Here is the "People" good column.
In the editorial office of "People", which has been stationed in Beijing's International Trade Area for a long time, you can hear two deafening questions every day: What will be sent tomorrow? What to eat at noon? The former has a 50% chance of getting an accurate response, while the latter has an eternal answer: not knowing.
But the mouth never stops the finger from opening the takeaway software or food recommendation app. As soon as the meal arrived, half of the houses of people embarked on the path of foraging, and the remaining half of the houses were directly immersed in the aroma of food. After a bite of food, you can finally return to the real human beings from the working machine for a short time, and have a moment of happy time that belongs only to yourself.
Planning | Yang
Edited | Jintang
Recommended restaurant: Xiaoxiang Pavilion
Recommended by: Small fork
Guomao area, the first choice for lunch, is known as the first spicy Hunan cuisine Xiaoxiang Pavilion in Beijing. A few dishes can make colleagues become friends, and superiors become friends. Their Hunan cuisine is fragrant and spicy, spicy to sweating, spicy to tears, spicy to addictive. In order to ensure that the taste is authentic, they never do less spicy, less spicy, millet spicy and pickled pepper are put in, sometimes have to pick meat in the pepper to eat. Eating Xiaoxiang Pavilion is the least worrying about embarrassment, even if you only met colleagues a few minutes ago, the atmosphere at the dinner table can be as hot as your mouth.
Their sour and spicy chicken gizzard is my favorite, the chicken gizzard is crisp and fishy, and the sour radish caper is the finishing touch. The minced eggplant is soft and dense, the tiger skin money egg is full of toughness, and even the most common scrambled eggs with tomatoes are different from others. At that time, the editorial department would discuss which tomato scrambled eggs were the best, and Xiaoxiangge was always on the list. Even if it was so hot that they wanted to faint, the next time it was the ghost who made god open their takeaway. Some netizens said that after eating Xiaoxiang Pavilion, they dared to say that they had mixed with the International Trade Area. Do not eat Xiaoxiang Pavilion, in vain for the international trade people.
Every time you eat Xiaoxiangge, you can feel the stimulation of chili peppers on human life, which is a shot in the arm for boring and dull life and estranged interpersonal relationships. There are also reporters on duty, in the office interview to catch the hot night, I will also order a Xiaoxiang Pavilion to cheer myself up. Under the belly of a Meal Xiao Xiang Pavilion, you can also fight three more manuscripts.
Xiaoxiang Pavilion is not only a delicious takeaway, but a gift to praise yourself, relax and mediate emotions all the time. No matter how tired and depressed we are, every time we eat it, with hot rice, we can realize that no matter how tedious life is, at least we still have the ability to be spicy and addicted to something.
Recommended restaurant: Blue Frog International Trade Store
Recommended by: West Park
For the blue frog, what impressed me most was not the food, but the scenery overlooking Beijing's East Third Ring Road on the six-story platform.
Every Monday after the weekly meeting, we will eat at the international trade, after eating without talking, we will order a cocktail or other drinks in the blue frog to continue to talk, compared with the location and price here, the price of blue frog's drink is quite cheap, a cup of thirty or forty or so. We would rotate every few weeks, and at noon we would ask our colleagues to eat in Blue Frog, talk about topics, talk about confusion, and also talk about life and gossip. At that time, the weather was very good, the opposite CCTV building stood in the blue sky, and the vision in front of me was wide, so the memory of that meal left me was not only food, but also a relaxed, free, and unrolled professional life. Sometimes I wonder, aren't there many people living like us? Or how many days of our freedom are there?
Yes, in my opinion, the food itself is not so important, and I am more concerned with the people who eat together at that moment, the people who are in the same field as you. I like to look at the traffic of the East Third Ring Road downstairs on the platform outside the Blue Frog, if there are friends who have just come to Beijing, I will tell them that from here to the north, is Hujialou, Agricultural Exhibition Hall, Liangma Bridge, Sanyuan Bridge, this is the Beijing I am familiar with.
