Source: Old Beijing City
Speaking of the boundary of Dongdan, it has always been the "fashion base" of Our Beijing from the past to the present, with everything you need to eat, drink and have fun.
You said that you can eat as much delicious as you can eat without leaving the Dongan Market. There are donglaishun in our old Beijing, as well as Jiangsu-style Senlong restaurants, foreign Western restaurants such as Jishilin and so on.
Everyone knows that the new Dongan now is the Dong'an Market in the past. Originally, there was a snack bar called Fengshenggong at the north gate of Dong'an Market. Sweet and fragrant walnut cheese, cold and tender almond tofu, Jiangsu and Zhejiang flavored chestnut meat dumplings are all good. In particular, its "cream fried cake" has attracted many people who come to visit.
In 1966, Dong'an Market was renamed Dongfeng Market for some reasons. Do you remember the big bun of Wufangzhai? Real thin-skinned stuffing! A large bun under the belly, wrapped you half a day without hunger.
Hold the hot bun in your hand, quickly take a big bite that is the current way to eat, put it in the past is not willing to eat like this, or eat a small bite; or eat the skin first, and then slowly eat the stuffing inside, and when you are finished, you have to feel it.
In the past, there was also such a process, before going to the auspicious theater to watch a movie, you had to buy a bun to eat. Of course, at that time, the family conditions were not good, and I could not eat every time I watched a movie.
In the past, Dongdan was not only this bit of food. As early as the Republic of China period, there were more than a dozen Western restaurants gathered here.
In the past, the Western food factions in Beijing were British, French, Russian and German. The Western restaurants in the Dongdan area are basically British and French, and the first-class beijing hotel, the Six Nations Hotel, and the Western Gentry Association (called the International Club after liberation) are the first-class restaurants. In The Xiaoshun Hutong of Dongdan, there is also an American-style "Meixing Association", which does not have many dishes, soup and dishes are not very delicious, but its "roast chicken" is particularly well done, and it was unique in Beijing at that time.
In addition to the Western restaurants, the "Mo Di Lin" in Dongdan Sanjo, the "Wang Family Hotel" on Foreign Affairs Street, and the "Asia Minor" in Dongdan Framed Hutong, these three were relatively high-end and authentic Russian restaurants at that time. The people who come to this restaurant basically go to the "beef can" and "red soup".
After the liberation, these Western restaurants were basically closed, and only the Western restaurants in the east entrance of Dongdan Sanjo remained open until the establishment of the Institute of The Union Hospital in the 1980s.
After the liberation of Dongdan, there were about ten Chinese restaurants, the most famous of which was Dongdan Restaurant, which the old Beijing loved to call it Dongdan Canteen. Every morning at six o'clock, the place begins to be lively, people are called more than one, often crowded out of the body, many people can only stand to eat after buying breakfast.
At that time, there was a halal restaurant called "Xingyue Lou" on the north side of Dongdan Market, and the fried cakes here were very delicious. Coming out of dongdan wet market, everyone loves to buy a fried cake here.
The recreation restaurant opened at the west entrance of Dongdan Xinkai Road was quite famous at the time, its home was mainly Based on Jiangnan flavor, and there were only three tables in the store, which the British "Times" called "three-table restaurant". Chang Jing, a special female chef who is one of the founders of the restaurant, made peach blossom pan, fried melon dates, bridge deck, steam pot chicken, emerald soup, shiitake mushroom meat cake, orchid prawns, red rotten chicken cubes, and is also known as the "eight famous dishes" of the restaurant.
In the early years, in the east of Mishi Street Road, there was a Jiayi Kangchuan Restaurant on the north side of Dongdan "Jinshan Photo Studio". Its signature dish is back-pot meat, and "ants on the tree" is also a special feature here. Like what strange chicken, salt fried meat is also made full of Sichuan flavor. In addition to its home, the Sichuan restaurant in Dongdan is the Emei restaurant in the Dong'an Market.
Xiaobian saw his old man mention in Lao Ji Fufeng's blog that in the late 1970s and 1980s, there were two small shops on the north side of the east gate of Dongdan Vegetable Market, that is, on the west side of the south end of Dongdan North Avenue, which were the former "Huagong Cold Drink Shop" and a small shop selling spring rolls, I don't know if there are these two stores in your memory?
The taste in the memory of these years has become less and less, and the small dirty shops on the Dongdan side after the street have been rectified, although they are not our Beijing food, but they are barely enough to relieve the hunger. Time flies, the favorite is still like the past Dongdan!