In order to be able to eat a delicious meal of rap, will you work tirelessly and drive thousands of miles to satisfy the desires on the tip of your tongue and feast on your mouth? Would you understand such behavior? Today let's take a look at the story of this big brother.
Aromatic grilled meat
"This is the best roast I've ever had, with a unique taste and crispy skin. This method of roasting whole pig is still the first to see it, the way to eat is also very special, this time my friend and I drove, from the northeast to Shandong to eat meat to relieve hunger, this more than 1500 kilometers of distance is really not in vain ah! "A big brother Liu, who drove thousands of miles from Liaoning Province to the countryside of Shandong to eat meat to relieve hunger, said that they have been waiting here for 3 days, and today they finally ate the barbecue meat that made them sleepless at night, and when they left, they also took out more than 400 yuan, bought several copies, and went home to share them with friends.
Yang Shanxing was inspecting the roast pig
A few days ago, in Maoshan Village, Sanzhuang Town, Donggang District, Rizhao City, Shandong Province, Yang Shanxing, who was in his 40s, braved the sporadic light rain to press the electric button to start the miniature crane, hoisted the special large iron pot, and inspected the roasted whole pig that had just fallen into the furnace. "It has been raining a few days ago, there is no way to roast pigs, these two big brothers from the northeast can't wait, they have been coming for 3 days, this is not today although it is raining lightly, but also hurry to roast the pigs, let them relieve their hunger." Yang Shanxing said that they came to Shandong from the northeast just so that they could eat our Rizhao Sanzhuang specialty roasted whole pig, and they could not be disappointed.
Roast the whole pork out of the oven
"We saw it from the Internet, Lao Yang's roasted whole pig, the method is more unique, just want to try." I've eaten those red crispy roast pork before, but I always feel like it's almost hot. This time we also had a skeptical attitude before coming, and today we watched the whole process of roasting the whole pig by two of them, from killing the pig, to salting, to lighting the oven, roasting the pig, and then baking it, which is indeed different from others. Brother Liu from the northeast said that they got up from 3 o'clock in the morning, followed Lao Yang, and witnessed the whole process of roasting the whole pig, which was really eye-opening.
Roasted whole pig out of the oven, Northeast Big Brother taking pictures (right)
Brother Liu can be described as a senior foodie, they often drive, all over the country to pursue food, almost all over the country. From Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, to Tianjin, Jinan, Qingdao, Jiangsu, to Guangdong, Hainan, and even Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan and other places, the various methods of pork have been tasted almost all over again. They've also eaten this whole big pig roast, but they've never eaten roast meat that makes them unforgettable. This time, thousands of miles to Shandong, they finally relieved their hunger and realized the dream of a taste-seeking trip.
Freshly baked whole pig, the northeast big brother is hungry
"I have eaten roast pork in Tianjin, they grilled it with an electric oven, before grilling the meat, brush a layer of oil on the pork skin, after roasting, although the pork skin is also very crispy, the meat is ok to eat while it is hot, but it feels very greasy to eat a few bites." The pork roasted in the electric oven also has a peculiar smell that breaks down the meat aroma. Brother Liu said that the roasted whole pig roasted by Lao Yang is different from their approach, not only the roasting method is different, but also in the pickling process and eating method, it is also different from theirs.
Looking at the roasted whole pig that had just come out of the oven, the northeast big brother was hungry
Lao Yang's roasted whole pig, what is different from them? Brother Liu continued to introduce that others use frozen pork at home, while Lao Yang uses his own domestic pigs, and today this big pig weighs 360 pounds and has been raised for more than a year. Lao Yang slaughtered it himself, which ensured the freshness of the pork. In the process of marinating, the marinating ingredients used by Lao Yang are prepared with more than 30 kinds of Chinese herbs and table salt, without adding chili peppers and cumin powder, so as to ensure the fresh flavor of the pork, whether it is cold or hot, the taste can be consistent.
