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When outsiders first arrive in the development zone, they must go to a tavern for two drinks.
Going to the tavern is like a procedure or a threshold for entering the development zone, a small ceremony of casting a name.
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A colleague from the newspaper once returned from abroad, and we met at a hotel in the development zone. It turned out that the nagging was all about which restaurant to drink in and which restaurant to do things, and it seemed that only there was a deep impression.
Friend W also once told me the story of their drinking in the Xishan Bell Sheep Soup Restaurant, that drinking because of the "a pen" paragraph, the old planning bureau of the development zone people laughed badly when they said it, and they would laugh until their stomachs hurt.
But I will not talk about the content of the paragraph, of course, this is also a paragraph of exposing the age, and about nine times out of ten people who are on the job now do not know.
Another friend said that they drank beer in a small restaurant in Colorful City that year. Dalian dry beer? Great Negan? Anyway, it is one person and one box, and the result is that they drink very late and do not leave, which is also the habit of northeasterners, especially people in the black province, who like to pull the table.
What is a pull table? It is that you can drink from noon to night, drink from night to midnight, go to the bathroom one after another, and come back to the wine table full of car rumblings, turning over and over ink. No one can remember what was said, the point is that everyone is saying, it was called "standing drinking and shouting and talking", otherwise the other party can't hear.
These people ran out of wine, so they asked the boss to serve beer again. The owner came over and said, sorry, the beer is gone today.
The brothers are drinking: how come the wine is gone???
That's not okay, you have to give a certificate, it's not that we don't want to drink well, it's that the wine in your restaurant is gone.
The owner was very embarrassed: the small restaurant had never opened such a certificate.
If you open it, you open it. Write that the beer in this store was drunk by so-and-so and so-and-so, hereby proved.
So the boss wrote a sticky note and brought it over, and a few people looked at it and said, you stamp it again.
The boss was reluctant and couldn't do anything, because he hadn't checked out yet.
So I stamped the hotel seal again.
The next day, this is the capital of bragging. The wine of so-and-so hotel made us drink it out, and we couldn't accept it???
Why? Awesome!
To a new place, to meet a group of new friends, to create a new situation, the pursuit of a sense of superiority is very important. The inner world of small people and big people is actually like this, and the forms of expression are different.
A seafood restaurant on the Golden Road.
Changchun Road Hotel on Jinma Road, Changchun Road is Jinma Road.
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There used to be a yurt restaurant in Colorful City, which is now the north side of AXA. The hotel is really opened by Inner Mongolian people, and the owner's surname is He Laosi. He built a yurt felt room on the roof of the building, which felt very peculiar and distinctive, drinking here with waiters singing steppe songs and toasting with Mongolian customs, that is, a large bowl of wine came up from the sky with a few drops of the ground and then brought it with both hands...
The yurt also contains a large portrait of Genghis Khan.
He Laosi has a nephew named He Ping, who can sing and dance. His somewhat hoarse low baritone sang steppe songs that were really good, and the "Mongols" who listened to him sing Tengger on the spot would sometimes have a sour nose and tears coming out.
The old song is really a tear gas.
Music is like that, that kind of melody will pluck to one of your emotional points, and immediately there will be electricity. Now I am also a full of vicissitudes of age, but I still often hear an old song, and my eyes are immediately wet and I can't help myself.
Purple sauce. Temperamental man?
One year my compatriot came from Gagda, he opened a small restaurant on the street of Linjin Road in the colorful city, he Ping also came on the opening day, and brought two people to the scene with songs and dances, and we all said a lot of congratulatory blessings with wine glasses. Unfortunately, the small hotel closed not long after, and then the fellow also went to the fortress hill grove to find a short sight.
Hotels are risky and should be cautious when investing.
Later, the yurt was gone, and He Ping did not know where to go. It was a pity that there was no Avenue of Stars and a good voice at that time, otherwise he would have been on fire. At that time, Lao Bi often came to the Development Zone Sleepless City Hotel, very low-key, and we had a drink together. Of course, there is truth in the picture.
About drinking and singing, I think of May Day in 1994. At that time, I was working at the newspaper office, just on the May Day holiday, and at four or five o'clock in the afternoon of April 30, Mr. Yang led a few of us to the "Baicao Garden" in Hongmei Community for dinner.
Baicao Garden, on the east side of the big temple of Hongmei, is a shop opened by a Jilin woman.
Baicao Garden was very rich at that time, because I had just arrived in Dalian, a lot of seafood had not yet been eaten, looking fresh but embarrassed to ask, is to see how others eat, and then according to the gourd painting scoop.
