In 1984, Tianjin decided to build a food street, the address was selected in the south city, from Rongye Street in the east, to Qingshan Street in the west, from Qinghe Street in the south to Shenyi Street in the north. In the past, this was the center of Nanshi, surrounded by the Republic Theater, the Shangquan Xian Cinema, the "Rain Comes and Scatter" for luanzhou films, the "Bungee Jumping" shed for singing and commenting, the Qingyun Luozi Hall, and many white-faced children's halls.
Old Tianjin people know that Nanshi is not only "three disregards", but also a snack holy land. As early as the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the People's Republic, Nanshi formed a food market, from morning to night, small stalls can eat oil tea, fried stew, tea soup, fried cake, pot cake, barley porridge, noodle tea, pie, vegetarian buns, noodle noodles, and even drink Beijing bean juice. Many of these homes have been passed down from generation to generation and have a unique flavor. There is also a small shop specializing in "Folding Luo", and every day many poor people line up to buy leftovers, and the people give it an ironic name: The Six Kingdoms Hotel. The food market continued until the 1960s, when Nanshi became a residential area, and the food street was demolished, and more than 400 households were moved.
80s South Market Food Street
At 3:20 p.m. on August 11, 1984, the foundation stone of the Nanshi Food Street Project was broken and was undertaken by the First Construction Company of Tianjin Municipal Housing Management Bureau. 100 days later, on the morning of January 1, 1985, the opening ceremony of Nanshi Food Street was held. The opening banquet was held in PenglaiChun Restaurant, attended by big leaders, Luo Yusheng, Shang Mingzhu, Ding Zhiyun, Chang Baoting, Guo Zhenqing, Guan Mucun all performed at the banquet, and the famous painter Huang Ji painted a donkey on the spot, with the inscription "Cao Ji Donkey Meat Pavilion Under the Knife".
The majestic Nanshi Food Street is displayed in front of the people of Tianjin, and the designer of this complex is Yuan Jiashu, the granddaughter of Yuan Shikai, who graduated from Tianjin University and was an architect of the Tianjin Architectural Design Institute at that time. Food Street is not a street, but a three-story complex. On all four sides are four ancient court-style gate towers, in the middle of which are artificial granite arched door openings, and the plaque above the door opening is engraved with the five characters of "Nanshi Food Street" in Wang Xizhi's font. The east, west, south and north corners of the complex have four Octagonal Towers with Qing-style imitation bucket structures. After entering the doorway, in the middle of the inside is the cross Yongdao, which has a roof at the upper end of the Yongdao and is flanked by shops.
Yuan Jiashu runs through the traditional pattern of the Chinese nation - octagonal shape in the design, from the plan of the food street building complex, to the columns, windows, roofs, corner towers, archways, the guardrails of the two-story commercial street, the palace lights in front of the shops, the indoor flower partitions, where tourists go, they can see the octagon. The Food Street is also decorated with seven tile murals, the largest two are two meters wide and one meter and five meters high, one is the scenery of Huaqing Pond in Xi'an, and the other is the Big Wild Goose Pagoda of Xuanzang's exegesis.
Nanshi Food Street is known as the "Eating Persuasion Field" by Tianjin people, gathering hundreds of restaurants and food stores, and when you come to Food Street, you can eat all over China. First of all, Food Street has restored the long-established brands in Tianjin that have been broken for many years, such as polymerization, HuifangLou, and Xiandeyue.
Aggregate into a restaurant is the largest one in Nanshi Food Street, and Ai XinJue Luo Pu Zuo inscribed a plaque. Founded in the late Qing Dynasty, It was once one of the "Eight Great Achievements" of Jinmen, and its dishes were mainly salty and fresh. The first batch of guests after the opening of the restaurant were several friends brought by the famous Peking Opera performance artist Zhang Junqiu. Zhang Junqiu was the patron of the aggregate when he sang in Tianjin, and this time he tasted the dragon plate prawns, chicken silk silver needles, grilled shark fins, and jumping carp, and found that the taste of the old aggregate was still maintained.
Huifanglou Restaurant, which has been closed for more than 30 years, is also open on the first floor to the third floor of the northwest corner of Nanshi Food Street, selling lamb steamed dumplings on the first floor, Beijing-style roast duck on the second floor, bursting, roasting, shabu lamb and various cold meat and dim sum, and the third floor is a whole lamb banquet and duck wing seat. HuifangLou restored the "assorted shabu-shabu" that had been broken for many years, and put sea rice, mushrooms, chicken soup, shabu lamb slices, chicken slices, fish fillets, lamb liver slices, lamb loin slices, and fish rolls at the bottom of the pot, a variety of pots, the mouth is not greasy.
