Old side dumplings with sea city pie

Old side dumplings with sea city pie

Love Memories No. 14

Sunhui

What do children like to ask? As a child, I used to say one thing: one eats, two plays. Some people may say that some children love to learn. Whether true or false, there is a logical problem here that must be clear, eating and playing is human instinct, and learning is more inclined to acquired development, which belongs to a higher level.

The difficult times have passed, life is gradually improving, and some necessities still need tickets, but most of them have been released. Parents seem to have learned the lesson that money can't buy anything to eat in difficult times, and they began to be dashing, such as going to eat famous snacks with the whole family.

Lao Bian Dumpling Restaurant in the North Market, which is a famous food in Shenyang, it is said that it has a history of more than 100 years, the main style feature is sautéed filling, meat first stir-fried, my family eats three fresh stuffed dumplings with this method.

Before the liberation of the North Market, it was a miscellaneous place of Shenyang's famous five elements and eight works, somewhat similar to the overpass of the old Beijing city, with theaters, cinemas, tea houses, hotels, restaurants, including dance halls and brothels, which were quite dense and very lively. By then the ballrooms and brothels had disappeared, but the bustle remained. It seems that the mother got a meal ticket, and the family of four took a bus to the North Market and waited in line outside the restaurant. My father quietly brought a lunch box and wanted to bring some back for grandma, but in fact there was not enough to eat. It was the most wonderful dumpling I've ever eaten, and I love dumplings again. Later, I ate dumplings in several old side dumpling restaurant branches, and even bought quick-frozen old side dumplings in the supermarket, only to feel that the taste was not as good as before. Until two years ago, my wife and I went to the old side dumpling main store on Middle Street and ate it again. Nowadays, the old side dumpling restaurant is quite grand, the decoration is brilliant, there are many eaters, the dumplings are varied, there are too many to list, there is no advance invitation, but also wait in line, but the taste in the memory seems to fade away at any time, and it can no longer be found.

Taiyuan Street area, famous snacks, famous restaurants are heavy. My parents took us two brothers, ate Haicheng pie, and ate the famous dishes of Nanxuan and Spoon Garden Restaurant. I've been to all of these restaurants since. Haicheng pie has been restored to its original name Haicheng Laoshanji, opened many branches in Shenyang, the main store I can not find, recently met a branch, ate once, the taste is general. I also know that people's taste declines when they are old, plus the feeling of childhood is exaggerated, and the solidification of the first impression, can not be blamed for the whole, can eat delicious with good memories of the seasoning, is enough.

Mother has a kind of pancake unique skill, she has a special noodle, the noodles are not alive, but stirred with chopsticks, the pie skin is very thin, the filling inside is very large, and it is full of flavor to eat. When my mother died, I could never eat it again.

I love stuffed dumplings, pies and buns, and there was a joke. I especially like leek stuffing or celery stuffing, ingenious, since these two fillings are delicious, wouldn't it be better to wrap them together? So I begged my mother many times to wrap a leek with celery stuffed dumplings. At first, my mother disagreed, thinking that it was impossible to eat well, and I had never seen other people's dumplings wrapped in this kind of stuffing, but I couldn't stand it, so I gritted my teeth and tried it, and the result could be imagined. This incident illustrates the truth that two good things are not necessarily better when added together. By extension, many life additions are not necessarily better.

Once, my grandmother and I went to a shop on Zhonghua Road to buy lanterns and serve them with tickets. The restaurant next door sells fried Lanterns without a ticket. The Lantern is fried golden brown, and the color alone is mouth-watering. That was the first time I'd ever seen the Lantern Fry, including my grandmother. But she couldn't afford it, and she had no intention of buying it. In the face of deliciousness, it is only a small regret for me, after all, I ate it later, and the taste is just like that. But for my grandmother, it was an eternal regret, the old man's favorite to eat bananas, peanuts and rice and meat, most of them were not satisfied. Bananas are expensive, pork invoice supply, peanuts are fragrant, the old man's teeth are not good, can only eat one or two grains, in Shandong Jiaodong dialect fragrant mouth.

