□ Zi Zhang
The society is divided into classes, people's tastes have also been exquisite, restaurants and restaurants and food stalls are different, this so-called flavor. In the past, Hangzhou, eating a meal was also divided into a lake gang and a city gang. For this reason, a place as elegant as Louwailou is naturally favored by dignitaries or literati, and the common people who gather in the city may have a higher interest in Wang Rice and TianxiangLou.
It is not necessary to say that the different tastes of different levels are different, that is, the taste preferences of people at the same level are not also like to change tricks? No matter how good the living conditions are, they may not be full of Chinese every day, and occasionally tasting snacks with different flavors in the alleys of the city may not be another kind of enjoyment. This is the first, the second, as for the ordinary people, perhaps just the other way around, patronizing the hotel is occasional, usually in the small restaurant to enjoy the blessings may be more comfortable.
I am also a small people, since naturalization in Qiantang, colleagues have dinner, friends invite guests, large and small meals are not small, in the past in the north of Jiangsu and Zhejiang rarely saw some. However, if I am tired of shopping alone, and I want to find a place to stay or eat something, I would rather choose a noodle restaurant or bun shop with some characteristics, such as Xinfeng snacks.
The picture is from the official website of Xinfeng Snacks
Xinfeng snacks, how they met for the first time, have completely forgotten, but the noodles and meat aromas that are closest to my impression of the northern-style buns, I remember. When I first came to Hangzhou, perhaps due to habit, I often couldn't help but get closer to dumplings, buns, noodles, these noodles, Hangzhou noodles are my favorite, dumplings, buns but a little dare not compliment. Northern dumplings are sold in portions, and generally four or two or half pounds is a constant for an adult, but the quantifier used in Hangzhou dumplings is "only". Once I asked for a dumpling at a dumpling shop, but it was a bowl of vegetable soup that was brought up, and when I ate it, I knew that there were still seven dumplings in the soup! Seven dumplings are enough, and there is basically no filling. No filling, is compared with the northern dumplings, Hangzhou people may not be strange may have no opinion, I really can't accept it. Returning to Shandong during the holidays, I went to the original unit to visit a Xiaoshan teacher from the university period, and when I talked about this matter, the teacher laughed and said: Can the dumplings in the south be counted as dumplings? He's telling the truth!
Later, the northeast dumpling shop slowly increased, to eat, slightly better than before, but with the real northeast dumplings can not be compared, but also on the "only". I thought to myself, even dumplings have become local customs, and when I arrived in Hangzhou, dumplings are not dumplings.
The breakfast buns that Hangzhou people eat, the skin is thick and filling, the flour is not good, there is no noodle taste in the mouth, and the leavening agent is used - the "knife cutting" and steamed buns in the school cafeteria are also the same.
Comparatively speaking, the meat cabbage bun of Xinfeng Snack is much better in these places. The noodles are firmer and fragrant, and although the filling is not much, the taste is well prepared. One of the signature noodles of Xinfeng Snacks is called "Special Flavor Big Bun"; the second is "Shrimp Meat Small Cage", that is, Xiao Long Bao, which is also delicious, but the noodles used are half hair noodles. The "Hangzhou Xiaolongbao" in the north has also entered the countryside and become a full-hair noodle.
On the way home, take a few buns by the way, or get tired of walking, find a Xinfeng snack bar nearby, ask for a shrimp cage or wontons, add a bowl of beef vermicelli soup or duck blood soup, vegetable brine tofu pad stomach, in my often.
It is said that Xinfeng Snack was originally called Xinfeng Dim Sum Shop, and later changed to snacks. Mr. Song said that Xinfeng Snack was originally a small shop under the Shangcheng Vegetable and Sideline Food Company, on Yan'an Road near Longxiang Bridge, and later the company closed down, but this small shop existed alone.
I don't know what others think, anyway, from my personal point of view, I think that the "people-friendly" business strategy of Xinfeng Snacks is the main reason for its "longevity". When I walk by any Xinfeng snack and see the people lining up at the door to buy buns, I will increase my trust in Hangzhou, and I want to say: You are close to the people, and the people are also close to you.
May 15, 2020, Hangzhou Noon Mountain
□ Zi Zhang: Real name Zhang Xin, professor, scholar. Engaged in the teaching and research of modern and contemporary Chinese literature, he is the author of "New Poetry and New Poetics", "Some Books and Some People", "Qinggu Shuyin", "Entering Zhejiang with the Fate" and the poetry collection "At this Moment".
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