Oh my god, Smecta, this border town allowed me to successfully cross

I went to Changbai Mountain at the beginning of the month. I finally made it there and went to Yanbian for a few days.

I got on the bus from Erdaobaihe to Yanji and fell asleep. I dreamed that I was shopping in Myeongdong, Seoul, and the aunt selling fish cakes on the roadside insisted on communicating with me in Korean and listened to everything. I didn’t understand and I was so anxious that I was sweating profusely.

When I woke up, I saw two aunts sitting in front of me. They were chatting animatedly in "Korean". Isn't this the same aunt who sold me fish cakes in my dream?

The closer the car gets to Yanji, the more "Korean" is written on the roadside signs, and even the banners on the roadside are all "Korean".

Yes, this is Yanji

Yanbian’s full name is Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture. It is the only Korean autonomous prefecture in China and the largest Korean gathering place in my country. It borders Russia in the east and Russia in the south. It faces North Korea across the Tumen River, and Yanji is the capital of Yanbian.

When I arrived in Yanji, I took a taxi to the hotel. There were also bilingual announcements in the taxi, "Hello Passenger..." in Chinese and "Jili Guala Smita" in Korean. Oh my god. , this sense of substitution is too strong.

Walking on the street, handsome men and beautiful women all communicate in Korean. In restaurants, waiters greet guests in Korean, and there are also announcements in Korean on buses... Korean and Chinese are used together here. , all the signs are bilingual, very magical.

The relationship between Korean and Korean is like the relationship between Northeastern dialect and Mandarin. Except for the difference in tones, they are basically the same. With such a language advantage, many people from Yanbian go to South Korea to work every year, and many people come back from South Korea, bringing a lot of Korean food.

When I arrived in Yanji, eating definitely accounted for the most part. Miss Succulent has written before that you don’t have to go abroad to eat the most authentic Korean food in this low-key northeastern border town. That article has already introduced it in detail. This time I went to ask the locals for some. If you like restaurants, this is a supplement.

Cold Noodles

The first thing that comes to mind for many people is cold noodles. When I came to Yanji, I learned that the correct way to open cold noodles is to combine them with pot-wrapped pork. Eat together.

The freshly fried Guobao Pork is soaked in the ice water of the cold noodles. The temperature drops rapidly, making the outside of the Guobao Pork even crispier. Eat a bite of the Guobao Pork and drink a sip of the sweet and sour cold noodle soup. , what kind of magical way of eating is this?

Recommended shops:

Shunji Cold Noodles (2nd floor, Wuqiong Flower City, Niushi Street)

Service Building Cold Noodles (next to Entrance B of University Town on Park Road)

Jindalai Cold Noodles (No. 388 Hailan Road)

Stone Pot Rice

People who cook rice need to use a basin to cook rice, here they come In Yanji, stone pots were used. When I walked into a random store, I realized that there are so many ways to eat stone pot rice.

They obviously look like the same dish and the same pot, so why is Yanji’s food so delicious? Although the taste of each one is slightly different, they are all really delicious.

Recommended stores:

Jeonju Bibimbap (No. 142, Samhwa Street)

Busan Stone Pot Rice (No. 320, Yanxi Street, Park Street)

Hundred Years Stone Pot Rice (Second Floor, Entrance 1, Building 2, University Town)

Rice Puffs

Pak rice is to grill the meat for you and then serve it with lettuce or Perilla leaves are eaten wrapped with sauce, kimchi and rice. As for meat, there are many choices such as elbow meat, pork belly, beef, etc.

Each store’s sauces and kimchi will be slightly different, and some stores will also provide cooked perilla leaves and cabbage leaves. One order of meat is enough for one person.

Recommended shops:

Wu’s Steamed Rice (1877 Yanxi Street Gongyuan Road)

Yile Steamed Rice (Yihua Plaza)

Grandma Yuan’s rice dumplings (20 meters west of Yinpu, Gongxin Street)

Samgyetang Soup

Samgyetang is made from a whole chicken, stuffed with glutinous rice. After simmering, serve it whole in a stone pot. The soup has a faint ginseng flavor, is fragrant and not greasy.

The ginseng chicken soup also has a deluxe version to choose from, including abalone, antler, and eel, which is really very informative.

