429 True Four-Eyed Well
Glancing at the position where Zhou Dong was standing, Teacher Yu and Guo Yigang looked at each other, with a look of surprise in their eyes.
What else does this Brother Zhou not know?
This is really strange, this well was famous back then, but since the well dried up, it has been filled for decades, not to mention outsiders, many people in Kyoto may not know, even if they know, they may not be able to find the old site, which is like Zhou Dong, one foot on the position of the wellhead of the year?
"Okay, Brother Zhou, have you been here?"
When Teacher Yu saw Zhou Dong shaking his head, he was even more curious: "Then Brother Zhou, do you know what the name of this well was back then?"
"Oh oh, it's terrible, why are you so verbose. Shang Qingxiong clutched his gurgling stomach and looked at Zhou Dong and them with a sad face, unable to understand why they were talking about the well again.
"Haha, Brother Yu, you are really a foodie, not only know how to eat, know how to eat, but also understand and eat stories, there are not many eaters like you now. ”
A gourmand is a gourmet, and a eater is a eater.
Gourmets are because of their professionalism, and many of them are simply transformed by celebrity chefs after sealing spoons, among which the proportion of 'poisonous tongues' is huge, and even can account for eighty or ninety percent.
Eaters are different, first of all, they are born in an 'innocent family', they are definitely not people in the industry, they are diners who are transformed from red seedlings, and they usually rarely find fault with the chef, they are really enjoying the food, especially the stories hidden behind the food.
The latter is obviously more popular with chefs, and many gourmets in Kyoto are more likely to be called 'eaters'.
Zhou Dong also listened to Huailiangren and them talk recently, and originally guessed that with the character of the teacher, it must be a 'big eater', and when he asked about this well today, he knew that he really didn't guess wrong.
"This is where the real four-eyed well was located back then, Brother Yu, am I right?"
Zhou Dong looked at Teacher Yu with a smile.
"Yo, Brother Zhou?"
Teacher Yu laughed and looked at Guo Yigang: "Old Guo, have you seen it? Brother Zhou is much stronger than you, when you first arrived in Kyoto from Jinmen, you didn't know the location of this real four-eyed well, right?"
"What you say, can that compare?"
Guo Yigang said with a smile: "Speaking of the sky, I am also a cross talker, and Brother Zhou is an industry insider and a contemporary celebrity chef?"
"Lao Zhou, Teacher Guo, Teacher Yu, do you want to dig a well on the spot or what? Didn't you say that there was something delicious, why did you say what kind of well?"
Shang Qingxiong touched his stomach with a bitter face, wanting to cry without tears,
I knew that these people were so good at grinding, I should have eaten some early, but now it's good, the three guys who have eaten and soaked in the bath are discussing what 'real and false eye wells' are, this is going to be my life!
"You guy, who made you refuse to eat enough, so you have to keep your stomach and wait for the teacher to eat? ”
Zhou Dong looked at Shang Qingxiong with a smile: "Teacher Yu, let's go faster, although the real four-eyed well is gone, but you can bring me here, it means that you have found the descendants of the true inheritance of this delicacy, not to mention that a hungry guy is in a hurry, even I am a little anxious." ”
"Brother Zhou, do you know all about it?"
Teacher Yu was stunned, this is too powerful, but how did he know that Zhou Dong relied on smelling, and he couldn't stand that people were 'hanging masters', and he could know the bottom by smelling the smell.
"Hehe, in the old days, the old Kyoto people ate two categories, the palace drank naturally the water of Yuquan Mountain, the princes and ministers had their own sweet wells, and ordinary people had to buy water to drink, so a special 'water selling' industry was derived. ”
Zhou Dong said with a smile: "The water seller points to the water to eat, and to put it bluntly, the well is their life!
The so-called four-eye well, one refers to the regulation of this ordinary well, after all, not all wells are in front of Wang Suntang, can be hexagonal wells, octagonal glazed wells;
The second is that the water of this well is clear, most of them are shallow water, people lying on the well platform, you can see your own shadow, there are two eyes in the reflection, plus your own two eyes, this is four eyes.
Therefore, in the old days, Kyoto was said to have 800 wells, of which 80% were four-eyed sweet wells, but the four-eyed wells in this location were the best among them, and the water quality was said to be very close to the Yuquan landscape, so it was called 'the real four-eyed well'!"
Shang Qingxiong was stunned when he heard this: "Old Zhou, isn't the well gone?" Even if there is still one, we can't just drink the well water, right?"
"Good water produces good food, the water quality of this four-eye well is good, and the powder room built next to it is naturally famous, and the most famous food is hemp tofu. ”
Speaking of this, Zhou Dongchong gave a thumbs up to Teacher Yu: "I actually heard Yan Yi say the name of 'True Four-eyed Well Ma Tofu', just now Teacher Yu said that someone is preparing food for us, and sheep's tail oil is also used, so it must be this delicacy." ”
"Hemp tofu?"
Shang Qingxiong is a mallet again, but he also grew up in Kyoto, naturally he has heard the name of hemp tofu, but he has not eaten much, this thing and bean juice are the same mother and twins, and the region is very strong, and the ancestral home of the old man Shang is not in Kyoto, and it seems that this bite is not good.
"Brother Zhou, it's really amazing!"
Teacher Yu praised again and again: "When the real four-eyed well powder room master Zhou Ruming made the hemp tofu famous in Kyoto, whether it is the ordinary people or the princes and nobles, the first thing that comes to mind to eat hemp tofu is the real four-eyed well of the hemp tofu, after Master Zhou died, this craft was passed on to the top door apprentice, the apprentice has been passed down from generation to generation, and today it is the third generation of the heir."
However, people don't make money by opening restaurants now, and they rarely show this craft anymore, and only make it when they are in a good mood to eat or entertain friends. ”
Guo Yigang also said: "Brother Zhou, you are a blessed person, this master also likes the cross talk of the teacher, otherwise even if you have a great reputation in diligence, people may not be willing to sell face, after all, people are not diligent people now." ”
Zhou Dong laughed when he heard this, what he said, doesn't this master's liking Teacher Yu's cross talk mean that he likes his cross talk? Teacher Guo praised himself, and he was really ruthless.
Everyone talked and chatted, turned a few corners, and walked into a narrower alley, which is still a dead end, at the end are two black lacquered wooden doors, which look a little mottled and peeled off, there is a clear water ditch in front of the door, which is paved with a one-foot-wide bluestone slab, and there is a willow branch sprinkled out on the door, and some green shoots have begun to be pulled out.
Zhou Dong nodded slightly, this small courtyard is not even the smallest courtyard, naturally it is not a wealthy family, but it is better in quiet and natural.
Sure enough, it's a master craftsman who is hidden in the world.