The Xiandeyue Restaurant, which was once the head of the "Jingu Eighty Restaurants", was also reopened in Nanshi Food Street after more than 40 years of discontinuation, and invited Gao Gongxiang, a 13-year-old apprentice who was apprenticed in The First Moon, to be the chef, and the calligrapher Qi Gongshu inscribed a plaque.
At the same time as the restoration of the long-established restaurant in Jinmen, Nanshi Food Street invited the famous restaurant in the country to settle in. Founded in the Ming Dynasty, Suzhou Deyue Lou is settled in the form of joint venture, the internal decoration is modeled on the Suzhou style, the kitchen's stove, pier, cold meat, pastry and other types of work, are transferred from Suzhou Deyue Lou to Tianjin's master, the signature dish white juice guiyu, squirrel cinnamon fish, Deyue child chicken, shrimp and crab two fresh, phoenix tail mixed dragon, fragrant fried double flavor, Mandarin duck ball soup, one does not fall to Tianjin.
Xianheng Hotel, according to the layout of Lu Xun's novel "Kong Yiji": when the street a curved ruler-shaped counter, there are a variety of Shaoxing old wine, the counter is prepared with hot water, can be warm wine at any time. The waiter wears a gray robe and a black felt hat, making people feel like they are in Shaoxing at the end of the Qing Dynasty. On the first day of opening, as soon as the Xianheng Hotel opened its doors at 9 o'clock, the curved ruler counter was surrounded by water, and 800 bottles of Shaoxing yellow wine were sold in less than two hours.
Nanshi Food Street has opened a number of innovative restaurants. For example, the Hong Kong restaurant that specializes in Cantonese cuisine, the real Japanese restaurant kobe restaurant from Kobe, and the Chinese fast food restaurant Huafang Food Store, sell rice and pork stir-fried garlic moss, diced meat stir-fried spicy seeds, wooden tomatoes, braised three silk, each six cents to one dollar. Of course, the most famous and most deeply rooted in the hearts of the people is the Sanmao Restaurant located on the second floor of the third district, the painter Zhang Leping inscribed a plaque, the restaurant has a large fairy tale "Seven Stars" mural, and the big doll "Sanmao Manager" greets the children at the entrance of the restaurant.
On the first floor of the second district of Nanshi Food Street, the Red House Tea House imitates "Dream of the Red Chamber", with carved screens, moon doors, tables and chairs inlaid with hardwood screws, and waiters in classical costumes, creating a quaint atmosphere. At that time, Tianjin people mainly drank flower tea, and the Red Chamber Tea House provided jasmine, white orchid, pearl orchid, rose and other flower teas, which were brewed into white porcelain lid bowls to set off the inherent soup color of flower tea.
Tianjin people's most valued snacks, such as ear and eye fried cake, dog bu li buns, Gui Fa Xiang twist flowers, Da Fu Lai pot ba dish, Cao Ji donkey meat, Du Weiqi fire, Bai Ji dumplings, round cage steamed dumplings, Lu Ji hot noodle fried cake, stone gate Kan su bun, Ming Shun Zhai baked cake, Zhilan Zhai cake dried, noodle tea, bean fragrant Zhai roll circle, three fresh pot stickers, Tianjin noodle noodles, lamb steamed buns, Zhiwei Zhai fried belly, Jumei Zhai pickles, "Baolan" powder skin rolls, etc., can be found in Nanshi Food Street.
There are also some special snack bars, the old and young snack bar invited two chefs from Yangzhou, specializing in Huangqiao baked cake and scallion oil fire, as well as dragon's whisker noodles and pan fragrant cakes, hemp dumplings, cold fruits, rice root, almond tea, small bean porridge and other northern and southern flavor snacks. The village girl restaurant specializes in Tianjin specialty stickers and boiled small fish. The Xinyi Milk Restaurant under Tianjin Dairy sells a variety of flavors of yogurt. Multi-flavor snack bar operates Cantonese flavor wonton, 5 mao 4 points a bowl, proportionally with raw eggs and noodles pressed wonton skin, selected pork, sugar, small ground sesame oil made of "hard" filling, wide taste pure, fat but not greasy, soft skin filling, a day can sell more than 1,000 bowls. Cheeselin also opened a branch on Food Street, dealing in hundreds of Western dishes, including the famous dish cream grilled fish gui, mushroom tenderloin, butter fried chicken rolls.
Ten days after the opening of New Year's Day in 1985, nanshi food street reached 400,000 customers and sold 1.65 million yuan. At least in the 80s and 90s, if you want to eat something in Tianjin, it's no problem to go to the food street. Until the catering industry blooms everywhere today, there is no longer a need to go to the food street for eating, but the Nanshi food street is still the most important catering landmark in Tianjin. It is even possible to add one more sentence, there is no one. (Text: He Yuxin)
Nanshi Food Street Sanmao Restaurant