I can't say I'm a foodie, but I can't say I'm a foodie, but I'm not an exception to love good food. Big meals, not much to attend, more or less taste. For example, shark fin bird's nest, that shark fin is not much different from fine vermicelli. Eating roasted whole lamb, the shadow of the live sheep is dangling in front of your eyes, and the taste is naturally not much better. The so-called authentic dog meat feast is just a category of parts on the whole dog. Guangdong morning tea is pompous, dozens of large and small dishes put on a table, simply unable to get off the chopsticks.

Originally a flat-headed commoner, I prefer home cooking, or small dishes. Meat likes elbow meat, pork ribs, pork liver, pork belly, pork intestines, and slip three things. Fish like to eat crucian carp stewed in oil. Cold dishes like to eat pork ears, Korean-style fish with mikoto and Gou Bao pickles. As for wild game, it cannot be said that I have never eaten it, and when I went to the countryside to be a young man, I ate wild ducks and wild rabbits. At that time, the hungry Walan did not have a little oil and water in his stomach, flying in the sky, running on the ground as long as he could catch it, he was eager to take a bite. Even more pitiful than I am is the local farmer. The horses of the production team became infected with infectious diseases, and the commune's epidemic prevention department forced them to be buried. Farmers who don't see a little meaty will secretly dig up the corpses and untie their mouths.

In the place where I went to the commune, there was a small public restaurant, and the only small restaurant had a fat chef who was said to be first-class. It may also be the only reason that there are too many, this person's face is full of bags, and a unique addition, contrary to the mazi face pit, is a different scenery. Legend has it that because he often ate bean pork, his face was full of bags, and each bag was torn, and inside was pig pox. Eating the dishes he fried by hand, it is fortunate that he was not infected, which is also related to the help of the money in the pocket. There is also a back of the times that I have to say that even the chefs with the most oil and water are all like this grandmother, who sacrificed their lives to eat pox pork, which shows how unbearable the living environment at that time was.

It is said that the most important thing in the world is Chinese. Whether it is ingredients or methods, you can think of ideas and renovate tricks, which is unparalleled in the world. I am afraid that this stems from the size of China, cultural differences, and many nationalities. Northerners, especially northeasterners, eat relatively simply. Generally, stewing and roasting are the mainstays: stewing, reflecting the cold of the region; roasting, there are nomadic peoples to follow. The Manchu Han full table, which is famous at home and abroad, belongs to the luxurious creation of the Manchu Qing magnates at that time, and has nothing to do with the ordinary people who do not wear braids to be beheaded.

Mengfuzi quotes: food also, sex also. Summarize life as two major events: one is necessary for survival, and the other is necessary for the eternal survival of mankind. If you start from the perspective of food alone, the food index of Chinese should be the best in the world. (Not referring to the whole people, at least referring to the idle class and food lover class that can afford to eat) The pursuit of generations has spared no effort and excessive proliferation, causing some Chinese people to like to eat wild animals, preferring to break the law and satisfy their appetites. Individual abuses, such as oil pouring live carp, oil pouring monkey brains are barbaric and cruel to the extreme.

Nowadays, eating is no longer a problem in China, except for heavy manual workers. Eating enough, especially eating too full, is harmful and useless. If you eat more, you will be prone to gain weight, and obesity is the source of all diseases. For people who love beautiful women, hatred is not shared. Before the reform and opening up, most of the Chinese people had a hard stomach, there were fewer fat people, and men with big bellies were jokingly called generals' bellies. It's rarely called that now. Although there are many Chinese generals, singing and dancing can be mixed with sketches, but once the big fat man indiscriminately fills the number, won't the whole people be dramatized? ! ! Eat well, eat too well, chicken, duck, fish, raw seafood and the like, but not good for health. Therefore, the media often reminds you to eat less meat and fishy and eat more vegetables and fruits. It is said that the extravagant Empress Dowager Cixi once had a fondness for miscellaneous and small nests.

As time gets older, my pursuit of food has long been stopped, and I like to eat when I was young, I can't lift a little emotion, sometimes I don't even know what is good to eat, or maybe I prefer spiritual meals in old age, squeezing my stomach that is drying up. If I'm still interested in a place for food gatherings, it's the self-help method, what I like to eat, how much I eat, civilized and hygienic. The close proximity of the gathering of the middle and the chopsticks flying across are dwarfed, and in the face of the epidemic, it should be changed as soon as possible.

What is the good taste of life? My answer is: delicious plus good memories, at least one of them.

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