This article is written by Grand Duke Peter Pavlovsk of Habsburg
Once upon a time, in the distant Milky Way...
When the big man in the group, Edmund, issued a hero sticker calling on all the heroes of Jiangsu to gather righteousness, my heart in Zhejiang was itchy, so I trembled and asked if I could visit it...
The story begins from that moment. Initially, it was just a very simple netizen meeting, in fact, the time arrangement was also, the high-speed rail Zhenjiang to Yueqing only one bus, or at twelve o'clock at noon, to the station at six o'clock in the evening, such an embarrassing timetable basically ruined the possibility of sightseeing.
It's hard to go to Jiangsu, which can be ah! No, be sure to grab the time to play.
So I decided to drive myself, and it took seven hours and twelve minutes to navigate to Zhenjiang. Eight hours of rest are included. However, the benefits of self-driving are great, the huge trunk can be put on tobacco and alcohol, and there is no security problem of high-speed rail aircraft. Just driving for eight hours is too scary. I hesitated.
At this time, the resource Emperor Du Gangster in the group flashed a voice, or you come to Suzhou first, and we will meet together to go to Zhenjiang.
Suzhou navigation time is only five and a half hours, and the eight-hour long distance is divided into two, and the pressure is much less at once. Du Dazuo was summoned by God to rescue me? Finalize the itinerary immediately.
Then there is the happy exchange of etiquette. Yueqing is located in the northernmost part of Wenzhou, relying on Yueqing Bay, seafood is there, but it may be because of the development of industry, did not make a reputation for seafood, the famous Wenzhou dark cooking fish and shrimp are afraid of foreign friends to eat unaccustomed. Huling beef jerky is ordinary beef jerky, there is no characteristic at all, white elephant balm is some of the characteristics, but one is low in price, and the other is that Suzhou is the most developed place in the national pastry industry, and dare not sacrifice ugly. Prepare them all, be a handyman. The officiating must be tall.
The only tall industry in Yueqing, in addition to the electrical appliances of Liushi, is the Dendrobium officinale of Yandang Mountain. Chinese etiquette is actually very earthy, and tobacco and alcohol can be used. I ran to Yandangshan Distillery and bought four boxes of Yandangshan Dendrobium wine. It not only reflects the locality of Yandang Mountain, but also takes care of the characteristics of dendrobium, which is a agricultural product, and because it is wine, it belongs to the form of gifts that are popular and popular, and it is appropriate as the main gift. It was precisely because I was blinded by the multiplicity of them that I decisively rejected the salesman's recommendation that they were more than fifty degrees old, (I was later proved wrong), four cases of wine, anyway stuffed in the trunk, I did not consider the difficulty of carrying at all. (It turns out I was wrong again). Then get two Zhejiang Liqun for each person, and smoke and alcohol together.
Everything went according to plan...
Wonderful things are always short-lived...
The convener had another meal, and I regretted missing the hero meeting, and when I heard the news, I felt that things were not quite right.
Sure enough, the nurse Duchess jumped out and did not agree to my eight-hour drive to Jiangsu. The reason is simple and powerful: too far away to be assured. It's not that I haven't fought, but obviously I've failed.
Well, high-speed rail. If you don't save much time at all, it's about an hour, but the price is tragic, the high-speed rail needs to consider the problem of carrying, I looked at the trunk that was stuffed and fell into meditation...
At that time, I was still holding out a glimmer of hope that beef jerky and balm were not worth anything, so I would let myself eat it at home. Tobacco and alcohol are in place.
Later, after being reminded by gaoren, I realized that there was a serious problem, and the high-speed rail had a security check and could not bring alcohol. Limited to 6 bottles per person per box. I exceeded the standard fourfold.
How can the officiating go wrong. I fell, things are big.
I drove up Yandang Mountain again, and the wine was not allowed to be brought, so I could only take the dendrobium directly.
My mind was full of dendrobium, dendrobium. If there had been a video camera at the time, it would have been able to record my embarrassing appearance.
In fact, I shouldn't have been in such a hurry, I really shouldn't have, until I stepped on the train to Jiangsu, I found that Li Qunyan had landed in the factory.
Niang Xipi, god forbid.
I brought a computer this time, because I bought a first-class seat (the business seat did not), four or five hours of time can write and write, but when I got on the train, I was blindfolded, I actually bought the front of the car, in front of which is a wall, there is no small table board, there is no power.