Recommended shops:

Master Zhang’s Ginseng Chicken Soup (No. 195, Xinhua Street)

Han Zheng’s Ginseng Chicken Soup (No. 57, Xinxing Street, 2nd Floor)

Since you are here to experience Korean delicacies, you must have barbecue. I had always thought that the barbecue here was all made from Yanbian yellow beef. After asking, I found out that it was all imported grain-fed beef. It is only through the unique acid removal technology that the meat tastes better.

Steak, pork belly, beef, and sausage are all worth trying. With the special Korean-style sauce, the grilling speed cannot keep up with the eating speed.

Recommended shops:

Dapujia Barbecue (Intersection of Xinxing Street and Tuanjie Road)

Dr. Jin Charcoal Barbecue (4 opposite Yinpu Bath Center on Lihua Road Floor)

Futaya Slate Barbeque (8th floor of Yijing Apartment)

Dapaiwu (opposite 100 meters west of Yuanchi Hutong Police Station)

Kebabs

Different from the skewers in other places, the skewers here are equipped with an oven for each table, and the raw meat skewers are grilled by yourself.

Pine meat, chicken feet, heart tubes, and breast meat are all local specialties. You can try them one by one. In addition to dry ingredients, each store also has special Korean wet ingredients.

Recommended stores:

Jinli Kebab Store (50 meters south of the intersection of Wenxue Hutong and Jinxue Street)

Fengmao Kebab (the intersection of Tuanjie Road and Tongren Hutong) South of Chulu)

Heba BBQ Chuancheng (50 meters south of the middle east gate of the park)

Snow Ice

Friends who have been to Korea should be familiar with this The name is familiar, and you can also eat super authentic snow ice in Yanji. The snow ice made from milk is spread on thick soybean noodles, and there are small pieces of cake mixed in. The pink and soft texture is really irresistible.

In addition to the original flavor, there are also matcha, strawberry, chocolate and other flavors to choose from. One portion is large, enough for two people.

Recommended stores:

Snow Ice Coffee (3rd floor, Yijing Apartment)

Laodingben Coffee (No. 3, Lishui IKEA Store, Erbinhe Road) < /p>

Korean Food Supermarket

Due to the geographical location and language advantages, supermarkets here generally sell a lot of Korean products. There are also many specialized Korean supermarkets. It is estimated that except for Yanji, you can’t find such a complete range of Korean food.

You can find all kinds of Korean snacks, drinks, instant noodles, and condiments here. There are even several freezers full of Korean ice cream.

Recommended stores:

Long Mart (1st floor, Shenhua Street Floating Market)

Youjin Mart (west side of Aidan Road Xinxing Primary School)

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The floating market is a local morning market recommended in many guides, but the morning market, as the name suggests, is a market that only happens in the morning. The stalls usually close at eight o'clock, which is very difficult for people like us who have difficulty getting up.

Although I set the alarm clock before going to bed every day and told myself that I must get up early and go to the floating market tomorrow, I never succeeded on any day.

Seeing the last day, I successfully missed the morning market again. When I fell into deep self-blame, the girl at the hotel front desk saved me, "You can go to the West Market. In addition to accompanying my mother, I rarely go to the morning market."

So, I came to this Western Market that is open all day. It is said to be open all day, but at four o'clock, the stalls began to close one after another. So it’s best for everyone to go shopping before four o’clock in the afternoon.

The West Market is divided into several areas. There are all kinds of kimchi, seafood, dry goods, and condiments. It is really very informative.

I originally thought that Korean sauce comes in two types: black and red. Unexpectedly, there are actually N types of Korean sauce here. There are some that specialize in stir-frying, some that specialize in making soups, and some that specialize in marinating. Anyway, there are different kinds of sauces for whatever kind of dishes you make, and there are also all-purpose sauces for cooking novices like us. To sum up the local people’s diet in two words, it’s just sauce.

In addition to all kinds of kimchi, there are also various seafood products. No matter whether you want to buy it or not, when you go to the stall, the lady will generously give you a taste. After going around, I feel that I don’t even need to eat dinner.

The fresh food area has large crabs from North Korea, palm-sized scallops, and a variety of fresh seafood from the Sea of ??Japan. After buying here, there is a processing area next to it that can provide processing services. More affordable than going to a restaurant.

