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▲ Crayfish! picture/network
-The Legend of the Gentleman of Things-
Visiting a night market?
Walk!
The night market is a real world with the filter turned off.
▲ The crowded Wuhan night market. Photo/Visual China
The small shops or food stalls in the night market are the best place for people to escape the camouflage of the day. The lively fireworks wrapped a scarf in the deserted city, bringing a lot of warmth. The night market in every city is a late-night canteen that makes people look forward to it, and in this "big restaurant", the most comforting thing is naturally the various food snacks displayed at the stalls of each family.
▲ Crayfish! picture/network
Hexian: I have the night market you want
On the table of the night market, river fresh food is a very present food. While pushing the cup and changing the lamp, people do not forget to put on transparent gloves, grab the crayfish or snails in the basin, and take a bite with satisfaction.
▲ Who doesn't love crayfish!
Crayfish丨 "eat" crazy for you
The bright red of the crayfish is the most charming color in the night market. Every year starting in May, this alluring red whirlwind sweeps across the country, occupying night markets from south to north. Braised in oil, minced garlic, steamed, each way of eating crayfish can harvest a large number of "fan girls", which attracts many gourmets to "eat" crazy.
▲ Steaming or boiling is the most basic way to eat crayfish. Figure/Network
"Premature Hubu Lane, Supper Jiqing Street". The night market in Wuhan is crayfish-flavored. In this "most civic city", the lively street night market is a unique river and lake for crayfish. More than 30 years ago, the people of Qianjiang, Hubei Province first discovered the secret of the deliciousness of crayfish. This invasive creature was brought to the table from the field and transformed into a new favorite among people's lips and teeth.
▲ Garlic crayfish. Diagram / Diagram Worm Creative
In the eyes of many people, thick-shelled and legged crayfish are too cumbersome to eat, but for Wuhan people, this "trouble" is the charm of crayfish.
Steaming is the best way to test whether an ingredient is fresh or not. In the smoke of water vapor, the crayfish completes the sublimation of "shrimp", and the tender and delicious flavor is preserved to the greatest extent. Open the lid of the crayfish's head, and the exposed shrimp yellow is the essence of the whole shrimp, and after taking a bite, the steamed shrimp meat soup is wrapped in the shrimp yellow and slides into the abdomen. Then pull off the tendons in the middle of the tail, loosen it between the head and tail of the crayfish, pull it gently, and the complete shrimp tail will pop out, dip it and send it to the mouth, two words: xū服!
▲ From invasive organisms to almost extinction, what about crayfish!
In the night market of Xuyi, Huai'an, another hometown of crayfish, crayfish is also a well-deserved protagonist. Different from Hubei people who like steaming, the crayfish in Huai'an Night Market is mainly flavored with thirteen spices, and the Xuyi crayfish with thin shells and large heads can always be "fresh" and preemptive, numb, spicy, fragrant, sweet, tender, crispy and other tastes make up for the aftertaste of this freshness, which makes people extremely "on the top".
"No supper, no Changsha". If the Japanese people's summer memories are fireworks, yukatas, and Masami Nagasawa, then the summer of Changsha people must be full of shrimp tails, fried shrimp and flavored shrimp flavors. On the side of the Xiangjiang River, at the south gate, and in the square square, people called friends and sat around, just for the pot of red crayfish on the table.
▲ The charming red color of crayfish. Diagram / Diagram Worm Creative
In terms of spicy food, Hunan people take one as ten. Crayfish is such a delicious ingredient, naturally needs to be paired with chili pepper to set off its taste, spicy crayfish this way of eating, is a gift from Hunan people to the country's gluttony.
Spicy crayfish started at night market stalls, and only at night market stalls can people put down their "idol baggage" and eat a mouthful full of red oil. In Changsha, spicy crayfish, also known as flavor shrimp. The snow-white crayfish in Dongting Lake is the summer "source of happiness" of Changsha people.
▲ Crayfish is not only the source of happiness for Changsha people!
