The autumn of Cha Ha Chong is unusually short, almost giving people the feeling of winter overnight, especially in the case of thousands of years of extreme cold, a shirt can be used as a coat the day before, and you have to turn out your autumn pants after a night's sleep. In the past, in the south, I always adhered to the style of not wearing cotton wool pants below zero. When I was in high school, there was a classmate in other classes who only wore a long T-shirt in winter, and every time I did morning exercises, Lao Gou and Wang Yan would constantly remind us to pay attention to this frost-resistant "younger brother". However, this is the third year that I have been in Chahachong, so my living habits have also changed a little, and after all, I still follow the local customs, let go of that stubbornness, and put on warm autumn pants. This is also "attributed" to Lao Zhao's vigilance from time to time: "When you are young, you must wear the lower half of your body warmly, otherwise you will have old cold legs when you are old!" ”

Hot food is the best comfort for the body in the cold winter, but eating hot pot and barbecue often is really expensive, and it is also easy to catch fire, especially when carrying out "physiological activities", it is very laborious, and I will "see red" if I am not careful. The cross-bridge rice noodles and spicy tang in Dale are the most popular foods among students in winter, not only full of dine-in, but also sent to various dormitories non-stop outside. In addition to the delicious taste, the price is also very affordable, and the ingredients can be randomly matched according to personal preferences.

The rice noodles in the cross-bridge rice noodles are as thick as chopsticks, and there are generally fish balls, oily wheat vegetables, a few slices of fat beef, and quail eggs as ingredients.

The collocation of Malatang has a higher degree of freedom, but it is basically some vegetables: oily wheat cabbage, lettuce, spinach, Chinese cabbage, cabbage, tofu puff, potato chips, kelp and various mushrooms, etc., and then match their favorite staple food, put it in clean water and blanch it out, put it on the condiment and pour a thick layer of sesame sauce and chili oil, and then decorate it with coriander. Malatang has also become the food with the highest "flop rate" in our dormitory except for instant noodles. Lao Zhao and Da Biao's squad leader generally choose normal, Lin Ye likes "double spicy", and every time he specially tells him to add vinegar and sugar, which also makes Lao Zhao complain about Lin Ye's heavy taste. Eric doesn't like spicy, I don't like to eat sesame sauce, Lao Zhao vividly said that the two of us ordered the two described as "no scolding, no spicy hot", indicating that our way of eating is an insult to Malatang, and even suggested that we simply put it for a while before eating, just to make up a "not spicy, not spicy, not hot".

I once thought that the rice noodles I ate in Cha Ha Chong were the most authentic Yunnan cross-bridge rice noodles, and Malatang was also the most authentic Sichuan Malatang, because the signs of their stalls would have the word authentic written on them, until I went to Yunnan ...... later.

However, if we eat too much spicy tang, it is easy to get angry, and the ulcers in our mouth are also warning us to eat less rice noodles, so that we can only eat the rice set in the canteen. However, it was the opportunity to go to the cafeteria that allowed us to discover a hidden corner.

The second floor of the canteen was originally a specific halal canteen, which should have been set up by the school to take special care of ethnic minorities, we have been there once or twice, there are few people, and the dishes are the usual "Zhenzong Lanzhou beef noodles", and the taste and price are similar. However, it may be because there are similar dishes in Da Le, so the business here is not particularly ideal. Moreover, the specially marked "Muslim restaurant" makes us students of most nationalities feel a little distanced, and every time we enter the door, we feel like an outlier. Later, the canteen on the second floor changed owners.

After class that afternoon, Lao Zhao and Da Biao and I began to think about the biggest problem in the universe while walking: what to eat tonight? Lin Ye went home directly at the back of the school, and it was estimated that his girlfriend had already cooked food and waited for him to go back. Eric went to Wawa after class, and being able to eat together is the most common romance among college couples. When we racked our brains to decide the content of dinner in various ways such as elimination, analogy, and providence, the squad leader and Huazi of the next class caught up and integrated into our team.

"What are you going to have for dinner?" The squad leader next door asked.

"I haven't thought about it, why don't you go to Dale and have a look." Da Biao's squad leader replied.

"What's delicious about Da Le?" Huazi said.

"I don't know, I'll talk about it later."

"Don't go to Dale, there will be a smell on your body after eating." The class leader next door said, and he expressed my concerns. The smell of oil smoke is especially obvious in winter, and it can't be dissipated.

