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Wen | Ye Danying
My friend said, suspect that you are not a dog, but a pig. I think it's not unreasonable, especially after a period of sinking into cooking, I have a stronger and stronger attachment to eating. If you eat well, you will have a sense of satisfaction from the inside out, and when you are disappointed, you will feel that you have eaten a pile of greasy garbage and wasted your stomach in vain.
When you come to Chaoshan, the heart of a foodie will be at ease. In this city of food, there must be countless delicacies waiting for me. Arrived at the inn on Paifang Street, it was already dark, I took a shower, went to the street to hang around, 22 archways, there are 22 officials, along the street is the Lingnan Arcade, displaying a variety of Teochew cuisine, the air can smell the sweetness of the faint Chaozhou Three Treasures (old citron, old medicine orange, yellow skin drum) from time to time.
The first night, I first tasted oysters, duck mother twist, sea salt cheese and mango double spelling plus ice cream (the white-clad little brother in the milk ice and milk tea shop was really handsome, just like in the idol drama). However, in addition to these snacks, what makes me more anxious is actually -
When you have arrived in Chaoshan Province, how can you not come to eat Chaoshan beef hot pot?
Why don't I come out alone, and eating hot pot is good for two people? First, I immediately thought of the picture of a person sitting opposite a big bear doll in Haidilao when eating, and second, it seems that the smallest set of beef hot pot should also be a two-person set menu. Is that what we have to do?
When I talked to my friend about WeChat voice at night, my friend gave me two ideas, one was to order takeaway, cook it and send it in, and the second was: as long as you are not embarrassed, the embarrassment is someone else. But I was still embarrassed, so I searched for hunger, and it seemed that there was no hot pot takeaway. What's more, my goal has actually been selected, that is, the Guantangdi beef hot pot, which ranks first in the public reviews.
Finally made up my mind, I will pluck up the courage to eat the hot pot alone, and pack it when I can't finish eating! In order to eat the beef hot pot for two people, I was going to eat nothing on this day, but the hot pot restaurant started at 3:30 p.m., so I had to eat a delicious oyster on Paifang Street to fill my stomach.
Taxi to the gate of Guantangdi beef hot pot, at first glance I almost wondered if I had gone wrong? Because this hot pot restaurant looks like an ordinary streetfront, blue iron signboard, there are several round tables covered with yellow cloth, each surrounded by a few light blue backrest plastic chairs, a variety of dipping sauces placed on a small table outside the store, from the decoration does not look like the first place. However, on second thought, the feeling of such a small street shop brought me a sense of relaxation when I ate hot pot alone.
Since I arrived at the restaurant at four o'clock in the afternoon, and the locals usually did not come to eat until six o'clock in the evening, I became the only diner in the restaurant. The hostess was a middle-aged man, wearing a white shirt printed with "gucci", smiling, calling me sister, not slacking off because I was a person who came to eat hot pot (remember once I was late from work, I went to a restaurant, and the waiter kept asking me if I was packing?). Packaging? Packaging? I don't know if it is because I went alone, I presumptuously think that dine-in is inappropriate), but because I was the first diner and warm hospitality, brought me tea and water, explained how long each meat should be shabu and personally demonstrated, and sent a cut dipped sour plum bale, let me not eat enough vegetables, dipping sauce, soup base, bale can be added casually, see I am constantly taking pictures, but also beckoned my sister to eat it first, a moment of cold is not good to eat, let me feel the VIP like a spring breeze service.
The hostess explained me, explained me, seemed to always worry that I would not eat well, confessed a pass, only to get on a motorcycle, said that I want to go to school to pick up the children, let me find someone in the store if I needed. After a while, it was getting dark, and I saw the lady outside the store returning with a small boy and a little girl in school uniforms.
While steaming up the business, while also seeing stitches and needles to raise children, I don't feel that this boss lady is not simple.
On the table were a plate of tender meat, a plate of hanging dragons, a plate of beef offal, a plate of kway teows, a basket of vegetables, and a pot of tea, as well as seasoned shacha sauce, chili sauce, celery minced, and ginger, and the bottom of the pot was a clear soup cooked from corn, bitter melon, and white radish, and four beef balls were rolled in the soup. The kway teows should be boiled at the end, because they are made of glutinous rice, and after boiling for a long time, they will dissolve into the soup and become paste, and the fished kway teows will be mixed with sand tea sauce and peanut butter, which is the famous sand tea kway in Chaoshan Province.
A feast of delicious and tender beef, immersed in the satisfaction brought by food, the wish to taste the most authentic Chaoshan beef hot pot has been fulfilled.
Subsequently, the hostess brought a plate containing beef tongue, beef breast, beef blinds, said that some of the monotony in the package, these are also sent to me to taste, after that, and then explained to me this do not write into the review, afraid that when people say that you are a water army.
In the chat with the hostess, I learned that this shop has always been the business of locals, Chaoshan is a small city, the locals' mouths are particularly sharp, if it is not delicious, it will not be a repeat customer. Fifteen years ago, Guantangdi beef hot pot still had only one storefront, but it has slowly expanded to a whole row of six stores now. During this period, it was not that they did not think of doing a branch, but they had to have a very good person, so they finally decided to concentrate on running this store. In August last year, Guantangdi beef hot pot was on the Meituan, and subsequently, there were more foreign tourists in the store.
The hostess said that they have always adhered to the idea that if the beef is not sold out on the same day, the rest will be returned to the fast food restaurant or school canteen, and it is better to dispose of it at a price of twenty yuan per kilogram, rather than sell it to customers the next day. Over time, they have figured out the law of the flow of customers in the store - there are more people on weekends, and there are more people on weekdays, often on Wednesdays, so that they basically know how much beef to buy when they buy.
I sighed, no wonder the beef here is much better than Haidilao's, the hostess said that it is certain, Haidilao is frozen meat. However, to my surprise, the hostess also went to the city to eat Haidilao in order to understand why Haidilao was so hot, and as a result, she waited for more than a hundred people.
At the end of the meal, my belly alone really couldn't hold up, so I wanted to boil the rest of the uneaten food and pack it back to the inn. The hostess saw that I was not very skilled in cooking, and personally the spoon to help me cook, saying that young people should not cook at all, and at home may be made by their mothers, right? Watching her cook, box, and match it with small ingredients, she actually had the warmth of home.
In addition to helping to cook and pack, the hostess did not feel at ease to repeatedly explain to me, back to the hotel to ask the front desk whether there is an induction cooker, if not, if not, do not eat when it is cold, will eat bad stomach, go back at night to eat, eat can not be put to tomorrow, just throw it away, do not eat.
However, in the face of food, my combat effectiveness is still amazing. In fact, soon after I returned to the inn, I dried up the two boxes of beef kway teow soup that had been packed, and I didn't waste such a delicacy.
Sitting in the shop eating beef hot pot, I stared at the words "Guantang Brother Beef Hot Pot" on the wall for a long time, and asked the boss lady a small question that I was curious about - why should the name of the shop be taken as "Guan Tang Di" (is the name of the shop owner "Guan Tang Di")?
The original answer was that Chaoshan had a place name called Guantang Town, and their husband and wife were from the town (if it was a beef hot pot opened by brothers from Guantang Town, it was called "Guantang Brothers Beef Shop"). The lady boss said that fifteen years ago, her husband was still young, and rural people generally called themselves "brothers" when they came to the city to do things, but now "Guantang brothers" have long become "Guantang uncles".