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In Chengdu, there is no shortage of stories in every street, but the stories of each place are so different, because in the same place, there are many different people living and storing many different memories of them.
This time, we set our sights on the Toko Community— the "magical Horggetz," the "foothold of the first generation of Rong Drift," the "ghost food gathering place."
Let us rediscover the memories of the Toko community, from their true feelings, from their simple language.
The magic of Chengdu Horgotz
"No matter how prosperous the outside is,
None have the same homely atmosphere as here!
As soon as I come back here I will be completely relaxed because home"
Dongguang Community is located in Jinhua Road, Jinjiang District, surrounded by schools, hospitals, restaurants, parks, etc., with a great location, it was also a very good place in the past.
At that time, living there, you can go to the commissary to buy food at the exit door, shout at the neighbors on the door when there is no salt when stir-frying, and the people who sell vegetables and pork in the vegetable market are also familiar faces...
"The surface of the old bell tower in my memory is the epitome of the old building, at that time, there were advertising light boxes for accommodation everywhere, and the former Toko Mall was no longer a shopping mall..."
Most Chengdu people may not be aware of the composition of the Dongguang Community, but they must remember the landmarks that resemble clocks and watches.
Although it is a creation of the 90s, the architectural style is very mixed, "bell tower", "spire", "round arch", the "big chimney" left over from the old textile factory, with the construction of the fence next to the subway, the narrow passage, the shade of the babbling sand river, and the huge high-rise building complex built, the Dongguang Community, constitutes a small magic in the east of the big city.
"When I was in elementary school, I moved into the Courtyard 6 of Dongguang Community, at that time, Dongguang Experimental Primary School had not yet opened, and I went to school in the city every day for a long time, and I didn't know how many buses I had to take to catch the bus..."
There are many courtyards distributed here, most of which are named after house numbers, such as compounds 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 and 11.
Those who live in Courtyard 5 like to eat potatoes sold by their aunt opposite, those who live in Courtyard 9 like to eat Yang Jie skewers and roast duck and dumplings, and courtyards 7 and 9 are waiting for a cart selling bowl chicken every week.
The only thing they have in common is that they are particularly envious of the no. 11 courtyard friends who live next to the wet market...
The foothold of the first generation of "Rong Drift"
"A Rong drifted in Chengdu's first foothold, and from then on he could never escape this eastern circle..."
When the Dongguang Community was just built in 1997, it was next to the field of the Academy of Agricultural Sciences, and when the courtyard gradually rose and the field dam gradually disappeared, more and more people gradually gathered here.
And this group of people is the first generation of "Rong Drift", which has become the home of a generation of indigenous people and the home of the first generation of "Rong Drift".
Listening to the older generation, Dongguang Community was originally called Nongguang Community, and it is unknown why it was renamed.
At that time, most of the owners of Dongguang were relocated by people who lived in dongmen bridge and three-tile kilns, and later gradually formed a unique community of 10,000 people. The old chimney was the textile factory of the past, but now it is the only old building.
Among the first batch of residents of Dongguang Community, a large part of them were college students who had just graduated from the nearby Sichuan Normal School, because there were not many yards and the rent was cheap, they chose to stay here to rent.
Later, their children grew up in the Toko Community, went to school in Toko Shi Elementary School, shopped at the Toko General Market, and ate in the Toko Food Street, bit by bit, and began to gather into a river, which became a fountain of longing in the future.
Ghost eating and drinking gathering place
"Hand-held skewers, source snacks, Yellow Umbrella Lane lung slices, robot knife cutting noodles, antimony pot spicy hot, Hu roast duck, Wei copying hand, Luo Xiaoxiao skewer incense, Uncle Dai meal ticket... The food in the Toko community is really a bit 'excessive'! ”
Hand-held skewers of incense
The most important thing in Dongguang Community is the old fly restaurant of more than ten years and decades, and in the memory of many people, the lacquer mother portable skewer incense is the taste that grows up with them.
A friend of Toko aborigines told me that in the summer, you must order beef, county liver, brain flowers, hairy belly and fried rice, and also, you must eat it while it is hot!
Source snack bar
Everyone who has eaten the Yuanyuan snack bar says: Delicious enough to doubt life!
Noodle lovers should not miss a good "rotten noodle restaurant", mixed sauce noodles, sea noodles, fat sausage roast meat noodles and other kinds of tender and delicious, of which the most popular is also the rib noodles, sold out around 12 o'clock is the norm.
Roast duck
"A couple has opened a shop for more than twenty years, because it is so delicious, every time they have to drive to buy it, one can't finish eating, half only a little less, so every time they tell the boss to have half the biggest one!" 」
Yellow Umbrella Lane lung tablets
"When I was young, this shop opened, there are many people queuing up every day to buy, it is also my secret restaurant, and later next door also opened a yellow umbrella lung piece, although it is a difference of one alley, but I still think that this old shop is the symbol of Dongguang Community, although it is unremarkable, but it is red!"
Life cannot stay in only one place forever, but the place where the footprints have been left behind will always be remembered in the heart.
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Edited by 丨Lao Amano
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