At that time, there were karaoke machine boxes in the better restaurants, and you could sing, unlike now that you can't find such a two-in-one restaurant.
It was then that I discovered that music is actually an emotional thing, a medium. Jianjun is "small river bending and flowing east", Zhongshuo is "grassland night", Dong Sheng is "keeping sorrow to yourself", I am "keeping the roots", Yonggui is "small poplar"...
Singing until very late to go back, the intention is still not over.
Because our newspaper was mostly a person who came to work in the development zone at that time, the wife and children were in the same place in the north, and there were still some chickens flying and dogs jumping when they were together, and it was really sad that they were not together, so singing was a very good catharsis.
The street of the colorful city near the Golden Road, the hotel opened by the hometown was once here.
The original site of the Baicaoyuan Hotel.
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For a while we liked the roast goose boy in the Qiao Guang Building.
Founded by a young man in Huizhou, Guangdong Province, Roast Goose Boy became a hit in Beijing, and Roast Goose Boy became a well-known Cantonese restaurant in Beijing. In 1995, the Qiao Guang Building of the Development Zone was completed, the chairman was called Hu Hongbo, who was once a staff member of the Finance Bureau of the Management Committee of the Development Zone, and later went to the sea to develop the Qiao Guang Building, and it is said that his brother-in-law was the general manager, which was called "the only Grade A office building in the Development Zone". In the early days, large foreign companies and banks such as Pujin Steel Plate and YKK were in the Qiao Guang Building, and there were coffee shops and bookstores downstairs, which were very prosperous.
In Beijing, Hu Hongbo came into contact with Lin Weicheng, the owner of Roast Goose Boy, so he invited him to Dalian to open a branch, and then there was the Roast Goose Boy Shop in Qiao Guang Building.
At that time, all the employees of Qiao Guang Roast Goose Boy were from the south, and the general manager was also a young southern boy surnamed Pan. The business method of roast goose boy was very special at that time, Cantonese cuisine, Teochew cuisine, Hakka cuisine are semi-finished products displayed in large refrigeration cabinets. The mouth-watering roast goose hanging in the showcase is mouth-watering, and two porcelain geese stand at the door, wearing vests like people to welcome guests.
Because of its characteristics, it was very popular in the early days of opening, after all, the roast goose of Cantonese cuisine is still very strange in the north. The wedding of a female reporter in our newspaper was held at the roast goose boy, which was very lively, and many years later, I often recall some interesting stories about that drinking. However, the roast goose boy did not exist for a long time, mainly because the management personnel changed too frequently, and finally the roast goose boy had to withdraw from the development zone.
The same is true of qiao guang building, the management has a problem, several changes of its master, some foreign companies in the building have withdrawn, has long lost the style of the past, and now it is mixed like a rotten building, it seems to be waiting for the explosion.
There is also the Egret Hotel located in the Harbin Road Industrial Zone, which is also a miracle, and I often go there.
The Egret Hotel I was talking about was called Li Ji Red Stewed Lamb, which is said to be a Henan specialty. The hotel is located on the north side of Fortress Hill, which is a typical industrial area, surrounded by motors, Sida Precision, Sande Electronics, North Pacific Canning and several other large foreign companies, there are no residential areas and offices, so almost everyone who eats there has to take a taxi. Li Ji has a local policy, that is, if the taxi sends guests, the driver of each car will receive a tip of a few dollars.
The owner of Li Ji's red stewed lamb is surnamed Jia, very thin and weak, and he also wears glasses like a cultural person. Every time he arrives at a meal, he will stand in the hall on the first floor waiting to greet the guests, and all those who have come to the familiar will come forward to shake hands and greet each other, making people feel warm and enthusiastic. When this hotel first opened, everyone was not optimistic due to the extreme deviation of the corner. Because at that time, almost all the hotels that were called were on Jinma Road and Huanghai Road, it was not easy to open a hotel on Harbin Road, but this old Jia did it. I remember that the wedding of another female journalist from our newspaper was held here.
You see, I can remember living with women journalists.
Because the Egret Hotel opened fire, two years later, when the lease was renewed, the owner deliberately raised the asking price, and finally the negotiation collapsed, Li Ji's red stewed lamb was relocated to Huanghai Road, and the manager was also changed, so it became a normal role and faded out of people's vision.
