Yanji cold noodles, as the name suggests, are not the flavor specialties of old Beijing, but it has been in Beijing for decades, and Beijingers or friends who often come to Beijing are no strangers to Yanji cold noodles. For decades, Yanji cold noodles have accompanied Beijingers for half a century, so people often mention it when they talk about Beijing food.
Yanji cold noodles said that it was a North Korean flavor, as if it were so, but I asked a few North Koreans what they said and what the market saw was a little different, which did not matter.
Beijing began to have Yanji cold noodles seems to be in the early 1970s, the earliest one is in xicheng west of the four intersections to the north of the road west, that is, the west of the four north of the two hutongs to the mouth of the family, I am very impressed, is now this Yanji cold noodle restaurant has been open it!
In the summer, especially on the days of the day, there are always a lot of people eating cold noodles, and I have come here in the winter in the early days to see if the cold noodles will be changed to "hot noodles", and the result is still cold noodles, it seems that I am alone in the store at that time, I am actually just curious.
In the seventies, food stamps were still used, and I remember that one or two food stamps could buy two or two cold noodles, and I used to buy three or two cold noodles for less than one yuan, and I couldn't eat a big bowl of cold noodles.
Cold noodles and other noodles are different from the use of ingredients, noodles are specially made, noodles are cooked, rinsed with cold water several times, and then blown with a fan, while shaking up and down with chopsticks, pouring soup and then putting ingredients on it. The ingredients are kimchi, there are one or two pieces of meat, the earliest is dog meat (now all beef), but also with chili paste, poured with white vinegar, you can eat. There is a piece of apple slice on the top of the cold noodles, in order to be too spicy is to eat a little to relieve the spicy taste, I did not know at the beginning, I ate the apple slices at the beginning, and later learned that the order was wrong!
In the summer, people always want to eat some cold noodles and other foods, so Yanji cold noodles are endless in the summer, and every day when it is time to close the door, it is still full of people.
There is also a second floor of the Nishi-yoshi Cold Noodle Restaurant, which contains Korean and Japanese foods such as sashimi, which are all previous impressions. Yanji cold noodles are really cold, even drinking cold beer does not feel that the beer is cold!
Beijing's catering industry is attributed to Huatian, under the field of Huatian, Beijing's Yanji cold noodle restaurant gradually more, in the end which is authentic, no one can say clearly, in fact, as long as a thing can stand up after it appears, people will belong to it as the truth or is authentic, this is the same as some songs, the original singer may have sung a song in his lifetime, successful, people higher than him sing this song, sing no matter how good people also rap no, and the original singing is far worse.
Now the price of Yanji cold noodles is very high, a bowl of noodles to twelve yuan, if you add other cold dishes or special dishes of the store, it costs a lot of money, but there are still many people!
Yanji Cold Noodle Restaurant has accompanied Beijingers for decades, hoping that Yanji Cold Noodle Restaurant can maintain its original flavor in terms of quality and meet people's general needs in terms of price, which is everyone's wish!
(Transferred from Sohu Blog: Little White Sheep 1117 Blog)
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