Luminous cup Fritters rambling

Fritters, Cantonese people call fried ghosts, but not its special words, Shaoxing Zhitang old man's oil poems, also mentioned, Shiyun: "Buy a fried ghost, pity no white porridge under the slight salt." "It can be seen that regardless of region, it has long been widely used." Legend has it that the word fried ghost is related to Qin Juniper. Qin Juniper mutilated Zhongliang Yue Fei, and the world hated it to the bone, so he used two entangled fritters to symbolize that the couple with wolf hearts and dog lungs had been tortured by the oil pot for generations. Legend has it that the streets know everything, never have any real evidence to prove it, and the convention is customary, so it has to be done. Hong Kong people like to eat fried ghosts, also known as "fried noodles", in the past to the food stalls with breakfast, a sound of fried noodles on the twin, a bowl of white porridge, you can eat, the popularity is far beyond coffee, milk tea, toast and other European breakfast.

　　Speaking of eating fritters, Shanghainese are far more sophisticated than Cantonese people, taking my father as an example, a bowl of rice in the morning, fried fritters cut into sections, accompanied by oily flesh, curd milk, kohlrabi, sauce melon, the upper and middle people also have spiced beef slices, grilled seed fish, braised bamboo shoots, etc., and eat it with great pleasure. As for cantonese people, eating fried ghosts is slightly simple and bold, breaking open a section, stuffing it into their mouths and chewing. Outside the fried ghost, it is inseparable from the pig intestine powder, but if there are many tricks now, only the two types of fasting intestines and shrimp rice intestines are obtained. Today, when you are rich, pork intestine powder has been renovated, wrapped in fresh shrimp, char siu, beef, and even with tape and abalone slices, there is no longer the simplicity of the past.

　　Deceased friend Chen Lu, a Cantonese, grew up in Shanghai, told me that fried ghosts have a variety of ways to eat, may wish to list one or two: fried ghosts in addition to sending a variety of porridge, white porridge, send milk, Ahuatian or Western-style soup, is also worth recommending. I used to use fried ghost Zosai soup with unparalleled flavor. In addition, fried ghosts can also be used to deliver rice, steamed eggs add cut fried ghosts, break its monotony, chew it. In recent years, the rise of "fried two", that is, intestinal powder wrapped fried ghost, which taught me to think of Shanghai's big cakes, fritters, flatbread with fritters to eat, Shanghai folk favorite. When I was a child in Shanghai, my grandmother took me to the alley every morning for breakfast, and the flatbread and fritters were doubled. Big cake, I don't like it, I only love rice, it is a kind of food steamed with glutinous rice, clean and non-sticky. The chef spreads the rice on the left palm with a damp cloth, takes the rice in the right hand, cloths it on a damp cloth, takes a number of fritters and stacks them in the rice, and then rolls it into a stuffed rice ball with a wet cloth, which becomes rice, similar to Japanese sushi. There are two kinds of rice, salty and sweet, but also salty and sweet, plus squeezed vegetables, green onions, shrimp rice, its taste is excellent.

　　Today in Hong Kong, Shanghai breakfast has long declined, looking north, the morning scenery in the Shanghai lanes is looming in front of you. (Shen Xicheng)