Chapter 34: The Last Meal
I squatted down and wiped away Yaya's tears with my hands:
"Yaya don't cry, my big brother will celebrate your birthday every year in the future, okay?"
Yaya nodded and held out her little thumb.
I laughed, and also stretched out my little finger to hook her little finger, pressed her thumb with my thumb, and then said together: "Pull the hook and hang yourself, you must not change for a hundred years!"
Yaya giggled.
I lifted the girl high and carried my legs on my shoulders: "Let's go~, let's go eat birthday noodles~, go eat the most authentic shrimp roe noodles, okay?"
Yaya called happily: "Okay~"
I took a taxi to Zhonger Street, and the driver said that this was Geng Fuxing's old shop.
The old store is really different from the branch of the train station, it is more antique, maybe it is time to eat, there are many diners, and the store is full of people.
There is an introduction by Geng Fuxing in the hall:
Geng Fuxing was founded in the late Qing Dynasty, when Geng Changhong and Geng Changfu, who came to Jiangcheng from Jiangdu, followed their father who came to Jiangcheng to start a business in the early days, and opened a breakfast shop at the entrance of the third street, specializing in fritters and porridge.
Later, Han Guangyuan, who specializes in small knife noodles, was hired to officially change the breakfast shop to Geng Fuxing Dumpling Noodle Restaurant, specializing in smooth noodles and shrimp roe noodles.
Since then, it has been merged with Yan Kaiyin, the master of baked cakes, and the supply of butter baked cakes has been added.
In this way, customers can not only eat noodles when they enter the store, but also eat quite characteristic crispy cakes, which are suitable for dry and thick, and naturally blend.
In the early 1920s, the Geng family officially hung up the signboard of Geng Fuxing and hired Liu Houfu to make xiaolong soup dumplings.
So far, Geng Fuxing has gathered the three major pieces of snacks in the store, and the diners have all praised it, and the business has become more and more prosperous.
After the vicissitudes of life, a hundred years of decay, until today, "Geng Fuxing Restaurant" is famous in Jiangcheng and is well-known.
This is the shrimp roe noodles that were later on CCTV's "A Bite of China", and Geng Fuqing's shrimp noodles are the most authentic and authentic.
It is also the top luxury in the cuisine of the people of Lao Jiangcheng.
Luxury is not expensive, but a unique local specialty that cannot be eaten elsewhere.
Even if you are in a foreign land overseas, you are still haunted by your dreams.
Shrimp roe noodles are made from the seeds of green shrimp in the Yangtze River, with a variety of condiments, made into a paste soup, and then hand-kneaded knife noodles are boiled.
The noodles are tough, extremely delicious, and have high nutritional value.
According to reports, a bowl of authentic shrimp roe noodles can only be authentic by using green shrimp roe from the Yangtze River basin as the material.
Every year, Geng Fuxing sends special personnel to several fixed areas in the Yangtze River basin to buy shrimp roe, and the purchase price is at least 500 yuan per catty.
The shrimp roe of sea shrimp, commonly known as sea seeds or fish roe, is used in the market to pass off as green shrimp roe, and the taste is far from good.
The sea seeds are reddish and have a strong fishy smell, and the fish roe also has an earthy smell.
Only the green shrimp roe will have a natural light red, revealing the fragrance of river freshness, grinding it with teeth, and the taste is soft and delicate.
The noodle soup is made from pure bones, the noodles are pressed three times with high-quality flour, and even the chopped green onions sprinkled on the noodles must be made with fine chopped chives, and must never be replaced with green onions, garlic or shallots.
And such a bowl of shrimp roe noodles is sold for five yuan per bowl (according to two and a half catties of pork back then, it is now worth fifty or sixty yuan a bowl, which is not cheap).
The broth is perfectly combined with shrimp roe, and the soup is extremely fresh.
The noodles have a delicate texture and a smooth mouthfeel, rich in nutrients and a delicious taste.
I also gave Yaya the shrimp roe in my bowl, fished half of the noodles in Yaya's bowl and gave it to me, and said to Yaya, "You must eat all the noodles on your birthday, so that Yaya can grow taller."