Before eating shrimp, suck the front end of the shrimp tail, and the soup with perilla and garlic flavor gushes up along the shrimp skin, and the spicy taste is poured into the mouth, transmitted from the tip of the tongue to the whole body, and then turned into beads of sweat oozing from the forehead. Occasionally, a drop or two of red oil spilled playfully from the corners of his mouth, sliding down his skin all the way to his chin. Peel off the shrimp shell with hands and feet, the white and tender shrimp meat pops out, and then quickly curls up into a shrimp ball, dip it in the soup slightly, and the deliciousness of the shrimp meat is wrapped in a spicy taste, which is the authentic taste of Changsha summer.
▲ The comfort of shrimp meat detached from the shell. Figure/Network
The snail girl is snail powder?
The natural snail with the atmosphere of the market is the best match for the night market.
▲ Hurry up and give an award to the first person to eat a snail! immediately!
"A taste of snails is a thousand kinds of fun, but the delicious wine is not as good". As the first fresh in the river, the snail naturally has countless fans, and the people of Nanning are the number one fans. In the hands of Nanning people, the fat and firm snails have changed into a variety of flavors of snail chicken pot, snail taro pot, fried conch, boiled stone snails, and Vietnamese-style conch......
Nanning at night is a big night market. Surrounded by bustling crowds and roadside stalls everywhere, Nanning's night is a different kind of lively scene than the daytime. In a sense, Guangxi's presence is indeed somewhat "transparent". But a bowl of "frightening" snail noodles has carried the banner of broadening Guangxi's popularity.
▲ Snail pickled rice, the editor can eat three bowls. Figure/Network
In fact, it is difficult for snails with less meat to bear the burden of satisfying their stomachs, and compared with other large plates of meaty foods, snails are more like a carrier of deliciousness, bringing together the taste of different ingredients. Take out a toothpick, gently pick at the snail shell, and gently suck the tip of the tongue around the snail, referring to the spicy pepper, the sourness of the small lime, and the freshness of the fish sauce oil wrapped in the fatty snail meat sliding into the mouth, filling the void between the teeth.
▲ It seems that I have smelled the smell of snails~ Picture/Internet
No seafood, no night market
Seafood is the eternal theme of the night market, and it is never absent from the night market in every city along the long coastline of the mainland. In the Dandong night market in Liaoning, yellow clams and mud snails are the best partners with barbecue, in the night market in Ningbo, Zhejiang, the light taste of small seafood is the most in line with the taste of Jiangnan people, and in the night market in southern Fujian, rich seafood is its typical label.
▲ The garlic paste is poured together on the oyster juice, is there a more attractive picture than this?
As soon as the seafood night market meets, it will win countless in the world. Fresh shellfish such as crabs, fish and shrimp, as well as oysters, are displayed under the bright white lights of the night market, bubbling and frantically hinting to the "carnivores" how delicious they really are.
The biggest misconception people have about Qingdao is that "Qingdao has no nightlife". It is true that after 10 o'clock at night, there are almost no pedestrians on Qingdao's coastal main roads, and even vehicles are in twos and threes. However, if you go deeper into the city of Qingdao from the seaside, the wild wonton stalls and various neon-lit night markets hidden in the depths of the city will definitely break people's single impression of Qingdao's nightlife.
▲ A glimpse of the Taitung Night Market. Diagram / Diagram Worm Creative
Compared with the night market snack streets on Yunxiao Road and Dengzhou Road, the night markets on Sifang Road Market and Taitung Pedestrian Street are more inclusive. In Qingdao, where the dialect has its own "oyster flavor", in addition to the Internet celebrity snack bar mixed in with the night market, there are seafood stalls with plastic tents. Qingdao's night market has its own Shandong people's boldness, shrimp crawlers, sea rainbows and other seafood, whether steamed or boiled, the portion is full and the plate is the primary meaning.
Unlike the night market seafood in other places, some of the night market stalls in Qingdao borrow Korean barbecue cooking methods when eating seafood. On the oil-brushed stone plate, the prawns turn from transparent to red, and the whiskers are slightly mushy, wafting out the unique crispy fragrance of the shrimp skin. After dipping in the sauce, wrap the lettuce leaves with onions, garlic slices, and chili peppers, and stuff them into your mouth, just like eating a bite of firm shrimp rice.