That's too back-to-back...
When I stepped into Jiangsu territory and one hour to Suzhou, I finally found a small table board hidden in the chair, but there was still no power supply, and the Xiaomi game book only had two hours of battery life, and it was impossible to get rid of the power supply office.
The stumbling jiangsu visit has finally begun.
In order to fit the beginning of the movie group gathering, I changed into the same scumbag green coat that Liu Haoran bought when watching "Detective Chinatown", dragged my fat body, and staggered out of the station.
(Scumbag Green)
Finally met Du Dazuo, the standard northeast fierce man, the officer experience gave him a charming upright posture, heroic eyes, and the easy-going expression in the New Year's post was completely different.
(Bye Year's Greetings Here)
He recognized my scumbag green at a great distance, and raised his hand resolutely, and at that moment I seemed to see Achilles, Dwayne Johnson, Stonewall Jackson, in short, in front of me, a wall, a great wall of steel.
(You know what I mean)
But Du Dazuo himself is very easy-going, not fat at all, (this is not the same as the group leader said). Very polite, the accent can still clearly hear the northeast flavor. Probably because of the big face, so Teacher Li said fat.
To Suzhou has been into the night, what attractions are not playing, if in Nanjing, you may have to visit the Confucius Temple Qinhuai River, but that is not my intention, I did not want a trace of tourism interest, see netizens is to meet netizens, eat and drink the most important.
Du Dazuo took me to the fly restaurant called the book mutton, saying that this is a place where Eating Mutton in Suzhou is a bit famous, and once I arrived at the place, I found that the Wang's Book Collection Lamb and the Wang Ji Book Collection Lamb were open at the opposite door, which was indeed famous! Are the cottages so blatant? Similar to the soil slag roast cake that was popular all over the country in those years and Fang Yan roasted pig's trotters, it can be seen that it is indeed famous.
Daisaku chose the highest-rated home and went in. On the way, he kept telling me to eat lamb at night, but he didn't tell me how to do it. Along the way, my heart is na, poof, we wenzhou eat not much lamb, that is, people on the Nanxi River Ridge have roasted whole lamb, usually eat some stewed lamb bones or something. So on the way I've been dreaming, this lamb... What a sight to be!
(Note the scumbag green across the table)
The results were announced, and it was the water basin lamb.
An octagonal steel food bowl, which has greens, cabbage, tofu bubbles, shallots, white soup is hanging from a big bone at a glance, there is no trace of smell, delicious, pure, light but rich in layers, the fragrance is not rich, like a fresh mountain mist, the taste in the mouth is actually looming. It's like the smell of first love. I closed my eyes and imagined The Teenage Sophie Marceau in my first love.
Until The Big Sasuke said, I poured this lamb into it. Pull me back to reality.
Oh yes. Water basin lamb. Patronize the water, and the sheep.
This lamb is the same as the lamb bone soup, it is not at all dirty, it is also mixed with strong lamb tripe strips, and maybe there is haggis, and the big sauce plate is buckled into the soup, I am not a serious eater, I really can't eat it.
Du Dazuo saw my intoxicated expression when I chewed the lamb tripe, and added a lamb tripe fried leek to me. Maybe. I patronized the food and forgot if it was leeks or something else.
The meal was a great time to talk about, the dishes were delicious, and the people were easy-going and talkative. There were six snowflakes in all, and I drank more than two bottles.
I don't know how tomorrow's Tony teacher will be.....
Remembering my embarrassment when I came, I carefully asked Du Dazuo: Do you smoke? Daisaku said calmly no.
Fortunately, I felt better. Otherwise, this mistake would be great.
That night to bid farewell to Du Dazuo, I made another wrong decision to experience Jiangsu's pedicure kung fu.
In fact, Jiangsu pedicure is mainly in Yangzhou, there is a Luqin foot art, once opened branches to Yueqing.
Mainly Du Dazuo given the hotel in Jinji Lake, next door is the Foot Dojo.
Go for it.
As a result, the fingernail of the thumb of the left foot was found embedded in the flesh. The pedicure boy said, I'm afraid I'm going to see blood today.
I gritted my teeth, little brother you just have to do it, I TM top the sky land man... Oops...