I ordered 10 more shortbreads.
I broke half of it and said to the girl, "Well, eating this baked cake and drinking shrimp roe noodle soup is the most delicious."
Yaya eats very slowly, picking up a noodle with chopsticks. Suck slowly.
As she ate, large tears dripped down the bowl.
I looked sad, I didn't coax her, she still cried, remember today.
The pale red shrimp roe, hanging on the noodles, was also sucked into her mouth.
In the end, even the soup was drunk, and the shrimp roe at the bottom of the bowl was scraped clean one by one with the baked cakes.
After eating, Yaya said with satisfaction: "Big brother, it's the first time I have eaten birthday noodles, and it's also the best and most delicious birthday noodles."
Yaya couldn't think of it, and I couldn't think of it: this is the last birthday shrimp roe noodles that Yaya and I ate in the mainland, and it has been 20 years since the two of us ate shrimp roe noodles together again.
At that time, I seemed to be swearing to myself and a promise to Yaya: "Yaya, since you like to eat, my big brother will come to take you to eat every month, okay?"
"You can also take this baked cake back, give it to Dean Chen, and let her bring it to you when you want to eat it, okay?"
I remembered Mrs. Shi, Wanqing and Mrs. Shi, so I bought 20 more shortbreads and brought them back to eat.
Sending Yaya back to the welfare home, it was just six o'clock, and I said to Dean Chen, "I'm sorry, I took Siyan for her birthday, so I was late."
Director Chen smiled: "Oh, today is Xiao Siyan's birthday?" Happy Birthday! ”
Yaya happily waved her hand at me: "Big brother, goodbye."
When I arrived at the Jiangcheng Hotel, the master had not yet come, so I waited for him on the sofa in the hall, flipping through the Jiangcheng Evening News, which had a report:
Jiangcheng porcelain plate iron painting panda "Pan Pan" was selected as a gift for the Asian Games.
Iron painting is a special product of Jiangcheng, one of the unique styles of handicrafts in China,
Iron painting absorbs the composition method of Chinese painting and gold and silver jewelry, paper-cutting, sculpture and other craft techniques, using low carbon steel as raw material, iron instead of ink, and hammer as a substitute for writing.
After the process of drafting, cutting, smashing, burning, lacquering wax, and framing, as well as the processes of "livening" and "drilling", the painting is exquisitely formed.
There is not only the realm of Chinese painting and ink painting, but also a strong sense of artistic three-dimensionality, black and white, vigorous and dignified, known as "the ingenuity of all generations".
It began in the Kangxi period, and was formed by the Jiangcheng ironworker Tang Tianchi and the painter Xiao Qimu, and has a history of more than 340 years.
Iron painting has the artistic characteristics of the Xin'an painting school, which is thin and concise, and the style is cold and stubborn, and it is a pure hand-forged art
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Seeing the master coming, he also sat down in the lobby, and it seemed that he had drunk, but not much.
The master asked me, "Have you eaten?"
I said I had eaten.
I suddenly remembered something and asked the master, "Master, we opened a medical center, have you thought of a name?"
The master said, "It's still early, I haven't thought about it yet, why would you ask about this?"
I handed him the newspaper in my hand: "I want to make a different signboard, this is a unique iron painting in the country."
"We asked celebrities to inscribe plaques and use iron paintings as signboards, which are really iron-beaten signboards, and they are unique in the country."
The master smiled: "You have a lot of ghost ideas, and you think differently from people."
I said, "Master, didn't you say that the third level should be innovative?"
The master said, "Do you know who I drank with?"
I laughed: "How do I know this? It can't be Dr. Tang, right? ”
The master shook his head: "It's Boss Zhang of Jiangcheng Chunhengtang, I asked him about opening a medical hall, who knew that he hit my idea again, the secret recipe to buy."
I asked, "What's the secret ingredient?"
The master smiled mysteriously: "The secret recipe of medicine and wine, he offered this amount."
As he spoke, the master stretched out a slap and shook it.
"Five thousand?" I asked tentatively.
The master said arrogantly: "Fifty thousand, don't sell it!"