Green branches, birds singing and flowers
The maximum temperature is still on the verge of 25°C
A group of foodies can't wait to ask:
"What's new for summer?"
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If you want to talk about the spring and summer flavors in this cuisine, there is one noodle that is the most sultry: Shanghai cold noodles. The cool noodles are topped with peanut butter, vinegar, soy sauce, chili oil, etc., and topped with a large spoonful of freshly fried toppings...... Recently, the time-honored Yixinzhai Halal Hotel located on Pingliang Road in Yangpu has grabbed the "fresh" new - cold noodles, come to a bowl!
"No matter the season, I'll eat it when you eat it"
At eleven o'clock at noon, business was booming in the lobby. Among the shuttled people, there is a group of regular customers who are particularly sophisticated: order and pay the bill at the counter, take the receipt to the corner window, and hand the ticket to pick up the meal. There is a saying, "Help me pour a little more peanut butter!"
They're buying cold noodles. This year, Ilshin Zhai has put cold noodles, which are popular every year, on the shelves in advance. Ma Wanglin, the head of the restaurant, said that this was to respond to the needs of diners, "who have been waiting for a long time". "Of course, most of them are young and don't care about the temperature. I just want to start selling it early, so that everyone can eat it whenever they want. ”
Cold noodles are indispensable with a variety of toppings. In Yixinzhai, there are a total of 13 kinds of toppings, such as eel shreds, oyster sauce beef, red stewed beef tendons, kung pao chicken, spicy beef and hot sauce, fresh and refreshing three silks, Luo Han flavor, mung bean sprouts, snow cabbage beef, etc., to meet the different preferences of different diners. Citizens can also buy cold noodles for 10 yuan and 2 taels, and eat them with other dishes.
"As soon as the cold noodles were served at their house, I came to eat them. Today is the fourth time this year. Mr. Chen bought a celery beef cold noodle this time, and he said that he is a loyal lover of cold noodles and has been eating them for many years. "Their noodles are gluten-free, the toppings are also very real, clean and filling, and now I basically come every week, and I am used to eating. ”
From boiling to mixing
A delicious secret honed over decades
In Shanghai, there are many dim sum shops that sell cold noodles in spring and summer, but it is not easy to make this seemingly simple bowl of noodles well.
The foundation of cold noodles lies in the noodles themselves. This is related to the quality of the noodles themselves, the techniques they use, and the process. In Yixinzhai, a cold noodle goes through three steps from the back kitchen to the serving window: boiling, mixing, and drying. The masters take up to 5 catties of egg noodles at a time, put them in the pot in sections, pour more than 70 liters of water, and then stir quickly with long chopsticks. The whole process is clear, the noodles are small, and the fire is large, so that the noodles can be cooked strongly.
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After the noodles are out of the pot, it is time to mix the noodles, and diligence is the key. "Our chef will dry the noodles directly in front of the electric fan, and then add scallion oil and stir at the same time to ensure that the noodles will not stick to each other due to long-term storage, and the taste will be smoother. Chef Gao Liang said.
The soul of cold noodles, without a doubt, is the sauce. The peanut butter of Yixinzhai is developed by Ma Wanglin, the person in charge, and the formula is fried and ground with 8 catties of peanuts and 2 catties of sesame seeds, and then mixed and blended. "We make peanut butter freshly every day to make sure it's fresh, silky and fragrant. This is my family's secret ingredient. Ma Wanglin said.
The old taste, which has been passed down for decades, now not only embraces old diners, but also welcomes new customers. In the store, two Guangdong tourists came to the restaurant, and after eating a table of dim sum, they were attracted by the cold noodles again, and said with a smile that they would try it next time. "Seeing a lot of customers eating, I believe it must be delicious. ”
Spring is not too late, but fortunately, you don't have to look at the season to eat cold noodles. This bowl of Shanghai cold noodles, which has been worked on for decades, is located at No. 1503 Pingliang Road, and interested citizens may wish to try it for themselves.
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Shanghai Yixinzhai (Pingliang Road)
Address: No. 1503, Pingliang Road, Yangpu District (near Ningguo Road)
Business hours: 7:00-21:00
Text/Image: Tang Shunjia
Video: Guo Xinhua
Editor: Zhou Mengzhen
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