In fact, it didn't hurt so much, the words were ten fingers and the heart, but I really saw some blood. Huang Tiansanbao, tomorrow's trip to Zhenjiang, I'm afraid I can't go to the Golden Mountain Temple to see the sea.
I dragged my fleshy thumb and fell asleep.
The next day, he and Dazuo discussed taking the high-speed train to Zhenjiang, and Daisa invited guests to breakfast and beef noodles.
The soup is clear, the taste is rich, the vegetables are fragrant, all aspects are very good, the only surprise for me is the noodles.
It's actually a wide noodle, wide and flat, I wonder if this is the legendary trouser belt noodle? Isn't the trouser belt noodle a specialty of my ancestors in Shaanxi Guanzhong? Why in Suzhou?
Later, I learned that Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, shanghai, is actually not a family at all, Jiangsu, a southern province, is actually the same as the northerners, eating noodles for a living.
And I, a native of Wenzhou, Zhejiang, eat rice.
Truth be told, although I accept various banquets when I come and go in business, everyone understands that kind of eating table, and basically you have to eat staple food, so I have always thought that Jiangsu and Zhejiang, a large southern province, eat rice. But I was wrong.
Breakfast on this day. For the first time, I saw the power of the big-name wide face.
Sure enough, a large bowl, after eating a day without hunger. All the way to the pufferfish at night.
Du Dazuo had no idea what Dendrobium was. I regret the beef jerky cigarette that I lost at home. I knew to bring some, yueqing, the railway station of the eighteen-line small city, actually even had a consignment business, too angry.
Coincidentally, and Du Dazuo high-speed rail to Zhenjiang, actually sat on the head of the carriage, this time there is a small table, but it is too far.
It seems that the head of the Jiangsu EMU is on the bar with me!
Teacher Tony in Zhenjiang was very busy, and after we arrived in Zhenjiang, we watched Dazuo rest on the train, which should be quite tired, so he proposed that I go out for a walk alone and let Daisa's rest in the room.
Du Dazuo couldn't help me and agreed.
The hotel that Mr. Tony helped us set was so nice. Next to Beigu Mountain, the door is a big lake, the mountain side lake, the most important thing is because it is located on the lakeside, the flow of people and traffic is certainly not as turbulent as the city, so it is very quiet, obviously in the downtown area, but there is an empty valley and the quiet of the orchid. The hotel is well decorated, like the top hotel furnishings of the 1990s, the curtains are electric.
Next to the Beigushan Park is close to the big lake, there are two small piers, a huge Ding, the scenery is quite pleasant, next time must take the lady and children to play.
I walked all the way to the Oriental Weiye Square in Zhenjiang, and later Mr. Tony told me that I was actually only one step away from the Golden Mountain Temple, and I didn't know anything.
Teacher Tony arrived soon. It was a poet's face, very three-dimensional, the traces of time had left a little white thread in his hair, his face was rosy, his speech was full of vigor, and he was strong in a hammer. Such a strong and sunny tone said that it is indeed some of the City's Jiangsu accent Chinese, the word city well easy-going, looking at a strange sense of intimacy, obviously the words and tone are very kind, but always feel that there are strands of strange, and then suddenly realized, that is the result of long-term education front work, Tony's kind of temperament is the majesty of the teacher, although people are very kind, but I just feel a kind of fear of being dominated by the teacher when I was a child.
Later, when my friends looked at the photos, they said that I was trembling. Oh, you guessed it right.
Did not offend The meaning of Tony's teacher, the teacher is not strange, in fact, it is very comfortable to chat with Tony's teacher, the teacher has a broad vision, excellent eloquence, and long-term education work also makes the teacher's tone have a natural majesty.
The point is, the teacher was too polite.
Really too polite.
That pufferfish feast.
beauty.
Teacher Tony was very kind and kept asking us if we had any taboos and what we weren't used to eating.
The first two big dishes on the table, one is saltwater goose, before this I have heard that There are roast ducks and saltwater ducks in Nanjing, and the duck meat of Nanjing saltwater ducks has a fishy smell, and people who like to eat feel that the taste is strong, and I can't love it.
This Zhenjiang saltwater goose meat is soft and rotten, but also with a sweet smell, refreshing and sweet, seemingly fat, but the import is a wonderful fragrance, light, gentle, like the purity of a girl, no wind and dust.
