There are not many old shops in Lanzhou, and at the moment when people want to eat tricks every day, there is always a "tendon" shop owner behind about each old store. For many years, I have kept an old taste, while lamenting that the business is not easy to do, but I refuse to give up.
The old store I want to talk about today has not changed in the past 22 years, the owner has not changed, and even the address has never changed. Day after day, it has seen the Xijin Road in front of it change from 2 lanes to 6 lanes; people have gone from rushing to crowd the bus to rushing to catch the subway.
The city has changed, but it is still there, leaving Lanzhou with an old memory worth remembering.
Hanu lamb, an old shop opened in 1997, is owned by a bald uncle. At that time, he used all his wealth to open this mutton shop, and the livelihood of the family was also all pinned on it.
Perhaps because of this pressure of "failure", he did not dare to take it lightly in the big and small affairs of the store. After years of perseverance, in the end, good quality is exchanged for good reputation, and good taste wins good business. Hanu lamb has been open for 22 years, and the store has expanded from 80 square meters in that year to nearly 500 square meters today.
Don't look at the fact that most of the people who eat are middle-aged, but here, there are guys who swim in the Tianlong Water Palace and then eat a pound of noodles with a bowl of noodles; there are also little girls who are brought to eat barbecue by their fathers at a young age, and then eat a little girl for more than 20 years.
A lot of it seems to have changed, but you can still order a pound of meat, eat a bowl of noodles, and make a pot of tea as you used to.
Because Hanu hasn't changed.
At noon, take a bowl of lamb bubbles
Winter in Lanzhou belongs to the smell of mutton floating in the air. For many restaurants that are good at cooking lamb, how to make a lamb plate delicious and perfect is the basic skill of opening a shop.
Walking into Hanu at noon in the cold of December, the most suitable is this large bowl of lamb bubbles. The lamb is moderately fat and lean, the mutton soup is not greasy, and the spicy sauce with sugar garlic side dishes makes the taste of scones and lamb more thick and enjoyable.
If you love pasta, lamb noodles, chickweed noodles, and beef cheeks are quick and tempting bowls. Just take a bite out of the side dish, look simple, in fact, full of blessings.
There is also this bowl of beef cheek pull strips, which was Hanu's hottest bowl of noodles. Many people wait for twenty minutes in order to taste it. To say its taste, the fragrance of the beef noodles and the mellowness of the soup base are more enjoyable than beef noodles.
Cold whizzing into the store, hot strolling out, the satisfaction and pleasure of food brought simple and direct.
A heartfelt roast at night
For years, Hanu has used lamb that was slaughtered that day. The meat is fresh and a little processed to be a delicacy on earth.
Red willow roast meat, eat is the delicious flavor of this large piece of lamb under the blessing of red willow. After a little roasting on the charcoal fire, the aroma of the meat has already spread out, and then sprinkle some chili cumin pepper noodles, leaving only drooling.
And the skewer grilled meat, although the meat pieces are slightly smaller than the red willow grilled meat, but it is more flavorful and enjoyable. A handful of orders are put on the table, only worried about not enough to eat.
Whether it is late at night in winter or late in the evening in summer, this handful of grilled meat is the most satisfying.
In addition to roast lamb, Hanu also has a lot of barbecue: big loins, tendons, chicken wings, potatoes...
There are too many varieties, you can't eat them all at once, you have to come several times.
Slide here to unwind
Weekends belong to the open pot of lamb
There is plenty of time on weekends, especially suitable for stretching the front line for a pot of lamb.
The soup base is nourishing and the leek flowers are fragrant, but for the plate of delicious lamb, these are all supporting roles.
From lamb chops to lamb tendons, from hand-cut to lamb rolls, look at the color, smell the taste, feel the tenderness of the chopsticks, a good lamb, you have to stand this test.
Ice grabs in winter
The production process is not complicated, the eating method is simple and rough, but it is exceptionally delicious and super relieved, which is probably the charm of hand grasping.
The fresh lamb is carefully stewed, and the waiting of several hours is actually a ten-minute rush, but it is worth it.
Ribs and sheep's neck are the most delicious parts of the hand.
In addition to the delicious hand grasp, the biggest feature of hanu's family is ice grasping, and eating ice grabbing in winter is especially enjoyable. The mutton oil is made into small beads, but it does not appear greasy in the mouth, but it adds to the tenderness of the lamb.
After grabbing by hand, come with a crisp scone and a sweet and pleasant bowl of milk and egg mash. There are no fancy routines, just delicious.
Get together and love ethnic dishes
If you want to eat more formally, Hanu's ethnic dishes are also worth recommending. As usual, there are no flower racks, only full of sincerity.
The dishes are all classic contents in ethnic cuisine, carefully prepared raw materials, unique cooking methods, and 22 years of accumulation are indeed very thick.
Even a sour and spicy Gaza and a plate of Dongxiang potatoes are the most moving Lanzhou flavor.
Time is fleeting, years are easy to age, but there are always some old tastes that jump on the tip of your tongue when you are not careful, from the mouth to the heart, and it is timeless.
Shop activities
Open the pot of lamb, that is, free 38 yuan at the bottom of the pot, and give a vegetable platter worth 20 yuan.
Event Dates:
December 14-December 31
Some of the pictures are provided by the store
Text/Photo Pocket Lanzhou Foodie Squad
Tian Haizhu
Editor/ Pocket Lanzhou Foodie Squad
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Store information
- Kodate -
Hanu lamb
- Address -
56 Xijin West Road
(100 meters east of the second building of the Palace of Culture)
- Ordering telephone -
0931-2613952
- Consumption per capita -
15-80 yuan