"Then go to the third canteen?" Da Biao's squad leader asked suspiciously.

"The three canteens can deal with one bite, and I'll have to play football in a while, I just smoked a thief." Lao Zhao urged.

"Walking, walking." I should be reconciled.

The five of them walked to the cafeteria, and just as we were about to enter the first floor, the squad leader next door suddenly had a flash of inspiration: "Eh? Is there a house on this second floor? ”

"Well, it used to be a Muslim restaurant." I replied.

"Looks like it's changed now, right?" Da Biao's squad leader added.

"Let's take a look, let's order a few dishes together, and it's not much to share." The squad leader next door suggested.

None of us objected, so we all went upstairs. Sure enough, the second floor was replaced with "Korean cuisine", and the tables and chairs inside were not changed much. It's just wallpaper, repasted, and covered with all kinds of common Korean dishes. However, there are still few people in the cafeteria, and it may also be because we have fewer classes in our junior year, which is earlier than the freshman and sophomore year.

Originally, this kind of Korean cuisine should have been ordered by Lin Ye, after all, he was a member of the Zhenzong dynasty. But he is not there, so he can only be replaced by the squad leader Da Biao and the squad leader next door. The colorful menu is decorated with a variety of dishes, and each one looks particularly delicious. Da Biao's squad leader still has a wealth of experience in ordering, according to the taste habits of several of us, ordered a stone pot egg, a stone pot tofu, an iron plate shiitake mushroom, a seafood egg cake, an iron plate shiitake mushroom, and a gimbap.

Because there were few customers, the speed of serving was also very fast, and after a while, the stone pot eggs came up. A stone pan is seared at high temperatures, with 7 raw eggs lying on top, the egg whites on the bottom are cooked through the heat, while the yolk on the top is still moving smartly, sprinkled with a layer of special sauce, which looks tempting. Stone pot tofu is a similar method, except that the raw eggs are replaced with finger-thick slices of lactone tofu.

Lao Zhao and I have never eaten this kind of "high-end" cuisine, and we don't know how to put chopsticks, so we just wait for the two squad leaders to demonstrate. Seeing that we didn't move, the squad leader next door immediately beckoned, "Come on, come on, hurry up and eat while it's hot." As he spoke, he stirred the eggs in the pan with a spoon, and the yolk was cooked, and the sauce and eggs were well coated. After cooking, the squad leader next door sent a spoonful to his mouth. Seeing this scene, we all picked up the spoons one after another, and the pot of eggs was quickly divided. Of course, there are not a few pieces of tofu left in the stone pot on the side. Just as we all started to eat white rice, sizzling sizzling sizzling shiitake mushrooms and sizzling squid were served, because the taste was salty and spicy, so it was especially served, and we also ordered two more meals to be shared with each other. For the first time in my life, I felt that shiitake mushrooms were a delicacy, and I used to be particularly resistant to the taste of shiitake mushrooms since I was a child, and I wondered if I had chosen the wrong name. As long as there is a dish with shiitake mushrooms, you will never taste it. Now, slap in the face.

Finally, the seafood omelet and gimbap are the staple dishes, and the gimbap is a unique perk of our dormitory, so it tastes nothing special. The seafood omelet is the same as the shiitake mushroom for me, with a round cake cut into eight equal portions like a pizza. Usually there are egg cakes sold in the canteen, and the greasy feeling can't be solved even if you drink three cups of soy milk. But although the seafood omelet looks very similar in appearance, it tastes salty and fresh, and the texture is a little soft, without the scorching hardness of fried eggs. If you bite into the shrimp and squid whiskers inside, you will also have a Q-bomb feeling.

After a while, the table was empty, and to be honest, I was a little unsatisfied, but seeing that everyone was not eating, I was not embarrassed to ask for more dishes. After that, this restaurant, which was hidden in the corner, became our designated canteen. Lao Zhao and Da Biao and I often go, and stone pot eggs, sizzling mushrooms and seafood egg cakes have become our must-haves. Dabiao and I also tried to eat raw stone pot eggs directly, and found that the taste and texture were even better than after stirring. Even later, when the class leader next door ate together and wanted to stir, we would first put two spoonfuls of raw eggs into our own bowls.

It's just that later, because of the customer flow, this store also followed in the footsteps of the previous "Muslim restaurant". Although other similar Korean dishes also have these classic dishes, they always feel that they lack a little bit of taste, and it is that little bit of taste that has become a permanent memory for several of us.