A few days ago, I ate the taste of over-oiled meat that was close to that of my childhood, and over-oil meat is a specialty of Shanxi, almost all the prefectures and cities in Shanxi will do it, although there are changes in the side dishes according to the taste habits of various places, but the overall production method is the same. I don't want to talk about how to make oily meat today, let's talk about the oily meat in my memory.
As a specialty of Shanxi, it must be superior, otherwise the canteen of the State Council organs could not have been served all the time, but why do many people come to Shanxi to taste it, and they feel that this dish is not worthy of the name and is not delicious. I think it is still the current restaurant that simply blindly pursues profits, while ignoring the inheritance and quality control of dishes. I'm in Taiyuan, where the traditional side dish of oily meat, magnolia slices, is essential, but now most restaurants only have shallots, garlic moss and fungus, not to mention green beans, which are easier to ignore.
Now the location of Taiyuan Qinxian North Street Changsheng Shuangxi City used to be Shuangxi Rubber Factory, which in addition to the canteen also has a factory-run hotel, called Shuangxi Hotel. In the 1980s, this restaurant had a chef who retired to Taiyuan in the canteen of the State Council organ, named Li Caigen, whose oiled meat was a must.. I was a child of the company, and at that time, my parents' rest was on Wednesdays, and the school break was on weekends, so I would be taken to work by my parents when I was resting on weekends. At that time, I was most looking forward to going to my parents' unit on the weekend, because I had eaten meat in oil. If I remember correctly, from the beginning of elementary school in 86 to the 5th grade, the whole 4 years were spent like this, because later the Shuangxi Rubber Factory adjusted the work and rest time, and his parents also became a weekend break, and they rarely went again, and since then Li Caigen's oiled meat has become one of the best three dishes in memory, and the other two are the alfalfa meat and fried shrimp he made.
He has made oily meat, and now the hotel is obviously different, first of all, the piece is large, this is the test of knife work, and a piece is a piece, basically unfolded, rarely like the wrinkles of the hotel now, this should be fried; the second is particularly soft and tender, can not be said to be in the mouth, but also infinitely close to the feeling; the third is the side dish, black fungus, shallots, magnolia slices, green beans and garlic moss, magnolia slices are the main side dishes, the rest are embellished to enhance the taste; finally, the taste, maybe he is not the most authentic over-oiled meat, But it is true that I have eaten the best taste, may be preconceived about it, anyway, after growing up to eat other restaurants of the oil meat, always feel that the taste is a little strange, the only exception a few days ago that the article also said, is a trip to Datong, in the Kowloon Wall next to a hotel restaurant to eat oil meat, the taste is actually very close to when Li Caigen did it when he was a child, at that time there was a small surprise, but the taste compared to Li Caigen's, never met the second one. Because he is a child of the enterprise, he grew up in the dean, Li Caigen knew several hotel managers at the time, Zhang xx, Lu xx, Wu xx, when I got married, Wu xx was still the general manager, and he talked about the oily meat of the Shuangxi Hotel, he also praised Li Caigen's cooking skills, his original words were "Taiyuan City, can you find a better cook than Li Caigen?" It was also through him that he learned that Li Caigen was invited to the Shuangxi Hotel after retiring from the State Council and returning to Taiyuan, and he also knew that Li Caigen's kitchen knives were all dedicated and never let people touch, maybe the people who were skilled in cattle B were all a bit eccentric.
According to the age calculation, Li Caigen should have been immortal, I don't know if he has a culinary art heir, if there is, I don't know if he has inherited his skills, I really want to feel the taste of my childhood again, if you netizens think that our Taiyuan family's oily meat is delicious, I must recommend it, I want to try it, see if I can find the feeling of childhood.