Image source Blue Frog WeChat public account
Recommended restaurant: Convenience Bee
Recommended by: Han Yi
I still remember the shock of seeing the houchang village social animals lining up to buy a box lunch for the first time. At that time, it was the noon peak, and the people at the entrance of the bee were lined up from the door to the door, and a long line of less than 10 people was snaking out, and I asked the colleagues around me who invited me to eat the welcome seat:
What are they lining up?
They were making box lunches.
Unexpectedly, less than half a year later, the scene of the life documentary had cut to the point where I was staring at the close-up of the convenience bee menu. After experiencing the moment of wearing slippers to help four workers bring a box lunch, some people also laughed at me with the article "No Food in Xi'erqi" that they had written: Han Yi, you have changed.
I pride myself on eating all the mountains, rivers, lakes and seas, but I am not convinced that I also have a day when I can no longer love the kitchen. But between a good table and an extra half an hour's sleep, I believe that few inter-grid civil unions have the ability to insist on choosing the former. What to eat today became a discussion that workers could not move after two hours of work.
I can't tell when it started, but the convenience bee became my first choice. Bun fried skewers Oden, hot dish rice sausage.
Work has taken away the last shred of extra energy, and people don't want to think and choose. And when you stand in front of the hot rice and plaid hot dishes that are convenient for bees, you will know that no matter how you choose, you will not make a big mistake. Scrambled eggs with tomatoes without sugar, praised. Dried sautéed beans and tiger skin, a bit of a heart. If you want to mix meat and vegetarian food, you can put on stewed beef brisket or Sixi meatballs; if you have halal needs, boil a chicken slice and then sweet and sour fish pieces. It's not fancy at all, every dish is the flavor it deserves.
It seems that the mountains, rivers, lakes and seas lost in the race against the clock have been fed back by convenience stores in the most simple way: the northeast colleague prefers his family's sauerkraut powder and braised eggplant, and Sichuan Wa always orders flavored pots and pepper balls; Shandong people say that her mother's chicken also likes to put chestnuts, and one bite back to the Spring Festival ten years ago; the mediocre parsley potato shreds and small cabbage scrambled eggs are the only choices that can always be accepted after picky eaters and colleagues do not eat that or eat.
Doesn't seem to be bad? I consoled myself that it must not have been my taste buds that had become numb. Including several cross-regional business trips to Guomao, between busy, convenient bees are also preferred. Even from the perspective of cost performance, compared with the meat and vegetables that cannot be taken without fifty pieces near the international trade center, the convenience bee is still unsustroubled in the three dishes and one meal that can be properly arranged in about thirty.
It felt like when I came home from school as a child, and when the door was full of Arowana peanut oil and Lee Kum Kee's extremely fresh taste, you threw your bag to the sofa and opened the plate covered with vegetables on the table with special expectations: Mom, what do you eat today?
Recommended restaurant: PHO Dongtian Vietnamese noodles
Recommended by: Luo Er Dog
After working at Guomao for more than two years, if I really want to recommend a place to have lunch, I might recommend the PHO Dongtian Vietnamese noodles on the sixth floor of Guomao Mall. This Vietnamese rice noodle shop is quite funny, their boss started with styling, and many celebrities have a very good relationship, no matter when you walk into this shop, you can see a lot of stars on TV to your Amway Dongtian.
How to say it, it is not so amazing, but on the level of delicious food, basically casually will not step on the thunder, especially in winter, order a bowl of locomotive rice noodles, take off the coat scarf, drink a mouthful of hot soup, squeeze two lemons down, a bowl of powder, the healing effect is full of points.
Another thing that Dongtian does very well is the atmosphere, its façade is not large, not the kind of large flat restaurant, the whole restaurant is a bit L-shaped, which causes it to be small in each area, the tables and chairs are staggered there, not too crowded, and very compact, this size of the restaurant makes me feel very comfortable. And I found that basically every time I go, the whole store will be full, waiting for a seat for too long, it always gives people a feeling of just right.
