Food chat | small boiled noodles, are you sure you are a small character?

The first time I saw the small boiled noodles, I was amazed by it. It was amazing because of its amazing physique. It is not filled in a bowl, nor is it loaded with a plate, but in a basin, a white ceramic flat-bottomed wide-mouth basin, and a large basin full of soup and water.

At that moment, remembering the twenty-eighth time of "Dream of the Red Chamber", "Xue Baochao's Shame Cage Red Musk String", jia Baoyu's heart was moved, and the Baochao in Baoyu's eyes at that time was like a silver basin. I don't know why, I always feel that Cao Gong is a bit unkind to write Baochao like this, why is it not a silver plate? If the face is like a silver basin, it means that Baochao's face is round and large, but how big is the basin-like face? Is it as big as this small pot of boiled noodles in front of me? Such a large pot, can I eat it? After eating it, do you have to pat your belly like the second master brother and sigh, "The old pig's food cavity is big!" ”

Yes, this is the small boiled noodles that can be seen everywhere on the streets of Nanjing, it is a little funny to say, obviously there is a "small" word in the name, but it is loaded with such a large basin, so it is not commensurate! I would like to ask the "little characters" of small boiled noodles, are you sure you are not here to be funny?

Skin belly is the soul of small boiled noodles

Without a small boiled noodle with a belly, it will not become a small boiled noodle in my eyes.

Outsiders may not necessarily know what a belly is, or even if they do, they will disagree: isn't it meat skin? Who hasn't eaten? Yes, the belly is the skin of the meat, but it is not just the skin of the meat.

High-quality belly, you need to pick a good fat pork skin, remove the unfinished hair on the outside, even if there is only a little fat meat left on the inside, you must also clean it, then throw the skin into the water and boil it to a translucent shape, take it out and hang it in the ventilation place to dry, and then fry it with freshly boiled lard until it is light golden brown. This process is a test of the store's boiling skills. The oil temperature is shallow or not enough time, the skin is not fried well, every pore is not stretched, the soup when cooking noodles cannot be fully absorbed, and it is stiff to eat; the oil temperature is high or time has passed, the skin is fried again, and it also loses its unique aroma and chewiness. That's right, fried belly, what you want is the kind of timely moderation of "not going around in the daytime, youth just coming".

Fried just the right amount of meat skin, cooked small boiled noodles on the table, gently pick up a piece, gently sip, melt in the mouth, every pore of the belly absorbs the essence of the soup, the whole body is comfortable, people can't stop.

At that time, the most famous "widow noodles" on the streets of Nanjing was because her family's skin belly was particularly well made, in fact, the noodles did not have much to do with widows, but when people first opened noodle shops, the old lady did not have an old man, and the name came from this. Although everyone doesn't call it that now, there will still be people who smell Her name and go to her shop.

Bone broth is the essence of small boiled noodles

Even if the price of the second master brother rises again, the price of the barrel bone has risen again and again, and the proper post of bone soup can still not be less.

Small boiled noodles are cooked and served on the table, the first bite must not be noodles, the first bite of noodles must be laymen. Scoop a mouthful of thick white soup with a spoon and suck it gently, a feeling that your eyebrows are about to fall off, straight to your taste buds.

Once a colleague had a facade room in Nanjing, and after resigning, he opened a small boiled noodle restaurant, and invited a few of us to her house to taste the fresh. At the door was an oversized cylindrical stainless steel bucket containing a large bone soup that was said to be enough to be used for a day, and the soup was so white and dense that it could not be dissolved, like the sticky love of a young man.

According to her, it takes 12 hours to boil this bone soup, that is to say, to boil overnight, the meat and bone marrow that boiled to the bone all automatically fall into the soup and become invisible, not even a little slag, at this time, the bone is picked out and thrown away, the bone is so refreshing that even the dog does not bite, and the essence has been integrated into every molecule of the soup.

The store is willing to give the guests food, and will lock the return customers. No matter how the second master's value rises, bone soup does not change its original intention.

Chili oil is a companion to small boiled noodles

Which company that makes small boiled noodles is not allowed to have its own unique chili oil?

A once popular Nanjing rap song "DrinkIng Wontons", which has a lyric called "Ah want spicy oil?" This sentence is sung in the Nanjing dialect, and it sounds as if outsiders are saying "I love you!" "It is said by many people as a joke, but I heard the warmth in this sentence.

