Xiamen Ding'aozai Cat Street Raiders

After staying in Xiamen for four and a half years, I finally had the courage to write about this place that I often think of and have deep feelings for. Four years may be only one in twenty in our lifetime, but in those four years, from high school to youth, from naivety to slow growth, from growing up from a small city to seeing a corner of the world that is growing rapidly, these four years have been crucial to me.

Xiamen has a top Aozai cat street, not far from Xiamen University, about 2 stops by car, just into the cat street, here is full of cat art atmosphere. For cat lovers, this is undoubtedly paradise. To use a short sentence to describe, it is the most cute street in the world, and the cats that have no quarrel with the world, or standing or lying down, or static or moving, all reflect the gentleness accumulated over time.

It is said to be a paradise for cats, and it is better to say that it is a paradise for cat lovers. Compared with Japan's cat island, cat street changed the entire street is the stereotype of cats, more inclined to the product of cultural creation, it is more commercial, entertaining, leisure, very in line with the preferences of contemporary young people, more suitable for taking photos, punching cards, after all, Xiamen is still based on tourism, business must serve the development of the city, the planning of each attraction must also be based on the characteristics of the city, there is no doubt with the history, humanities, the future of the city is closely integrated.

As soon as you enter here, you can clearly see the two cute cats on the street, waving at you. Follow the steps on the side of the street and find that Cat Street is in a low-lying position. On both sides of the street, there are filled with Chinese-style painted cats, as well as restaurants and shops with various cat elements, walls, shop windows, and even street poles, trash cans, there are painted cats, or graffiti, a bit like the rapid rise of flash mobs in many cities, spend a few minutes posing to take photos on the flash, graffiti wall is always there, only the people in front of them are constantly changing. It is said that this is the design and transformation of the students, incorporating many modern elements, more in line with the needs of today's young people than before, better integrated into the city, and near Xiamen University, absorbing a huge group of young consumers.

Not long after entering the cat street, on the right, there is a cat museum, there are indeed a lot of cats in the window, but most of the time they are sleeping, and there are wine desserts and cat cultural and creative products in the store, you can sit and rest. On the wall hangs a cat version of the world's famous paintings, cat image of a variety of gadgets, small and delicate, cute, a look at it and want to pocket it.

In fact, in addition to painting and graffiti, cat street listens to the local old people, there is also a beautiful legend. The story is like this: Cat Street, originally a road of the local fishermen's village, a long time ago, the fishery here is developed, fishermen often put the fish caught from the sea, in the sunny place of Ding'aozai Street, and the cat, who is not good at playing in the water, can only be hungry and anxious, before going to eat the fish dried by the fishermen. Cats usually protect fishermen's fishing from rats. Peace with local fishermen. Later, this small fishing village became a bustling residential gathering area, in order to promote the local marine culture, inherit the community memory, and the friendship and love of the cat, everyone specially named this place Ding'aozai Cat Street.

Cat Street is naturally indispensable to food, tourism is actually more important is to eat and eat. When I went to freshman year, I took a picture with the owner of a Mexican shop, but now I am gone. My favorite or sign is thick cut pork steak rice this small net red shop called "Dolphin Zhen" (before in the small attic, every time have to wait for a long time, because it is a limited time to open, and limited supply, now move to No. 721 Hexiang West Road, you can go to find) It is not a high-end exquisite main Japanese material, is the feeling of Japanese small canteen, cost-effective, per capita as long as 35 or so, girls a thick cut pork grilled rice, plus a Japanese style curry chicken nuggets or octopus balls can be a round belly home, Each meal is accompanied by a soup and a cold seaweed (miso soup), and the lettuce salad and half a lemon on the side of the meal show the reason for its popularity, which is a feeling of great value for money.

Four fruit soup: must eat when you go to Xiamen! Four-fruit soup seems to be a summer specialty, which is a unique summer happiness in the south. It is like the ice powder of Chengdu, which is sold everywhere in the streets and alleys, and you can eat the authentic summer taste for 6 yuan. It is also a delicious and delicious dish, originating in the Fujian and southern Fujian regions, but there are subtle differences everywhere. In the memory of many generations, it is inseparable from a refreshing sweetness accompanied by the sound of hot summer and cicadas, and the refreshing sweetness comes from a bowl of four-fruit soup that has been passed down for a long time. Honey water plus barley, mung beans, red beans, lotus seeds, white fungus, various fruits, such as pineapples, watermelons, etc., some also have candied fruit, fairy grass, taro balls, pudding, round seeds, ada seeds, plus shaved ice. Blowing the sea breeze, stopping shared bicycles in the streets and alleys, and grouped partners to come to a bowl of four fruit soup, laughing and playing, in a bowl of ordinary four fruit soup to feel the most ordinary beauty in the world.

Chicken rolls: 10 pieces can be eaten, is also an old internet red shop, the skin is a thin spring roll skin, recommended sweet and spicy sauce and black pepper sauce!

Rice balls: This kind of food is very suitable for eating while walking, taking pictures while eating hahaha. 5 yuan to 18 yuan range, depending on what ingredients you want to add, his characteristic is that it adds a crispy do not know what kind of crispy ingredients, cost-effective, eat is also quite satisfied.

Cat street mochi brother: mochi this thing is also a special snack in Xiamen, a bit like the northern donkey rolled with a layer of hemp juice powder, the filling inside is crisp, like fried what slag, still do not know the ingredients, but the kind of sweetness of glutinous incense, like you can buy it to try it.

Spicy mix: I myself have not tried, but the praise is overwhelming, 20 pieces to eat a large bowl, to see the sale is good, I believe that so many people come to visit must not be empty.

Food stalls: want to rest your feet to point out the gout set can be considered, come to the beach where there is no seafood to eat, but more suitable for several people or families to eat together, according to the amount of portions, order more variety of more, per capita price is more appropriate, the freshness of everyone can rest assured (so say that I feel that I am a trust), in Xiamen in recent years really did not eat fresh seafood, after all, it is difficult to buy fresh seafood at the seaside.

Cat Street is located in Siming District, is the most prosperous city in Xiamen, the surrounding can walk to Shapowei, Nanputuo, Xiamen University, Twin Towers, not far away there are railway parks, botanical gardens, Baicheng Beach (but it is very dirty during the tourist season