The "che boy noodles" that once spread throughout the streets of Hong Kong are now difficult to find, and behind them are the bitter tears of the grassroots
Introduction: As a fan of Star Ye, I grew up watching his movies, in so many movies, I was particularly impressed by the movie "God Eater", there is such a scene, playing the kitchen god Stephen Zhou's Star Ye, actually fell to the street, hungry to the point of nowhere, ordered a bowl of "Meow Noodles", but the result is quite dissatisfied with this bowl of noodles, pick out all the shortcomings one by one, say several "failures" in a row, and criticize the "Meow Noodles" as worthless.
This bowl of "meow noodles" that appears in the movie also has a popular title, called "chezai noodles". It is said that this bowl of noodles was on fire at that time because of "God Eater", and many people traveled to Hong Kong to try this bowl of noodles.
I once read such a sentence in an article: "One day there is a car noodle, a day has Hong Kong". Indeed, Che Zai Noodles came from the grassroots, and its birth and development actually condensed the bitter tears of ordinary people in Hong Kong.
We pull back the time to around 1950, when Hong Kong was in a period of rapid capitalist development, and many people poured into Hong Kong from all directions. Their purpose in running to Hong Kong is very clear, that is, they want to make a little more money to support their families, but the vast majority of them are ordinary people, who have no knowledge or skills, and can only earn some salary by doing manual work, or work as mobile vendors to set up roadside stalls.
At that time, the restaurants were exclusive to the rich, eating a simple meal, almost costing an ordinary worker a week or two of wages, so people chose to eat roadside stalls to fill their stomachs, and the business of mobile vendors was particularly good. A clever vendor transformed his trolley and divided different foods into different small grids to cook, starting with only miscellaneous pork skins, pork reds, leeks, radish, pork offal, beef offal, and later added curry fish eggs, squid, sausages, chicken wing tips, shiitake mushrooms, oil tofu, green vegetables, etc., and also with oil noodles, pho, rice noodles, vermicelli and other staple foods.
After the dock porters, the rice shop workers, the women workers in the garment factory, etc., they come to the food stalls, choose what they want to eat among dozens of ingredients, and then decide the staple food, so that a bowl of rich ingredients is presented in front of you. At that time, the oil noodles only needed a dime and a lump, and the ingredients were only two or three cents, and the portion was enough, the price was affordable, and the tube was full, and the car noodles naturally became one of the favorite foods of the grassroots.
At that time, the roadside stalls had no tables and chairs to sit on, and the diners took the bowls and gathered around the noodle stalls, some people stood to eat, some people ate on the street, the rooster bowls in their hands were somewhat worn, and they hurriedly ate a bowl of noodles in three or five hurrys, and drank the hot soup base, licked the corners of their mouths contentedly, and hurried home to rest or go to work.
Until 1990, because of environmental health problems, Hong Kong's jurisdiction over street vendors became more and more stringent, and street stalls were no longer traceable, and some vendors rented bunks and returned to their old business and sold car noodles. Later, Chezai noodles also appeared in the menu of the tea restaurant, but the price has long since risen, and a bowl of tens of yuan is very common.
Looking back at the history of Chezai noodles, it is not difficult for us to find that this kind of noodles is actually the bitter tears of the grassroots, originally the food of the poor, and now it has become one of the symbols of the food culture in Hong Kong, whether it is rich people or ordinary people, they will walk into the Chezai noodle shop and say a word - "Boss, I should come to the bowl of noodles (boss, trouble to bowl chezai noodles)!" ”
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