It was more than twenty years ago. From a small township in the northeast corner of the Wujiang River, we came to the bustling and lively Shengze. At that time, Shengze was already wrapped in light in simplicity, brilliant and dazzling. It was too late to appreciate this magnificence, but I was tempted by a steaming cage of burning.
Steaming roast sale
Before arriving in Shengze, he had never seen a fire sale, and he couldn't imagine what it would be like. On a pleasant autumn morning, cross the streets and alleys to buy breakfast. Passing by a snack bar, the customers inside are full of doors, and the steamer at the door is steaming. On the blackboard to the left of the door, the word "burnt sale" is written impressively. This is the long-heard of the sale, so I put my feet into the house, ready to try it, many people will order a cage of roasted and then with a bowl of small wontons, and some people are a cage of roasted with a bowl of free clear soup.
The best ravioli is sold
Within two minutes, a cage of roast was sold in front of me. The bamboo steamer basket, which is about ten inches in diameter, has a dull yellow color due to years of cooking. Lifting the lid of the cage, a stream of hot air rushed into the mirror, and his eyes were suddenly confused. Only crystalline, like jade like snow, like a butterfly that wants to fly, and like a pomegranate flower blooming, people can't bear chopsticks. The skin is as thin as a cicada's wing, and the meat filling inside is faintly visible. In the middle of the gaze, the boss brought a bowl of soup and politely greeted: "Please use it slowly." "Although this bowl of soup is simple, it is also tempting, and there are a few golden egg shreds floating inside, the egg shreds are extremely thin, about two millimeters wide, and then sprinkled with green onions, yellow and green match, and the color alone makes the stomach find a comfortable posture for this morning."
Crystal jade roast sale
Pick one up and gently put it in your mouth, the soup is overflowing, fat but not greasy, and delicious. Take a sip of soup and moisten your throat, which is really a reward for the stomach and intestines. A breakfast, ironing the spleen and stomach, satisfying the mouth, but also began a happy life of the day.
With a gentle bite, the soup overflows
Shengze's yaki sale is generally sold with fresh meat. More elaborate, add shiitake mushrooms and shrimp, it is even more delicious. It coincides with spring, and it is also very popular with the public when it is made into fresh meat and sold. Now is the time for Taihu crab to go on the market, and it will also be sold with crab yellow roast. There are many varieties of grilled and sold, and the tastes are endless.
Lettuce is sold
Shiitake mushrooms are sold
Shrimp roasted for sale
Crab yellow roast for sale
It is also quite exquisite to do the roast sale. First of all, roll the skin, the current skin is basically bought, in fact, it is better to roll the skin yourself, and the skin must be thinner. Thin skin is the first priority, filling is the key. Meat fillings that are made and sold are different from fillings such as wontons or dumplings. Although they are all stuffed with meat, in the meat filling, it is necessary to add skin jelly. I heard that this jelly is made from the skin of meat. The skin of the meat selected must be fresh, and all the fat and oil parts are scraped off, leaving only a thin layer of skin. Wash and simmer over low heat until the skin is soft and transparent, then stir in the minced meat. Steamed in this way, the meat is crisp and soft, with its own soup, which is delicious but does not feel fatty. Winter mornings, a steaming cage of roast sales always warms me up from the bottom of my heart. In the summer morning, the time is not hurried, in the roadside pergola, while enjoying the people on the road, while enjoying the aroma of the burning sale, it is also an indescribable small blessing. It is always suitable for burning and selling with the four seasons.
Roll out the skin, roll out, put the filling, fold it, steam it and arrange it
Eat and sell, be sure to keep it hot, it is best to eat it fresh in the store. One day I suddenly understood why it was called roasting, steaming and selling at the same time, but it was real. Chopsticks can be lifted when served, not afraid of scalding, and moved from the cage to the mouth, and the heat inside has quietly emanated from the thin skin. Once it is cold, the delicious taste is lost in half, the meat filling is tight, the skin is dry and hard, and such a delicacy is wasted. Packaging is not the first choice, freshly baked burning, once into the sealed box, although the temperature is temporarily maintained, but as soon as the water vapor falls, the burning becomes rotten, and its taste must have lost a lot.
Cute yakitori sale
Regarding the origin of the shoki sale, one day I specially checked the information on the Internet to understand one or two. According to the earliest historical records, in the Chinese textbook "Park Shi Tong" published in the fourteenth century in Goryeo (present-day Korea), there is a record of the Sale of "Plain Sour Stuffed Wheat" in Yuan Dadu (present-day Beijing). The book's note on "slightly wheat" is that it is steamed with wheat noodles made into thin slices of meat, and eaten with soup, and the dialect is called slightly wheat. "Wheat" is also used as "selling". YouYun: "Thin skin meat solidly chopped meat, when the top of the thin like a line slightly tied, so it is called a little wheat." "With noodles as skin, with meat as filling, as the top as a flower bud, the dialect is called roasted and sold." If you compare the preparation method of "slightly wheat" here with today's roasting, you can see that the two are the same thing. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, although the term "slightly wheat" was still used, the names of "burning" and "burning wheat" also appeared, and the use of "burning and selling" appeared more frequently.
Burnt sale
In the north, there is also a kind of roast sale, which is relatively large, the skin is thicker, and the filling inside is generally glutinous rice. Glutinous rice is wrapped in red gravy and steamed in a basket, which is not much different from the taste of local meat dumplings. If such a shoki sale is a bold woman in the north, then Shengze's shochu sale obviously belongs to the small family jasper in the south of the Yanyu River. Once you meet, you will never forget it again.
Northern burnt sale
Whenever a friend or relative comes to Shengze, breakfast will be invited to taste Shengze's yakiniku sale, not to say that it is not delicious. Even my son, who had little interest in breakfast, always regarded the sale of yakiniku as his first choice.
Shengze's shops, from the main street to the alley, from the market to the community, are all over the corners. There are many lilang shops, which have gone through decades and become famous shops. Many people come to visit in order to find the leisure and invigorating aroma. If you are tired of shopping one day, it is also a great enjoyment to find a quiet shop to sit in, and then call a cage of freshly baked roasts. Today, the sale of shoki has become a symbol of Shengze, an iconic culture. Not long ago, the 19th Shengze Silk Culture tourism festival series of activities "Silk Capital Intangible Cultural Heritage, Shengze Burning Sale" tasting meeting was held in the lecture hall on the first floor of Shengze Cultural Center, and five members of the "Red Scarf Dream Seeking South Society" team of Shengze Primary School were invited to participate in this activity.
Students at Shengze Elementary School taste the roast for sale
Shengze Elementary School students appeared at the premiere of the silk capital Shengze baking micro-film
Shengze yakitori, like a beautiful business card, inherits the long-standing culture of Shengze and retains the nostalgia of generations.
Delicious yakitori sale
Author: Yang Lingli
Editors of this article: Gu Xiaohong, Wu Ying
Image source: Lingli Yang, Collections & Network
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