The winter solstice is coming, it is the time to eat mutton, the smell of mutton wafts all over the street, many restaurants increase mutton dishes, and the public also buys mutton home for the festival. However, the price of mutton is rising day by day.
The winter solstice arrives and the price of lamb rises
With the weather getting colder and colder, many citizens choose to eat mutton and drink mutton soup to drive away the cold. And as the protagonist of the winter solstice, the lamb is a price a day these days.
"I bought a leg of lamb the day before yesterday to go home, slowly stew to eat, the price of 36 yuan a pound, yesterday I looked at it, it is 38 yuan a pound, today's winter solstice, 40 yuan a pound." Mr. Li, who lives on Wanshou Road, said that he bought local goat meat, which is a few pounds of lamb leg stew on this day, a few qijiang river water big white radish, a large pot of fragrant mutton soup, can warm the whole winter.
"Can you do less?" "In the past few days, the price of sheep has risen, it can't be cheap, it will rise when it's cold, it's really a price a day." At the Zhengyang Farmers' Market in Nanping, some vendors and citizens who temporarily sell lamb are haggling.
Upstream reporters learned from some farmers' markets and community supermarkets in Chongqing that on December 21, the local goat meat sold at 38-40 yuan per kilogram, lamb chops 40-50 yuan, haggis 25-28 yuan a catty, and cooked lamb with skin ranging from 65-90 yuan per kilogram.
Lamb became the protagonist, and restaurants changed their appearance to sell lamb
With the arrival of the winter solstice, the protagonist mutton also appeared in various restaurants, the reporter searched for the nearby mutton soup pot on the public comments, and the result was that 1271 came out at once, and some restaurants also began to rub the hot spot of "mutton".
In the Twin Peaks Mountain Road community, Chinese restaurants, hot pot restaurants, grilled fish shops, etc., which usually sell stir-fry vegetables, have increased the lamb soup pot, ordering food, and taking out at your disposal.
"The winter solstice has arrived, and it is just right to eat lamb soup pots, and there are several tables to eat mutton soup pots at noon today, and more than 10 tables have been booked in the evening." The person in charge of the Jiaxiang Restaurant on Twin Peaks Mountain Road said that eating a steaming pot of lamb soup in winter has become a tradition in Chinese. Therefore, before the winter solstice, their shop has begun to sell lamb soup pots, and the business is not bad.
In addition to eating lamb soup pots, roasted whole lamb is also very popular. The weather was cold, and the chefs of Yubei Junduyuan RoastIng Yangzhuang had hardly rested, and the winter solstice was booked a few days in advance. The store's director said that from Friday to now, there are more than 100 tables a day.
Upstream News - Chongqing Morning News reporter Xu Ju