Fried braised Zi Wen/Shang Zi Yong

　　What you drink is called drink, and what you eat, of course, can also be called a meal, there is food and drink, it is for catering, and fried stew is a kind of meal in Dalian.

　　There are large meals (or meals) and snacks, and in Dalian, fried stew is classified as snacks. However, although fried stew has the crown of a famous snack in Dalian, this kind of food is by no means unique to the city. Her wife is a native of Tianjin, and she said that she remembered the home-cooked good meals she had enjoyed in her hometown when she was a child, one was a dry rice stew, the other was a sticker of steamed fish, and the third was a pancake pan-fried stew. Therefore, I have a little understanding of what fried stew is. For stewers, the cold powder made of flour noodles and water is also, and the fried stew is similar to the fried cold powder on our Xi'an Fang.

　　In the middle of June 2020, I stayed in Dalian, because the epidemic has not completely passed, so I dare not go out to enjoy local food like I did in the past, looking for a place to enjoy local food, three meals a day are basically solved in the hotel or near the hotel, and the unexpected encounter with the fried stew is in the breakfast restaurant of this hotel. Because I have done some homework long ago, "Dalian local snacks." Golden butter is shiny, spicy and delicious. Cut the stew into three-centimeter cubes, fry them in a pan of hot oil until golden brown on both sides and have a fragrant flavor, mix the garlic paste, tahini and soy sauce into a sauce, and dip them while hot." Therefore, once you face a large plate of fried stews that are still steaming, you immediately start to put them on your own plate, just to mix the sauce, and the breakfast room is placed in three small bowls, and you need to pour a small spoon and a small spoon on the fried stew.

　　Rather than a large pan-fried stew made with sweet potato flour, I prefer to cut the cold powder made with mung bean flour into smaller pieces, fry them thoroughly in a pan and stir-fry them into five spices; as for the tahini, let it hug the cold skin tightly! There is no way, one side of the water and soil to raise one person, one side of the people to adapt to the taste of one side!

　　Thinking about it further, whether it is cold powder or stew, after all, they are all products of the era when materials are relatively scarce and the level of food civilization is not high enough. The main ingredient is starchy cold powder and stew, whose primary function is to fill the stomach, rather than (and can not) let people enjoy a higher level of deliciousness. Of course, as a carrier of childhood memories and nostalgia, their circulation is logical, but to gain a foothold in the increasingly colorful catering market, or even to excel, their own improvement should be a top priority. Browsing on the Internet, I found a photo of a stew shop, and learned that they had combined the stew with bean skin and balls, which had a delicious combination of 7 yuan: 5 braised + 2 pills or 5 braised + 2 skins; there were also 8 yuan luxury combinations: 4 stews + 2 skins + 2 pills; the most high-end is the top match of 10 yuan: 4 stews + 3 skins + 3 pills. interesting! I think that the hope that the fried stew will continue to maintain its majesty is pinned on such exploration and innovation. Next time, when the epidemic has completely subsided, I will definitely look for this stew shop with ideas and pursuits!