Chapter 88: The Palace of Fire
The guest to pick up the airport is Mr. Cai of Wanlilai Company, he came to Star City alone before, we have already met, this time with him also came with the manager and financial director of the company's advertising department. He said that if this round is negotiated, it will be directly reported to their general manager for approval, so it is very important.
Of course, important guests should be entertained, and I received them around 3:30, and on the way back I had been thinking about how to arrange dinner, and wanted to hear their own opinions first. Mr. Chen, the chief financial officer, proposed to eat the stinky tofu of Star City, saying that he had heard that the Fire Palace was famous, and I said that the stinky tofu of the Fire Palace was famous and expensive, and I personally thought it was too "clean", so I would take you to a more authentic one. I plan to try this stinky tofu first, and then go to the Fire Palace to book a private room for dinner, you can also compare, and try various other snacks by the way. Everyone agreed, and Mr. Cai said: "Xiao Lu arranged it too thoughtfully. ”
If you want to say that there are very few places where you can eat authentic Star City stinky tofu now, Wang Wuxiaoyu's stinky tofu is one of them. Further south from Huangxing South Road, next to Labor Square, there is a residential building originally called Dongfanghong Building built in the sixties of the last century. There is an alley next to it, thirty or forty meters deep, and at the mouth of the alley is a stinky tofu stall with five small stalls, and there are often long queues in front of the stalls, and this scene was even broadcast on CCTV-4.
One of the characteristics of Wu Xiaoyu is that the business is "proud" and does not meet customers in a twisted way. If you tell her to fry a few pieces of stinky tofu, she will say lightly: Then we have to wait. For the first time, many people are not used to seeing this kind of humble and arrogant look at a roadside stall, but it is this kind of non-discriminatory attitude that has won diners like a cloud. Queue up, if you want to eat stinky tofu, please queue up.
Wang Wuxiaoyu's stinky dried seeds are said to only sell 1,000 pieces a day, and when she gets up from a nap, she starts to open the stall at about 3 o'clock in the afternoon, and the stall is sold out early and dispersed, and never sells more than one piece. As soon as I calculated the time, I should still have time, so I told the dragon driver of the unit to go directly from the airport to the Labor Square to queue up, put the luggage in the car first, and then send the hotel together after dinner.
Originally, I said that I wanted the guests to wait in the car, and I got out of the car to help them buy, but Mr. Chen and Xiao Liu, the manager of the advertising department, both said that they wanted to get off the bus and queue up in person, mainly to see the style of the legendary Wu Xiaoyu. As we waited in line, we watched as she fried the stinky dried seeds over a low heat until they were crispy and browned in the black, and then poured homemade sauce and chopped peppers over each slice of flowers. Manager Xiao Liu, who often travels outside, said that he had eaten stinky tofu at the Confucius Temple in Nanjing, which was also very good, accompanied by cucumber strips or dried radish, and added sweet and sour to the seasoning. In contrast, Wu Xiaoyu doesn't know how to match, but it is the most original, take a bite, crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, quite aftertaste, and with that super fierce chopped pepper, good charm.
The fire palace used to be a temple dedicated to the god of fire, also known as "Qianyuan Palace", which was built in the 12th year of Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty (1747 AD), and has a history of more than 250 years. On the old photo, the three characters of Qianyuan Palace on the archway on the front of the Fire Palace are written by Huang Ziyuan, a famous calligrapher in the Qing Dynasty. The old man of Xingcheng Minyan: "Enter the Gate Fire Palace, go out of the Qianyuan Palace." In fact, the second half is pronounced with the Xingcheng dialect "Qian Yuangong", which means that the money has been spent, which means that there are too many delicious things in it, so you can't help but empty your pockets before you are willing to come out.
Every year on June 23 of the lunar calendar, a large-scale festival will be held, and every day, the fire palace is bustling with people. Due to the large number of people rushing to the temple fair, some people slowly gathered here to set up a list of stalls, support tents and umbrellas, and gradually developed into a snack market similar to the overpass in Beijing, the Chenghuang Temple in Shanghai, and the Confucius Temple in Nanjing during the Republic of China.
The fame of modern times is mainly due to the visit of Mao ** and his old man, who said: "The stinky dried seeds of the Huogong store smell bad and taste fragrant." "Just let them compare it with the stinky dried seeds they just ate.
I booked a box on the third floor of the West Wing, and I opened the window to see the stage downstairs, where I could taste snacks, taste Hunan cuisine, listen to the lyrics, and watch Hunan opera, which is indeed a good place. I am going to focus on Hunan cuisine for this dinner, and then pair it with some snacks, so I helped Mr. Cai and them book a table to reproduce the "chairman's banquet" of the menu when Mao ** inspected the fire palace in 1958.
The traditional specialty snacks of the Fire Palace, seasonal sketches, and the variety of colors are dizzying. It is said that the main masterpiece has eight snacks and twelve famous dishes, of course, a few of us can't order so much, but according to their respective hobbies, we ordered a few, such as sister dumplings, cerebral marrow rolls, dragon fat pig blood, double-flavored eight-treasure fruit rice and so on. Among them, the sister dumplings are my favorite, one sweet and one salty, the glutinous glutinous rice dumplings are soft, fresh and delicious.
The guests and hosts mingled, chatting while eating, this meal was eaten until half past eight in the evening, after coming out of the fire palace, everyone walked through Pozi Street to the bar street on Jiefang West Road. In the late Qing Dynasty, Guo Songtao, a Hunan man who was known as China's "first person to open his eyes to see the world", accompanied by Zhang Daotai, also walked in the Youyoupozi Street with great interest, enjoying the food and folk entertainment of the food stalls with the public, but Lao Guo could not imagine the hustle and bustle here every night today.
Only Manager Xiao Liu in our group is a woman, it seems to be a little lonely, and it will be better for men and women to balance the atmosphere. I only called Don Juan for the men, and a few more for the women, and Lin Zi was away on a business trip, so I called Xiao Ling and Guo Xiaofeng to accompany me, and later called Shi Nian to help the fun.
Xiaoling and Feng'er are in business, and as long as they have a business relationship, they will actively participate, and meeting more friends is part of their work, because customers often put more than one media, so everyone has the opportunity. But Shi Nian came out so late, purely for fun, which can be regarded as giving me a face. When I called, I just told her that a few friends were clubbing, and asked her if she was coming, and she said very happily: Okay! "Who else is there?" "There are no such common problems.