Although the name of this thing is the same, there will be huge differences and gaps in different places in the north and south

In the south of the Qinling Mountains and north of Guangdong, siu mai mostly refers to oil glutinous rice siu mai. A kind of food is steamed in a pot with a glutinous rice filling mixed with lard, diced shiitake mushrooms, and a little diced pork in a thin hot dough skin. What you eat is the oil and fragrance of glutinous rice.

The earliest birthplace of this kind of oil glutinous rice siu mai is the three towns of Hankou. Because this is the thoroughfare of nine provinces, it is the busiest land and water wharf in the world. Because of the large number of people engaged in heavy physical work, and the surrounding area is also the largest glutinous rice producing area in China, glutinous rice accounts for a large proportion of the breakfast food in the three towns of Hankou.

For example, the most famous glutinous rice chicken in the breakfast of the three towns of Hankou has nothing to do with the glutinous rice chicken in Guangdong. Glutinous rice chicken in Guangdong, that is glutinous rice + chicken. There are no chickens in glutinous rice chicken in the Hankou area, only fried glutinous rice.

If it is the first time for Cantonese people to come to the three towns of Hankou and see a sign of glutinous rice chicken, then they must shout: this is a fraud!

In the same way, the food siu mai or also known as dry steaming in the Guangdong region is a different form. Take duck eggs and dough to get a yellow dough, after cutting the pork into fine pieces. The key here is to cut the pork into finely chopped pieces, not chop them, so that the cut pork pieces are mixed with the shrimp meat with the back of a knife and wrapped in the duck egg and dough dough.

Four pork and shrimp roasted wheat topped with a small amount of crab roe in a small cage, put on a pot and steam over high heat.

The steamed roasted wheat is fresh and tender, the meat aroma and the shrimp are intertwined, and you can order a pot of Pu'er, and eat this dry steamed siu mai with tea, not to mention the taste!

If the dry steaming of the Guangdong region is a delicate brilliance in the inset of food, then the northern siu mai, which originated in north-central China, has taken a completely different path.

Sheep have been honored in Chinese food since ancient times.

Since ancient times, the people of the south have valued business, and the people of the north have valued politics. Even today, in coastal areas such as Guangdong and Fujian, everyone takes pride in doing business. In the north, they are proud of their political careers. In many places in the north, even if they earn tens of millions a year from doing business, many people feel that a businessman who earns one million is not as good as a civil servant who earns 70,000 yuan a year by working in a government unit. Only those who have no ability can do business, and those who have the ability have taken the civil service examination to become officials.

This kind of thinking has lasted for hundreds of years, since ancient times, dignitaries and dignitaries have eaten mutton, and the north has produced more mutton since ancient times, so when it comes to roasted wheat in the north, most of them refer to mutton roasted wheat.

The filling of mutton roast wheat is not as particular as that of dry steamed roasted wheat, pork can only be cut but not chopped, shrimp can only be patted but not chopped, and according to the proportion of how much lean pork, how much pork fat, how much shrimp, how much pickled.

This aspect of the northern diet is indeed a little less sophisticated than in the south. But northern mutton roasted wheat also has its own particularity. Since ancient times, sheep eating has been respected, and mutton has been eaten by dignitaries. In order to highlight the delicacy and nobility of the mutton siu mai, the pastry chefs will pay special attention to the skin of the siu mai.

Unlike the general southern roasted wheat wrapped, a small tug or an opening is left, and the northern mutton roasted wheat should be like a flower blooming after it is wrapped, and what you want is a cluster of flowers, rich and long.

When you bite into it, the dough should be soft but not lose its strength, and the mutton should be full of soup and fragrant. The northern diet is an enjoyable and bold.

Lao Zhang ordered three dishes in one place, mutton roasted wheat, Qianlong cabbage, and fried enema.

The fried enema has nothing to do with the intestines, it's actually just a starch lump. In the early years, fried enemas were fried with intestinal oil, and all of them had a smell of pig intestines, but now because of health considerations, pork intestine oil has long been used. Fry what you order in lard, and fry what you don't pay attention to.

The fried enema in one place is very unparticular, and a plate of twenty-eight is really not very good, the key is that the price is not cheap. This thing has no taste in the first place, it is a purely tasteful dish. If you don't master the heat a little bit, then there's really nothing to eat.

Qianlong cabbage is not worth mentioning, the sesame paste is too sweet and a little thin. Qianlong cabbage is a dish that has nothing to look like, after all, sesame paste with cabbage is like something to go to. After this sesame sauce is hopeful, hey, it's more like it.

As for the signature mutton roasted wheat, the price is not cheap, fifty-eight servings. Well, the skin is steamed and old, and the topmost skin tastes tough, like leather pants.

