Gaocheng cuisine is famous inside and outside the province, mainly breakfast. Tofu brain, mung bean balls, baked cakes, Master Yuan buns, stinky dried seeds, fried dumplings, Guifei cold skin, etc. Well done, there is a taste of gaocheng old six an, all in the five cards early one street. Sanliqiao pork head noodles, haggis noodles, and Yuxingda beef soup are also Lu'an specialties. Lu'an people go south and north, where to love or the taste of Lu'an.
Although Gaocheng is not large, the street scene is peculiar, and walking into Gaocheng is like walking into a labyrinth. Walking into Gaocheng is like walking into the paradise of food. The ancient Gaocheng city is crisscrossed from east to west, north to south, with nine turns in the streets and eighteen lanes. There are food in the streets, and the alleys are fragrant. Thousands of years of north and south ancient pagodas (Lu'an people called awl), like the mast of an unsinkable ship, anecdotal legend clouds, Gao City is a boat, the water rises high.
Gaocheng is a treasure land of feng shui, and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty sealed Liu An, the "Six Lands of Peace" Liu An King. The Lu'an people in the north and south of the world have a meticulous nostalgia and a nostalgia that is always difficult to let go.
The taste of Lu'an people
The Lu'an people eat traditional buns, which have been passed down for hundreds of years. Since the Ming and Qing dynasties, people have used artificially fermented old yeast and noodles to make buns. It started out like a steamed bun. What is made into a circle is called a bun. Later, after generations of pastry masters improved, the old Lu'an bun became the soft bun called ugly bun now. Ugly looks are more delicious. The green willow house on the banks of the Qinhuai River in Nanjing, Fuchun buns and Jinling big meat buns. Wuxi's small dumplings (soup buns) are suitable for the southern salty and sweet taste, although they sell well, but they do not meet the taste of Lu'an people
Lu'an people regard the joys and sorrows of life, love and hate, bitterness and sorrow, sorrow and anger, pleasure and comfort, and life and death songs and cries as the five tastes of life. Lu'an people have "all five tastes", fight righteousness and loose wealth, and live a tasteful life.
Lu'an gets up early with a bowl of boiled mung bean soup, and then a piece of baked cake that has just come out of the oven, soft and crispy inside, and then smeared with some hot sauce; Lu'an people get up a bowl of tofu brain in the morning, order a few drops of sesame oil, and then a few crisp and delicious fried dumplings; Lu'an people get up early with a bowl of peppery soup, and drink 4 buns, two meats and two vegetarians. "Good grin"! The waiter at the end of the plate responded. Lu'an people love this taste
Master Yuan's buns, the five-brand buns, are all soft buns of Lao Lu'an, they complement each other, slightly different, but slightly different in the toppings of the filling. Master Yuan and the Five-Card Bun Shop are lined up in a long line every morning. Lu'an people love to eat Lu'an's soft buns.
Ohi turned buns
I ate the old Lu'an bun for more than sixty years, and the bun that tasted like that when I was a child was still Oi's bun. At that time, there were no snacks in the five cards, and the snack street was also formed after the market economy. When I was young, I usually lived on campus and came home from school on Saturdays. Mom would always give me two dimes, take a shower on Sundays, and shave my head. At that time, the children did not want money to take a bath with the adults, I was no longer a child, I was a junior high school student, and the people in the store only charged me two cents. I can't spend a penny on school. I also accumulated some pocket money in my pocket for a long time. I bathed in the public bath, at that time old Lu'an also had several baths, Huayuan bath, Canglang pool bath, Andihe bath. But only the public baths are state-run, the water is cleaner in good condition, and there are showers. Even the hot hand towel handle is two more than others. Although I am young, I am still very particular about people. So I always bathe in the mass bath.
Oi Kidnapping
Every time you pass by the corner of Heping Lane and the City God Temple, the old Lu'an place named "Dajing Quan" has a hotel called the state-run "Public Hotel" and will smell a tantalizing aroma of freshly out of the basket.
The fragrant aroma of meat buns is delicious, and the faint fragrance of vegetable buns blends together to fill the entire alley. There is a long queue of people buying buns, all wanting to eat a bite of the bun that has just come out of the basket .) My tiny taste buds are drooling with the aroma of buns.
When I first came from Heping Lane, opposite the old post office, there was a long queue in the Muslim hotel, saying that this mung bean ball was the most delicious round nut in old Lu'an. But I didn't feel tempted to eat a bowl in the slightest.
I had to go to the public bath next door to take a bath. After three times down the pool, five divided by two, I quickly climbed up, got dressed and went to eat buns! It was the first time I ate a bun from Oi when I was a kid. I bought three meat buns and a bowl of peppery soup for exactly one dime. I had just taken a shower and was warm on my body. I found a seat to sit down, first took it up and smelled it, it was very fragrant! The skin is very thin and soft. I gently lifted a small hole with chopsticks, the meat filling inside was very rich, and it was very smooth and tender, I slowly licked and sucked on the mouth, then took a bite, and then drank the paste spicy soup. The mouthful of delicious food immediately entered the intestines from the mouth. The old Liu'an taste has remained in my stomach and flowed in my heart ever since.
