Prose: Mung bean cake that stands up to the aftertaste

Prose: Mung bean cake that stands up to the aftertaste

Text: Yang Xiaoguang

In the hot summer, mung bean cake is on the market in season. In the eastern Part of Jidong, including Qinhuangdao, people eat mung bean cake, in fact, starting from the May Festival. When I was a child, my grandmother and I lived in my hometown of Changli County, and my grandmother always had to buy things that were in season, and the mung bean cake in my memory was the same.

Compared to the trough cake and walnut pastry, mung bean cake is not my favorite food. The sweet and soft glutinous texture of the trough cake, the crispy full mouth of the walnut cake, the mung bean cake is incomparable. In particular, mung bean cake belongs to steamed food, that is, buy and eat the best, but it is sweet to eat, there is no crispy bean noodles are powdery, sticky teeth and paste throat, choking people grow short, if there is no water to send a ride, it is really a little difficult to swallow. After a little longer, the taste is hard, and the process of chewing is quite laborious.

Grandma bought mung bean cake, she was reluctant to eat it, only ate one or two pieces to taste the fresh, most of them for me to keep. And it is not something I like, and I don't think of it as a good food club. Summers are hot and humid, and they are very fond of moldy insects. Until the mung bean cake long worms were pouting, Grandma was afraid of violent things, so she had to eat it herself with water.

Later, I didn't have a lot of love for mung bean cake, and I bought a pound of mung bean cake after the May Festival, which was just a food for the scene. If the purchased mung bean cake is opened in plastic packaging, if it is suspicious of bean green, it is suspected that too much food color has been added; if it looks lighter, it is suspected to be an imitation of pea noodles. The fake food market in those years has caused too much psychological shadow.

After repeated comparison and screening, it was found that the mung bean cake of Hollywood brand was of reliable quality. Since there is no oil, the soft and difficult to hold feel, the soft glutinous sand sweet taste, and the instant food experience should all be combined. For a while, my blood sugar was low, and the reaction was that hunger was like a slap in the face, which caught people off guard. As soon as the hunger comes up, I can't wait to catch what to eat, and the amount of food is difficult to control. I found that mung bean cake has its own unique advantages as a symptomatic food. Two to three square cakes, eat one piece, drink a sip of water, eat a good amount of control, hunger is effectively alleviated, and at the same time there is no lack of fullness. I fell in love with this style.

As a summer delicacy, mung bean cake is worthy of its own hands, and it is not a waste of time. Mung bean taste sweet and cold, has the effect of tonifying vitality, harmonizing the five internal organs, and relieving heat and poisoning, and is a good product in food and Jishi Jiahe. Soft and sweet, tight and delicate mung bean cake, preserving the beauty of mung bean to cool off, detoxify and clear the lungs and phlegm, and has the quality of softness and fine slag. In the Ming Dynasty Li Shizhen's "Compendium of Materia Medica", it is stated: "Mung bean grinding for noodles, Cheng filtering powder, as bait stew cake ... It has the functions of relieving heat, replenishing qi, regulating the five internal organs, calming the spirit, and thickening the stomach and intestines."

In recent years, our whole family has organized groups and taken advantage of holidays to travel around the area for several times, and Shanhaiguan has become a place where you can't get tired of punching cards. Every time I go to Shanhaiguan, I will lead my grandson Hehe, walking around, and my footprints are all over the alleys and alleys of the ancient city. On Guyu Road, I pointed to the Great Wall opposite the Chia Tai Meat Factory and said to Hehe: Grandpa climbed the wall every day to go to school; in Chaihe City, I said to Hehe: Grandpa bought small rabbits from here when he was a child, and after he grew up, he would sell big rabbits in this market. At this time, Hehe wasted no time in saying: Grandpa, go ahead, you talk about buying mung bean cake.

I know the little one is hungry. The grandson and grandson stepped out of Chaihe City, and not far along the West Sanjo Hutong, they saw a striking sign in black on a white background in Tianxin Hutong: Halal Memoir Pastry Shop. On both sides of the store, a pair of "Yayi Ya ya yi doors, halal halal stores" couplets are more and more set off by the elegant and clean store.

The interior store is very neat and simple, and there are more than 20 kinds of snacks such as mung bean cake, rose cake, beef tongue crisp, ice flower, burning flower, ring ring, leather noodles, and moon cake on the counter. It is particularly worth mentioning that the halal memoir mung bean cake has been wafting in the memory of the old Shanhaiguan people for more than half a century. The pastry department was founded in 1945, the main family name is "Hui", and it is also a Huimin, so it is called "Huiji". It was first in Higashi-Gojo in the city, and later moved to South Main Street. After the reform and opening up in 1979, a pastry processing department was set up in his own compound, and the old "memoir" was restored. Remembering the mung bean cake, it won the title of the first Qinhuangdao Top Ten Flavor Famous Food and qinhuangdao local special tourism famous food.

Recall that mung bean cake only uses mung beans, fine white cotton sugar, water three raw materials, selected first-class beans. The beans are cooked just right, artificially stirred, rolled into a fluffy shape, soft in texture, and pursue the best taste period, rather than the so-called shelf life. It is precisely because of the "homecoming" adherence to food quality that it has won the long-term trust of customers for decades. Mung bean cake price is close to the people, its color or light yellow or tender green, the taste is fine and tight, the fragrance is soft and non-sticky teeth, the entrance is soft and easy to melt, the rustling is sweet, the aftertaste is full of beans, and the lips and teeth are fragrant.

Bought mung bean cake, and then choose a few other old-fashioned snacks on the counter display, first let the grandson take a piece to occupy the mouth, the rest of the categories by the counter salesman with bean green square straw paper folded wrapped in four corners, like the previous dim sum bag, placed on a red paper stick, knotted paper rope buckle. I led my grandson, who carried the mung bean cake and walked out of the store contentedly. Looking back, it is as if stepping out of a time and space tunnel, old alleys, old courtyards, old shops, old doors, old packaging, old taste, everything is so antique.

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