After eating this meal, the money was not spent, and Zhang Tong felt that it was not as delicious as the northern-style restaurant opened in Huaihai. The most important thing is that the price is expensive! I feel that things are not worth the price, and I have a salary of 1,002 a month, although I can be reimbursed for business trips. But it's also distressing to spend this money.

Adhering to the principle of not wasting, Zhang Tong has eaten everything, but the feeling is very ordinary. At this price and this taste, if it weren't for the fact that there is a century-old store brand hanging outside, but if you change to a new store to make dishes with such a taste and sell it so expensive, it will fall in less than three months.

This meal is not very good, although it is considered a meal, but I always feel that there is something missing.

Come on, let's find out what to eat in the old capital. But Lao Zhang looked around and found that all the old shops in the old capital that could be called did not seem to taste particularly good.

In the end, I went around and around, and I didn't know how to get to the edge of the Lama Temple, not to mention that Zhang Tong found the best old capital food on the edge of the Lama Temple.

"Lama Temple Fried Chicken ~ Lama Temple Fried Chicken ~ The Fourth Master Ate the Fried Chicken That Said ~ Traditional American Fried Chicken in the Old Capital, Authentic Old Capital Flavor ~ Lama Temple Fried Chicken ~"

Next to the Lama Palace, the mansion where the former Qing Emperor Yongzheng lived when he was Baylor, Zhang Tong finally discovered this cheap and delicious authentic old capital American fried chicken.

This year, I can buy three large chicken legs for fifteen yuan, and I am still in the capital. Lao Zhang is very suspicious that this boss's fried chicken still makes money?

Eating fried chicken and waiting for the bus, the mobile phone rang, opened it and saw that Fu Changqing had replied to the message.

"Hey, Leader Fu wants to invite you to dinner. It's not good to go empty-handed. Lao Zhang looked left and right, and wanted to bring a gift. What's this give?

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There is a Tonghui River in the old capital, which is a canal built in the Yuan Dynasty, which can be regarded as the economic lifeline of the old capital. Because the water and transportation all go from this river.

Nowadays, there are basically no boats running on the Tonghui River, but it is the tradition of the Chinese people to live by the water. So today's Tonghui River is still very lively.

Line 1 sits at the end of Sihui Station, the transportation hub of the Chaoyang area of the old capital. Transfer from Sihui Station to Batong Line and go two stations to Gaobeidian Station.

This Gaobeidian is not well-known in other places, but it is still relatively famous in the old capital, because it is a famous mahogany furniture street in the old capital. There are hundreds of furniture and carpentry shops on one street.

From heavy Qing style furniture to Xinming furniture, everything is available here, and if there is no satisfactory furniture here, it can be customized. It can be processed from panel furniture to traditional furniture with mortise and tenon structures.

During the day, the Gaobei shop is still quite lively, but at night, the Gaobei store is a little dim, and there are not many people walking around.

However, there are still a few small restaurants on this street.

In the small northeast restaurant at the end of Gaobeidian Street, next to a shop selling embroidery, Fu Changqing was looking at Zhang Tong with a smile.

Zhang Tong has a big burden in one hand: "You always invite guests to dinner, and you don't know what to bring." Some of the old capital's traditional American fried chicken and pancakes you can try, I bought a hundred bucks. It's not a bribe. ”

"Hahahaha!Put it down, put it down!" Fu Changqing beckoned Zhang Tong to sit down.

Zhang Tong looked at the small shop, this Northeast restaurant is not large, that is, eight tables. Now at eight o'clock in the evening, there are no guests, just this table and the table next to me.

But according to Zhang Tong's observation, the table next to him should be Fu Changqing's bodyguard, just disguised as a diner.

Fu Changqing looked at Zhang Tong, who was looking at the restaurant, and he asked with a smile: "Are you curious why I chose such a restaurant?"

"Hey, really. I thought you were going to the Capital Hotel. Zhang Tong was not polite.

"Then you're really thinking about being blind. How expensive it is to go to the Capital Hotel. I invite you to dinner and don't reimburse. Fu Changqing knocked on the table, and Zhang Tong brought the old leader a cup of tea.

"And I live nearby, two streets past, the state arranged a set of large quadrangle houses with three entrances for me. I love living here, it's clean. And this point, there are no people in the restaurant here in Gaobeidian, and it is quiet. Besides, it's safer here, I'm not too picky about what to eat, and the Northeast food here is quite to my liking. ”

Fu Changqing is quite approachable, and it can be seen from the dishes he just ordered, he ordered a pig-killing dish, a pot-wrapped meat, a fried green vegetable, just three dishes.

According to the amount of Northeast cuisine, Zhang Tong felt that Fu Changqing might order too much.

"Let's pad it first, let's have a meeting today, and I'm really hungry. Fu Changqing took out a fried chicken leg and a sesame baked cake from the bag brought by Zhang Tong.

