Hot summer, sweat like a waterfall, this time to a bowl of cold shrimp, ice and sweet, a few bites of belly, really cool, this is the memory of more than ten years ago.
Although today's society is prosperous, in any city can eat snacks and delicacies from all over the country, but it is such a humble bowl of cold shrimp, I have not tasted it in a foreign country for more than ten years.
Yesterday, Dad had a birthday and asked me to go to his place of work to have a meal together. Dad was a plasterer who came out of town to make a living by building houses for others, from his youth to the present. Previously, I was looking for work in the most remote area of Shenzhen, but a few years ago I had moved from Shenzhen to Huiyang area in Huizhou.
This time, the construction site where the old father worked was in Huiyang Sanhe and a village. When I arrived at the destination, my father told me that he usually had fun here: at night, after work, he would go around the square, and one dollar could buy a large piece of watermelon, and three dollars could drink a bowl of cold shrimp. I listened, cold shrimp? Cool shrimp for sale here? Dad said yes, people riding tricycles around shouting and selling. I was overjoyed and said, "I'm going to buy a bowl to eat!"
Missed for so many years the taste of hometown can finally get their wishes, my eyes came up with the summer of my childhood, when the summer vacation, the most like to hear the "cold shrimp" "cold shrimp" shouting, selling cold shrimp uncle picked two barrels to go to the countryside to sell, a summer vacation to sell a few times, a bowl of fifty cents. The children themselves took out a large bowl from home, only to see the uncle scoop the tender and tender cold shrimp into the white porcelain bowl, add ice water, fill a bowl, and then scoop a large spoonful of brown sugar water, the child happily brought the bowl home, without a small spoon, directly drink it, rice-flavored cold shrimp, sweet silk ice and cool, really delicious.
In the past, the stalls in our countryside were indispensable in the summer: cold shrimp, cold noodles, and cold powder. Among them, cold shrimp are cheap and people eat fast, so they are very popular in the stalls in their hometown. Seeing that our little children love to eat, our mother will sometimes make it for us to eat, and our mother will do it, but without ice water, we will replace it with well water. At that time, the cold shrimp was very simple, there was no pattern, that is, "rice tadpole", ice water, brown sugar these three things.
Dad said that the cold shrimp were sold in the early evening in the square area. In the afternoon, after walking around the square without waiting, we went to dinner, and it was already half past seven after dinner, and I was still thinking about my cold shrimp, thinking, since I came here, I will eat it! So I walked around the square again to look for it.
Finally found, it turned out to be a loudspeaker shouting "bean blossoms, cold powder, cold shrimp" - one of the most common tricycles riding to sell, at night, around the purchase of a lot of people, finally it was my turn, the result of the boss said that the cold shrimp sold out. I finally couldn't eat a bowl of cold shrimp.
Cold shrimp, such a common food in a foreign country how can it rarely sell? It must be because the price is too cheap.