Yichang Oil Crisp: Every bite is a dance of the taste buds
Before I even got to the door, I could already smell the fragrant smell of fried oil, the familiar smell of crispy glutinous rice. Take a closer look, only to see the busy figure of the store back and forth - in front of the store to support a large pot, heat the oil, wait for the oil to come up after the oil began to slowly boil up, at this time the store will be prepared to wait for the glutinous rice dumplings into the pot, "snort", the oil pot began to lively.
Steaming fumes came out from the bottom up, and in a trance I thought I had picked up Little Meow's mother.
Little Meow is a girl at my table, as the name suggests, quietly. But unlike those young girls, Xiao Meow looked a little dark. Perhaps in the sensitive period of adolescence, dark skin and quiet personality seem to be more and more bleak in the age of flowers. Even more bleak is Xiao Meow's family situation.
Xiao Meow's parents divorced when she was very young, and Xiao Meow's mother raised her alone. A thin and tall woman, years of labor crushed her face, but a closer look at the temperament also knows that once young and beautiful. Xiao Meow's mother makes a living from craftsmanship, which is the oil crisp mentioned above. Oil crisp is one of the traditional Han snacks in Yichang, Hubei Province, steamed with glutinous rice into finba, wrapped in sugar and sesame filling, fried to a golden brown. Crispy on the outside and soft on the inside, sweet and delicious.
Little Meow used to pack up her school bag and run away as soon as the bell rang after school, and in the distance, I could only see her two flying ponytails. I don't know where she went, asked, and she didn't say anything, shook her head with her mouth.
And I knew where she was going, it was an accident. At that time, I was buying sugar gourds on the street, and when I turned a corner, I saw a woman shouting at Xiao Meow. In the intermittent voice, I learned that it seemed that Xiao Meow's mother told Xiao Meow to study well and not come to the stall to help. Xiao Meow was still the same little meow, holding his mouth without speaking, and went to the corner silently wiping away tears.
I remember that day, the temperature was very high, the street cars and horses were flowing endlessly, and the little meow looked unusually weak in the afterglow of the setting sun.
I walked over, stuffed her newly purchased sugar gourd, and sat beside her silently without speaking.
Since then, Xiao Meow really no longer rushes outside the school after class, and sits on the campus to do his homework before leaving. Sometimes when we were both doing our homework together, Xiao Meow would take me to her mother's stall and get some oil crisps for me.
Xiao Meow's mother knew that Xiao Meow's grades had improved by several places, and said happily: "Auntie's oil crisp is not delicious, Xiao Yi you bring a few to the family to eat." ”
After getting acquainted with Xiao Meow's mother, she said that the ideal state of oil crispness is: one is the golden splendor of the face, brilliant as the sun; the other is the sweet and delicious glutinous rice in the lizi, and the Q elastic sticky teeth. Under one bite, it is crisp and raw, squeaky and oily, and full of fragrance. Taking another bite, the Q bouncy sensation of the glutinous rice is in stark contrast to the crispness of the appearance, as if the taste buds are screaming.
Later, when we graduated, Xiao Meow and I chose different schools and gradually lost contact. But whenever I see the oil crisp, I always think of the time when I did my homework with Xiao Meow when I was a child, and the time when I sat on the street corner and bit the oil crisp made by her mother. Fragrant, every bite is a dance of the taste buds.
Dietary Supplement:
Glutinous rice is warm, has the effect of replenishing deficiency, blood replenishment, strengthening the spleen and warming the stomach, and relieving sweating.
It is suitable for nausea caused by spleen and stomach deficiency, loss of appetite, diarrhea and sweat deficiency caused by qi deficiency, shortness of breath and weakness, pregnancy abdominal distension and other symptoms.
White sugar: has the effect of warming the lungs, beneficial milk, strengthening the spleen, and stomach, tonifying the kidneys, nourishing the skin care, blood circulation, sweating and dissolving the table, nourishing the yin and replenishing the deficiency