Old Town Food
Jieyang is a brand-new city, with the change of the times, exuding vitality, but it is also an old city, and the trajectory of life seems to have never disappeared because of development.
In the less prosperous alleys, in the old city towers, drink the tea brewed on the street, lean on the broken rattan chair, wave a fan, and then listen to the little tunes, and then taste the gourmet snacks of the old city. I think that memory is more hidden in the sense of taste, is the story, is the feeling, is the dusty old city time, is the endless taste buds to enjoy.
Regarding the gastronomic memories of the old city, I hope you will pass it on with me...
Fermented peach is the flavor snack of Chaoshan Province, out of the Chaoshan almost can not eat, how many wanderers return, a bite of one, full of happiness, can be happier than receiving a salary.
The ingredients for the yeast peach are the same as the rice syrup and the cake, but when steaming, it is packed in a small bowl, and the rice milk is put into a small bowl and sprinkled with a few peanuts on it, and it can be steamed.
It is similar to the "bowl cake" in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Hainan and other places, but the "bowl cake" has been sugared when steamed, steamed can be eaten directly, and our "yeast peach" steamed only has a faint salty taste, after it cools, it must be fried in a hot oil pot until golden brown, poured with special "sweet sauce + sugar", you can eat ~
On the old Rongcheng West Road (slightly diagonally opposite Rongjiang Middle School), there is a small shop for more than 30 years, focusing on yeast and water grits.
When I arrived here last night, it was more than ten o'clock, and other editors had been looking for me to wait for the owner to open the door.
The shopkeeper's uncle pointed to the shiny edible oil and said confidently that the oil was changed almost every day to ensure health.
The thin-skinned and thick-stuffed water grits and the fragrant yeast peaches are all made by uncle and uncle every day, and all the sauces are also homemade.
Every afternoon, Uncle would push the cart to the eighth street in Dongshan and sell it.
"Now this kind of craft is done by the older generation, and the young people are not willing to pass it on." Uncle sighed.
"As far as I know, Rongcheng has two families that make water grits and yeast peaches to sell."
"Yeah, it's already a state where one less is one!"
In my memory, at night when I was a child, whether it was hot summer or cold winter, Uncle would push this "sparrow is small but complete" car, light a fuel lamp, in the dark street, while walking, while shouting - water grits, yeast peach!
There is a saying in Chaoshan that goes: "Yeast peach, there is money to buy nothing!" ", meaning: "not necessarily rich can buy, 'yeast peach'", which shows how expensive and popular snacks this is in the era of material poverty, although in today's society it will not be "rich to buy nothing", but if the craft is not passed down...
Now his uncle is more than sixty years old, and he has always been indisputable to the world, saying that he plans to retire.
If you want to try these 30-year-old water grits and fermented peaches, take advantage of it! Take a look at the map below~
Address: Rongcheng West Road Rongjiang Middle School diagonally opposite (see map)
Opening Hours: Supper Hours (after 9.30pm)
(The specific address can be clicked to expand to view!) ▼）
Last year, Xiao Xian met an Abo in the middle of Tong Tong Street who also sold yeast peaches, and it is said that Jieyang is the best to eat the yeast peaches of these two stall owners.
A glimpse of the old town
Memories of the Old Town...
Rongcheng West Road