If you miss the Floating Market and the West Market, you can also go to the Yanbai Supermarket on the basement floor of the Yanji Department Store, a few hundred meters away from the West Market.

Yeonbai Supermarket is a conglomerate of local specialties and Korean imported foods. But I think the essence of Yanbai Supermarket is its cooked food area and semi-finished product area. You can see a cooked food area half the size of a food city, as well as various semi-finished barbecue products.

The semi-finished barbecue here is better than any other barbecue restaurant I have gone to. At this moment, the scene in the Korean drama of the whole family happily gathering together to eat barbecue comes to mind. I am also wondering how people can eat it easily at home. Serving the barbecue, it turns out that their supermarket has such a complete range of semi-finished products.

If conditions did not allow it, I would really like to buy a baking pan and start eating. After visiting Yanbai Supermarket, I have already made plans for my next trip to Yanji: I will invite a few friends to find an Airbnb with a kitchen, and try every kind of meat with local rice wine. I wonder if any "fair-weather friends" will respond.

I can’t help but sigh, it turns out that wet markets and supermarkets are the essence of Yanbian people’s diet.

Recommended shops:

Oriental Floating Market (5:00-8:00 No. 1425, Shenhua Street)

West Market (9:30-16:00 No. 819 Shenhua Street)

Department Store Supermarket (10:00-22:00 No. 608 Guangming Street)

On the third day in Yanji, I rented a car and prepared Drive to Fangchuan Village in Hunchun to have a look. The journey takes about two and a half hours. Of course, you can also choose to take the high-speed rail to Hunchun and then charter a car to Fangchuan. Fangchuan is the easternmost village in Jilin, and here is the real border.

Self-driving from Yanji is cheaper than renting a car. There happens to be a car rental station in Shenzhou in Yanji. Plus, I still wanted to experience this border road in person, so I chose to self-driving.

When we set off from Yanji, we followed the navigation. There were not many cars along the way and the road conditions were very good. The large rolled up haystacks on the roadside are reminiscent of scenes from Chicken Eating.

The last twenty kilometers or so of this road is called the "circle defense line", which basically drives on the border. On both sides of the road is the border barbed wire fence. On the right side of the barbed wire fence is North Korea, and on the left side of the barbed wire fence is Russia. At its narrowest, it can only accommodate a two-way, two-lane road.

Find a safe place to park, put your finger out and say something - we are going abroad. I also went to two countries in one day, which was quite busy.

The end of the defensive line is the Longhu Pavilion in Fangchuan Scenic Area. You can see the Three Kingdoms at a glance from the top. The ticket + shuttle bus costs 78 yuan, which is a bit expensive, but there is no other attraction like this in China. In line with the travel concept of "come for everyone", I still pay for it.

When you go up to Longhu Pavilion, you will see the land of China at your feet, the Russian border railway station Baodgornaya to the east, and the Domanjiang City of North Korea across the Tumen River to the southwest. You can also vaguely see the Sea of ??Japan.

The Tumen River at your feet is only more than ten kilometers away from the estuary. It was once part of China, but after a humiliating history, it became an estuary that could never be reached.

This period of history is fully described in the exhibition hall on the fourth floor of Longhu Pavilion. In the mid-19th century, while the Anglo-French allied forces launched the Second Opium War, Tsarist Russia also took advantage of the situation and seized large tracts of land in the Heilongjiang River Basin. It forced the Qing government to sign the Sino-Russian Aihun Treaty, which was humiliating and humiliating the country. Later, it also coerced the Qing government to sign the "Beijing Treaty between China and Russia".

These two treaties plundered more than 1 million square kilometers of land north of Heilongjiang, south of the Waixing'an Mountains, and east of the Ussuri River, including Sakhalin Island, and cut off China's territorial waters. Jilin has become an inland province that is closest to the sea but has no sea area.

After understanding that period of history, after leaving the Longhu Pavilion, you will feel even more deeply when you look at the slogan "No inch of the sacred territory of the motherland must be lost" in the scenic area. Fortunately, our country has become stronger now. , we should strengthen ourselves.

I originally came to Yanbian just for the delicious food of Yanji. I didn’t expect that this small border town has so much history of honor and disgrace. After receiving some patriotism education, I felt that I should cherish the current life.

I looked at the list of unfinished delicacies in my hand. Well, I still need to go there again.

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