In Taipei, typhoon season is from June to September every year. Fishermen cannot go out to sea to catch fish, and farmers who cultivate the land have no harvest. In particular, on this day in 1895, the Treaty of Maguan ceded most of the land, including the island of Taiwan, to Japan. Under the natural and man-made disasters, countless people have been displaced and unsustainable. Folk become the "small month of degree".
In this era, Hong Taro, who came from Fujian across the sea, remembered that he had once learned the craft of making noodles. In that era when there was not enough to eat and wear, it was good to have a bowl of noodles to warm a hungry stomach. But Mr. Hong is not the case, since he wants to make noodles, he must use the existing conditions to do the best.
So every day before dawn, Mr. Hong carried the flat burden like a cargo man to the streets to sell his own danzai noodles. After a long time, the plaque of "Du Xiaoyue Danzai Noodles" has been deeply imprinted in people's hearts. In the days of war, peasants, workers, students, and people of different classes rushed to eat a bowl of noodles here, filled their stomachs, and then tried to find a way to fight for a better life.
And Boss Hong's craftsmanship is not sloppy at all, there is no good ingredients to use shrimp heads that others do not want, boil them for several hours, boil the soup until it is orange, and the surface is full of essence shrimp brains, which is considered a ceasefire. The noodles are also smeared with oil, and the texture is tendonic, the soup is luscious, and the mouth is full of the taste of the sea when you bite it.
In this way, Du Xiaoyue not only accompanied Boss Hong to become a golden signboard, but also warmed countless displaced diners. Now that he has been gone for more than 120 years, Boss Hong has long passed away, but the craftsmanship of Danzai noodles has been passed down. From the years of war and chaos, to today's Guotai Min'an. Taiwanese people have long since stopped spending a small month. But the taste of this bowl of noodles has never been forgotten. It is not only a testament to the past years, but also the warmest warmth that food brings us.