Huangpu District is a hegemon
Shanghai pot sticks to the ceiling
Zhaozhou Road, as a road from snacks to large roads for Huangpu people, once resembled a microcosm of the old Shanghai, and the 917-meter-long road has a variety of Shanghai specialties such as old alleys, benbang restaurants, grocery stores, pubs and so on.
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For the foodies of old Shanghai, it used to be possible to eat from morning to night on Zhaozhou Road, with a variety of late-night snacks with old Shanghai characteristics. It is also known as a dark cuisine street in Shanghai's supper industry, and its popularity is also not said, one of the roads that Shanghai's nightlife must visit.
In the short two years from 2016 to 2018, Zhaozhou Road gradually changed from a street of "dark cuisine" to a depression that is now being demolished.
The slap wontons were removed, the grandma soy milk was also demolished, and the spicy meat noodle restaurant changed its appearance, it seems that only Hongyufang still retains some of the taste of Zhaozhou Road.
However, the news that Hongyufang is about to relocate also seems to indicate that it is really going to say goodbye to the original Zhaozhou Road!
If a store only accepts cash, would you go?
After all, now almost no cash, wallet, a mobile phone can easily buy all things, but there is no cash in Hongyufang, but there is no cash in Hongyufang, but you can't buy anything.
Because of the relationship to relocate, even the signboard has been removed, and a simple A4 paper is casually pasted on the door, and if you are not careful, you will miss it!
The storefront has two floors, but the area is not large, just walked into the store to hear a sound "boss lady, 2 two pot stickers, surname Zhang", eat also to report the surname?
Xiaobian was really surprised, walked to the counter to learn the old diners to order, Xiaobian saw the boss lady while writing in the book, densely packed a full page of words.
"How much is it, lady boss" The editor who did his homework can prepare cash in advance! "Eat well and then pay", collect cash and eat and then pay, not afraid of customers evading orders?
In the small shop, there are constant diners coming in and out, what to eat when entering the store, what to surname, and paying cash after eating seems to be a process that old diners are familiar with.
Each pot sticker will be brought directly to the table by the aunt, and there is no need to pick it up yourself. Auntie will also instruct every guest that the pot stickers are freshly baked to be carefully scalded.
After years of polishing, the store has also reached the time when it needs to be relocated.
In this era of gradually reducing social interaction with each other, there is still such a small shop, insisting on writing down your last name and slowly collecting cash.
"Miss Zhou, your two or two pot stickers; Mr. Hu, the four two and beef soup packed are good", there is no number number, no menu that will vibrate, no cold machine, only the temperature of people.
"Pay cash after eating, aren't you afraid of customers evading orders?" When xiaobian paid, he finally couldn't help but be curious, "This is not afraid, many people forgot to come and pay!" ”
Receiving cash is indeed a lot of inconvenience in this era, but this is not a kind of trust in customers.
The pot stickers sold in the different stores are also special enough, it takes about half an hour to wait from the order to the table, why do the pot stickers have to be done for so long?
Signature pot stickers
11 yuan / two
Not thick or thin, full of tough skin
Customers order a package to wait for half an hour at the root of the root cause, wrapped in advance of the pot sticker will affect the texture of the dough, become chewy. The dough skin in the shop is all unleavened dead dough skin, which is more resistant to cooking and will be more tough on the palate. The wrapped pot sticker is baked directly under the pan to ensure the toughness of the dough.
Caramelized crispy golden base
The hostess still uses a briquette stove, and although it is troublesome to make a fire, it has a uniform heat and a moderate temperature. This results in a perfect brown base that makes the taste crisper and more fragrant.
Big stuffed meat with bursting sauce
Meat filling has always been the signature of Hongyufang pot stickers, full of portions, fresh ingredients, bone boiled soup. Every request for meat filling is almost perfect, and the hostess uses expensive Wufeng meat.
Meat filling is pure lean meat, after crushing the broth added to the bone boiled in the crisper box, a day can be used to drop a hundred pounds, each pot paste meat stuffing can be seen in the window, this amount who looks at it does not say no!
Eat the pot stickers of Hongyufang and be careful! This juice is really too much, can only gently bite the soup first clean, if you take a big bite can not blame Xiaobian did not remind, do not splash the opposite friend body.
The pot stickers of Hongyufang on the bag method also follow the tradition of Shanghai, with two folds on both sides, and the two ends will be bent more concentrated, ensuring that the umami taste of the gravy is locked when baking, such a traditional package method has been rare.
Diners who are too late to wait will choose to pack a raw pot paste back to fry themselves, and the outer packaging of the tin foil box can better preserve the pot sticker.
Hongyufang was originally opened on Cross Dragon Road, but it was relocated to Zhaozhou Road in 14 years, and it has been open for more than ten years. When the son wanted to start his own business, his mother also had this craft, so he jointly opened this small shop by mother and son, and the craftsmanship of the hostess was also inherited from his grandmother's hand, a pure old Shanghai craft.
For so many years, the store has only sold 4 kinds of food! Except for the pot stickers that must be ordered on the table, the rest cannot be missed.
Curry beef soup
15 yuan / bowl
Curry beef soup and pot stickers can be said to be a perfect match, such a large piece of beef have you ever seen? The two slices of beef in the soup can be said to be full of portions, and the beef tendon meat is selected, the meat is delicate, fat and lean, and the taste is more tender.
Oil tofu line powder soup
11 yuan / bowl
If you want to taste lighter, you can definitely choose oil tofu soup! A bowl full of oiled tofu, with fine powder and egg skin, is still full of ingredients. Shrimp and seaweed were used to refresh, and some paprika was sprinkled on the noodles, which was refreshing and greasy. Soup soup water on the pot paste is more suitable!
Casserole wontons
If you don't have enough pot stickers, you can't miss the small ravioli in the store! Some diners on the Internet have commented that this is a bowl of small wontons that are masked by the aura of pot stickers.
The meat filling of the small wontons is not small at all, and with the egg skin, seaweed, dried shrimp and pepper, it is already fresh in the soup. Definitely feel the second surprise after the pot sticker.
"Miss Shi, your two or two pot stickers, just baked out of the careful hot!"
Sometimes this simple exhortation tastes better than good food!
Hongyufang
Per capita: 25 yuan
Business hours: 06:30-13:30
Address: No. 395 Zhaozhou Road, Huangpu District, Shanghai (next to the Research Institute of Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital)
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