Chapter 26 Quanzhou Cuisine
After eating with the two leaders, it was already eight o'clock in the evening, farewell to them, I came to the hotel alone, I only needed to buy a train ticket at nine o'clock to go back, but I really couldn't hold back the curiosity of Quanzhou food, since I came just and happened to meet the weekend, then give up looking forward to a week of sleep, pay out of pocket to solve the accommodation problem, stay in this strange city for one more day.
Early the next morning, I was woken up by Xiaoji! This smart speaker has often sneaked into my consciousness to carry out surprise attacks since it was silenced, and after being dragged up by it, I went to Quanzhou Bus Station to buy an express bus ticket to Anhai Town, but I didn't expect it to be so close that I arrived at the destination in less than an hour.
Under the recommendation of Xiaoji's wall cracking, I came to Sanli Street. It is said that this street embodies the history of Anhai for thousands of years, and is the most cultural ancient street in Anhai. But in recent years, it has also been transformed into a bit commercial.
Whether it is a house with southern Fujian characteristics, the so-called century-old shops, time-honored brands and flavor snacks of the ancient town, it is difficult to escape a common word.
The ancient town of Anhai was once extremely prosperous in the Ming Dynasty because of the thousand-year-old maritime business. Sanli Long Street is also prosperous because of the sea. At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Sanli Street began to take shape. In the Qing Dynasty, Anhai was razed to the ground and Sanli Street disappeared with the "Bingshen burned" and "Xinchou relocated", and the boundary was rebuilt in 1684. In 1919, Chen Qingji, a famous overseas Chinese businessman in Japan, presided over the expansion. This old street with a bumpy fate is not only a product of prosperous commerce, but also carries the ancient history and culture of Anhai, and witnesses the prosperity and changes of the ancient town of Anhai for hundreds of years.
Its fate reminds me of Shapowei, which has now been transformed beyond recognition, and the insignificance of the individual can never stop the pace of history, history is developing, the economy is maximized, and culture is actually a victim in the process of profit-seeking, although most of the time it is under the guise of culture.
Sanli Street, now known as Zhongshan Road, is fortunate to have most of the rain tripods, brick pillars, and large wooden doors for the organ, from Sanhe soil to square granite pavement, all the way to today's cement pavement, in historical pictures. It was once prosperous and lively, with the sounds of selling, bargaining, trumpets, and children's laughter, one after another, and often lingering in my ears. What remains the same is that people are crowded, cars are crowded, people and cars are crowded, bustling and impassable. Compared with Xiamen, this has more market atmosphere, because Xiamen does not let horns be honked very much.
The narrow streets are endless at a glance. According to Xiaoji's algorithm, Sanli Street is a famous snack street. Shizhen orange red cake, Shengjin osmanthus, no meal bean ming, Xiede Zhen thick bottom sugar, red slice cake, meal beans, inch golden dates, bamboo shoot jelly, salty cakes, as well as recreational staff, Liang Ji restaurant......
The abundance of food items made me, a person with severe difficulty in choosing, unsure of what to do, or whether to be reliable and took me to the door of a small shop on the corner.
It's a magical little shop.
There are only a dozen square meters and only one product is sold - bamboo shoot jelly.
I came a little early, it doesn't open until 12 noon every day, and I waited for more than ten minutes, but during this waiting time, the long queue in front of the small shop has already begun. It seems that a lot of gourmets come here, because I watched a bunch of iron powder eat seven or eight portions at a time and then pack them away. This is what Xiaoji said, which is slightly worse than Uncle Zhen's, but it is okay, enough for me to taste the fresh bamboo shoot jelly.
It takes more than 10 hours to make jelly with fresh starfish worms with a lot of collagen, but it can't take more than 10 minutes to eat it, because it can easily melt without glue.
After eating Xiamen bamboo shoot jelly for more than 20 years, I suddenly found that Anhai's is really a complete victory! Pour some soy sauce, aged vinegar, and add some minced garlic, which is sweet and delicious, and not fishy. And Xiamen's bamboo shoot jelly, I can't eat it without coriander, pickled radish, and mustard.
Seeing that I ate three bamboo shoot jelly in one go, Xiaoji seemed to be a little impatient.
"Hey, sister, you can't just eat!"
Didn't you lead me to this land of enthusiasm to feast?
"It's okay to eat, can't you think about it? It's a little different from what you ate yesterday, can you do it if you make it?"
Didn't I say it yesterday, the raw materials and water are so particular, how can I get it?
"Uncle Zhen's family has it! You can try it!"
I say it again! Don't mention Uncle Zhen to me!!
"Okay, you better go back, maybe your uncle has asked him for good material again......"
No, my body is mine, and I can eat as much as I like!
After the automatic blocking trick, I continued to walk around this small street for more than two hours, tasted everything I had never seen, and then bought a return bus ticket at four o'clock, perfect!
However, the sky is not beautiful, and there is a traffic jam in a place about ten minutes away from the city of Quanzhou.
I thought it would only be blocked for a while and it would end soon, but I didn't expect a serious rear-end accident in front. Cars are blocked horizontally and vertically, crawling like turtles, and some irrational car owners are thinking of cutting in line at any time, but it aggravates the congestion, and I don't know when it will be dredged.
It was getting dark, and the air in the carriage became more and more turbid with the color of dusk, and what made people feel even more depressed was that there were people smoking!
This is also too lacking in virtue more than a little, he is a little old man, it seems that it is because the car shop has been too long, and he can't hold it back. Finally, in the midst of everyone's condemnation, he extinguished the cigarette butt.
It was really uneven wave after wave, a two-year-old child, unable to hold his urine, and his urine and urine were pulled on the car.
The air in the car is devastating.
At this time, although I covered my nose, I could still smell a strong "smell of smoke and feces and urine", like sitting on pins and needles, and my intestines were really repentant. If you had listened to the trick earlier, you would have returned earlier, and you would not have encountered this evil traffic jam.
In addition, I had been eating and eating all afternoon, and the strange food in my stomach had not yet been fully digested, and I had a feeling that my stomach acid was cracking.
Burst!
Self-control is like me, I didn't hold back for a while, the food that turned over the river and the sea squirted out of my mouth, and the vomiting was like a tornado, too late to dodge and too late to escape.
A head in the front row burst to the ground: "Who the vomits on my head!" Immediately, there was another smell in the carriage, and I soon automatically joined the ranks of being complained and abused by people.