This "Red Light Wonton Restaurant" is located in the Chinese Baroque Historic Preservation District outside the old road, and it is also the third generation of Shi Jie, the current head. Recently, the author had the honor to meet Shi Jie, the third generation of the store, at the Hongguang Wonton Restaurant, and listened to him tell about the history of the 90-year-old store and the treasures of the four town stores - chess meat fire spoon, fork roast cake, chicken shredded ravioli, homemade smoked sauce.
According to Shi Jie, in 1930, grandpa Shi Jingshun came to Harbin with his father Shi Xishan to "break into the Guandong", opened this red light wonton restaurant on Xu Highway (renamed: No. 313 Jingyang Street, Daowai after liberation) located in the old Harbin Fujiadian, and relocated to the Chinese Baroque in 2014 when the Chinese Baroque Historical Protection Block was rebuilt in Daowai District, and has been operating ever since. After 90 years, three generations of grandchildren have painstakingly operated, and this sign of the small shop is now a veritable old brand.
It is understood that in the early years of the red light wonton restaurant is already famous, wontons, fire spoons taste good and cheap, a variety of pickle varieties are complete, "hot spring bath bath, red light hotel to eat a full" became a big pleasure that people talked about at that time. Today, the old restaurant still maintains the original cuisine characteristics and historical style, which can be called a veritable time-honored brand in Harbin. With the development and changes of the times, the old museum has experienced the historical changes of public-private partnership and reform and opening up, and has always maintained its original unique flavor while constantly improving itself, so it has been widely loved and praised by people from all walks of life.
For the "Red Light Wonton Hall" of the town shop four treasures, the third generation of Shi Jie ru several family treasures: "Legend has it that as far back as the Spring and Autumn Period, there were wontons unearthed in the excavation of the Xuecheng ruins, and in ancient times, wontons were considered to be a sealed bun with no seven tricks, so it was called "Hun Chao", according to the rules of Chinese characters, and later became wontons. In the Qing Dynasty, the "Dumen Miscellaneous Songs" praised: the wontons are more flavorful than ever, and the filling melts spring leeks and chews them fragrantly. Tang Qingrun kissed Hugh too lightly, and the taste was long after the throat. Red light wonton restaurant adheres to the old tradition, the old flavor of chicken shredded wonton ingredients are complete, insist on boiling chicken hanging soup to make fragrant real materials, the soup is clear and transparent, the soup is delicious, with toon, seaweed, sesame oil, pepper noodles, sea rice seasoning cooked, delicious and delicious, characterized by the wonton skin thin filling, crystal clear, biting a mouthful of lips and teeth rippled mellow, just like the taste of traveling back to the taste made by my mother when I was a child.
The fire spoon was first called fire food, later called fire, according to the "Records of Xuye County": fire burning, that is, fire food, so far in Shandong, the fire spoon is still a famous snack in many places. At that time, Grandpa Shi Jingshun was particularly good at making fire spoons, and the chess piece meat fire spoon in the shop was half a meat fire spoon, roasted on the stove, roasted freshly, golden and small, without tasting its fragrance before pottery, the entrance was salty and fresh, the meat aroma was rich, mouth-watering.
The char siu cake is sweet and salty, and the skin is crispy, which is loved by old customers, and the smoked sauce in the store is widely favored by old customers. ”
Zhang Changjiang, an old neighbor who was eating in the store, said with a smile: "My family ate at the Red Light Wonton Restaurant, and now it is said that they have eaten to the fourth generation, and they will come to eat a meal every three to five to relieve their hunger, especially the old-fashioned smoked sauce in the store, they will not eat for a long time, and they will be panicked." ”
Shi Jie said: "In the past ninety years, many people have come to look for it, want to cooperate to expand the operation, and in recent years, some people have wanted to join the chain, but I have never agreed, I am afraid of smashing this sign left by the ancestors, and I have always been in this store, that is, I have maintained the ancient method of making every dish and staple food, without any additives." ”
At the Red Light Wonton Restaurant, you can not only taste authentic wontons and fire spoons, but also experience the most authentic memories of the flow of years, how many old ha wanderers return to their hometown, this is where they seek their dreams, and there are many four generations of the same family, are loyal customers of the old museum.
The small wonton restaurant is the epitome of the Harbin State-run Hotel in the last century, and it is also the representative of the old road foreign snacks, time is changing, and in the Red Light Wonton Restaurant, time seems to have stopped, you can still find the feeling of the past, or the good taste that has not changed in ninety years...
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