When we left the Nanhai Ice Room after eating ice, it was almost six o'clock, and Xiao Yayun and I did not continue to stay in the old city, but left the old city directly to the booked hotel.

After checking in, Xiao Yayun, this Nizi, was still restless and wanted to go out to eat food stalls, but I directly refused and took two bowls of takeaway white porridge to pass away, and then Nizi angrily took the white porridge and turned around and entered the room.

"Bang!"

I looked at the door that was slammed shut with empty hands and was speechless for a while, knocked on the door and said, "There is still one of mine in the bag, what will you eat if you take both of them!" ”

"Let's do it yourself, huh!"

Xiao Yayun's angry voice came from the room.

I looked at the big tiger and the second tiger standing on my shoulder, and I saw the word sympathy in the eyes of these two guys.

I shrugged helplessly, "Well, let's go back to the house and order something else." ”

"You dare!"

The door was suddenly opened, Xiao Yayun carried a bag and stuffed it directly into my arms, and glared at me fiercely, "I can only drink porridge, you don't want to eat anything else, I'll look at your Alipay when I get up tomorrow, if I find out that you ordered other takeaways, you will die!" ”

"Then what if the big tiger and the second tiger want to eat?"

"They?" Xiao Yayun glanced at the big tiger and the second tiger lightly, "Don't eat it after eating so much dinner, and if you eat again, you won't be able to fly if you are fat?" ”

The big tiger and the second tiger wailed at the same time, flapping their wings desperately to prove that they could fly no matter how fat they were.

However, this obviously didn't play any role, Xiao Yayun directly ignored the two poor children's desire to prove their feelings, and closed the door directly.

The next morning, I went to wake up Xiao Yayun, and the first action she made when she saw me was to spread her hand at me and squint at me, "Bring me the phone." ”

I handed my phone over in confusion, "What are you going to do?" ”

Xiao Yayun read Alipay's WeChat and text messages one by one before returning the phone to me, and hummed: "Count you obedient, what do you have for breakfast?" I am hungry. ”

I just remembered the stalk of yesterday's dinner, and I couldn't help but say angrily: "You just want to see if I order takeout." What else can you eat for breakfast, drink porridge. ”

Xiao Yayun frowned and complained: "Drink porridge again, the porridge we drank last night, can't we change it to something else, this is Guangdong, why don't we go and eat Cantonese morning tea?" ”

I sweated profusely, "Where does this Chaoshan come from?" ”

Xiao Yayun didn't give up, "Isn't Cantonese morning tea from Guangdong, why isn't it?" ”

I smiled bitterly and didn't know how to explain this problem, and after thinking about it for a long time, I gave an answer, "Guangdong morning tea is eaten by people in Guangzhou, this is Shantou, and the popular one is Chaoshan cuisine." People here don't eat breakfast and don't eat morning tea, they eat something else with their own characteristics. ”

Xiao Yayun was stunned, "Another thing with its own characteristics?" What's that? ”

"Salty, but this thing is only delicious with porridge. Don't ask so much now, you'll know when you arrive, let's go. ”

After a lot of coaxing, Xiao Yayun came out of the hotel and took her to a porridge stall not far from the hotel, and after sitting down the porridge and salty miscellaneous came up, Xiao Yayun was disappointed: "What, isn't it just pickles?" ”

I laughed and said, "Don't be so disgusted, it's not just pickles." ”

Salty miscellaneous, in Teochew dialect is the meaning of side dishes. White porridge with salty miscellaneous is also the most common and common breakfast for Chaoshan people.

There are many kinds of salty miscellaneous in Chaoshan, in addition to pickles and sauerkraut, the most distinctive salted miscellaneous are black olives, olive vegetables and various developed seafood.

The method of black olives is very simple, put raw black olives into hot water, soak for dozens of minutes, wait until its meat becomes soft, isolate the water, and soak it in thick salt water, and it can be used as pickles after three days. The porridge stall also sells pickles and black olives that can be sent to porridge after making zuò.

The finished olives have a bit of a creamy taste, and the salty taste has a unique aroma of olives, which is a good choice for dry chewing or porridge.

As for the olive cabbage, it is often placed in supermarkets with pickles or so-called side dishes, which are called olive vegetables but are served mustard greens. This food is made by decocting the mellow flavor of olives and the plump leaves of mustard greens.

If you translate the sentence that the taste of olive glycol and the plump leaves of mustard greens are fried, it is like this - first select the green and rich fresh olives, remove their bitterness, stir-fry them repeatedly, take the flavor of fragrant and fragrant, retain their precious olive oil ingredients, add selected mustard leaves, and control the different heats, slowly stir together, and the olive juice and sesame oil gradually penetrate into it, making it gradually black and shiny. After more than 10 hours of simmering, accompanied by spices, it is made into a smooth and refreshing olive vegetable.

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In addition to these two salty miscellaneous, I also ordered a pickled shell. Wash and marinate the scalded shells in boiling water, add a large amount of minced garlic, fresh red peppers, chopped green onions, soy sauce, fish sauce, and then drizzle with hot oil.

After eating two black olives and two chopsticks of olive vegetables, Xiao Yayun stopped complaining, and quietly picked up the bowl and drank the porridge.

I couldn't help but smile when I saw this scene, this Nizi was really conquered by these Chaoshan salty tastes.

The reason why I pulled Xiao Yayun to eat these things is entirely because of a friend I met in Chaozhou when I was in college, and when we chatted and talked about hometown food by chance, this guy didn't introduce zongqiu, didn't introduce oysters, didn't say rice rolls, only talked about this Chaoshan breakfast.

I still remember the scene he described—the streets were empty in the early hours of the morning, with only a few sparse people, and the sky was dark. If it is a winter night, walking on the road, walking home alone with a bag, hungry and cold, and feeling lost. At this time, you will suddenly see a yellow light on the side of the road, and the food stalls are filled with hundreds of side dishes, from the simplest salted sauerkraut to fish rice...... On the coal stove next to it was a pot of white porridge with white smoke and warm oil, and the sparks of the briquettes flickered brightly and dimly. The man stands in the middle of the stall smoking, the woman is tidying up the dishes and chopsticks at the table, and perhaps a child is sleeping peacefully in the bassinet next to her.

Whether you are working or studying, the most nostalgic thing is not the mountain delicacies or seafood in your hometown, is shark fin bird's nest delicious? What does shark fin bird's nest taste like? The original tasteless things, just with some embellishments, have become the most precious and unforgettable in the eyes of everyone?

How can these things compare to the warm time of a tea and a meal? How can it be worth the white porridge cooked by my hometown grandma, as well as a plate of side dishes and two salted fish served together?

After eating breakfast and walking out of the porridge stall, I smiled and asked Xiao Yayun how the breakfast was.

Xiao Yayun pursed her lips, "That's it, it's not as delicious as my grandmother's cooking." ”

I smiled and looked at Xiao Yayun without saying anything, but it can remind you of the taste of home, which is enough to beat the Cantonese morning tea you want to eat in the morning.