Childhood in memory

Four-sided clock

Whenever I talk about when I was a child, I always couldn't leave the Fifth Avenue, in fact, there is a place in Tianjin that accounted for a large proportion of my life at least before I graduated from elementary school, which is the four-sided clock

The four-sided clock is located in the middle of the most prosperous Heping Road in Tianjin that year, and the two ends are the persuasion field and the department store... After graduating from Beijing Medical College, my parents were assigned to Tianjin Stomatological Hospital, where I grew up, and the four-sided clock was opposite the hospital

Xiangshunhe, Tianjin beans

Xiangshun and dried fruit shops are on the west side of the clock on all sides, almost every day my mother has to take me there to buy some snacks, and the middle counter in my memory is always neatly stacked with the best apples of that era – red bananas and yellow marshals... As soon as I entered the store, I smelled a strong fruit aroma, my mother loved to eat guodan peel, and I loved to eat Tianjin beans in the large glass bottle on the counter... Later, I was very depressed that I didn't know which grandson changed the name of Tianjin bean to Japanese bean, as if it had become an imported product, and it was really a number of classics and forgot the ancestors

Pulp Shop, An Guoqiang's father and sister

Four-sided bell Hami Road side downstairs was the famous Muslim breakfast shop, the third grade of primary school I ate there every day, the same class classmate An Guoqiang's father should be the manager or executive chef of the breakfast shop, Uncle Ann is tall and strong, wearing a black one-piece rubber apron and high barrel black rubber boots, holding a large iron spoon standing behind the big iron pot that rolls out soybean milk without anger...

Every day after school, we often play dei cai (chopping wood), smashing fangbao, relying on cigarette boxes in front of An Guoqiang's home (Liaoning Road) ... It was a compulsory course for boys in that era, and when he was thirsty, he pushed the door into his house to drink water, and when he caught up with his aunt's newly steamed sweet potatoes (sweet potatoes), bean buns, sugar triangles and other delicious things, he would also give them to us... After a long time, I also became familiar with my uncle, so every morning Uncle Ann gave us soy milk and old tofu full of overflow, and now I remember that the tall and kind Uncle An will still have inexplicable kindness and sourness in his heart

An Guoqiang's sister was a few years older than us, and she was recognized as the most beautiful girl in the neighborhood at that time, always combing a thick and black braid, at that time I was too young and very late to mature, so I would always glance at Sister An very simply...

Pampering bean popsicles

Every day after work, my mother will take me to The Peace Station to take the No. 9 bus home, from the four clocks to the Peace Station next to the National Hotel, along the way there are a lot of my inner constraints and expectations, Changchun Road Mouth Guansheng Garden's southern flavor, Duck Lou takeaway duck oil buns, Zhilan Zhai cake dried ... The routine was to buy a small bean popsicle at the opposite recreation every day when passing by the persuasion field, although it was only five cents, but in that era, there were not many people who could eat every day

Kangle bean popsicle traces back to the roots of the British in the early years, in my opinion even today at least in china is still one of the most delicious popsicles, whenever there are foreign friends to Tianjin, the first thing I recommend is the Kangle bean popsicle

It is a shame to say that the memories of the four-sided clock are always inseparable from all kinds of delicacies, delicious people and things that have been dusty for a long time...