In addition to the residents who live nearby, people who come to Wenying Park also like to eat a bowl of rice noodles and order a snack on Haizibian West Street. Due to its unique geographical advantages, some old restaurants have also moved here, such as Wenzhou fried rice noodles, a 20-year-old restaurant on the original Zhonglou Street, which has brought a group of "repeat customers" here. With the renovation of residential areas, some petty bourgeois cafes have been added to Haizibian West Street, and the types of shops on the street have become more abundant to better meet the needs of different people.
There is no sea in Taiyuan, why is it named after the sea? The Taiyuan dialect used to call the lake Haizi, and there are many Haizi in Taiyuan, including "Haizi Weir", "Nanhaizi", "Xihaizi", "New Nanhai" and so on. Among them, Haiziyan refers to Wenying Lake, and Haizibian West Street is named because it is in the west of Haiziyan.
In the early years of the Republic of China, Haizibian West Street was only a semicircular street around "Haizi", and due to its proximity to commercial streets such as Liuxiang and Zhonglou Street, there were many small traders here. At that time, Haizibian West Street was a cultural and entertainment venue, with a wide variety of genres, including quyi, juggling, and allegro. After the 80s of the last century, Haizibian stood at the forefront of the trend, and there were many stalls selling fashionable clothes and hazy song tapes.
In 2022, Yingze District proposed to plan and build a night-time economic belt of "Haizibian Street-Wenying Lake-Wuyi Square", which will form an L-shaped night-time economic agglomeration area with the night-time economic belt of "Food Street-Zhonglou Street-Qiaotou Street-Shangma Street"; At the beginning of 2023, Yingze District proposed to enlarge the drainage function of Zhonglou Street, start the renewal and transformation of the "Wenying Lake-Haizibian" area, and create a number of folk cultural characteristic blocks with towns as units. Since then, Haizibian West Street has been reborn, the streets are cleaner and tidier, and the direction of industrial development has been clear.
Rice noodles full of soup with bell rolls, Zhou Xianxian's rice noodle shop has a Sichuan and Chongqing flavor from decoration to food. In the summer, a folding table was set up in front of the store, and a small Mazha was brought in, and several people gathered together to experience the comfortable time under the collision of food and the market.
Haizibian snail noodles is an authentic snail noodles shop opened by Liuzhou people. It smells bad and tastes good, and snail noodles challenge people's taste buds with their unique flavor, making people love and hate at the same time. Many snail noodle lovers came to taste: "The chili oil wraps the powder, and is accompanied by sour bamboo shoots and screws, which is very enjoyable to eat." ”
The big lady's jar powder on the north side of the street is also very distinctive, and the entire store is decorated in a nostalgic style, and there are tables designed in the shape of round stone tables. The thin vermicelli are packed into ceramic jars and served with quail eggs, green vegetables, peanuts and other side dishes, which is very Guizhou-flavored. For customers who love spicy food, spicy chicken is the first choice. The sesame sauce with sesame sauce exudes a sesame aroma, and it is also one of the must-eat delicacies here. In addition to vermicelli, there are many Guizhou special snacks here, and you can also taste the roasted milk made from pure milk and various flower teas, and feel the mellow taste of milk.
The café is a microcosm of the city's culture, which reflects the rhythm of life in the city and people's attitude towards life. In the midst of a busy life, a coffee shop on the corner is a peaceful rest.
The coffee shops on Haizibian West Street have different styles, and you can encounter wonderful experiences in each store. The wooden storefront looks harmonious and unified, and when you open the walnut-colored door of "NIFFLER CAFE", the whole store has an American retro design, and the name "niffler" is taken from the animal character from "Harry Potter" who likes to collect gold coins and other shiny things, adding a mysterious color to the whole store.
At the corner of the street, the word "not bitter" is very eye-catching. The glass windows are decorated with retro-style English stickers, and when you walk into the store, the cute trendy toy blind box at the entrance creates a lively little world. The bar counter and walls are covered with posters with a variety of patterns, and the shelves are placed with trendy toys of different shapes. The signature coffee "not bitter dirty" has a light cocoa flavor in the mouth, which is suitable for customers who are on the sweet side. The coffee here is the same as the name of the shop, less bitter and more mellow, allowing people to taste the sweetness of life in coffee.
Located on the south side of the street, Wenzhou fried rice noodles are 20-year-old shops in the second market of the original Zhonglou Street. In addition to special snacks such as fried rice cakes and fried rice noodles, there is also cold or hot mung bean soup. Mung bean soup is also a traditional specialty drink in Taiyuan, in the hot summer, come to a bowl of cold mung bean soup made by the ancient method, you can instantly clear the fatigue of the whole day.
Zhang's casserole rice noodles and fat rice noodles not far away are both famous old shops nearby, cold salad gluten, meat patties, beef tendon noodles, handmade dough gluten is refreshing. If you want to solve a meal quickly, this kind of small shop is a good choice. As a shop frequented by Shanxi people who love noodles, most of the food prices in these stores are about 10 yuan, which is economical and the taste has been the same for many years.
In addition to these "Internet celebrity shops", Haizibian West Street is also distributed with steamed dumplings, barbecue, steamed vegetables and other unique restaurants, whether it is light and refreshing or spicy and heavy, there is always one that can make you stop.