Almost every time I go to eat Higashida, I can meet the kind of person who comes to eat the powder alone. Very impressed is a girl, ordered a bowl of flour, a fried chicken, and a dragon fruit milkshake, she ate well, do not play mobile phone, see her eat so fragrant, feel that the place of Guomao is cute for a few minutes.
Image source PHO Dongtian Vietnamese powder WeChat public account
Recommended: Gangjian Hainan powder
Recommended by: Autumn autumn
About 900 meters away from Beijing's China World Mall, there is a Hainan powder.
At that time, I was in my early 20s when I came to Beijing for my internship before graduation. Every day, I stayed on duty from 9 to 6, stayed in a small room on line 10, and shared a bed with friends. The monthly rent of 2800 can burn out my internship salary for the month. Walking between the buildings of Guomao, I feel that Beijing is so big, swallowing up specific life little by little.
Because I live on the first floor, the window is facing the staircase, and I can often hear the sound of passers-by walking or stopping at night. You can hear girls crouching on the side of the road crying bitterly, you can hear people arguing because of pet collisions, and some people are drunk and talking nonsense, and they don't want to go upstairs to go home. I also squatted there and cried, near graduation, there was no job, my family did not understand my choice to leave home, and because I insisted on staying in Beijing, I had to be separated from my lover at that time.
The greatest consolation of the week is to ride a bike and eat a delicious meal alone after work on Friday. Like the lonely gourmand played by MatsuShigeToshi, he goes to Quangnai Street to find cheese Wei, to Cow Street to buy pea yellow, and to Changying to buy freshly baked beef cakes. Sitting down, putting the food in order, taking a picture, and eating and going home became a ritual. Food is the gripper of life, it brings real happiness, and it made me survive that time.
After work one day, I followed the address to find the Hainan powder. The shop is small and hidden in a building in Jianwai SOHO, which is difficult to find. I circled outside a few times, but I still couldn't find the entrance, and I was busy for almost half an hour. I don't know why, I just obsessively want to find it. Whether Hainan flour is good or not, I don't remember much. I just remember that it is very similar to the water powder of the hometown, soft and sticky taste, and there is a clear coconut smell in the store. I finished eating in a hurry and took another hour's subway ride home.
Now, it has been two years since I came to Beijing. There are more and more friends in Beijing, and you can have dinner on weekends. The takeaway was quickly delivered to the doorstep and I learned to cook at home. Now I don't want to ride my bike and find a Hainanese powder hidden in the building. Life became stable and lost some novelty.
Autumn photo
Recommended restaurant: Green Option
Recommender: JinZao
Is there really a delicious light food in this world?
It's true. Green Option is.
As a sedentary international trade office worker, weight loss is the eternal theme of life, but in winter, the body's desire for delicious food and calories is unstoppable, and after each indulgence, it is necessary to go home to exercise, leaving regret sweat on the spinning bike. In short, the mood hovers back and forth between happiness and guilt. But with Green Option, I feel like I can control myself because it allows me to find a delicate balance between delicious and healthy.
Most of the light food on the market is a fixed match, even if you can choose, it is also cold, eating for a long time, the stomach is inevitably boring, but in Green Option, you can freely match, hot and cold balance. Cold salads, fresh ingredients, novel combinations, tuna bamboo shoot eggs, grilled apple brie cheese, mostly vinaigrette, the taste is very light. The first time I ate his fried beef fillet, it felt amazing, I chose to be fully cooked, you can note that cut into small pieces and sent, the entrance is still soft. Hot food that is often ordered includes ginkgo roasted tofu, mushrooms with thyme, carrots garnished with sage, and roasted in very little oil, which has a fragrant aroma but does not overburden. By the way, please don't order chicken breast to avoid stepping on the thunder, I haven't eaten a good chicken breast so far. Occasionally, a cup of yogurt is ordered, and the purple potato coconut fruit is most recommended, paired with cereal, thick and not greasy, with a texture close to a milkshake. If you really want to eat dessert, ask for a blueberry festival melon yogurt cake to satisfy the second stomach that specializes in dessert. In this way, a French meal in the takeaway is alive.
