Chapter 60 The Great Song Dynasty Catering Industry
The Great Song Dynasty not only had toothbrushes and toothpaste, but also chewing gum, which was also divided into high-end and low-grade. The formula of high-grade chewing gum and high-grade toothpaste is similar, but I don't know what to put in it, and it can coagulate. Merchants will use abrasives to press it into a rod-shaped brink, finger-length gadget, called tooth incense chips, specially put into a kind of exquisite small cloth bag. The more particular Song people would hang several small bags on their belts, one of which was filled with tooth chips. After eating, he took out a tooth incense chip from the small bag, rubbed it back and forth on the teeth, and then used water to leave a fragrant mouth. The tooth chip is not disposable, it can be used repeatedly, and it is very convenient to scrub it clean and put it back in a small bag after use. As for the resisting Da Song chewing gum, it is a willow branch, after eating, pull a willow branch, peel off the leaves and skin, stuff it in your mouth and chew it, chew it and spit it out, isn't it the same as chewing gum.
Hong Tao only bought a toothbrush and toothpaste, and the chewing gum was forgotten, he couldn't stand the strong musky smell. Not only did he buy it, but he also bought it for Carl, Bozhu and several children, asking them to brush their teeth every morning and evening as long as they want to learn literacy and arithmetic with themselves, otherwise they will not be taught! This time Bo Fu didn't feel distressed, he can let the children read and write, he thinks it's normal to use some toothpaste and toothbrush, and people who know how to read should live more carefully than people who don't know how to read, which is decent!
"What about them? What about my fiancée? Hong Tao also wanted to ask himself what he said in Chinese, but unfortunately Carl's Chinese was still in a state of incomprehension and could not speak, so he could only ask Bozhu. But today's Tanka family anchorage is extraordinarily quiet, as if no one is there, and even children can't hear them crying.
"......" Carl had a toothbrush in his mouth and it was inconvenient to speak, so he just made a gesture of clasping his hands and pointed in the direction of Zhenzhou Port.
"Oh, worship God. You can be quick, the two of us will also go to the city and make you two clothes, and I, a noble lord, will have to dress up, right? "Hong Tao is a little hungry, he didn't eat much last night just drinking, and now the Tan family has gone to worship God, and he is just idle, so he can go to the city to have a good stroll, and see with his own eyes what the Great Song Dynasty is like.
Zhenzhou Port is very small, there is only one main street, that is, the dirt road at the entrance of Zhenhai Building, which is quite wide and flat, plus the humid air in the south, there is basically no dust. Hong Tao is already a member of Zhenhailou, he can eat and drink here for nothing, he only needs to write a name on the bill, and it is worth the signing of the bill in the later generations, and the Great Song Dynasty will have it. He and Carl entered Zhenhai Tower, and the guy immediately rushed up, and smiled and invited the two of them upstairs to a private seat, but Hong Tao didn't go up, he wanted to have breakfast on the first floor, there are many people here, so he can see more things.
The breakfast in the Song Dynasty was similar to that in Spain and Greece in later generations, and it was very rich. In fact, the entire eating habits of the Song Dynasty were similar to those of Spain and Greece, and the eating habits of these southern European countries were passed down from the Song Dynasty. The Song people only had two meals a day, which were called morning food and morning food. The morning meal is basically 9 o'clock in the morning, and the morning meal time is 4 or 5 o'clock in the afternoon.
However, the Song people are very greedy, and people living in more affluent areas are very greedy, and they either ponder and play or ponder and eat all day long. So on the surface, it is said that they only eat two meals a day, and only the peasants outside the city actually eat two meals, and the people in the city eat at least three meals a day, and if they are officials or those literati, it is normal to eat five or six meals a day. And the Song people don't pay attention to health, weight loss or anything, they can eat whatever they want, beer belly abounds on the street, Luo Youde is less than 40 years old, his figure is not fat, but he has a small belly.
With this kind of eating habits, different styles of catering industries have been born. A big restaurant like Zhenhailou opens very early in the morning and opens at 6 o'clock, and it is estimated that the habit of southerners who like to drink morning tea was developed from the Song Dynasty. This meal is not a main meal, it is a snack! At about 9 o'clock, the main meal came up, and it was sold until the sun was over, and then the watchman at the door was removed, and the business was closed, and at 4 or 5 o'clock in the afternoon, it was opened again and continued to sell dinner. Wangzi is a curtain, hanging out is business, and taking it down is closed.
What if you're hungry at noon? There is also a way, you can't go hungry. However, you can't go to a big restaurant like Zhenhailou to have lunch, the Song Dynasty did not have the concept of lunch, only some street vendors will sell some snacks at noon, go to them when you are hungry.
In fact, there are restaurants that opened earlier than Zhenhailou, they are open before dawn, but this kind of very special restaurant is not in Zhenzhou City, and it is only available in the capital city of Lin'an, and they are specially prepared for the ministers of the previous dynasty. The emperor of the Song Dynasty was very tolerant of his ministers and rarely cut off his head, but the soft knife cut the flesh quite ruthlessly, and the time of the early dynasty was in the middle of the night. When they got up at 3 or 4 o'clock in the morning, the ministers could not go to work on an empty stomach, so there would be small shops that opened in the middle of the night to provide them with food. This kind of small restaurant usually closes at noon, and only buys morning tea and breakfast, not dinner.
There are also restaurants that only operate dinner and supper, the Song people like nightlife, in the words of later generations, the entertainment industry is developed, after dinner is the time for merchants, literati, and officials to socialize, no matter where to play, anyway, do not toss until midnight will not stop. In the later generations, Gui Street, a famous food street in Beijing, was built on fire by nightclubs, and if it was placed in the Song Dynasty, Gui Street was a small restaurant that only sold dinner and supper.
Sauerkraut stuffed roasted wheat + seafood noodles, this is the meal that Hong Tao ordered after listening to the shopkeeper singing for ten minutes. In the restaurants of the Song Dynasty, there was no such thing as a menu, but some dish names were written on wooden boards on the counter, called menu cards. However, those menu cards are the big dishes that the store is good at, and most people don't go out of their way to the front of the counter to look up their necks, they all listen to the shopkeeper sing the name of the dish.
How to sing it, in addition to the accent, it is really the same as reporting the name of the dish in the cross talk, and it is very rhyming to sing it to the guests with a special emphasis, not only singing the name of the dish, but also singing the main ingredients and practices. The lyrics sung by each junior are different, and their singing lyrics and singing skills are not uniformly trained, but they all rely on their own pondering. It seems that it is not easy to be a shopkeeper in the Song Dynasty, without some phonological knowledge, a good voice and a strong memory, even brushing dishes is not enough
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