Farmer's Street:
"The fireworks in the world are the most soothing to the hearts of mortals. ”
I haven't been to the farmer's street for a few years, I walked around the merchant market, I didn't buy anything, but I was a little hungry, so I still went to the farmer's street to take a trip to replenish my energy.
Speaking of peasant streets, Yancheng people should be very familiar with it, every time it is time to eat, the whole street is full of people coming and going, lively and extraordinary, all kinds of snacks and delicacies tempt people, here is really a paradise for foodies. For many post-70s, post-80s, and even the new generation of post-00s, going to the farmer's street to have a meal has almost become an agreement for friends to get together;
It is said to be a farmer's street, but it is actually an east-west street, but this street is a bit special. This street is between Fan Highway and Open Avenue, with a total length of about 1,200 meters, and there are 12 lanes and residential concentration areas such as Tongyu New Village Community, Central Community, and Oriental Garden Community along the line, with a population of nearly 30,000 people. In the 80s of the 20th century, the area east of the open avenue (formerly Tongyu Highway and 20 4 National Highway) was still rural, and the traffic was not convenient. In 1988, in order to facilitate the travel, shopping and self-production and self-sale of agricultural and sideline products of the villagers of Dayang Village, a road running east-west across the three villager groups was built by the collective investment of Dayang Village. Today's farmer's street, after more than 30 years of development, change and cultivation, has gradually become a well-known specialty snack street in the city, with more than 200 local time-honored brands and flavor snack operators across the country, becoming a "string check-in place" and "gluttonous Internet celebrity street" sought after by young people.
Speaking of the peasant street, the road from west to east is full of memories of the suburbs of the old city, with the sound of stall owners, the smell of delicious food, and at night, there will be neon lights, rendering a thick smoke and fireworks. If it is a summer evening, while taking a cool walk with the lively crowd, while reminiscing about the authentic snacks that I loved when I was a child, it seems to have traveled back to the 80s, and my heart is delicious. There are two schools on this street, the west is Yancheng Lu Xun Art Secondary School, the east is Yancheng Mingda Senior High School, and now at the gate of Mingda Middle School, there is also a red banner "The most fireworks in the world, next to Mingda Middle School", which is eye-catching.
Speaking of the peasant street, in the past impression is a bit dirty, messy, poor, and now after the renovation of the peasant street, the image is good, the road is much more spacious, the original along both sides of the street are randomly built shops, now only the south of the road can see some stalls, most of them have been operated in the house, along the way the storefronts and roads are much cleaner and tidy. In the past, if you wanted to drive through the farmer's street, it was not easy, instead of driving, it was better to leave the car, walk all the way, eat all the way, and feel the taste of food. What egg cakes, plum blossom cakes, roast pig's trotters, oil terminals, three fresh bean skins, fried chicken thighs, fried chicken fillets, as well as cold skin, meat buns, barbecue, spicy tang, rice noodles, King Kongqi, chicken cakes, egg cakes, etc., etc., it can be said that there are only what you can't think of, and there is nothing that the peasant street does not have. Now the situation is much better, and the car can run smoothly during the day, but at night it is difficult to say.
When it comes to the farmer's street, you will think of the delicious snacks in Yancheng. Although I am not from Yancheng, I have lived and worked in Yancheng for more than 40 years. In my memory, the snack commercial streets in the streets and alleys of Yancheng were once all the rage, such as the night market on Theater Road, the night market on Jiefang North Road, the night market on New Century Cultural City, the night market on Genggang Village, the night market on Shuangyuan Road, and the east-west direction between the former Normal College and the former College of Education, there is a zigzag "Yucai International Commercial Street", which was once a smash hit, and now it has become history, and it can only remain in the memory of many Yancheng people. Now walking in the streets and alleys of Yancheng, in addition to the north and south streets of Chaoyang New Village, the east and west streets of Farmers Street, and the commercial street of the Development Zone, if you want to eat delicious snacks, I am afraid that the only way to go is to a large urban complex.
What are the gourmet snacks in Yancheng, I don't know a lotus, Jianhu's lotus root dumplings, Wuyou's sugar flowers, and Dongtai's fish soup noodles, which are relatively impressive and profound, and can be seen everywhere in the streets and alleys of Yancheng. In the earliest memory, because I worked in the former College of Education, the grilled fish in the Shaanxi noodle restaurant at the west end of Yucai Commercial Street, the roast duck in the roast duck restaurant hotel opposite the west gate of the teacher's college, the fried Longji sheng across the road behind the women's dormitory of the Normal College, and the duck blood vermicelli in the duck gizzard fang, are also good. Although the environment of Yucai Commercial Street is very poor, it has been rectified and closed many times, but it still has a strong vitality. In addition, there are countless delicacies and snacks on the surface of Yancheng City, such as electric kebabs on Theater Road, fried on the small blackboard of Daddy Zhang in the back alley of Yanzhong, ginger four iron plate squid near Xinhua Bookstore, and rice noodles in Miao Township of Caojia Lane, etc., which taste quite good; If you talk about the gathering place, the old city of Farmer Street, Shuangyuan Road, Chaoyang New Village, Bamboo Forest Hotel, the first floor of the Golden Eagle on the new military road, the Xinlong Square in the south of the city, the first floor of the Golden Eagle Julonghu store, the European style flower street, the Xinlong Square, the new dragon square, etc., can still choose to go to a good place. Of course, the Development Zone, Tinghu New Area, and Yandu New Area all have some places where you can taste delicious snacks. In fact, there are still a lot of delicious snacks and places to go in Yancheng, but they are not so concentrated, and with the passage of time and the expansion of the city, many of them can no longer be found, and they don't care or can't remember so much.
The curling fireworks rising from the streets and alleys contain the vitality of the city and convey the happy life of Yancheng people. Yancheng Farmer's Street is still a very good food and snack street, if you are interested, you may wish to invite three or five friends to go shopping, and enjoy the prosperity and liveliness, quiet and beautiful there.
Author: Yancheng, Jiangsu, often meets life