Xining observation: Sichuan restaurant, don't fool the stomach of Xining people

Author: Cloud Source

I have been in Xining for more than a month, and I am still not used to the pasta here. As a Sichuanese, I was drawn by my taste buds and searched the streets for Sichuan restaurants.

Jiarong Chuan restaurant is in the community, downstairs a few minutes to arrive, the first time in Xining to eat Sichuan food, ordered a pot of meat, the owner is Suining people, very enthusiastic, as soon as I heard my Sichuan accent, I called "fellow countrymen". The chefs are also from Suining, and later learned that they were brothers when they learned to cook.

The raw material for the pot meat is pork belly, with garlic sprouts and sea peppers added, and before you eat it, you are captured by the smell of the smell. At checkout, a little surprised, this plate back to the pot meat 30 yuan. In the hometown, the price of a plate is about 16 yuan, thinking "is it a little expensive", and then look at the amount of meat in this plate, which is one-third more than Sichuan, so that it is converted down, and it is also relieved.

At about 11 p.m., upstairs, you can see the Sichuan restaurant with the lights on, and the rest of the shops have long been closed. It was later discovered that it closed its doors the night after night. The chef told me that the business is not too good, and I dare not invite people, the store is him and the boss, the two are both cooks and waiters, "closed late, because to clean up the shop, do cleaning, including washing dishes, a toss down, almost to zero." ”

My evaluation of this shop is that the taste is OK and the price is a little more expensive. What is worth praising is that the diligence of Sichuan people really can't be changed anywhere.

On Minhe Road, at lunchtime, a Chongqing Xiaomeichuan restaurant was full, with a storefront of more than 100 square meters. The interior is exquisitely decorated and has a little style. There were still three or five people in front of me queuing up to play with their mobile phones, and since there were still things to do in the afternoon, they waited for a few minutes and decided to change one.

More than 20 meters away, there is a restaurant with a Sichuan flavor. It was basic, four tables, empty inside. It is in stark contrast to Chongqing Xiaomeichuan Restaurant. This is a husband and wife stall, middle-aged. Stir-fry for men, cashier and waiter for women. Ordered a piece of buckle meat, that is, salty and roasted white. Compared with the roasted white that I have eaten in Sichuan, the taste is not bad at all, but the difference is that there are 8 small white cakes on the side of the plate, and you can put the roast white into it to eat. Add a bowl of rice, 48 yuan.

The hostess is from rural Chengdu and has been opening a restaurant in Xining for 10 years. "The location is a bit biased, the rent is 40 yuan per flat, the storefront is about thirty squares, a little small, and the decoration can not be a famous hall." The boss said that he had always wanted to find a bustling location in the Mar-a-Lago New Area, but the rent was too expensive to bite. Xining's not low house prices will naturally be transmitted to the rental price, and this boss who has a great level of cooking can only be done.

Eat authentic home-cooked Sichuan food or a Fushun bean flower shop in North Weather Lane, the storefront is only more than 10 square meters. Bean blossoms, hoof flower soup, button meat, braised fat sausage. Each dish was moderately portioned and the price was fair, and the husband and wife stalls were in a booming business, and a waiter was hired. After waiting for the table for 10 minutes, the ken villager who has been in Xining for 9 years told me that every time I come here to eat, I have to wait for a while.

The couple speaks a Leshan dialect, and in the process of eating, from time to time they will hear the Chengdu, Mianyang and Yibin accents coming from the neighboring table, which is completely a Sichuan dialect gathering place, eating here, there is a feeling of crossing to Sichuan.

As one of the eight major cuisines in China, Sichuan cuisine is spread at home and abroad, and can be said to be a business card of Sichuan people.

In Xining, I also came across a few extremely unprofessional Sichuan restaurants, they hardly know what Sichuan cuisine is, but they use the sign of Sichuan cuisine to pit the stomachs of Xining people.

In Wuyue Plaza, I ate a boiled meat slice called Chengdu JinliChuan Restaurant, when checking out, I had to ask the waiter to tell the boss, "In Sichuan, three-year-old children know that boiled meat slices are indispensable to throw some garlic seedlings into it, one is Titian, the other is to increase some green, remind your boss not to forget." ”

What triggered me to write this article was the old Bashu Chuan Restaurant on Jinhui Road. The decoration is quite atmospheric, and the dishes are difficult to swallow.

Invite the villagers to eat, the two people ordered the saliva chicken (white slaughtered chicken), Mao Blood Wang, back to the pot meat, Mao Blood Wang, there are few pieces of Blood Wang, but underneath a thick layer of bean sprouts, it looks like a big pot, but there is nothing to eat. Back to the pot meat is also made of ghost eyebrows, the amount of meat is small, and the garlic seedlings are so many that you feel that it is a vegetarian dish: stir-fried garlic seedlings, only the saliva chicken will eat two pieces.

The reclamation people only moved a few chopsticks, and ended the dinner in a few minutes, saying that they were full. At checkout, $152. This is unpalatable, not to mention expensive. Before leaving, there were three tables of customers who spoke Qinghai dialect in the store, feeling that this restaurant not only pit the stomachs of Xining people, but also fooled the wallets of Xining people. More importantly, I lost the face of Sichuan cuisine.

It is said that Xining people like to decorate the restaurant well, the environment is good, and there are many people in the restaurant. Eat the environment, eat the face, eat the liveliness, but also have no place. However, even if it is to eat, the taste should be the most important, and there is no reason to damage yourself and the stomach of the guest you invite because of face. In fact, in Chengdu, the real delicious authentic is the so-called fly restaurant.

Taking stock of the Sichuan restaurants in Xining, the market needs Sichuan restaurants with good taste, good environment and excellent prices. Therefore, please think about this question to the compatriots of Xining Kaichuan Restaurant or the brothers who are not compatriots who are also in Kaichuan Restaurant.

In addition, by the way, Qinghai's tourist season is about to start. Every year, more than 10 million tourists from all over the world come to Xining, you doll to improve the quality of dishes, the price is fair, money to earn, Sichuan people do not lose face Oh.