The famous pear garden artists in the old days are often well-known gourmets in the society, they have left a lot of food stories, many literati inkers in the writing of old fashion, always like to ink these delicious and celebrity stories, whenever I see these descriptions, always mouth to mouth, but also often can't help but go to the top of the food. Peking Opera masters like a lot of food, it is better to talk about them one by one.
Yuhuatai's eel dish - xiang oil eel paste
Yuhuatai's eel dish - Daiyaki Saddle Bridge
Yuhuatai's soup buns
The most famous master in the pear garden industry is Mei Lanfang, Mr. Mei's love of food is also well known, but some are just word of mouth, and there are two books with written records, one is Mr. Mei's own "Forty Years of Mei Lanfang's Stage Life" and the other is Tang Lusun's "Chinese Eating". It is said that the book records that Mr. Mei's favorite restaurant is Yuhuatai, Mei's ancestral home in Jiangsu, the southern taste habits on the diet are endless for several generations, which is not a new thing, and although Mr. Mei is delicious all his life, but in order to protect his voice, he has not eaten spicy, sweet and salty heavy taste, like light, Yuhuatai is mainly Huaiyang flavor, eel and soup buns are the best, the taste is more peaceful, plus Yuhuatai is located in Xila Hutong near Wangfujing, Mr. Mei lives in the immeasurable adult hutong east of Wangfujing The distance is not very far, and it is convenient to travel. Yuhuatai has long been moved from Thera Hutong in Dongcheng, has been operating in Xidan for decades, and is now located near Madian, still focusing on Huaiyang cuisine, the dishes are still classic, and every time they arrive at a meal, the door is full of people waiting in line.
Speaking of the owner of Yuhuatai, in fact, there is no small relationship with The Pear Garden Line, the word "Yuhua" of Yuhuatai is the word in the middle of the name of the boss Ma Yulong and Zhou Huazhang, among which Zhou Huazhang is not small, he is Zhang Xueliang's playmate since childhood, and he also served as the mayor of Beiping City from 1930 to 1933. Zhou's life had two major hobbies, one was food and the other was Peking Opera. He said that he likes food, since he gave up politics, he has been running catering, in 1958, he also became the representative of the old Xuanwu District because he created "Fragrant Crispy Chicken" at the Hang Seng Hall; he said that he loved Peking Opera, and the familiar Li Tiemei in "Red Lantern" was played by Teacher Liu Changyu, and his grandson Liu Zheng is now also a Qingyi actor at the National Peking Theatre. Two years ago, I talked to Liu Zheng's brother about his grandfather, and he also specially sent me a food book that Mr. Zhou Huazhang had published in that year, which was a big dish between the north and the south, Chinese and Western dim sum, all kinds of things, and at a glance, he was a person who was very good at eating.
Vegetarian sautéed pea sprouts
Yuhuatai was the big restaurant of the year, Mr. Mei often liked to go to this place when he met a banquet, if he met a friend he made, he wanted a small-scale conversation, and often loved to go to a small restaurant called En Chengju. The big restaurant has a good big restaurant, the small restaurant has the beauty of the small restaurant, En Chengju has a duck oil vegetarian fried pea seedlings are quite favored by Mr. Mei, it is said that every time he goes to eat, there is no need to command, the stove will be a fried bean seedling, it has become "Meilan Fangcai". To say that this is the place where Mr. Mei knows to talk about it, I think it is also true that an important member of the Mei Party, Mr. Mei's drama bag Mr. Qi Rushan, is also fond of this fried bean seedling, which shows that the choice of En Chengju is not just a sympathy between these friends, but also a must for similar tastes. Unfortunately,
Mr. Mei is eating out, roughly when the big table, he chooses Yuhuatai, zhijiao Xiaoshu is Enchengju, if it is at home, there is a supper very delicious, called "duck silk stew cake", I had at the beginning of the year in this number of "Other people's supper is simply weak and explosive!" Tell you what Mei Lanfang's favorite supper is" has been described in detail in the article, and will not be repeated here. However, from the perspective of these dishes that Mr. Mei likes, especially the duck oil vegetarian fried pea seedlings and duck silk risotto, they are relatively simple, but very delicate foods, and the "big pieces" with too heavy fireworks are often not people's favorites, although they are fancy and faceless. I think simple dishes are often the most desirable, which is also in line with the way of food, the most important thing about food is the heart, not the pomp of several plates and bowls, the pomp is for people to see, the heart is what you eat, Mr. Mei is such a person who can eat, the favorite dish is only a seemingly simple gadget on this road.
In addition, there are still some rumors about Mr. Mei's beloved cuisine, according to the teachers of Pear Garden, his favorite three dishes are "grilled sea cucumber with onion, vinegar pepper fish and sand pot Sandan", which are the more well-known banquet dishes in the Lu restaurant at that time, more elaborate craftsmanship, and the sea cucumber roasted onion may be because the profit is relatively large, and it is very common, but the vinegar pepper fish and the sand pot sand dan are rarely encountered. However, this statement is mostly general, not specific, let's just refer to it.
There are many people who love food in Pear Garden, because I love Peking Opera, and people in the opera industry have more contact, they do have their own life interests in this regard, especially the Pear Garden family, the understanding of "food is not tired of being tired of being tired of being fine" is relatively deep, in addition to Mr. Mei Lanfang, there are many celebrity food stories, and we will come together in the future.