As soon as he took it out and was about to eat, the diners at the table next to him seemed to be in a hurry, and just wanted to stand up, Fu Changqing glared back at a glance.

"I can't die if I eat fried chicken and baked cakes. I've talked about the traditional American fried chicken flavor of the old capital, and I can't taste it?"

The diners at the next table were helpless, so they could only stare at Zhang Tong who brought this thing with murderous eyes.

Zhang Tong pretended not to see it.

Katz~

"Well, it's brittle. The meat is also quite flavorful, and it is juicy, and this fried chicken thigh is delicious. Fu Changqing took a bite of fried chicken legs, but he was not stingy with praise.

"How much does this fried chicken leg cost?"

"Fifteen dollars for three. Zhang Tong replied truthfully.

"Fifteen dollars for three, that's really cheap. Fu Changqing smiled: "In the past, you could only eat such a big meat during the Chinese New Year." But fried chicken thighs are not possible, it is too oil-intensive. One person, two taels of oil, take a month. ”

"I joined the army early, and when I was fourteen years old, I caught up with the battle of crossing the river, and I could operate a boat and join the army. Fu Changqing was eating chicken legs and telling stories from the past.

"I still remember the first meal I had when I joined the army, a big pot of boiled and rotten noodles, the noodles were not formed, and they were rotten in the noodle soup after cooking for too long. But at that time, I still ate it with relish, after all, it was white noodles, and I couldn't eat a few meals a year. ”

"Then the domestic war was over, and the foreign war began. When I entered South Korea, I was a company commander, and the Korean War was fierce. The supplies were not enough, and we ate all fried noodles. Chow mein is not fried noodles, it is fried flour. It is to put the flour into the pot and fry it directly. When you're hungry, grab a handful and stuff it in your mouth. Take a bite and the water in a mouthful is gone. Many of the soldiers were constipated. ”

Speaking of this, Fu Changqing smiled: "It is difficult to replenish, but sometimes there are still surprises." Once, I ambushed a supply convoy on the opposite side with my fighters. Three truckloads of supplies were captured. ”

"There was a cart full of cans and bread. ”

Zhang Tong said playfully: "Is that meat?"

"That's right. Our cook's squad leader boiled all the canned luncheon meat, chopped it and threw it into the pot to cook with the cabbage. ”

"Huh, that's not cooking?!"

"Hahaha, yes, it's all mud. That can doesn't have any meat, and it's over when it's cooked. As a result, on the same day, the soldiers of the whole company ate a meal of seized bread with meat paste and cabbage soup for lunch. The one that eats is called a fragrant, and there is not even a bit of dregs left. ”

"Later, the war abroad was temporarily over, and our troops were transferred to the south. Once, supplies came from the regiment, but the cooks in the regiment were basically northerners, and they didn't know the bananas from the south. So a group of cooking squad leaders held a meeting to discuss how to eat this thing? ”

So they washed the bananas, cut them into slices without peeling them, and fried them with two wattle sticks and bean paste until fragrant. At that time, the soldiers of the whole regiment ate a meal of fried bananas with chili peppers at noon. Hahahaha!" Fu Changqing was about to come out with tears in his eyes.

Zhang Tong sighed: "It turns out that the army is the real source of dark cuisine." ”

"I can't help it, because of the lack of supplies. You say that if you put this matter on hold today, who wouldn't know a banana? Even if you don't know a banana, you can take one and taste it. But back then, there were a number of bananas, and whoever wanted to eat more would have to eat less. The soldiers of the cooking class did not dare to taste it, and if each cooking class ate a few more bites, then a regiment would have to lose a few squads of food. Fu Changqing said that he put down the fried chicken that he had eaten a third of and wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes with a tissue on the table.

"They are all good comrades, they don't complain about hardship or tiredness, and they can eat frozen hard bread with boiled cabbage in lunchtime. It wasn't until I led my troops to fight Indochina that our cooks really learned to cook. Because the country began to grow stronger day by day, and there were more supplies. ”

"A good cook is just like a good sharpshooter. Sharpshooters are fed with bullets, and good cooks are made from piles of materials. There are no materials for the cooking class to experiment and practice, and they can't cook any good dishes. ”

"It's like this fried chicken leg you bought, this boss doesn't know how many chicken drumsticks you tried to fry back then to find this recipe and make this taste. ”

Fu Changqing stared at Zhang Tong's eyes and said meaningfully: "Now life is better, in the past, you could only eat fried chicken legs for the New Year, no, you can't even eat the New Year, now you can buy them casually, and for the vast majority of people in our country, the price of fifteen yuan and three chicken legs is not a problem." You say that with such a good life, why are there still people looking for trouble?"

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