Chat about Yanji cold noodles in Beijing's West Fourth

The oldest and most famous Korean cold noodle restaurant in Beijing is Huatian Yanji Restaurant in Xisi District, Beijing. It has a history of more than 70 years. In the past, I didn't call it this name, but when I mentioned the cold noodles of Xisi Yanji in Beijing, almost everyone knew it. West Siyanji cold noodles have been famous in Beijing for decades! It's just that the price has doubled several times now. I've been eating Xisi Yanji cold noodles for decades, beef, eggs, apples, and a plate of spicy Ming tai fish, spicy cabbage, perfect match! The first time I ate Xisi's Yanji cold noodles was when I was a child, and I have fallen in love with it ever since. Later, it was also frequented. Plenty of ingredients, the soup is ice cold, a veritable cold noodle with a good taste. Xisi Cold Noodle Restaurant was most impressed by dog meat, which was well done, and now I don't know if there is any more. Cold noodles with slices of apple have been eaten here for decades, and without it or beef, it feels unauthentic. Beijingers don't just eat a bowl of cold noodles, but a plate of beef or Mingtai fish.

There are many cold noodle restaurants in the northeast region, Changchun cold noodles are the cheapest fast food, and the ingredients are only cucumber and tomato slices, which is really inferior to beijing Xisi Yanji cold noodles.

The quality of Huatian Yanji's cold noodles is really not as good as before, N years ago we really held a bowl outside the door to eat, divided into large, small bowls, remember is a dime seven points a small bowl, large bowls do not remember it! Now Yanji cold noodles are indeed far worse than when they were 5 mao 4 bowls, Huatian's diet is basically like this price increased by dozens of times, and the quality fell dozens of times!

Beijing Yanji restaurant cold noodles are indeed very in line with the taste of old Beijingers, although the quality is now a bit down, but it is also a kind of memory of Beijingers, for the feeling of taste may be the northeast people are the most unaccustomed to eating, everything has a preconceived problem, when I was a child, the taste I ate first may be the taste of memory for a lifetime, the habit of eating is not used to eating well, the conditions are good, the oil and water are more, I think it is not so delicious and normal.

Some people say that it is not authentic, this is a cold noodle that meets the taste of Beijingers, just like the American KFC is not a taste in China, and it is best to follow the local customs. In fact, this Beijinger's taste of Yanji cold noodles is not authentic, but because of its age, it has become the standard or a kind of sentiment in the hearts of the older generation in Beijing.

If you really want to eat authentic Korean cold noodles, go directly to the begonia flowers, which are opened by the Korean Embassy, which is more authentic than the so-called Northeast Chinese. The cold noodles of Xisi Yanji are connected to the Beijing earth. Once I ate the Taedong gietto hotel in North Korea, it should be authentic Korean cold noodles, but the taste is not as good as the West Fourth Yanji cold noodles, and it may be that the Yanji cold noodles have more side dishes and not so many Korean cold noodles.

The small cold noodle story also illustrates some truths: people's tastes are preconceived, and special catering must also follow the local customs, otherwise they will have to withdraw from the market because of the water and soil!