The next one is Zhenjiang cuisine, one of the three monsters of Zhenjiang, looks a bit like our Jinhua ham in Zhejiang, the outside of the pig skin like crystal, bright and translucent, shiny and shiny with a hint of aristocratic atmosphere, pork skin under the meat similar to ham, but there is a big difference, Zhejiang Jinhua ham is the whole pig leg, although the pattern is similar, but the meat is muscle, only the most precious upper part of the fascia, belongs to the natural growth of pigs.
The meat seems to be made of pig's trotters frozen with nitrate pressure, which is an artificial product, the hoof meat inside is strong, the hoof tendons are much more than the ham, and the slices are crystal clear, and the pig skin looks really shiny. Biting in the mouth has both the toughness of the hoof tendons and the aroma of the hoof meat, and the biggest difference from the ham is that it is not too salty, probably because the ham is salted, and the meat is made of salt, so it is not as salty as the ham.
In addition, the second difference is that the pig fat in the ham is a bit old pig fishy, the fat content is high, the taste is also strong, and the Zhenjiang cuisine is mainly hoof tendons, the color is similar, but there is no pig fishy. Exceptionally tasty.
In fact, about meat, I heard about it in movies a long time ago. I've really heard of it, I haven't seen it.
The little Jew played by Zhou Huimin in the Hong Kong drama "Big Time" ran to Taiwan to ask for the big drug lord Zhou Jisheng when Fang Zhanbo was crushed by five crabs in Hong Kong, and in addition to making him a lot of Suzhou and Hangzhou snacks, he also made a set of Zhenjiang dishes. It turned out that Zhou Jisheng himself was a Teochew native, but his wife was from Lin'an, and when he got angry on Monday, Mrs. Zhou made a dish to coax him. In the play, Zhou Huimin also said the method of meat, what to press several layers of stones, press for a few days, and finally pull out a large bone, called Tian Lantern Stick.
At that time, I was stunned. I didn't understand it, and I thought that the little Jew in the play was a Hangzhou native. I went to Hangzhou to find meat, but there was no. I thought TVB was a liar.
Later, I learned that it was Zhenjiang cuisine. Almost thirty years later, I finally eat the meat.
Why did I say that I had never seen it, because in "Big Time", Zhou Huimin talked about the meat for twenty minutes, and how to do it was clear, but she did not show a shot of the appearance of the meat, but it was not that the light had never seen it.
Next up is a Zhenjiang native dish, and the grass burns the river mussels. This should also be unique to Zhenjiang, the beginning of the hotel mistakenly into green vegetables fried river mussels, Tony teacher also deliberately went to the theory, the result of the store into several waves of guests, are named to straw. Mr. Tony was quite proud, and then told us that the grassland had been fed to pigs in the early years, and now it has become an authentic souvenir. The theme of stir-fried river mussels is straw, river mussels are not noisy, the taste is actually similar to vegetable moss,
But the taste is quite different, it looks a bit like coriander, the leaves are not like, very similar to the weeds on the edge of the trees when we were young, and we often used to play with the grass tendons. Eating has no taste, neither sweet nor bitter, and moss is very similar, but the taste is coarser than moss, a little celery feeling, but there is no celery thick and crisp thick stem, a bit of the meaning of eating celery leaves.
Then there's the famous puffer fish, a top-notch river fresh that risks your life.
Teacher Tony is very careful, specially explained to the restaurant according to the guest dish, one person, the dolphin body is larger than I imagined, immersed in the fragrant broth, golden, and yesterday's water basin lamb white broth is different, puffer fish soup looks fat, obviously after the juice, with the texture of yellow sheep jade, with the look at me on the rounded dolphin body, giving people a fat and tender illusion.
The first bite did not feel fatty, and my expectation was the taste of fatty salmon with more fat, but the puffer fish was not. Later, through Tony's teacher, I learned that puffer fish is a typical high-protein and low-fat fish, with a protein content of up to 18% and a fat content of only 0.26%. No wonder.
The puffer fish is delicious because its fish meat itself has its own umami amino acids, so in the era of no monosodium glutamate, Su Dongpo was poured for it, but the puffer fish in front of him was infiltrated by the broth, the fish was not very prominent, and the fatness of the broth and the smoothness of the fish complemented each other.
