Taiwanese uncle who sells brine rice: I look forward to Taiwan's early return to the embrace of the motherland

Taiwanese uncle who sells brine meat and rice: I look forward to Taiwan's early return to the embrace of the motherland

Guiyang, 18 Jan (China News Network) Title: Taiwanese uncle selling brine rice: Looking forward to Taiwan's early return to the embrace of the motherland

Author Zhou Yanling

"Beauty, what to eat" "This is Taiwanese sausage, a bite of sausage and a bite of garlic taste invincible praise"... In a shop in Datong Street Snack City, Guiyang City, Xie Muchuan, who is over 60 years old, wears a red mask and tirelessly greets guests who enter the store.

Xie Muchuan named his small shop "Taiwan Xie Fu Ji Cuisine", red lanterns, small green ceiling fans, various pictures of Taiwanese food posted around the wall, painted bamboo sieves... Inside the store, you'll see a vintage style of Taiwanese night market décor.

The 63-year-old Xie Muchuan, from Hsinchu, Taiwan, was introduced to the mainland by a friend at the age of 36, and after years of wandering, he decided to sell brine rice in Guiyang 15 years ago. In his words, the two sides of the strait are close to each other, and with food as a link, they can better connect the hearts and minds of the people on both sides of the strait and continue the friendship between the two sides of the strait.

"At that time, I specially asked my Taiwanese friends to come to the mainland to teach me to make marinated meat rice." According to the legend of Xie Mu, in order to suit the tastes of Guiyang people, the sweetness of the marinated meat rice was deliberately reduced, and the oil peppers that Guiyang people liked to eat were prepared.

Every day, Xie Muchuan's small shop consumes 50 kilograms of fresh pork belly, sells more than 150 bowls of brine rice, and most of the customers who enter the store are repeat customers, "the selected pork belly is all hand-cut, and the marinated meat needs to be boiled for more than 4 hours, so that it will be mellow and delicious." ”

In Xie Muchuan's shop, in addition to the signature brine rice, there are also Taiwanese specialties such as Taiwanese sausages, oyster frying, flower stick balls, sweet and not spicy, salt crispy chicken, and spiced meat rolls. In the summer, he will prepare free Taiwanese herbal tea for customers entering the store, and in winter, he will prepare guiyuan red date tea for customers.

"Because I'm older and physically exhausted, I'm mainly responsible for greeting guests, while my wife is responsible for making marinated meat rice and Taiwanese snacks." Xie Muchuan quipped that because his mouth was relatively sweet, he was also very suitable for lobby work.

The reporter saw that at 11:00 a.m., there were guests who came to Xie Muchuan's shop to eat, and before 12 o'clock the store was almost full, and Xie Muchuan, who held the menu, skillfully shuttled through the store. When he saw the food left in the guest's bowl, Xie Muchuan would lean down and whisper whether the food was not to taste, or ask the guest not to waste food, and the store could provide free packing services.

Marinated meat rice is one of the favorite dishes of Taiwanese, in Xie Muchuan's view, marinated meat rice is not only a way to make a living for themselves, but also the best comfort for nostalgia. "Many Taiwanese villagers often come to the restaurant to eat a bowl of marinated meat rice, nagging at home." Xie Mu legend, in order to facilitate the contact of feelings, but also specially established Taiwan compatriots Taiwan friendship group, the number of people in the group has exceeded 200 people.

Before the outbreak of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, Xie Muchuan would organize Taiwanese compatriots to come to the store three times a year on holidays to gather, eat Taiwanese food, drink oolong tea, and talk homely. Therefore, a plaque of "Taiwan Compatriots And Taiwan Affiliates Liaison Office" hangs outside its shop.

Xie Muchuan found that more and more young faces will appear at the gathering, and they are all optimistic about the development prospects of the mainland and choose to "land" and stay to develop, "The mainland has changed too much in the past 20 years, the economy has developed rapidly, it can be said that there are small changes every year and one big change in three years." ”

Xie Muchuan, who has been rooted in the mainland for more than 20 years, frankly said that the mainland is the best backer for Taiwan, and he hopes to see Taiwan return to the embrace of the motherland in his lifetime.

With the successive introduction and landing of various Huitai measures, the care and support given by the mainland to Taiwan compatriots and Taiwan businessmen have made Xie Muchuan feel at ease and comfortable, and he has not returned to Taiwan for 11 years, and he has also installed his home in Guiyang, "Here I applied for a social security card, a medical insurance card, and the local government also opened a green channel for us to get a new crown vaccine." ”

At the end of the interview, Xie Muchuan warmly invited the reporter to taste the Taiwanese special snacks in the store, the bright color, fat and lean balanced brine meat rice is mellow and delicious, a bite of sausage and garlic are more and more addictive, soft sticky flower branch balls and five-spiced meat rolls on the outside are endlessly evocative.

Column Editor-in-Chief: Gu Wanquan Zhang Wu Text Editor: Lu Xiaochuan

Source: Author: China News Network Yu Xiao