▲ Grilled prawns. Photo/Visual China
Even in Guangzhou, which has a variety of tastes, the "mouthy" Guangzhou people treat seafood even more "tricks". After the light dimmed, the colorful light signs on the street were lit up one by one, and the supper in the night market opened up a direct passage to the stomach of Guangzhou. Sports West Heng Street to Tianhe East, Baoye Road, Wende Street, scattered night market food stalls are the soul of the "lonely gourmet".
▲ Roasted oysters that are red by the fire. Figure/Network
The seafood in the Guangzhou night market focuses on the word "fresh". The seafood that has just been served on the table still retains the flavor of the South China Sea. The flower nails, flower crabs, and shrimp on the plate, or steamed or stir-fried, are the most perfect destination for their "end of life". The oysters and squid are sent to the barbecue grill, where the flames simmer and gurgle juice, arching the garlic on the surface and sliding into the flames around the iron frame. The large fan next to the barbecue grill blows hard and brings the taste of seafood further.
▲ The so-called fireworks in the world are probably this taste~ Picture/Internet
Spreading seafood all over the table is Lao Guang's tacit understanding in the night market. The fatness of the small seafood, the juiciness of the oysters, the fatness of the squid, and the tenderness of the fish and shrimp all turn into "panacea" at the moment they touch the tip of the tongue. With the opening and closing of the mouth, the shells in the corners of the table accumulate more and more, and a high mountain of shells is piled up.
"Eat in other places, taste in Chaoshan", the late night in Shantou is the time when the vitality of all kinds of seafood is the most vigorous.
▲ Little crab, I advise you to surrender~ Picture/Internet
In Chaoshan, Da Leng Yue is equivalent to "night mi" or "night mi", that is, supper in the night market. Fish rice is the king of cold in Shantou night market. In the Chaoshan culture, which is composed of the people of the sea and the sea, fish occupies an important position in the Chaoshan diet, just as the people of the Central Plains cannot do without rice and noodles, and the Chaoshan people use fish as rice.
Shantou's fish rice is mostly made of balang fish and angel with fewer spines, marinated in lightly salted water, and then cooked in concentrated salted water and cooled naturally. The cooked fish rice is firm and plump, and through the maceration of salt water, the original sweetness of the fish meat is slightly released, forming a unique fresh sweetness. Dip some Puning bean sauce slightly, and the white fish meat is wrapped in a sauce-colored coat, revealing a faint light under the lights of the night market.
▲ Fish rice. Diagram / Diagram Worm Creative
A pot of boiling and fragrant seafood porridge is the best background color of Shantou at night. After eating the fatty and tender seafood, and then serving a long pot of old fire porridge, it can be regarded as a full end to this supper.
The taste of the world is simple and pure. A bowl of white porridge with shrimp and crab meat dishes can be cooked without too much cooking. In the night market in Shantou, fatty rice is the first choice for seafood porridge, "there is no trick in cooking porridge, thirty-six stirring". Stirring is one of the secrets of seafood porridge. When the rice grains are boiled and flowered, crabs, shrimps and other ingredients are added to linger with the white porridge, and under the urging of the heat, the shrimp fat and crab paste oozes out, dyeing the white rice soup slightly yellow, tender and warm.
▲ Seafood porridge. Figure/Network
Snacks, the right way to open the night market
The night market is a waiting list for people to eat three meals. The supper stalls in the night market are not about the belly of the feast, but about satisfying the appetite of the "greedy" gourmets. The fried cold noodles and almond tea in the Kaifeng Night Market, the skin belly noodles and vermicelli soup in the Nanjing Night Market, the bacon flatbreads and meat buns in the Xi'an Night Market, every snack is the white moonlight that is cherished in the heart.