The whole pig that had just come out of the oven was carried outside the house
"Other roast meat, can only be eaten while hot, Lao Yang this roast whole pig, hot to eat, cold to eat, stir-fry, make soup can be." Brother Liu said that Lao Yang's roasted whole pig is heated with firewood, burned in the kiln, and stewed pork with the residual heat of the kiln, from the oven to the roast pig, the whole process takes more than two hours. Such a kiln residual heat braising method is very rare, avoiding the smell of firewood, while not losing the pyrotechnic smell of roast meat, just right. The aroma of pork itself, fused with the smell of fireworks, coupled with the blessing of Chinese herbs and table salt, the unique aroma of meat can greatly arouse people's appetite.
The big golden yellow pig that has just come out of the oven exudes the aroma of meat
"I also specially selected a piece of fat meat to eat, I want to taste whether there is a fat feeling, after eating into the mouth, it is really melted in the mouth, there is no greasy feeling at all." Brother Liu said that Lao Yang's roasted whole pig, this is really roasted "degreased", if you eat lean meat alone, the taste is very fragrant, you still can't feel it. But if you eat a piece of fat and lean pork belly, the meat aroma with the fragrance of herbs, first from the nasal cavity to invade, and then invade the mouth, and then into the lungs, that feeling is really from the outside to the inside, and then from the inside to the outside, let you taste endlessly, long unforgettable.
The aroma of roasted whole pork comes to your nose
"Our roasted whole pig, why eat hot, cold, fried, make soup, is because there is no cumin in it, if you add cumin powder, hot eat OK, but cold eat, fried to eat, make soup to eat, then the taste is ruined." 」 Yang Shanxing introduced, they do roast whole pig, the method is to use the traditional method, from killing pigs, pickling, to roasting out of the oven, before and after to go through more than 30 processes, this roasting technology has a history of more than 300 years, in the Qing Dynasty, this roasted whole pig was once a palace tribute, Empress Dowager Cixi especially loved to eat this kind of barbecue, and now the production technology is Shandong provincial intangible cultural heritage project, once reported by CCTV food column.
Old Yang's younger son was hungry and tore a piece of it and ate it
Yang Shanxing and his wife Wang Chunying have been roasting whole pigs for 10 years, and their technology was learned from Zhangqiu, Jinan, Shandong, at a tuition fee of 30,000 yuan. For more than ten years, they have been dealing with pigs, working hard, not roasting whole pigs, or raising pigs, selling pigs, killing pigs, which can be said to have witnessed the ups and downs of the pig market. When the price of pigs is high, the couple raises pigs and sells germanium, and when the price of pigs is low, they kill pigs and roast whole pigs.
Yang Shanxing and his wife package roast meat for customers
"Now the price of live pigs is about seven to eight yuan, and from the price point of view, it is more appropriate to make roasted whole pigs." Yang Shanxing said that in 2019, the price of live pigs rose sharply, and at the highest time, pork reached 32 yuan a catty. To make barbecue, two pounds of fresh pork can grill more than one pound of barbecue, such a price, if you make barbecue, it will reach more than 60 pieces of a pound, then people can not afford to eat. In the past, the couple also rented a house in Rizhao City to sell roasted whole pigs, since the price of pigs rose to more than 30 yuan a catty the previous year, the business fell sharply, and they were forced to return to their hometown, and Maoshan Village in Sanzhuang Town raised pigs for a living.
Yang Shanxing is cutting roast meat
"It's been almost two years since the pig was roasted, and now the pig price is just right, and this is not from July this year, starting to roast the whole pig again." Now the price of roasting whole pigs is still the old price, and it sells for 38 yuan a catty after roasting. Yang Shanxing said that this year, since the first pig was roasted, each big pig had to be about 300 pounds, and after roasting, there was almost no need to go out of the stall, as long as the circle of friends said that the pig was roasted on any day, and it could be sold out as soon as it came out on the same day. Many customers have been eating for five or six years, and as soon as they heard that they had started grilling meat again, they drove nearly 100 miles from Rizhao City to his home to buy it on the spot.
