I am a senior catering industry practitioner and have been in this business for nearly thirty years. This year, the child's college entrance examination was finally completed, although it was not particularly ideal, but it was also a successful landing. Travel that is planned to be cancelled due to the epidemic is gradually loosening because of the epidemic control. After careful consideration, I decided to go to Guangdong for a food trip as originally planned.
Due to the delay, it was late at night when the plane landed in Guangzhou. When I arrived at the hotel by taxi, I quickly washed and slept. The next day I went to the legendary Changshou Road, and it seems that I did not find the alleys of the old Guangzhou that are very pychic and well-known. But the road is not wide, and the trees on both sides of the road are dense, which has the taste of Nanjing's old neighborhoods. It was nice for us to take a leisurely stroll around on our bikes.
Nearby is the famous Upper and Lower Ninth Street. It is a commercial pedestrian street similar to the whole country, selling clothes, hotels, and snacks. I saw that the famous shop "Tao Tao Ju" did not enter because it was not until noon. There is also an old shop "Nanxin" sugar water shop, which is very hot to visit, but it is suitable. Nanshin is said to have a long history and antique plaques. In fact, my understanding of this kind of thing as a sugar water shop began with "full memory". After arriving in Guangdong, I found out why the sugar water shops on the street were full of ice rooms. Because the weather in Guangdong is not extremely hot, but it is relatively stuffy, a few steps on the body is sticky sweat. A cold drink is not excessive at any time.
Guangzhou's long-established brand
Nanxin's desserts give me a sense of decorum, the material is very sufficient, coconut milk, red beans, mangoes, sago, blood glutinous, these things are made in place separately, whether it is sweetness and color, or the quality of raw materials. It's hard to find a big problem, but I don't know why, and after combining it into desserts, it gives me a very mediocre feeling. Is it because my expectations are too high? Ordered a bowl of radish beef offal, this strictly speaking, generally not counted, the soup is dull, the meat aroma is insufficient, and the quality of raw materials is poor. Only ginger bumping milk gave me a little surprise, the concentration is appropriate, the milk flavor is strong, the taste is soft, the portion is full, covered with grains of red beans out of the sand, immediately let me feel the authentic Cantonese market atmosphere. The service is basically nothing, just like the feeling of eating in a state-run restaurant in the 1980s, and it doesn't care about you after serving. But I like the waiter's faint sense of contempt. Uninterrupted, quietly enjoy the idyllic time belonging to the cuisine.
The process of shopping is not written, anyway, it is a stinky sweat, tired like a dog. Just seeing the "chicken cakes" all over the street surprised me, as a senior culinary, catering research practitioner. There is no such thing in my brain's Cantonese dim sum database. A search on the Internet, the real Guangdong traditional cuisine, I am lonely and unheard. Guangzhou's chicken cake, also known as "Xiaofeng Cake", was founded in Guangzhou during the Xianfeng period of the Qing Dynasty, and has a history of 270 years! I deliberately found a "Chengzhi Cake Family" with a good reputation on the Internet and bought a few packs. The price is not cheap, a pack of 250 grams, 40 yuan. It feels like a "strip pastry" dim sum mixed with a lot of waxy pastry. Such as the crust of the cicada wing presented in front of the eyes, melon kernels, peanut kernels are full and tempting, take a bite, only listen to the "clucking" sound, after eating the delicious aftertaste hidden between the teeth, under the tongue, the corners of the mouth is still radiating, sweet, fragrant, crisp, crisp, lingering for a long time; Yike tea, wine and even can eat, is simply a miniature feast! The bacon flavor seems to be a very fat sausage. The waxing is full, just a little greasy. Although I don't like it, it is indeed a very characteristic Nanyue dim sum, and I usually eat Huaiyang dim sum, which has a completely different flavor feeling.
Next, I want to write about Cantonese roasted pork