After that, every Sunday after I take a shower, I will eat buns. Later, my mother asked me to go back to the shower every week and buy ten pounds of rice to go home. At that time, the population of Lu'an was small, and there were few grain and oil stations. Walking in from the DadongMen, the first alley in the right hand is called Wanshou Temple Lane, and the old Lu'an First Grain, Oil and Food Station is inside. From here, you don't have long to go west to reach the mass bath. There is no need to go through the shed, the peace alley, and then the bath. I bypassed the seductive scent of the bun in Oi, took a good shower, and then ate the bun. I don't know when the Volkswagen Hotel moved to the old Lu'an Drum Tower Street, next to the Red Light Garment Store. Later, it was renamed "Shuihe Restaurant". The door of the original site is engraved with "State-owned Dajing Bun Shop". Because the bun shop is opposite the Peking Opera Troupe Grand Theater, the person who carved the letter did not know whether it was intentional or unintentional to engrave it as "Dajing Abduction". In fact, opposite the Peking Opera Troupe, there is an ancient well, there are many springs, and the well water is warm in winter and cool in summer. Peace Lane, the people around the City God Temple Lane, eat water are here. Hence the name "Oi Turn". The soft buns of old Lu'an have the characteristics of the old city, and the "Dajing abduction buns" are the most authentic. I am in my seventies this year, and I eat Oi's buns, which is still the taste of my childhood. Eating a bun from a large well is also a memory of the old city that has been submerged in the vicissitudes of history.
Drum Tower Cinema
In the three years of junior high school, I had to take a shower every Sunday. Mom gave me a week later. Increased to the triangle money, which at that time our brothers and sisters had more brothers and sisters, less income, my mother saved money, while doing family work in the unit, earning two money to supplement the family, it was not easy. I was my mother's eldest son, I had been in junior high school, and the other siblings were still young, and at that time, there were no little sisters and little brothers in our family. My mother worshipped my eldest son as a reader, and at the same time regarded me as her only helper. Meat and non-staple foods were supplied in quantities on the basis of tickets. Pork is only half a catty per person per month, and the whole family of 6 people has only 3 catties of pork per month. Mom started making me some fried sauce or pickle roast meat at noon on Sunday, bottled it up, and brought it to school in the afternoon.
With more money in my pocket, I was bolder, so I took a shower and took a few steps forward, went to the Oi Bun Shop to eat buns, and then turned back to the grain, oil and food station in Wanshou temple lane, bought ten pounds of rice, and carried it home. Every time.
Fish market turn
On this day, I ate the bun, Bought 2 more meat buns, took out the hand towel, put the bun on the hand towel, and carefully tied it. Bring it to my mom to eat. I boldly crossed the Dajing Turning Alley and arrived at Gulou Street. Because there are many people on the street on Sundays, the people from the south to the north are crowded and shoulder to shoulder. Gulou Street was the most prosperous street market in old Lu'an in that era. I walked south along the flow of people, about 200 meters, the distance of 4 telephone poles, and I arrived at the fish market. Next to it is the old Lu'an Cinema, also known as the Drum Tower Cinema. The fish market turns south to Yellow Avenue, west to West Avenue, and east to East Avenue. The old cinema is on the west side of Gulou Street, facing the first store of the department store, and the main entrance of the old cinema. On both sides are book stalls with villain books. There are also baked sweet potatoes with baked cakes. Sell cigarette matches, melon seeds and small sugar peanuts, sell rock sugar gourds, white sugar cakes and so on. Reading is very quiet, all kinds of shouting and selling are high and low, and they rise and fall. Catch up with the audience that dispersed, the crowd was bustling, and the screams were loud.
I found a smaller family, stayed away from the door, found a corner and a stool, and sat down. Look at the two cents casually. I was quickly captivated by the stories in the villain book, which were fascinating. When we were young, it was called reading a picture book. Books are small but big. I heard that there are also children's movies in the afternoon. At noon, i bought a piece of baked cake and the stall owner provided tea for free.
I must see every children's movie, and the children's ticket is only 5 cents. I remember the three years of junior high school old cinema, is the place where I stayed the most in the old city, but also the paradise where I absorbed knowledge and the paradise of the spirit. The stories in the villain book were of great help to my later reading and learning. Many of the earlier movies "Wise Huashan", "Reconnaissance of Crossing the River", "Yangcheng Code", "Red Child", "Eternal Radio Wave Wave" and so on. These classic movies have been seen in this period. I remember that afternoon it was a children's private show "Red Child", and the tickets were running out. I bought a ticket and was very happy. I went with everyone. It was already 5 o'clock in the break. The purchase of rice was forgotten beyond the clouds of the Nine Nights. When I got home, my mother looked at me with a straight face and saw that I hadn't bought rice, and I was very angry. I took the initiative to explain the situation in front of her, and then I held 2 meat buns in front of her with both hands and let her eat. Mom looked at me and said, "Put it there first!" "I know my mother isn't mad at me. I grabbed my bite to eat, packed up and went to school. Later, I knew that the 2 buns, my mother was still not willing to eat, for my sister to eat.