In addition to being expensive, this one basically has no other shortcomings, looked at the records on the takeaway software, and found that I placed orders in this place more than 20 times this year, ranking first in the list. Not only that, but I also led the development of the entire editorial board's lunch into a Green Option session, so much so that I once wanted to talk to its boss about whether I could get a company membership card and enjoy the discount. Green Option, see here please consider it.
Image source Green Option WeChat public account
Recommended restaurant: Fire buffet
Recommended by: Car
I admit that this recommendation is full of selfishness, because except for the occasional visit to Guomao, it is difficult for me to eat them at home. In the three years since I came to Beijing, I have repeatedly moved, from the Guangqu Gate of the Second Ring Road, to the Chengshou Temple in Fengtai, and then to the orchard of the Tongzhou Batong Line (since coming to Beijing, I have always relied on the subway station to identify the location), and then I can no longer light the takeaway on the stove fire because it is beyond the scope of delivery.
Because I like to watch Korean dramas, I want to eat Korean food every few days. The tuna rice on the fire is kneaded into balls and rolled over the crispy, crispy and crushed seaweed, and the taste is not bad. Pumpkin porridge also always feels a kind of winter warmth.
Anyone who has seen "Please Answer 1988" will remember that Tokusan Masayoshi Andong Sun Woo and Dong Long gathered in Aze's room, either eating Shin ramen around a small pot or preparing to cook Shin Ramen. The small pot is steaming hot, and they shrink in the quilt, and they will fight for whoever clips more chopsticks. Then put the chopsticks very high, the noodles hanging in the mouth, a kind of fun that can only be found when you eat as a child.
Now think about it, a lot of things in this drama happened at the dinner table, the deepest memory is that Deshan cried at the dinner table, his eyebrows were crowded together, and his nose was red, but he was too wronged, although every sentence was related to eating: I liked to eat poached eggs, and I ate pickled beans all day long, and I didn't like to eat pickled beans.
Image source "Please Answer 1988"
Recommended restaurant: Putian restaurant
Recommended by: Ishise
What attracted me to Putian was not the Michelin-starred sign outside the door, but the Three Characters of Singapore written on the door.
When I was in school, I spent half a year in Singapore. The first time I felt Singapore's diversity was at the Newton Food Center. That time, the best foods I ate were oyster fried and Nyonya manta rays. At the time, I thought these should be Singapore's local specialties. Later, I discovered that Singapore's food is as diverse as the people who make up the country – those singaporean foods are mostly characteristic of various regions of China, Malaysia, and India. My favorite oyster fry comes from Fujian, while Nyonya manta rays have a Malay flavor.
After returning home, I will also pay special attention to restaurants with Singaporean elements. It was as if I had stepped into a Singapore restaurant and returned to that rich and familiar place, so cosmopolitan, so open, but with the affection of my hometown.
Once, when I was hanging out with friends in Guomao, I saw the restaurant putian. A search on the Internet revealed that it was a restaurant founded by a Fujianese who immigrated to Singapore and missed his hometown cuisine. This small restaurant is a microcosm of the nostalgia of those who have gone to Southeast Asia, and the delicious food reduces the distance between them and their hometown. That familiar feeling suddenly came back, open and unique.
One day, I finally walked into Putian and ate oyster fried for a long time. Here, it is called sea oyster frying. Large sea oysters are wrapped in eggs, full of bites, Q-bomb, fleshy, served with eggs, a unique and fresh hot sauce, and a fragrant lip and teeth. I suddenly thought of that night a few years ago, in the noisy Singapore Night Market, with friends of different skin colors, eating oyster fried, drinking horseshoe water, sharing different lives and concepts, and the wind was gentle that night.
Photo by Ishise, Newton Food Center, Singapore
Recommended restaurant: Noodle House Musashi
Recommended by: Lubeka
Tucked away on the fifth floor of Guomao, this Japanese-style ramen shop is my first choice for meat every Wednesday. A small skill of wool, the credit card can grab a 50% discount coupon every Wednesday at 10:00 a.m., and 50 bowls of three-knife flow Japanese ramen can be done at the price of a bowl of Lanzhou ramen.