▲ Raohe Night Market, Taipei City. Diagram / Diagram Worm Creative
Taiwan's night market is a place where all kinds of snacks compete for beauty. The sauerkraut pork belly filling is crispy and firm, the sweet and glutinous Longtan bean curd is soft and moist, the red bean filling wheel cake is delicate and crispy, the salted crispy chicken is crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, and the pineapple bun is cool and moist......
Oyster fried is the imagination of many mainlanders about Taiwan's night market. Indeed, Taiwan's large and small night markets are more or less scattered with stalls for fried oysters. The fried oysters in Ningxia Night Market and Monga Night Market are particularly famous for their crispy and chewy flavors.
▲ Shilin Night Market oyster fried. Diagram / Diagram Worm Creative
No matter how difficult the conditions are, they cannot stop the pace of Chinese exploration of food. Oyster fried is a substitute ration invented by the ancestors of Taiwan in the case of not being full, the sweet potato batter with water is stirred into the oysters, eggs, onions and garlic, and then spread into a cake shape to fry it. Although it originated from the poor, oyster fried oysters have high requirements for raw materials, and only the freshest oysters (i.e. oysters are also known as oysters) can ensure the smooth bottom line of oyster frying. Different from the oyster fried in Chaoshan and southern Fujian, the sweetness index of Taiwan's oyster fried is much higher. The use of soy sauce paste and sweet sauce makes the Taiwanese oyster fried taste more mellow.
▲ Taiwan 50 Lan milk tea. Figure/Network
"Eating" is always connected with "drinking", and when the night market is open, it is safe to hold a cup of tea in hand. The most common match with the night market snacks is a large cup of milk tea full of glutinous bullet pearls. Born in Taiwan, bubble tea is known as a new generation of fat house happy water. No one can refuse the charm of bubble tea, even Jay Chou, the king of Asian golden songs, can't give up the fun of holding milk tea.
The pearls made in tapioca flour are firm and chewy. In Taiwan's night market, the pearls in milk tea are called pink balls. Compared with heartless pearls, the pink balls have an extra layer of red bean filling. The teeth pass through the outer layer of the pearl, and the sweet and glutinous red bean paste explodes between the teeth, sending a "sweet bomb" to the slightly astringent milk tea.
▲ Soft and sweet flour balls. Photo/Visual China
Different from the atmosphere of other cities, Hong Kong's night markets have a little more of a taste of rivers and lakes. The Temple Street Night Market, which has a strong grassroots atmosphere, has even become a favorite filming location for Hong Kong directors. Hong Kong is the epitome of food stall culture, with folding stools curled up in the corner of the store during the day, lights on the street, and lifeless folding chairs stretching out during the day.
▲ Temple Street Night Market in Hong Kong. Photo/Visual China
Accompanied by flashing market signs, Hong Kong-style snack bars such as sugar water shops, ice houses, and porridge noodles are surrounded by surging crowds. Beef-wrapped pearl oysters, crispy fried fish skin, and slices of flowers dipped in sa tea sauce can soothe the loneliness between lips and teeth.
In Stephen Chow's movie "God of Food", the peeing cow balls that bounce instead of table tennis balls are tough and juicy, making people eager to try. Although it is "famous" in the market, Peeing Cow Pill is by no means a pill without a story. Since the Shunzhi period, the Wang family of Songjiang Ancient Town brought beef balls to Hong Kong, and this bursting delicacy instantly absorbed Hong Kong's gourmets. Queen Victoria of England, after tasting this "magical" food, was also willing to become a minister under the command of Peeing Cow Ball, and made it a royal title of "Tribute Pill".
▲ Do you want to fish out one to play table tennis? Diagram / Diagram Worm Creativity
The soup is splashed everywhere, and it is the pleasure of peeing cow balls. After "thousands of tempers" of the beef balls, the Q bomb is firm, carefully bite into a small mouth, wait until the heat dissipates, swallow it in one mouth, the rich shrimp juice passes through the porcelain beef, and bursts in the mouth, which is refreshing and warm, like a lively fireworks world.
▲ When eating beef balls, you must pay attention, and be careful of being scalded by the soup in the heart~ Picture/Picture Worm Creativity
Meat!Meat!