"Ah want chili oil?" It's a question sentence, the owner is asking the guest, do you want to add spice to your noodles? Guests can choose between non-spicy, slightly spicy, medium spicy or more spicy. Thirty years ago, as a Jiangnan girl, I first came to Nanjing to work, never ate chili peppers, and avoided spicy, especially the kind of spicy with red oil, whether it was really spicy or not, anyway, I was mad when I looked at it. However, habits can slowly change a person's taste buds, and now I am slightly spicy, and I can occasionally adapt to medium spicy.

A small boiled noodle without pouring a spoonful of chili oil seems to be called a small boiled noodle.

Each family of stir-fried chili oil also has its own secret book, the usual practice is to use oil to fry peppercorns, star anise, fragrant leaves, cumin, ginger slices, green onions, onion slices, etc., and then fish out the dregs of these things and throw them away, pour into the chili noodles and fry until fragrant, and then sprinkle with white sesame seeds. The process of stir-frying is like the process of frying the skin belly, and it is necessary to master the heat in particular. If the fire is not enough, the chili oil is not fragrant; after the fire, the chili oil has a burnt paste taste. As Yuan Ming mentioned in the "Instruction List" at the beginning of the "Suiyuan Food List": "The method of cooked things is the heaviest heat." If there is a fire, frying is also; if the fire is weak, the material is tired. Where there is a fire, simmering is also; if the fire is fierce, the things are withered. "In a word, if you don't master the heat well, what you cook is probably waste, tired and dry, and you can't eat it."

If it is a big winter, walking in the ancient city of Jinling without heating blessings, calling a small bowl of boiled noodles, adding a spoonful of chili oil, the whole person will be warmed up.

The ingredients are small boiled noodles

They earn enough eyeballs in the basin and are indispensable.

The earliest small boiled noodles are usually based on three fresh noodles, and the skin belly, sausage, and shredded meat form a three-fresh iron triangle, and the stick cannot be broken. I don't know from what year, we saw six fresh noodles. The so-called six fresh, in fact, on the basis of the three fresh to add greens, fungus and tomatoes, this pair of vegetarian three fresh has been silently existing as a foil role, in the small boiled noodles are also called "three fresh noodles" when they are unsung heroes, when the "three fresh noodles" turned into "six fresh noodles" when they finally appeared in name.

After having "six fresh", there are "eight fresh", "nine fresh", "twelve fresh" or even more, in addition to the above three fresh meat foods, there are quail eggs, pork liver, pork belly, waist flowers, meat balls, fat intestines... Vegetarian mushrooms include shiitake mushrooms, mushrooms, gluten, dried seeds, tofu fruits, bean sprouts, kelp... What you can imagine or can't imagine, there are stores to match, and the matching is convincing to you, incomparably appropriate, there is no slightest inappropriateness.

So many ingredients are concentrated together, like not like a United Kingdom? Friends come together, lively and hilarious!

In addition to these ingredients, it is also possible to add a lid pour. After the noodles are cooked, rub a large piece of meat, lavender, lion's head, large steak, vegetarian chicken and the like to swing upwards, if you add a plate of oil residue, it is better, quite like Ah Q said: "Our ancestors, much wider than you!" ”

It's still the strength of the most noodles

With all this grand appearance, the real protagonist of the small boiled noodles, the noodles, seems to have become insignificant. However, it is best to use hand-rolled sliced noodles, fresh, vigorous, and soaked for a long time.

A few years ago, there was a young local shop owner who opened small boiled noodles, and according to him, he said that he did not do anything before opening the store. Later, I asked my parents for 200,000 yuan, said that I wanted to open a shop, and I made a last attempt, and then I didn't achieve honest and obedient work. As a result, he opened a small boiled noodle restaurant and he was very rewarded. One of the tricks, grandly launched a 58 yuan a pot of family portrait noodles, shouted on Weibo.

The so-called family portrait is to add all the ingredients in the store. Then he did a promotion on Weibo, and whoever came to the store and if a single person could eat this family portrait alone, he gave a free order. It became a hit. There are really guys who are not afraid to stand up and finally drink the soup. I looked at the big pot, my little heart fluttered, and my heart calculated for those diners, such a big bowl of noodles, plus lavender, large ribs, small ribs, lion's head, large meat, intestines, pork liver, waist flowers, brine eggs, poached eggs, vegetarian chicken...

If I eat it, although I am exempt from the order, but I have to go to the hospital to lie down for three days, is it worth it?

However, people really became angry because of this, and later opened several branches. But I think, is the reason for his fire really because of the free family portrait? It's not because of the Nanjing people's love for small boiled noodles that lingers to the point of being inseparable!