Harbin Goryeo Street, from Shangzhi Street in the east to Central Street in the west, is about 250 meters long. This street was formed in 1903 and is called "Koryo Street".
In 1959, it was named in order, and because it was on the west side of Shangzhi Street, it was renamed "West Eight Dao Street", and it is still used today.
Seiba Street used to be called Goryeo Street because of the majority of Korean people on the street, but this street is more famous because it brings together many restaurants.
The first batch of restaurants were Changqing Pavilion, which opened in 1908, the former Youth Hotel, Lao Du Yi, Shengbin Hotel, Kui Yuan Pavilion, etc.
At that time, restaurants were all hanging up a façade, and there were a few flowers on it. A disc in the middle represents a cage drawer, indicating that buns are sold here, and the long tassels below represent noodles.
Generally, when you go to eat, you first have to look at how many pretenses there are in a restaurant, a front restaurant, no hot stir-fry, is a snack shop. The hotel in the two horo is a normal small hotel. The hotels in Shihoro are some high-grade hotels. Hotels in Hachihoro are star-rated hotels.
Old Harbin people have a saying that daring to hang a restaurant under eight pretenses is equivalent to making such a promise, no matter in the sky, the sea, the mountains, as long as you can say the dishes, the master can make them.
If the chef can't do it, then people have the right to remove the two guilts of your house.
The most famous hotel on Badao Street is the "Old Capital".
The old capital is a dumpling restaurant, a time-honored brand before liberation, the owner is called Li Baozeng, this person is very business-minded and pays attention to service quality.
Guests feel very good as soon as they arrive at this restaurant, with hot hand towels to wipe their hands, face and neck, and good jasmine tea, all free of charge. The tableware is also exquisite, silver eating plates, silver wine jugs, silver wine glasses, one by one displayed in front of you, so that you have a sense of nobility.
Soy sauce, vinegar, fried chili, mustard, garlic paste, sesame oil, and seasonings are also available. Among them, the garlic paste is the best, light cyan delicate and spicy, very refreshing, especially appetizing.
The dumpling flour is all excellent sand noodles, and the filling is a secret recipe for three fresh fillings, which are tender and tender, and they are really unusual to eat. Moreover, whether you eat a bowl of dumplings or half a bowl of dumplings (back then, you can eat dumplings on the bowl), you will always serve free dashi stock, which is made of coriander, seaweed, green onion, and miso and hot dumpling soup, which will definitely make you turn the original soup into the original food.
Harbin writer A Cheng recalled: "When I was young, I often went to eat dumplings in the "old capital", and I felt that dumplings in the old capital were not only a good delicacy, but also a good remedy for the spirit. After eating, I felt that my mental outlook was particularly good, and my stomach and intestines were comfortable, which seemed to have the effect of a hot bath.
I also like to eat Shanxi knife noodles on the corner of Badaojie. It was a very small restaurant, the cauldron was propped up in the street, and the master used a special knife brush to cut the noodles into the boiling pot, which was simply an artistic performance. Every time I went shopping, at noon (and the money in my pocket was very thin), I would go there with a bowl of knife-cut noodles. Later, this knife-cut noodle restaurant was yellow and changed to pot cooking, and I also went to eat it, but compared with knife-cut noodles, it is two different things, the nature is completely different, and there is definitely no such delicious feeling. ”
Not only Chinese food, in 1925, the Russian Chu Gilman created a Russian-style Western food tea restaurant on West Badao Street, which is also reported to be the first Western restaurant in Harbin.
The business area is not large, only more than 70 square meters, mainly engaged in Russian and Western food tea snacks. Vinyl records are played in the restaurant, and the environment is elegant. At that time, many Russians went specifically to listen to records. Listening to the Volga boatman song, eating canned sheep and beetroot soup, I remembered my distant relatives ...
Between 1925 and 1956, the restaurant changed owners several times, including Russians, Germans, Poles, Czechs and Chinese.
In 1959, after the public-private partnership restructuring, it moved to the current Central Street and was renamed Hua Mei Western Restaurant.
Huamei Western Restaurant opened in 1931 (formerly Mars Tea Shop, once called Anti-repair Hotel in the mid-60s)
Huamei Western Restaurant mainly operates Russian and Western food, and its architecture and food style are full of strong Russian characteristics.
Of course, whether it is Chinese food or Western food, those who live in Badaojie cannot eat restaurants every day. The era of special lack of materials was also the prosperous period of state-run hotels, and the twist flowers of the restaurants were quickly sold out. People lined up with warm bottles to buy soy milk, and it was so happy to be able to drink a bowl of hot tofu brains at that time...
In the seventies and eighties, the vast majority of hotels in China were state-run. At that time, to go to eat in a restaurant, in addition to spending money, you had to take food stamps. Without food stamps, you may not even be able to drink a bowl of soup.
In the sixties, large horse-drawn carriages from the countryside could still be seen on Badaojie. The boss entered the restaurant, bought a bowl of rice with two or two grain tickets, poured soy sauce on the table without money, and it was a full meal.
At that time, the service attitude was cloudy, but the business was still hot, crowded every day, needed to share a table and wait for a seat, opened a ticket and waited, went to pick it up yourself, and even said that eating was by grabbing seats.
In those days, ordinary people could not go to state-run hotels once a year. Only during the New Year festival or when you meet others to eat, you have the opportunity to "go down to the restaurant" and stain. At that time, if you can go to a state-run restaurant to eat, it is a big thing worth blowing for a month or two.
Harbin people who have experienced the state-run era have a nostalgic feeling for these restaurants, because this is an important experience in their lives, and many taste memories are therefore stuck in that era and are evoked from time to time.
The hotel has been on fire for about 20 years. With the deepening of reform and opening up, individual hotels began to rise in 90 years. State-owned hotels have gradually faded out of history under various competitive pressures such as price and service.
In the seventies, Youth Hotel used to be one of the eight state-run hotel accounting points in Daoli, with 10 hotel outlets under its jurisdiction. In the nineties, the Youth Hotel also had to withdraw from the stage of state-run hotels.
Today, we can still see some state-run hotels in some cities, but they have long lost their former glory and are no different from ordinary individual hotels.
The only remaining old restaurant on West Eighth Avenue - New Year Pot Brand
Today, Xiba Dao Street is no longer a key neighborhood frequented by diners, and there are no more restaurants under the guise of high-rise buildings. Nowadays, there are countless restaurants in the city, and there are so many places for diners to choose from.
Times are changing, and "Goryeo Street" has gradually moved away from the people of Harbin. As the years go by, there is always a taste that makes our hearts miss and cannot forget.
However, what is gone is delicious, what is left behind is the aftertaste, and we can never return to the old life.