Source: Old Beijing City
The most famous snack in Beijing is "pastry", whether men, women, young and old, rich and poor, can not be less than this pastry. The most foul-mouthed people have to bend over and honestly line up at the door of the dim sum shop.
"Great Food"
In the past, pastries were not called "dim sum", and Beijingers called pastries "gluttonous". It is said that the Manchus manage dry food and call it Rao. But in fact, since the Yuan Dynasty, Beijing's pastries have been called "Rao".
It is impossible to verify who called first
In the past, there was the torture of "Ling Chi", and Ling Chi had a step to be fatal from the back, which was called "dim sum". So of course, Beijingers avoid this unlucky name.
The varieties of rao are also widely available in Beijing. From the halal pastries that appeared in the Yuan Dynasty, to the southern pastries of the Ming Dynasty, to the Manchurian dumplings of the Qing Dynasty... Almost all the pastries that can be seen in Beijing can be called dumplings.
But later, many young people are still more accustomed to calling pastries "dim sum". However, the dumplings have become synonymous with pasta such as steamed buns. But the older Old Beijingers still can't change their mouths, and they are delicious to eat!
Past dumpling shops
Mr. Tang Lusun once wrote: "The oldest shop in Beijing must be counted as a rao shop." And the most famous shop in Beijing in the past must be the "Zhengmingzhai" founded in 1864!
Old Beijing's Dumpling Shop
Like Zheng Ming Zhai, Da Shun Zhai... This can be said to be a legendary long-established dumpling shop has become less and less. And the Zhengmingzhai that was once extremely popular and deeply rooted in the hearts of the people has disappeared.
Zheng Mingzhai was at the front door
Founded in 1864, Zhengmingzhai has opened nearly ten semicolons in the old Beijing city. In its heyday, even the snacks to be eaten at the imperial meal were handed over to Zheng Ming Zhai to make, which is called a century-old brand!
Both a place and Zheng Ming Zhai are also neighbors
In the Republic of China period, ordinary people, literati, warlords... All kinds of people had to send people to Zhengmingzhai to buy food to eat. You might even think of it as a "court afternoon tea" unique to Beijing.
Zheng Ming zhai advertising carton
Every New Year's Festival, marrying a wife and having children, visiting relatives and friends all have to buy the feast of Zhengmingzhai . Zheng Ming Zhai will also make some seasonal pastries for customers to choose according to the festival.
In February of the lunar calendar, you have to make suncakes
April can't be without rosecakes
May is also the month of the five poisonous cakes and rice dumplings
Make mooncakes on August 15
At the beginning of September, the Nine Chongyang Festival can not be without flower cakes
When it comes to the mooncakes of Zhengming Zhai, it is even more nostalgic. Zhengmingzhai's tap red mooncake is the only one in the capital, and I have never eaten a tap red that can be compared to Zhengmingzhai so far, which is really missed.
The sesame oil of Zhengmingzhai has a unique red taste
After the millennium, ZhengMingzhai still adheres to the model of front shop and back factory, self-production and self-sales. Honey cake without water, mung bean cake must be made of pure mung bean flour... Traditional craftsmanship cannot avoid keeping up with the times.
ZhengMingzhai before disappearing
Slowly, ZhengMingzhai, who insisted on traditional craftsmanship, also became exhausted. Fast-paced life, rising costs and rents, gradual loss of craftsmanship... Zheng MingZhai eventually became one of the hundreds of shops that disappeared in Beijing...
Now the dim sum shop
Mr. Xiao Fuxing once wrote in "Old Dim Sum Shop": "Today," the dim sum shop in Beijing is basically a flower in Daoxiang Village... Beijing's dim sum shops have become such a pattern, which is sad. ”
In the past, there were four great jai in Beijing
According to official verification, since the Ming and Qing dynasties, hundreds of long-established brands engaged in the pastry industry in Beijing have been unable to keep up with the times and withdraw from the market. What remains can only survive on the old patron...
In fact, there is also a "net red" food shop in Beijing. The decoration is indeed a court style, and it is pleasing to the eye when you look at it. But the taste of the food is still almost interesting, and the price is more exaggerated.
This table is hundreds of times larger
Let's talk about the "Sanhe Daoxiang Village" recognized by Beijingers, although it is a long-established brand that resumed business in 1984, the taste is still familiar. Sanhe Daoxiang Village is also called "Northern Bakery" by friends from other places.
Daoxiang Village in the early twentieth century
In the days around the New Year, there is a long queue at the entrance of Daoxiang Village. The floppy dumplings are neatly stuffed in small snack boxes, covered with a lid and carried with a rope.
In the old days, "Kyo Hachijo" was the main gift - eight kinds of pastries with different flavors and shapes, baked with eight main ingredients: pretzel, date paste, roses, bean paste, sugar, raisins, plums and bananas.
The eight pieces of Beijing are also divided into eight pieces of crisp, eight pieces of wine, and eight pieces of milk
Now Daoxiangcun even has a vacuum-packed snack box, but it is not sincere to send it out that way. Many Beijingers would rather queue up at the entrance of Daoxiang Village for half a day than buy a box of vacuum.
However, the hundreds of kinds of food in Daoxiang Village are really enough for people to pick for half a day. Today, let's see a few kinds of things that everyone loves to eat. If you are hungry, go out and go straight to Daoxiang Village!
Beef tongue cake
Hawthorn pot helmet
Honey cake
Sachima
Butter date cake
For Beijingers, chongyang festival must eat a piece of flower cake, the Mid-Autumn Festival also has to come to two pieces of white and red mooncakes, lantern festival on daoxiang village to buy some lantern ... Rao has long become a habit in the daily life of Beijingers.