| Reporter Wen Chunmei2022-01-20 17:53 |
Editor's Note:
The city is fast, the countryside is slow; the city is bustling and colorful, and the countryside is simple and quiet. Between this fast and slow switch, there is such a group of ordinary people who return from the city to the countryside and open up more than one way of life. Through their own diligence, their own ingenuity, they rediscover the value of labor, sowing another kind of "happiness" in the field of hope.
Boost rural revitalization and build a better life together. Since December 2021, Nanfang + Yangjiang Channel has launched a series of reports on "Pastoral Happy Life", which has successively introduced various rural life "masters". The third in a series is launched today.
Even if you have tasted the taste of the world
The most memorable, perhaps
A home-cooked dish made by Mom and Dad
No matter how far the wanderer goes
That's left on the tip of the tongue
It also stays in the heart
Taste of home——
Soothe the wandering's waxy taste
"A pot of freshly steamed white rice, covered with thinly sliced sausages, and the heat of the rice rising, spilling out the waxy grease, always makes me feel good. When I went out to work, it was the most memorable taste of hometown..."
Chen Kailin, who was in her early thirties, recalled the scene when she worked in Zhuhai, and chatted with us about the taste of wax in her heart. Today, he has returned to his hometown for three years, changing his past career in the IT industry, catering industry and new media industry to devote himself to the field of New Island agricultural specialties.
Xinzhou Town, Yangdong District, is a well-known source of wax flavor in Yangjiang City. The Violet Mountain in the territory is the second highest peak in western Guangdong, bringing a unique mountain fresh air to the local area. In autumn and winter, when the north wind is together, the sunbathing fields bathed in sunlight are hung with strings of freshly made wax. Among them, especially the fat and thin sausages, red and white sausages, attract the most repeat customers. Under the action of time, the rich grease of pork is infiltrated with lean meat, and the color is bright, not woody or greasy.
On the eve of the Spring Festival, The Sentient Beings Agricultural Cooperative, where Karin belongs, entered the busy season of various kinds of wax flavor production. During this time, the finished sausage alone can produce and supply about 1200 catties per day.
"Yangjiang people's New Year's table, wax flavor is an important New Year's taste. Whether it's the salty balls from the day of Chinese New Year's Eve, stir-frying with kale or hollandaise beans, or steaming a platter of wax flavor, it's all an indispensable part of the Tuan Nian rice. "In the past few days, the number of citizens who have come to Xinzhou from the city to buy Wax-flavored New Year goods has increased significantly.
Taking over the "baton" of his father's generation, "Xinzhou's wax flavor is famous in the local area, but the brand, operation and other aspects have not been able to go further." The work I was engaged in before gave me the thinking of "Internet +" and accumulated certain marketing experience. After I came back to help my father, I wanted to use these advantages to promote traditional agricultural specialties. ”
Karin said that her father's generation benefited from reform and opening up, becoming the first batch of "agricultural merchants" in the village, exporting lychees from his hometown to the Southeast Asian market and maintaining a stable share. I have learned a lot of knowledge from my father, and with these years of experience and reserves abroad, I believe that my generation of young people can also do something practical for their hometown in the favorable policies of rural revitalization, and at the same time break out of their own "pastoral cause".
Compared with fast-paced and high-yield work, switching to agriculture requires a calm heart and preparation for a long-term "war". Carlyn's "Wax Life" was upgraded when she first started. 3000 square meters of modern processing workshop, in strict accordance with food hygiene production standards management; the entire production process 24-hour closed-circuit television monitoring; 1600 square meters of drying field, the use of fully enclosed stainless steel anti-fly and insect screen; wax flavor production adhere to the non-addition of pigments and preservatives.
The courage to invest in the backing, from the cooperative more than 30 members of the team strength, they deeply feel that the past kind of family workshop operation, there are a series of problems such as rudimentary equipment, low production capacity, unstable quality, difficult storage, brand is not loud, restricting the further development of the New Zhou flavor industry, and also little help to the local economy.
Will the modern production mode lose the advantages of the traditional waxing process? This question also arises. "What we have changed is the business philosophy and way, and what has not changed is the quality of handmade wax." Karin's answer was confident.
Source good meat + fen wine brewing, and... The ingredients are good, and the taste is authentic. Fresh meat of the day, up to an hour. Every morning at about 7 o'clock in the morning, the fresh pork from the regular slaughterhouse will arrive at the production line one after another. Under the careful questioning, the purchase of pork is also exquisite. In the case of dachshund, for example, lean meat is made from hind legs, and fatty meat comes from pork spines. For each slice of wax, it can not only chew out the tight flesh, but also not fatty, and the fat-to-lean ratio is fully stirred and marinated according to 3:7.
There is a doorway again during the mixing process. Karin revealed that they added fragrant fenjiu, although the cost will increase compared to other liquors such as tupao rice wine, but the taste is more mellow. From seasoning and irrigation to sectional tying of grass rope, each link is produced by hand. Like the nylon rope sausage seen on the market, it is mostly machined.
In order to retain the natural air-dried taste in the traditional wax flavor of New Island, when drying, choose a sunny and ventilated place, after a day of raw drying, enter the smokeless baking room, use the fan to discharge the hot and humid gas to avoid the rot of raw bacteria, and then continue to the drying field. In dry weather, it generally takes about 8 days of natural air drying, and the finished sausage, which is compounded with wine aroma, fat aroma, sweet and salty aroma, is finally concentrated.
The food processing plant of the Zhongsheng Agricultural Professional Cooperative led by Kailin is a microcosm of the project of developing the wax flavor industry in Yangdong Xinzhou Town. It is understood that at present, there are about 16 processing plants and more than 10 family-style workshops in the town with standardized wax flavor production. In the future, how to further polish the brand of Lawei Characteristic Town, it is necessary to strengthen the guidance and support of the government and the addition of more new forces.
"Our current production period of wax flavor is still concentrated before the Mid-Autumn Festival to before the Spring Festival, and the output value of these five months is 5-6 million yuan, which can provide 30,000 kilograms of sausages, 10,000 ducks and 15,000 kilograms of bacon for the provincial market." In 2022, we plan to achieve year-round production, and there is still a lot of work to be done in terms of three-dimensional broadening of sales channels, brand awareness, and inviting pig farmers and wax processing plants to establish industry associations. ”
Mixed with the busyness on the eve of the Spring Festival, Kailin looks forward to the new year with full ambition, and perhaps his "wax flavor" life will open a new chapter...
[All-media reporter] Wen Chunmei
【Photo】 Tan Jindong Lin Shaojie