At the beginning of the article, I wanted to popularize with you what is a restaurant and a restaurant. What is the "post-restaurant era".
First of all, "They're not restaurants as you understand them. Can be crowned with restaurants, restaurants most of the shops are exquisite, it must have at least ten or more signature dishes, there are fixed consumer groups, there is a taste, there is pomp, there is an environment, usually can be scattered, there must be a box, the lobby can also undertake banquets, only such a shop can be named after the restaurant or restaurant.
The picture shows a restaurant in Guangzhou
So what is the "post-restaurant era"?
Because the pace of life is accelerating, people are accustomed to solving dietary problems through ordinary restaurants, dirty restaurants with good taste, or takeaways, and most of them will choose to put a few tables in large hotels or large restaurants when they really need to socialize or hold banquets. So I say the real restaurant culture is dying...
A fly shop
I don't know why, this phenomenon is particularly serious in Changsha, I have been to other provincial capitals still retain their own proud traditional restaurants, "Guangzhou Restaurant in Guangzhou, Ginkgo House in Chengdu, Fengzeyuan in Beijing" and so on, these stores can probably represent the highest state of a city's catering.
Beijing Fengzeyuan Lu cuisine full banquet
So are there still restaurants in Changsha? The answer is yes. Like Ice and Fire Building, Seafood Shang, Pretty Jiangnan, Da Rong He, Restaurant Mou Tianxia, Qin Huang Restaurant, these stores must have been eaten if you live in Changsha, after the restaurant era, these restaurants have captured the essentials of people's fast-paced consumption, the environment and pomp are extremely elaborate, and the frequency of innovation can definitely satisfy your curious taste buds. But there are still people who don't like it, for the simple reason that these stores have no heritage, no specialty, no persistence as always, so people can't eat that proud sense of belonging.
A hotel in Changsha is a set menu for 8 people
In addition to the above, Changsha actually has a heritage of old shops that you can call the name of such as "Fire Palace, Yulou East, Xinhua Lou", but these stores have become synonymous with snacks because of the excessive consumption of the three words "old brand" and the main direction of the business of foreign tourists, etc., and the figure of the restaurant has gradually drifted away.
Changsha Fire Palace
Changsha Xinhua Building
Hunan cuisine, as a big dish on the table in China, how can it be lost to this situation, delicious tastes are in the dirty restaurants in the streets and alleys, the flashy dishes in the big restaurants sell at inflated prices, and there are still restaurants that really return to the pursuit of taste itself?
Yes! It's called Qifeng Pavilion!
QifengGe Bayi Bridge old store
It opened in 1937, originally set up in Pozi Street, later moved to Jiefang Road, founded by catering predecessors Zhu Fangyun, Tang Xiaoshan, etc., later renamed "Xiaoji Qige", in 1938 Changsha fire was destroyed, rebuilt in 1943 to run a large cong food as a feature, in 1956 merged with the Xiehe Tea House, re-restored after 1983, named "QifengGe Restaurant", and then relocated to Cai Yi Road, Bayi Road and other places to operate, in 2014 Bayi Road demolition of the original store closed its doors, in April this year at the foot of Tianxin Pavilion reopened.
He is currently the general manager of QifengGe and the famous chef of Hunan cuisine, Mr. Xiong Aiqun
Qifeng Pavilion is characterized by the traditional Hunan cuisine, and the main dishes are "one duck and four eats", "hydrangea sea cucumber", "eight treasure glutinous rice chicken", "iron plate goose paw", "dry roast lip", "large braised squid", "pine nut fish", "three fresh pots" and so on.
Sliced duck
Three fresh pots
Pine nut fish
It doesn't matter if the young man doesn't know, if your family has lived in Changsha for more than 40 years, ask him if he should know. My tant was a delicious Changsha man, and he told me that he had eaten once when he was a child, and that time it was his big birthday, and he said that he had eaten amazing dishes at that time, but because of the limited conditions at home at that time, it was not said that he could go to a restaurant when he wanted to. He told me that he had saved up a few months of money for the work he had saved up to find a taste of his childhood.
Old Changsha eats roast duck
About Qifeng Pavilion, my father also has the same memory, which may also be inherited from me, my father told me that when he was a child, he took him to eat several times, and he also had a deep plot for this shop, so that the wedding wine, my 100-day wine, were all run in Qifeng Pavilion.
Feasts from the 90s
When I was a child, my father often took me to eat Qifeng Pavilion, and what impressed me most was that my father would occasionally take out decent clothes and put them on on the weekend, riding a side tricycle, the back seat of the car was my mother, and it was me in the side bucket, and our family of three went to Qifeng Pavilion for a weekend dinner, which was particularly formal and ritualistic.
Modern youth in the 80s (not my dad)
At that time, I didn't understand why our family always liked to eat the same few dishes in the same store, and didn't the grandchildren get tired of eating for decades? When I was young, I was rebellious, and I often clamored to go to KFC and McDonald's for hamburgers, and to go to the Tianxin Fried Chicken Shop to eat fried chicken, and my dad always laughed at me, saying that I was not like the Li family and would not eat.
The more I said this, the more disgusted I became, and then I went out to college, and every time my father in Changsha would say that he would call Shangda to go to Qifeng Pavilion to rub a meal. I was disgusted, "so many hotels, why do you always want to go to this one" I really can't understand
My ta ta died 6 years ago, out of the first seven to do the funeral, dad and a few uncles in the Qifeng Pavilion to do a few tables to thank the relatives and friends who came to help, I remember that day rained heavily, I and my brothers stood at the door with filial piety to welcome guests, I looked inside, Qifeng Pavilion Bayi Bridge old shop for more than ten years has not changed the appearance of the particularly shabby, the wall yellow wallpaper, dark red table chairs, the table style of the old tablecloth, all of a sudden I seem to see my ta ta with my dad and I sit on the table by the window to eat roast duck, I seemed to instantly understand the real meaning of eating restaurants.
Since then, whenever I don't know where to go to eat, I will go to Qifeng Pavilion, and every time I go, I will clean up myself, go decently, order the familiar dishes, take a pot of wine, and feel what is the real restaurant like my elders.
Write at the end: eating is a big thing, no matter how busy you are, don't deal with two bites, eating carefully is the biggest reality for yourself.
Sincerely recommend it, now the store site is at the intersection of Furong Road and Chengnan Road, and the Provincial Department of Finance is directly opposite the Changsha Bank building. It is only about 50 yuan per capita.
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