If you are traveling to Guangzhou for the first time, or have just arrived in Guangzhou, local friends will definitely drag you to drink morning tea, drink soup, eat supper... Let you know Guangzhou through a variety of cuisines.
If the Peninsula Jun leads the way, I will first take you to eat a bowl of boat porridge, wait for the moist porridge water to adjust the stomach and intestines that are not satisfied with the water and soil, and then open the mouth to eat.
Guangzhou's porridge is smooth and slippery, gently scooped up, rice porridge hanging soup, sliding over the tongue, to the stomach, there is an indescribable comfort, especially the bowl of massive ingredients, after delicate cooking of the boat porridge, fish delicious meat, with a little crisp fritters, a handful of peanut millet, really do not die ~
Boat Porridge is a classic Cantonese porridge, born on the Guangzhou River, witnessing the life of Guangzhou's "cruise ship river, shrimp and porridge" for hundreds of years.
River cruise, that is, by boat
Nowadays, the scenery of the boat is no longer woven, the boat porridge has also moved from the boat into the porridge shop, the tea house, the old Guang's feelings for the boat boy porridge remain unchanged, the story after the tea meal in this period, the peninsula Jun tells you about the past and present of the boat boy porridge.
Liwan evening singing, boat boy porridge
As early as the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, Guangzhou Lychee Bay was already a paradise for rich merchants to plant flowers, lotus roots, and lychees, and every summer dusk, many literati and tourists took small boats to visit here.
A bay is green and green, and the lychees on both sides of the strait are red
At that time, on the Lychee Bay, purple cave boats and foreign plate boats shuttled back and forth, which was a derivative of vitality.
The Purple Cave Boat is elegantly installed and is a place used by wealthy families to arrange feasts.
The western scooter is equivalent to today's yacht, and the former middle class (doctor lawyer, literati Yake) likes to play mahjong on the boat, listen to Cantonese music, and there are some romantic young people who take boats to pat tow.
Guangzhou yacht in Qing Dynasty painting
Cruise the river and have less "food"? When the boats drive to the sea and the guests have fun, all kinds of food boats begin to come into view: there are porridge boats with the word "porridge" and porridge, and there are fruit boats selling watermelon lychees and sodas.
Some good singing boatmen sing while swinging the boat: boat boy porridge, boat boy porridge, refreshing and fragrant baking, a little bit of a bowl, good taste to the ear boy yu ~
Unfortunately, the scenery changed, and in the 20s and 40s, the river was seriously polluted, and the family of the boats moved to land, and the flavor of "boiling porridge in the river and eating on the boat" no longer existed.
Lychee Bay turned into a scenic spot
Authentic boat boy porridge, boiling porridge hot raw material
A bowl of authentic boat porridge, boiled with fish bones, rolled porridge to cook the porridge. Place sashimi, char siu slices, shredded squid and jellyfish at the bottom of the bowl, roll the porridge in, and the easy-to-cook, semi-cooked or fully cooked ingredients in the bowl are blanched and cooked, and finally sprinkled with a handful of fragrant and crispy fried peanuts, green onions and fritters, you can stir and eat.
Such a boat porridge, smooth and delicate, eat to char siu and squid whiskers, tough; jellyfish shredded and fried peanuts, with crispy; floating skin and fillets, with refreshing... The variety of tastes is surprising.
There are also several congee shops in Guangzhou that follow this ancient practice, and Fangcun's "Man Ji Boat Boy Porridge" is one of them. More than 30 years ago, ManJi had already sold porridge at the Fangcun Wharf to the streets and alleys, until the dock was later transformed and only went ashore to operate.
Full of boat porridge
Address: Pearl River Tunnel Fangcun Exit (near White Goose Pond Bar Street)
Opening hours: 17:00-02:00 Monday to Sunday
7 mosquitoes / bowl of boat porridge is still full of porridge thick, plus a 11 mosquito fried noodles, is a lot of Fangcun people from small food to large supper, it seems that the boat porridge on the edge of the Pearl River, has always been the most for the stomach of lao Guang.
Xiguan cuisine: boat porridge, fishing fish skin
The songs of Xiguan, the graceful cheongsam, the sliding doors, the Manchurian flower windows, the boat boy porridge, the chicken... To this day, the boat porridge is still the business card of Xiguan, and the old Xiguan will still drill into the old lane of Liwan and eat bowls of boat porridge.
Like many neighbors, Peninsula Jun has always loved "Chen Tianji", a long-established brand that has only sold boat porridge, fish skin, pork intestine powder and made 3 kinds of snacks the ultimate for 38 years.
Tim Chen
Address: Baohua Road fifteen fu second gear
Opening hours: 09:00-22:00 Monday to Sunday
Although the porridge here only sells 8 mosquitoes a bowl, but the cotton is delicious, there is the sweetness of seafood, according to the boss, from the grandfather's generation, they insisted on cooking porridge in a water tank, and the porridge cooked out was neither as good as paste, but also smooth and rich in rice.
While drinking porridge, remember to fish for fish skin! A bite of porridge, a bite of cold fish skin stained with sesame coriander peanut butter oil, I think of all drooling~ ~ ~
Get up early a bowl of raw rolling porridge to wake up the stomach, at night a bowl of boat porridge to kill time, in the eyes of Guangzhou people, porridge in addition to full stomach, but also can make time slow down, let the heart settle down, so know porridge often happy slow life, do you like?
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