Xinjiang Morning News (text/photo reporter Yu Mengfan) "This is still not the previous pepper and ma chicken shop? Why is the food sold differently from the original? "Since the redecoration of the store in the second half of 2017, not only has the area been reduced by half, but the small speculation that has been maintained for 14 years has also been cancelled, until I saw the boss lady Liang Jianghui, and the old customers who had not come for a long time were convinced that the old store had not changed owners. On March 5, in the Koufuju Pepper Ma Chicken Dumpling Shop in Xinmin East Street, Urumqi City, diners wiped their mouths contentedly: "Well, the pepper ma chicken is still the original flavor, and the newly produced chicken noodles and small soup dumplings are also very delicious." ”
The hostess Liang Jianghui and her family's pepper and ma chicken
Pepper chicken
Opened a store for 15 years and missed each other with old neighbors
The location of the store is not far from Qiyi Sunshine New City, the first floor façade of Qiyi Xinmin Community. There was still an hour or so before lunch, and some neighbors in the community came to chat with the hostess. I haven't moved my nest in fifteen years, and my neighbors are familiar with the store.
"Boss Liang, what has been business like lately?" "Don't be the boss boss, how awkward it sounds." The relationship is familiar, and everyone jokes and does not see the outside. Whenever they are called "Liang Zong" and "Boss Liu", Liang Jianghui and her husband Liu Jianjun either wave their hands or shake their heads, they prefer the grounded names of "Liang Er" and "Liu Er".
Many neighbors have become friends of the store, and Wang Jing, 65, is no exception. At 12 o'clock that day, Wang Jing was busy making dumplings in the middle of the pepper and ma chicken shop, and the small soup dumplings in the shop were all from her hand. Before becoming the "Wang Kuaishou" who made dumplings, she used to be Liang Jianghui's neighbor and a good sister, and then she became a helper chef.
Liang Jianghui recalled the changes that have taken place over the years: which neighbor came to the store to eat pepper and chicken from pregnancy to the time when the children are in middle school, which old customer will come to visit once a week despite moving, 15 years ago next to the Qiyi Sunshine New City is still an earthen house, across the road is still a vegetable cellar... Along with the aroma of the newly poured pepper oil in the back hall, those memories of the changes also tasted.
The clerk served soup for the chicken noodles in the back hall
Simmered chicken tendons small noodles, wontons are delicious and delicious
Wang Jing, an old customer, came to the store and ordered a pepper chicken and a small soup dumpling. Through the mouth of the meal, you can see the clerk wearing disposable gloves breaking down a cooked and cool chicken. After the first half of the fire boiling, the second section of the wen fire stew out of the chicken meat texture tight tendons, just looking at the clerk's nervous knuckles, you can feel the chicken is divided into strips and make a "squeaking" sound.
The ordinary red spicy skin, green shallots, white onion strips, and red pepper strips were plated with a layer of oily and seductive luster after being poured and stirred with pepper and spicy oil. "Chicken is very flavorful, spicy enough, numb enough, not exciting, just right for me." Wang Jing said: "My family lives on horseback riding mountain road, and since a friend once brought me here to eat, I like the taste of this pepper chicken. I met with friends today and made a special appointment here. ”
Some customers enter the door and leave directly after hearing that there is no stir-fry, and some customers come specifically for small soup dumplings and chicken noodles that are not the protagonists. A bowl of chicken shredded noodles is 10 yuan, a small bowl of soup dumplings is 15 yuan, a large bowl is 20 yuan, no matter which one you order, you will send a plate of sugar garlic rice for free.
The small soup dumplings are somewhere between dumplings and wontons, and are stuffed with beef, lamb and onions. Although the chicken shredded noodles are also called small noodles, they are completely different from the Chongqing noodles, it is mainly light and fresh, and there is no oil spicy in sight. It looks like a bowl of white clear soup noodles, but in fact, there are many ingredients: shredded chicken, yellow cauliflower, aweed mushroom slices, small pieces of tomatoes, minced green onions, chopped coriander, squeezed vegetable shreds and other ingredients are mixed together, and the taste is rich.
The soup for cooking noodles and the soup for boiling dumplings are all raw soups simmered with beef bones, lamb bones, chicken soup and Chinese medicine over low heat, which are not mixed with water and are mellow in the mouth. If there are many diners who eat these two kinds of soups on the same day, and the original soup is used up in advance, the chicken noodles and small soup dumplings will no longer be served, and if you want to eat them, you will have to wait until the next day.
"Haha, in fact, I came to eat small noodles to drink this soup, although this soup is not sour and spicy, but it has a fresh taste." The guy who was eating dumplings smiled and said, "It's still a little cold these two days, come and eat a meal, the price is real, and the stomach is also comfortable." ”
Customer Wang Jing ate pepper chicken with small soup dumplings
When there were few customers in the store, Liu Jianjun stood in front of the store for a while
Shopkeeper: Making money is the second priority, and we must open this small shop
Liu Jianjun was busy in the back hall, when there were few customers, he would also stand at the entrance of the store, observing the pedestrians coming and going, he sighed: "When the store was first opened in 2003, the business was particularly poor, so bad that it only sold a few dozen yuan a day, and I was idle enough to sit at the door of the store. The neighbor who went out at noon came back to see me in the afternoon and asked, 'Why are you still sitting here?' After that, it took another five years to survive. ”
"In those years, when the business was at its best, I could sell hundreds of chickens a day, and the turnover was sometimes as high as tens of thousands of yuan, and it hurt to tear the chicken every day." Liu Jianjun held out two hands, and the joints were thicker than those of ordinary people: "The scale of the store is now more than one and a half smaller than then, and the business is far less prosperous than then, and many people have advised us to give up this shop and concentrate on opening a farm." ”
Liang Jianghui said that the farm was opened in Nanshan three years ago, the business is good, but the two ends of the run is too tired, so he first suspended the business of the farm and focused on this old shop. She said: "From working in my 30s to almost 50 years old, I obviously feel that my energy is not as good as a year. ”
Some old customers chatted with the store after eating, suggesting that they "keep up with the pace of the times" and transform into trendy foods such as duck claw claws and small county livers, which were vetoed by Liu Jianjun. "Last year, I canceled the stir-frying just to concentrate on making the pepper chicken well. If it is purely to make money, then I might as well go to Nanshan to open a farm. He said: "I am old, and I have to struggle to get up every day, but as soon as I think of so many old customers waiting to eat my pepper chicken, I suddenly get up again." A lot of people don't believe it, but for me it's really the second place to make money, and opening this store for a hundred years is the most important thing. ”
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