The landlord of the Egret Hotel thought that the ground was good, and he would open a fire if others could open a fire, and he also opened a restaurant after the withdrawal of Li Ji's red stewed lamb, and the name was not remembered, because it was closed in less than half a year.
It turns out that not everyone can open a restaurant.
Some of the small restaurants in the colorful city are now difficult to find.
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One more thing about the past is because I recently watched the movie "Heroes of Fire".
On July 16, 2010, I was at the Juxian Lou Hotel.
Juxian Lou, of course, you know that it was founded by Han Jiguang, a young man from Hongxing Village.
Before the reform and opening up, Han Jiguang was a small person in Hongxing Village, and the neighbors would ask him for help with any red and white happy events. At the age of 18, he began to run boats and learned to repair boats and rivet welding, and also made seafood for everyone on the boat, so he was also familiar with various seafood preservation methods and how to make them taste better.
On June 1, 1984, Dalian Kaijian Company entered Maqiaozi Village, and the dagushan Township Government Canteen invited him to help cook, and Han Jiguang first knew that Maqiaozi wanted to set up a development zone, and to attract many domestic and foreign guests to invest in the Maqiaozi area to set up a factory. So Han Jiguang, who has a high level of emotional intelligence, has a bold idea - to open a seafood restaurant, so that guests from all over the world can taste the unique flavor of Dalian seafood.
This hotel was first called "General Stone Seafood Hotel" and later called "Seafood Hotel" and "Haixian Lou" and then to the current "Juxian Lou". The address of the hotel was also relocated from the middle section of Jinma Road to a very secluded alley at No. 24, Hongmei South Tingtaoli. As a long-established brand in dalian development zone, Juxian Lou seems to deliberately avoid the hustle and bustle, like a bamboo forest hermit, listening to the sound of the Yellow Sea here.
On the day of July 16, the wind and clouds were light, and the neon flashed in the night, which was peaceful.
At that time, the development zone and the two districts of Jinzhou had just merged, that night I was invited to Juxian Lou to participate in a dinner party, one of the bureau was a cadre from Jinzhou District, and he received a call during the staggering, and then he frowned, he put down his mobile phone and said that there was a fire in Xingang.
Ah, everyone was shocked. He asked, who should take care of it?
Someone responded, that is the bonded area area, and it has nothing to do with the development zone.
It didn't take long and then I received a phone call saying that not only had it not been extinguished, but it was getting bigger and bigger, and everyone was surprised.
It is normal for a city to have an occasional fire, and according to common sense, as soon as the firefighters are on the fire, they will soon disappear and will still sing and dance.
But immediately news came that fire trucks all over the city had come up.
I didn't feel good in the shadows, so everyone hurriedly dispersed, and some people drove straight to Xingang when they went out.
When I got home, I was still nervous, looking outside, not at all like something was happening, the night covered everything, and the people walking in the sports park were as pleasant.
At that time, there was no WeChat, and there was no news from the major media on the Internet, so I was ready to sleep. Before going to bed, I turned on the computer again, and I saw a very short message on Sina: an explosion had occurred at the Dalian Dayao Bay Oil Port — presumably.
The next day at work, I learned what kind of sleepless night Dalian had. Only to know which is the city's fire truck, is the province's fire trucks are coming. Only then did we know that two of our young reporters spontaneously rushed to the front line after hearing the news of the fire, and were intercepted at the fire site, so they waited near the fire site until the early morning to collect some of the most important on-site news.
Later, I also heard that in the middle of the night, someone called one of my colleagues and told her to drive away quickly and that Dalian would not be able to save it.
After answering the phone, she squeezed her thigh with her hand, which hurt very much. Did she say it wasn't a dream? Not watching an American blockbuster, right?
Later, some media called Dalian youtube explosion fighting as "a miracle in the history of world fire fighting".
So, the other day I went to see the movie "Heroes of Fire", and I was also moved to tears, but there are some places where I feel fake and uncomfortable, because it is what happened around us. Good theme and good story plus first-class actors, but unfortunately the screenwriter and director are a bit two hundred and five.
The typhoon has not yet come, and the rain is falling non-stop. At this time, I especially miss the wine that used to be wasted in the Yuzhulou Haiwangfu Venus Oriental Fishing Port Tianyuan Mountain City Hot Pot Fengze JuDou Hua Wang Moon Bay Cake Wang QinghuaYuan Dong Lai Shun and I can't remember how many Japanese food stores wasted time and wasted wine...
After all, where there is wine, there is a story.
(Photo: Akira Ikemiya and Liu Zhaolong)
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