I believe that friends who have a certain understanding of Tianjin's food culture should know that since there is a large part of the Hui population in Tianjin, halal cuisine can really be said to have a certain status in the Tianjin diet. It is precisely for this reason that Tianjin also has many well-known halal restaurants. It's just a pity that with the change of the times, many halal restaurants with good prices have become the tears of the times, and among them, The most regrettable thing about Hi Brother should be Hongqishun.
If you want to talk about Hongqishun Restaurant, you can't help but mention Brother Hi's grandmother - because the old man has been working in the Tianjin Municipal Fisheries Bureau when he was young, he often goes to the bureau for meetings or studies after retirement. And every time at this time, Brother Hi will pestering his grandmother to go to the bureau together, obviously not because there is anything attractive in the Fisheries Bureau, but because the old shop of Hongqi Shun is near the lower tile house, to put it bluntly, Brother Hi at that time just wanted to eat a good meal.
For friends who are about the same age as Brother Hi or older, "Hongqishun" should not be a strange name, and this restaurant also has a certain history - in 1935, zuo Honglin and Zuo Hongfa, two brothers who fled from Hebei Province, came to Tianjin Xiawafang to make a living, and after knowing Li Zhanqi from Baodi, the three of them rented a door to buy beef and mutton, haggis, etc., and then added lamb dumplings, as well as various small dishes and so on.
As the business became bigger and bigger, this face always had to be named, so the three of them decided to use the "Hong" in the zuo brothers' names, the "Qi" in Li Zhan's name, and the "Shun" character that hoped that the business would go smoothly to form the name "Hongqi Shun". Later, with the increasing prosperity of trading, the name of "Hongqishun" was also completely launched, although due to various reasons, this hotel also rose and fell, but finally gained a foothold in Tianjin.
Thinking back to the days when he pestered his grandmother to go to Hongqishun's "corruption", Brother Hi's first thought was actually Hongqishun's small façade and noisy crowd. Although people were generally not very wealthy in that era, Hongqishun still attracted many regular customers by virtue of his advantage of large quantity and taste. At the beginning, Brother Hi's favorite food was also his family's fish and meat shreds and old explosion three, after eating enough, he slept on the bus home, which was also a small luxury that could be enjoyed every once in a while.
It's just like the beginning, although in the heart of Hi Brother Hongqishun has always been a very classic Tianjin hotel, and some time ago it did have a lot of branches in Tianjin. However, due to the emergence of various novel foods in the end or gradually declining, the fame of this aspect is no longer the popularity of the year, and eventually gradually faded out of the public's vision.
And now although there are still many Hongqishun stores in Tianjin, the taste is still worse than the old store. If you have to pick one out, Brother Hi thinks that the one in the East Building is relatively good, I don't know if it is due to the geographical proximity, more or less accepted the inheritance of some old shops? But in any case, the days when only a plate of fish and meat shreds or old explosive three could eat and drink enough to sleep could not come back after all.