Three Lanes
It was another Sunday, and my mother asked me to take a meat ticket and go to Three Lanes to weigh two pounds of pork. Mom worked in the unit all year round and rarely went out. I don't know where Sandao Lane is. I said, "Mom, rest assured, I can find it." Take the meat ticket and the money and go. As usual, I take a shower before eating buns. The body is warm, the mouth still has the afterscent, the beauty is nourishing, and the happy go to the cinema to read picture books, or go shopping. When I have time, I will also take a walk along the old street. But this week there is no time to read picture books, let alone watch children's movies. The things that my mother told me must be done well.
I asked the stall owner who set up the picture book: Where is Sandao Lane? I already know the stall owner very well. He flicked his hand to the south: "From here all the way, the first alley in the left hand to the east is the three lanes." After passing the fish market, turn south to HuangDajie, and to the west is the intersection of West Avenue and Qing'an Street. The first alley it takes to the east is the "Three Lanes" known as the Eighteenth Lane of Lu'an Nine Turns.
I found Sandao Lane, which had a façade that was a food company's side food supply station. Pork and dried tofu are served by ticket. When I arrived, I saw that the queue outside the "obedient midwinter" was already long... Elder.
If I'm going to get in line step by step. I'm sure I can't buy it. I was a little clever as a young man, running to the front of the line and avoiding the eyes of those who were obligated to maintain order. When I saw the older grandmother, I affectionately called "grandma" or "grandma's house" and took the initiative to find someone to talk to. He said, "My mother asked me to buy meat, and if I couldn't buy it, I was beaten or punished for kneeling." The grandmother was very compassionate and said to me softly, "Child, don't say anything, just stand in front of me, and then I will let you buy it first." It didn't take long for me to finally buy two pounds of pork. If I have nothing to do, my heart is happy. I said hello to Grandma and thanked her. The grandmother said to me, "Children walk slowly, don't be playful on the road." But I saw that the line outside was still long... Elder, there is an indescribable taste in my heart...
I quickly carried the pork and walked east along the three lanes, through the bamboo silk lane, Wupaili arrived at Dongwai Avenue, which is now Anhui West Avenue. He returned home early and returned to his mother.
College turn
The school's local teaching materials tell the modern history of Lu'an, saying that Zhu Yunshan, one of the pioneers of the Chinese democratic revolution who was a member of the Kuomintang Old League of Lu'an, founded the Third Agricultural School of Anhui Province in 1918 at the Lu'an Academy. School officially opened in the spring of 1919. Zhu Yunshan is the founder of the Democratic Progressive Party and a loyal friend of the Communist Party of China. The "Three Rural Areas" school has trained many progressive people for the Chinese revolution. Many times, students were organized to hold demonstrations to "oppose the loss of power and humiliation of the country, boycott Japanese goods" and "oppose the civil war and unite with the outside world". In order to explore knowledge, understand the past and present lives of the "Three Rural" schools. On Sunday, I was going to go to the College to find out.
On Sundays, I still go to Oi Lane to take a shower and eat buns. In the early morning, take a bath by taking a bath with clean water. I entered the city from the DadongMen, went through the shed lane to the nantong lane and turned left into the dajing lane, went to the bath to take a bath, ate the bun, I still went to the drum tower movie theater villain book stall owner, asked him how to go to the academy to kidnap the college. The stall owner was very helpful and he went out of his way to tell me two ways to go. A straight walk, from Gulou Street through the tea turn, through the warehouse turn, after the YunLu Street to the Academy turn. Further north is the Gung Biao Academy. You can also walk from the cinema along Qing'an Street to the Old YamenTai, and your right hand will follow Yunlu Street to the east to turn to the Academy. Originally a Ming and Qing Dynasty building, the Yuanyuan Academy was built in the 8th year of the Qianlong Dynasty of the Qing Dynasty, and later burned down during the Xianfeng Period, and rebuilt in The North Street of Gulou in the first year of tongzhi.
When I was young, I witnessed the pioneers of the revolution and the actual scene of the establishment of the "three rural" schools, and listened to the revolutionary deeds of the teachers and students of the "three rural" schools. It was another memory of the old city of Lu'an when I was young.
This historical and cultural ancient city of thousands of years, in the memory of Lu'an people, only its meridians and large wells are turned buns. With the continuous expansion of Lu'an's urban area and the continuous expansion of the population of Lu'an City, the taste of the rich history and culture of the old Lu'an City has been gathered into the gastronomic culture, and the "nine turns and eighteen lanes" of the old city have been continuously cut and chaotic. Behind every early meal, there is a beautiful story. Outsiders come to Lu'an to eat breakfast, eat Oi's buns, and eat happily. The old city people eat the buns of the big well, and what they eat is a memory of the old city. Although the Dajing Abduction and the "Nine Turns and Eighteen Alleys" disappeared during the construction, the Dajing Abduction Bun has still received a good inheritance and is now blooming everywhere in Lu'an. I will never forget the taste of Oi's buns, and I still remember the old city "Nine Turns and Eighteen Alleys".