"Climb the mountains, eat wheat cakes, mountains and rivers ice" this widely spread saying in Yongjia is a true portrayal of the locals in the past. The mountain road is far away, the Nanxi River is long, the Yongjia people travel for three or five days, the long is ten days and a half months, a wheat cake weighs 1 kilogram, the dough cake is strong, the filling is sufficient, and the preservation time is long. In the era of underdeveloped transportation, wheat cake was an essential ration for Yongjia people to travel. A bamboo raft, a few wheat cakes, and the wanderers who traveled far away with nostalgia went south and north.
△ Nanxi River bamboo raft
In recent years, Yongjia wheat cake has been replaced with new clothes, some long-established wheat cake shops have registered trademarks, wheat cake vacuum packaging, and the owner has received orders online and opened online sales. A recent webcast has pushed the wheat cake to the peak of popularity: since March 22, the 2020 World Yongjia People Conference on the Cloud has been held in the form of online live broadcast, and the Nanxi "Xingxing" cloud platform has been launched synchronously, that is, the conference has realized "cloud travel, cloud shopping, and cloud sharing" through "cloud qi, cloud gathering, and cloud promotion", and promoted the mutual promotion of "Yongjia economy" and "Yongjia people economy".
In addition to landing investment projects, this online and offline interactive economic model has also increased the popularity of Yongjia Nanxi landscape and food. Yongjia County invited Internet celebrities to eat wheat cakes at scenic spots while live broadcasting, and the Yongjia County Government also personally went live on the cloud platform to recommend Yongjia traditional cuisine to netizens, which aroused the appetite of many netizens in front of the screen.
Many tourists who want to taste the freshly baked pasta will personally visit Yongjia and wait for a few minutes in front of the cake stall. After the last baking, the owner will also enthusiastically cut the wheat cake and advise guests to enjoy it quickly while the aroma is at its most intense. There are many online orders, and there are many tourists who come to taste, because they are too busy to come, some wheat cake shops in Yongjia have even introduced a daily "purchase restriction" measure: Wenzhou people limit 3 purchases, and Yongjia locals limit 2 purchases.
△Baking Nine Line (formerly Provincial Highway 41)
On March 31, under the recommendation of local residents, the reporter came to a relatively old "Wang Xuji" wheat cake shop. The shop is located at the intersection of Yongjia Tongjing Highway Baking Ninth Line (formerly the Shizhu Village Section of Shatou Town, 41 Provincial Highway) and Zhenxikou Bridge, and when the reporter arrived, several tourists were eating in the wheat cake shop.
"In the past, when the tunnel (s223 Provincial Highway Dayuan Tunnel) was not opened, everyone was from this road (Baking Ninth Line) to the Lion Rock Scenic Area, and there were many guests. There is now less traffic in front of the door than before, but some repeat customers will also take a detour here. The hostess said.
The couple who opened the shop are Shatou Town Shizhu Village people, their own garden to grow vegetables, local materials, pickles, plum vegetables, radish shreds are paired with meat, the main 3 kinds of filling in the store, each raw material is the boss lady hand pickled, kneading the dough for a longer time, just baked cake aroma overflowing, this simple taste also conquered the stomach of many people, cctv-4 "Far away Home" column has visited this store.
Wang Xuji wheat cake shop
In the earliest days, their wheat cakes were spread out next to the ferry, and the people who traveled far away took the wheat cakes and took a boat down the Nanxi River to Wenzhou. As traffic grew, the shop opened for more than 30 years as the ferry port moved to the side of the road. "In the past, when the children were small, if we went out to work and no one took care of them, we would stay at home and make wheat cakes. Now the children are married, and the children are several years old. The owner said happily. By making wheat cakes, the couple provided for the family's 3 children to finish college.
For many years outside, unforgettable hometown taste. Every Spring Festival, Yongjia people first taste the wheat cakes at home after returning to their hometowns, and when they leave their hometown after the festival, they always have to take some to start. The busiest time in the past year is the Spring Festival, a day can sell up to more than 1,000 wheat cakes, plus holidays, a year down the income can reach more than 500,000, the hostess mentioned that the best income can reach 800,000 a year.
The number of wheat cake shops in Yongjia is also uncountable, and there are more than 30 in Shatou Town alone. In addition to these fixed shops, from the county seat of Yongjia to the countryside, there are also large and small mobile wheat cake stalls, some of which even open to urban and rural bus stops. After the environmental remediation of the road area, the Yongjia County Highway Administration Bureau found a new home for them.
"There are currently 2 road service stations undergoing renovation and upgrading, which will be put into use at the end of June this year. Compared with the original service station, this space expands many functions, integrating parking and rest, agricultural product exhibition and sales, and highway culture display, which is convenient for centralized management and maintenance of the highway environment. The relevant person in charge of the Yongjia County Highway Administration Bureau said.
Scenery of Nanxi River along yongjia beautiful highway
In addition to parking and resting, taking into account the comprehensive function of the highway service station, the Yongjia County Highway Administration Bureau has built agricultural and sideline products exhibition platforms, toilets and other facilities in the service station to provide more convenience for tourists. Yongjia specialties such as wheat cakes, sweet potatoes, corn, and vegetables can be sold here. In addition, the bureau plans to integrate the Nanxi landscape into the highway culture, with a variety of elements reflected in the service station, the future comprehensive highway service station will become an important node for Yongjia County to improve the scenic supporting facilities and display the image of the highway.
Producer/Ding Qiancheng Zheng Li
Editor/Zhou Qian
Journalist/Shakedi
Correspondent/Ye Maifeng
Photo/ Photo by Ye Maifeng
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