But at ten o'clock in the morning, I usually come to the subway of Guomao, especially near Guomao, and the signal on my mobile phone seems to go back to 20 years ago. In order to successfully grab the coupon, every time you have to make sure that you find a place with a full signal at 9:58, open the App and start crouching, clicking wildly. Usually after grabbing the coupon, I will glance at whether there are any remnants of other shops, and by the way, I will solve the dinner.
Noodle Ya Musashi's Mikō ryu ramen is the one I've eaten at Komao, and I drink the soup clean every time. This shop follows the usual style of Japanese ramen shops, and you can add another piece of noodles for free, which is more cost-effective. Occasionally the luxury of ordering a cup of Kelbis is the source of energy for the start of the second half of the day's work, and when checking out, under the blessing of 50% off, there is no psychological pressure. Friends, we must not let go of the wool of capitalism.
Japanese Ramen Infographic
A small Easter egg
Recommended restaurant: Bring your own lunch
Recommender: Or Han Yi
After having a heated lunch box, bringing rice at noon suddenly became a romantic and something worth looking forward to. If you want to bring food for more than three days, it is best to take advantage of your free time to plan for the week.
High-quality egg whites of course depend on eggs. Bring the eggs to a boil in cold water, turn off the heat and simmer to form hot spring eggs. As soon as the cool water is activated before peeling the shell, the egg is smooth and tender and pops out of the hand. Star anise, peppercorns, dried peppers, fragrant leaves, cumin simmer the aroma, fry the sugar, throw the onion and ginger into it, fry the pork belly on all sides, the taste is extremely fresh, boiling water on high heat, and then grunt for 40 minutes. When the meat is good, there is no need to collect the juice, the peeled eggs are sealed in the soup, and the refrigerator is placed overnight, and the aroma is unique. Refrigeration should not exceed three days, but it is also the third day of the brine egg is the most moist.
In addition, make a package of chicken legs or whole chicken, a bowl of cooking wine and a bowl of water with thrown into the rice cooker, throw a few slices of ginger, two spoonfuls of salt, add some dried beans or bean skin, open the pressure cooker to cook rice mode, next to nothing, is the simplest and most delicious salt baked chicken. Divide into the refrigerator, one chicken leg and two brine eggs a day, it is difficult to think of not scoring a hundred points.
If you want to have more flavor in the staple food, don't waste the soup left over from the stewed chicken, the chicken thighs are scraped, soaked with rice overnight, steamed with salt and white pepper, and the next day the house is full of chicken aroma, the rice is soft and clearly grained. The next day after the chicken sauce rice is colded into an overnight meal, the eggs are fried together with bald butter, and when the pot is ready, the side of the pot is drizzled with vinegar. When this spoon is introduced, there is salty and fresh, there is crab paste fat and yellow aroma, vinegar is degreased, eggs balance the overall situation, and fine tasting has chicken flavor. It is really difficult to describe in a word, try to bring it once, and the opening of the lid will become the most beautiful boy in the whole office in an instant.
As long as you are willing to think about it, home-cooked fried rice can be as dazzling. Before scrambling eggs in a small hot pot, you can add everything, sausage sautéed out of the oil, shrimp, scallops, green beans, corn, cucumbers, clam meat, sea and land are compatible, cucumbers should be put last, otherwise the fried rice does not become fresh first out of the water to collapse. Before cooking, you can also pour Wangzai milk, add cheese slices, and have the courage of baking rice.
Talking about so many happy carbs, bringing rice at noon and a trick to save boiled vegetables. Any vegetable boiled in water, drizzled with oyster sauce, sesame oil, extremely fresh flavor, and millet spicy sauce, can soothe the heart that is guilty of long meat, comparable to everything sold in the food stalls.
Bringing my own food may also be the last self-brainwashing in the life of a tired social animal: I have not completely compromised with 996, and I still have the ability to control every vegetable and a meal.
Image source "Little Forest"