Yang Shanxing and his wife Wang Chunying make barbecue for customers
Yang Shanxing introduced that although the meat is grilled now, it is not baked every day, because when the weather is bad, it cannot be grilled. Last month there was more rainy weather, so there was less roasting. Now that August 15 is coming, the traditional Mid-Autumn Festival is a peak sales season, and he wants to roast the whole pig in the next period of time, as long as the weather is good, because there are still more than a dozen 300-pound pigs in the pigsty. He is looking forward to a good market price for pigs during the Mid-Autumn Festival.
Roast the whole pig at the same time
In the more than ten years of engaging in the business of roasting whole pigs, Yang Shanxing's sense of market smell has become extremely sensitive and at the same time extremely stable. Youdao is the "Spring River Plumbing Duck Prophet", and the level of the pig market price directly determines the quality of their couple's business. Under normal circumstances, for a period of time, the price of roasted whole pigs is stable at 38 yuan a catty. But during this period, the price of live pigs is one price a day, the price of barbecue can not be a price a day, the difference between the price during this period, making money and losing money, can only be adjusted by themselves, this truth, people who have done business should know.
Roasted whole pork with a meaty aroma
An industry, if you can insist on doing ten years, the various rules and principles in the industry, should be more complete, then it should be a veteran in the industry. Yang Shanxing and his wife, in the business of roasting whole pigs, raising pigs, and killing pigs, have been doing it for more than ten years and know this truth best. When to make money and when not to make money, this is not the decision of ordinary people, this is determined by the market. However, whether you understand the market or not, it is up to you to decide. When to earn money, how much money can be earned, this is a lot related to the individual's industry cultivation.
The golden brown pork skin is crispy and delicious
Around us, I don't know how many people have been walking on the road of entrepreneurship, some have just started, have not yet started, they shut themselves out of the door, gave up persistence and original intention, and have been walking on the road of failure. So, they've been starting a business, failing, starting a business, failing again; changing careers, failing, changing careers, failing again, failing again. Everyone knows the truth of digging one well in a lifetime and digging ten wells in a lifetime. However, in real life, there are still many people who have always held illusions, hoping that the pie will fall from the sky and become rich overnight, but they can never see how much sweat and how much hair have been shed behind the persistence of others to succeed.
Freshly baked roast pig
"Over the years, no less than thirty or forty people have come to me to learn to roast whole pigs, but they have all been scared away by fatigue. These people come from Henan, Hebei, Anhui, Jilin, Liaoning, Jiangsu, as well as Qingdao, Weifang, Zaozhuang, Linyi and other provinces and cities. Yang Shanxing said, you have to be able to kill pigs by doing this, and killing pigs alone scares off many people. You also have to be able to remove bones, there are several bones on the pig, which bone to remove, which bone to leave, from which place to get the knife, from which place to cut meat, as well as the temperature control in the furnace, pork roasting time, there is no fixed standard, this standard is based on experience. If ordinary people don't have concentration, they can't bear this suffering, and they can't stand this sin, let alone get up early and be greedy.
Freshly cut roasted whole pork is fragrant
When roasting a whole pig, whether it is winter or summer, you have to get up at two or three o'clock in the morning and work for seven or eight hours to complete the roast, during which there is no time to eat and drink water. After roasting the meat, you have to think about how to sell it, who to sell it to, and who to let pay for it. So hard, a year to earn more than 100,000 yuan, is to earn a hard money. The two eldest brothers from the northeast, in the three days here, communicated with Yang Shanxing and felt that it was not easy to make roasted whole pigs. He said that behind the tempting delicacies, there are so many stories and learnings, and this Shandong taste-seeking trip is really worth the trip.
Roasted whole pig purchased by the customer
In the years of tracking and interviewing Lao Yang and his wife to start a business, let us really see what is persistence and what is not easy. From the process of their entrepreneurship, we have also seen the ups and downs of the market and the impact on the lives of ordinary people. From them, we also see that for the sake of life, those invisible efforts and struggles. Years of hard work, sweat and tears flow together; years of hard work, hope and disappointment coexist; years of persistence, ideals and dreams are accompanied.
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