The level of love for meat is surprisingly consistent.
▲ Eating meat makes me happy. Figure/Network
Whether it's the Suzhou Night Market with a book collection of books in winter and a barbecue in summer, or the Lanzhou Night Market with milk and egg mash on the spot, or the small barbecue three times a day in the black earth, to the Yunnan Night Market with the fragrance of small yellow croaker and chicken foot tendons, meat is the most popular protagonist in the night market. People's love for meat can't escape the blunt words of the music poet Li Jian: Eating meat makes me happy!
Beef and mutton are a staple of the Northwest Night Market. As a city where the Tengger Desert meets the Ningxia Plain, the Helan Mountains and the Loess Plateau, the night market in Ningxia Zhongwei has a wealth that other cities in the northwest do not have. The sour Pingjibao yogurt, the sweet selenium gourd, and the red-hot wolfberry form the colorful colors of Zhongwei Night Market.
▲ Lamb skewers. Photo/Visual China
Thin skewers of mutton are the characteristics of Zhongwei Night Market. A large number of iron skewers were filled with three thin and one fat pieces of fresh mutton, tumbling on the black, narrow hearth. The flames of the charcoal fire are ready to move in the hearth, waiting for an opportunity to fight back against the dripping meat skewers. Uncle Kebab hid behind the oven, squinting his eyes and tilting his head, and his hands kept turning, sprinkling, and fanning the fire in the rhythm of the fireworks.
"Barbecue should be served with lamb's trotters, and noodles should be served with side dishes. In Zhongwei's night market stall, lamb's trotters can be called the third "king of the table" in addition to mutton skewers and peanut edamame platters. When eating sheep's trotters, it gives people the illusion of a desert knight. Holding the steaming sheep's hooves, the marinade seeps down the cracks of the hooves and drips on the table covered with transparent film. Take a breath of hot air on the surface of the sheep's hooves, and you can bury your head in the strength of your teeth and tendons.
▲ Sheep's hooves. Diagram / Diagram Worm Creative
Located in the Neijiang River of the Bashu Ancient Road, one end is connected to Chengdu and the other is connected to Chongqing, and along the Tuojiang River at night, the scene of people is no less than these two "Internet celebrity" cities. Lo-mei, skewers, hot pot, grilled fish, fatty rice noodles, and various flavors of fireworks are mixed with Tuojiang water to stew into a spicy Neijiang flavor.
▲ Cute bunny. Figure/Network
The cute rabbit is the favorite of Neijiang people. Each part of the rabbit can "debut" separately and achieve a delicious meal. Spicy rabbit is the first choice for Neijiang people to visit the night market. Three or five together, sit on the side of the Tuojiang River, order a few bottles of beer and a plate of spicy rabbit, Neijiang people can extend the comfort of the day indefinitely.
▲ Spicy rabbit. Figure/Marketchart.com
The iron plate, which is about half a meter in diameter, is the exclusive tableware of the spicy rabbit at the night market, and the finely chopped rabbit meat is buried under bright red peppers, brown peppercorns and white garlic cloves. Don't believe that the people of Neijiang are "not spicy", in terms of eating spicy, Neijiang people are very violent. Spicy rabbit covered with chili peppers, in the appearance of "not easy to bully", rabbit meat at the beginning of the mouth, the elastic and tender flesh sense prevails, temporarily paralyzing the taste of diners, after chewing carefully, the aftertaste of double peppers overflows from the rabbit meat, between the teeth and cheeks quickly warmed up, the spicy taste in the mouth three-dimensional surrounding, like Nezha stepping on the hot wheels in the mouth to play a set of spears. At this time, you need to bring a bowl of Neijiang cold cake with ice and pour a large mouthful of Weiyi soybean milk to extinguish the flame burning on the tip of the tongue.
▲ Bunnies are so cute, you must eat them! Photo/Huitu.com
The night market, the ordinary daily life of neon flashing and pushing cups and changing lamps, is the most reassuring, perhaps this is the mundane appearance that people yearn for in their hearts.
What memories do you have about the night market?