There are too few people, I'm going to leave tomorrow." The owner of the small potatoes was very frustrated, and when there was no one, he sang at the stall. I said how interesting this place is, you can write about it for publicity. He said, "After you propagate, people come, I leave, what's the use." ”
After a while, he felt that he still had to focus on the big picture, "Then you write." "Then I added a few dried fried fish to my portion of the potatoes."
The potatoes and dried fish sprinkled with chili noodles were fragrant, and when I went to take pictures later, I didn't see him, maybe I hadn't come yet, or I might not have come.
Taste source fresh cold cup
Address: Lotus New District South 2nd Lane No. 1 Attached No. 1
Fat brother old brand cold cup
Address: South 2nd Lane No. 1 attached No. 9
Old street food eight flavors, street spicy hot food collection
Address: Xiangrongqiao Street Jinxing Road No. 34 attached to No. 12
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Figure | Fly together
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