City Express News "Starting from Bailu on this day, our store is fried from 4 a.m. to 9 p.m. every day, yesterday was more special, I met a Shaoxing guest to buy more than 100 pounds, said that this morning to pull, we fried until 12 o'clock in the middle of the night."
Taimiao here Zhaowen fried goods, belongs to the famous fried goods shop in the south of the city, today I sneaked to the store to buy some freshly fried pecans, the boss lady Bao Yuyan hung a sweaty face, while copying the courier list while talking to me.
There was a thick stack of express delivery slips on the small table, and the hostess picked up a stack and showed it to me: "This is all yesterday, and today is too late to send it." ”
Zhaowen fried goods opened here in 1998, the boss lady is from Xuzhou, starting from a little girl, and has been able to become today's "big sister Bao". With 23 years of experience, she knows the taste of pecans eaten by Hangzhou people.
Pecans according to the size, divided into extra large fruits and medium and large fruits, this year zhaowen fried extra large fruits sold 108 yuan / jin, medium and large fruits sold 88 yuan / jin. This price is moderate in the Hangzhou fried goods store, larger than her family, a pound is about 10 yuan more expensive, than her family scale, a pound is about 10 yuan cheaper. Sister Bao said that over the years, the extra large fruit has always sold better than the medium and large fruit, "If the extra large fruit sells 800 pounds a day, then the medium and large fruit is estimated to be two or three hundred pounds." "The reason for this is probably because pecan peeling is really troublesome, peeling is peeling, peeling a big one."
By taste, pretzels and creams are the two largest categories. Pretzels sell far more than cream, and the disparity can reach 10:1. I stood in the shop for a while and all I heard was buying pretzels. Sister Gao is an old customer in the store, and today she specially rushed from Gongchen Bridge, and her mouth is "ten pounds of pepper and salt".
Hand peeling
Boiled
According to the degree of easy peeling, divided into whole grains, hand peeling and boiling three kinds, this all depends on the quality of everyone's teeth, Bao sister said that if the teeth are good, or not afraid to use tools to peel, it is recommended to buy whole grains, the most fragrant.
Those who came to her house to buy pecans were basically bought freshly fried.
A large iron pot, five strong men in shifts to fry, these days every day from 4 am to 9 pm, such a grand situation is expected to be maintained until the Mid-Autumn Festival.
A pot of freshly fried pecans can be removed in 40 minutes, and then immediately put in a cage to cool.
How hot these days are, but the store has specially allocated an electric fan, not blowing people, specializing in blowing pecans. This speeds up the cooling, because the sides are full of foodies like me waiting to be packed.
Wait until it's almost cold, pick one and smell it on the end of your nose, you can smell the obvious burnt aroma. I like to eat pretzel, there is no other seasoning except salt, purely eat the original taste of pecans.
It should be reminded that because it is hand-fried, there must be a difference in the heat of each pot, and a few in a pot will definitely be particularly scorched. People who like to eat are who love this fireworks, and if they don't like it, buy it carefully.
There is no need to peel the pecan candy, the store will have about 16 days, because "Lin'an has even gone up the mountain these days, and no one has peeled it."
In addition to pecans, sugar fried chestnuts have also been sold, but the hostess said that eating chestnuts these days is to eat a fragrant and sticky, if you want to eat sweet, you have to wait until after the 13th. "Chestnuts in Hebei No. 6 will go to Hangzhou, put it in the cold storage for 7 to 10 days, and the sugar can come up." In this way, it is not the fastest after 13 days.
However, there are already many people queuing up at the entrance of the small shop to buy sugar fried chestnuts, and I also bought a pack of 16.8 yuan a pound, which feels sweet enough.
Other fried goods stores are about the same price, but some will be sold separately according to whether they are wild or not wild.
Wild ones look small, but they sell for 20 yuan a catty.
The size of the breeding is large, but it is only 15 yuan a catty.
I also saw melon and pine nuts, sweet potato chips and buckwheat chips in the shop. Really, although the Mid-Autumn Festival has not yet arrived, it gives me a feeling of New Year's Eve.
Finally I bought a pack of chestnuts, two packs of pecans, and went home with an autumn tiger. When I passed the Lao Wang fried goods store in front of my house, the lady boss in the store saw the bag in my hand and stopped me: "You went to summon Wen fried goods?" I'm from a village with her, and the next time you come to my house to buy and try it. ”
Asked Sister Bao, it was actually true. "I was the first person in our village to come out to Hangzhou to sell fried goods, and now many fried goods stores in Hangzhou are opened by people in our village."
This village, in Xuzhou, is called Zoubu Village.
Pecans do you prefer to eat pretzel or cream? Hand peel or self peel?