More than ten years ago, a "Chengdu, please forget me tonight" let many people know that there is a Yulin community in Chengdu. Later, the old boy holding a guitar in the tavern sent "Chengdu" to the hot search again, and "Yulin Road" followed the fire again.
What exactly is Yulin Road?
This question is like asking Chengdu people where the food is, and it is difficult for anyone to really say clearly.
Because whether it is hot pot, skewers, or roadside barbecues, egg baked cakes or sugar oil fruits that branches open overseas,
Once packaged with a "tall" label,
The most authentic taste in the bones of Chengdu people has disappeared.
In the Yulin community looking for "ashes-level" food, bicycles are the first choice.
Turning around and seeing a modified tricycle coupled with a few tables in disrepair, it was difficult to find the legendary "Chen Ji Egg Baked Cake".
Twenty years ago, chengdu's streets and alleys were full of such stalls, and in addition to the best-selling creamy meat floss, squeezed vegetables, and shredded potatoes, each stall owner had his own unique skills.
"Look at you! Every flavor will sell out anyway, but I feel that this weird smell sells a little faster. ”
Today's stall owner is Xiao Chen, the son of Grandma Chen and his wife, who quickly became an "Internet celebrity" on the food map after "inheriting the family business" last year. Compared with other sellers' routine of "Wang Po selling melons and selling herself to boast", his words all reveal the arrogance of "Internet celebrities".
"Want to eat? You may not be able to queue up! By the way, we definitely don't set up a stall on Monday! ”
Don't do business, watch the money not earn, wait for the egg baking cake I took advantage of the victory to chase, "Why? In order to find your shop, we have been around for more than half an hour! ”
"We're going to buy materials on Monday. Every day, these fillings on the stalls are sold out and the stalls are not left for a day to come out, so as to ensure freshness. It's not fresh, where else is there anyone rushing from the airport to eat? ”
The person who gave Xiao Chen boss a hand was the daughter of Grandma Chen, and she continued her brother's words: "Have you also heard that there are many foreigners who come to our place to eat egg baked cakes, and there is a young man who was specifically found from Shuangliu yesterday." ”
There are more and more people queuing, in order to appease everyone's emotions, Xiao Chen boss also needs to do a good job of thinking about arriving at the buyer early.
"This must be eaten while it is hot and crispy, and it will not be fragrant after a long time." I'm afraid you won't be able to eat, I'll bake this sister first, and she'll wait for a long time. ”
Listening to the boss comfort himself like this, the person who arrived early laughed and accepted the suggestion. Therefore, Boss Xiao Chen looked up and quickly asked, "What taste does this sister like?" ”
An egg baked cake is not only eaten in the heat and taste, but also in a neighborhood atmosphere that ripples in the old street.
In the gap of waiting, diners began to taste the ice powder carefully prepared by Sister Chen,
"Stir the ice powder with skill, from the bottom up, the sugar must be stirred well, otherwise it will affect the taste."
Seeing that a few outsiders were stuck, Sister Chen simply went on her own, bowl after bowl to help guests stir well, "This is our family's traditional ice powder and brown sugar, no messy things, rest assured to eat." We dolls also come to eat a bowl every day. ”
After eating the egg baked cake, several foreign friends wanted to pack it up and take it away, but they were unanimously opposed by the two bosses.
"You're going to fly wow? No, absolutely not, it can't be eaten when it's soft. If you're putting it on the evening to eat, I still have a way. ”
Sister Chen said that we must find out the time after the guests take it away, if it is possible within an hour, go back and bake it from the oven for a few minutes and still crisp, but it is too far away and can only be sorry.
Eat an egg baked cake, find it for half an hour, and wait another half an hour. Later, when I thought about it carefully, there was no famous food owner in Chengdu who could not chat.
It is not clear whether it is the baked egg baking cake that has practiced their eloquence, or whether it turns out that we all long in our hearts to always have one or so old neighbors who can chat in the old alley, in the shade of the trees, next to a few rotten benches.
Tall buildings are growing, cities are sprawling. The appearance of Chengdu is more and more similar to Beijing, Shanghai, New York, and London, and only the stomach of Chengdu people cannot be copied. Fortunately, no matter how the city develops and how its appearance changes with each passing day, street food such as egg baked cake is still deeply rooted in the hearts and lives of Chengdu people.
Wuhou Rong Media reporter Hu Xiaoxiao