My plate has two organs in addition to the fish, and the taste is slightly different, but it is probably as smooth as tofu. At this time, Mr. Tony was already a little excited under the influence of fine wine, and he had a good conversation with Du Dazuo, and I was embarrassed to interrupt.
I suspect that one of them is a liver, although I can't eat which one is, the two organs are similar in shape, the shape is similar, one is more delicate, like Japanese tofu, jelly-like, and the other is thicker, similar to ordinary tofu. I guess the thick is the liver, the thin one, probably the ovaries. After all, it tastes a lot like the yellow of a crab.
All delicious!
After the puffer fish came up, the more everyone talked more and more, Teacher Tony added a Zhenjiang specialty, vegetarian assortment.
I joked that this was Jamalaya. It was the only dish we didn't finish eating that day.
It's not that it's not delicious, it's very delicious, it's the second most delicious thing I think is the fugu that day, but Mr. Tony is too polite, there are too many dishes, and everyone is not fighting enough.
Zhenjiang jambalaya is made from a variety of vegetables with tofu skin, and unlike Nanjing assorted vegetables, it is not a crispy texture or a sour kimchi seasoned with vinegar. I originally thought that Zhenjiang was a well-known vinegar capital, and the selling point of the assorted vegetables must be vinegar aromatic.
I didn't expect that the dish in front of me didn't have a hint of sourness at all. The appearance is also very clear, and at a glance, it does not let go of soy sauce balsamic vinegar, without a hint of dullness.
It is very fragrant, very fragrant, I guessed at first it was sesame oil, but it did not have the greasy of sesame oil, light and elegant, with a very yellow and old entrance but very smooth and tender bean skin, that taste heaven and earth. That aroma surrounds the mouth, and when paired with snowflake beer, it can be reminiscent for half a day.
I don't know the green vegetables in Jamalaya in Zhenjiang, the only thing I know is the white fruit spread on it.
Du Dazuo seemed to like it, happily ate a lot, and asked what is it? We both laughed and said: This is a white fruit, a seed of ginkgo biloba, poisonous.
Frightened, Du Dazuo was stunned and said that he had eaten poisonous things today.
The shop is filled with cheerful air...
The next day, we were the train at 12 o'clock, and I thought that I had drunk a lot last night, and today I slept on three rods a day. But Teacher Tony insisted on taking us to eat breakfast, which I didn't understand at first, and later learned about Tony's meticulous and good intentions.
Zhenjiang three monsters, balsamic vinegar is not bad, dish meat is not suitable, noodle pot inside the boiling pot lid. Last night was dinner, and the pot lid could not be on the table, so Mr. Tony was going to take us to collect our achievements today.
The famous pot lid noodles are really different. Teacher Tony has always been embarrassed, saying that for me as a Zhejiang person, this side may be a little salty. It is really different from the bowl of beef noodles in Suzhou yesterday. The bowl of beef noodles in Suzhou tastes like ordinary Muslim ramen, that is, the noodles are different, and they are wide noodles similar to trouser belts. And this bowl of Zhenjiang pants with noodles, is the taste is not the same, should be the taste of the brine, noodle soup is almost pitch black, I think it must have used Zhenjiang balsamic vinegar tone, but can not eat sour, indeed some salty and heavy, noodles are fine noodles, but different from our side, Wenzhou's same thick noodles have rice noodles like soft, and the taste of instant noodles is similar. The taste of Zhenjiang pot lid noodles is like Wenzhou's coarse noodles, and the strength is chewy, as if it is mixed with gluten. Eating some stomach pressure, full.
My portion was butterfly tripe noodles, which I had always thought were butterfly noodles, which were butterfly-shaped gnocchi sold in supermarkets. Later, I learned that the butterfly refers to the fat eel, cut into segments, looking like a butterfly, I laughed, this is the first time I have eaten river fresh and beef cooked noodles. Because the taste of beef is too heavy, we Zhejiang people feel that and seafood river fresh are skewered. Another delicious experience.
Although I still can't figure out why I want to make a pot lid float in the pot?
Teacher Tony was very polite and stuffed us with a lot of souvenirs, of course, Zhenjiang balsamic vinegar.
The three monsters of Zhenjiang were gathered here.
Thank you Mr. Tony, thank you Du Dazuo. You gave me a wonderful trip to Jiangsu. The first pot of lamb in life, the first puffer fish are unlocked in Jiangsu. value!
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