Chinese's feelings for food mostly come from nostalgia, especially the taste of childhood, which is often remembered in nostalgia. People after the 60s and 70s will think of the gatherings in the countryside. Once familiar shouting and selling, once lingering snack stalls, oil cakes, mash, rice candy, rock sugar gourd, the most difficult to forget is pea cake, cool and sweet, is the most heartfelt taste in summer.
On the weekend, Yuncheng, Shanxi, a village in the city called Locust Tree Concave, a stall specializing in pea cakes, a piece of cardboard wrote the lowest price in the city, attracting many passers-by to stop, ten yuan two boxes, welcome to taste!
The old man's pea cake is the kind of mobile stall that wanders the streets and alleys, in order to attract business, find a plate, write it yourself, and sell the family heirloom food in a minimalist way.
The old man said that he was in his early sixties, from the village of Xuanyou on the shore of Yanchi Lake, and that their family's boiled pea cake was handed down from the ancestors and was considered the sixth generation in his hands. After opening up and invigorating, under the guidance of the old father, I picked up the old business of the family heirloom again, and have been doing it until now, delivering during the day, processing at night, pinching my finger and counting for almost thirty years!
Boiling pea cake, in the final analysis, is a small business, even if the family has a stable income, for a long time in the past is my large family to support the hope. Now that my wife and I are older, the work is far less energetic than before, but I think that many people in the city like to eat this bite, and I can't leave this stall in my heart. Now one hundred and eighty bowls a day, and when you're done, you'll go back, the old man said.
Pea cake, also known as bean paste, pea cake, is popular in the Jinnan area of the characteristic cake snacks, suitable for summer consumption, sweet and delicious, with heat, detoxification, diuretic effect.
The days passed so fast, in the blink of an eye it was already white-haired and sideburns, and the days went from being stretched to having a happy family. The big drops of change over the years are unexpected, it turned out to be an aggravated bicycle riding a saddle-shaped bamboo basket, which put two or three washbasin-sized bean cakes on one side, going in the wind and rain, catching up with the gathering, eating and sleeping in the wind, and suffering from bitter taste. Now the packaging is fine, transparent, delicious and visible, and things are sold fast.
With the electric tricycle, fuel saving and energy saving run faster, the old man worked harder. The old man said that a few years ago he was running for food, and now he does not want to earn more and earn less, but he wants to have a job to do, and people can't be too idle. Grandson helped him make WeChat payment, it is very convenient to use, when customers pay, Lao Zhang is always used to opening the mobile phone to confirm it.
Seeing this set of pictures is like opening a long-sealed door, and the shadows of the past are all over the face. I remember when I was young, whenever there was a tourist merchant walking into the alley, a shouting sound like a ghost, the child came from all directions, like looking at a diorama. In the middle of this, whenever there is a sale of pea cakes, it will be even more lively, and the children will greedily stare at the yellow-orange-orange bean cake with persimmon flesh in the clay pot, and they will spit out an unknown amount of saliva. It is inevitable that some children will wrap their clothes around the clothes of adults to beg for it, and if they do not comply, they will throw themselves on the ground and cry. Unforgettable childhood life, the sweet taste buds in the memory: a sugar cube, a cookie, a bean cake, even a small hairpin, are easy to satisfy, in the era of material scarcity, that happiness seems to be more than today's children.
Pea cake, do you remember? Is there a story of a beggar on the ground crying and rolling mad?
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