A Paradise for Gluttonous Monkeys —— Eating in Zhonghaoyu Village

Hao Yu, according to the local pronunciation, sounds like a "fire valley". It also has a nice name called "Yougu". Zhonghaoyu Village is located deep in the mountains of Chishang Town, Boshan District, Zibo City. It is a typical small mountain village.

in my impression, there is no one in Boshan who is not a gourmet. As the saying goes, "Eat Boshan rice and go around the world". Some people also like to describe Boshan people's love for food with "half a knife in every family, and the fragrance of food in the city".

Shandong is endowed with unique material conditions, which, together with the nourishment of Confucian culture of "never tired of fine food and never tired of fine food" for more than 2, years, has finally become a magnificent view of Shandong cuisine. Boshan cuisine is one of the four schools of Shandong cuisine. "Annals of Linzi County" contains: "Yi Ya is kind and has five flavors, and it is hydrated, so you can know it by tasting it. It can be seen that Boshan has been a delicious place since the pre-Qin period.

Yuan Mei said in "Eating List with the Garden": "If the diners are full, the spleen will be sleepy, so they must be vibrated with spicy food; If you worry about drinking too much wine, your stomach will be exhausted, so you must use acid and sweetness to remind you. " Nowadays, Boshan local banquets also have the custom of "smashing fish soup". First, it embodies the characteristics of eating two fish at once. Second, the fish soup itself does have the effect of sobering up, sweet and sour, spicy and palatable, appetizing and stimulating appetite.

a few years ago, my friend told me a joke. It tells the story of a Boshan boy who went to work in Shanghai and worked as a chef in a restaurant. One day, a table of guests came for dinner. During the dinner, I ordered a steamed fish. Halfway through the fish, the guest asked the waiter to take the fish to the kitchen and "smash a hot and sour fish soup". Hearing this, the chef took the plate and said, "I'm from Zibo.". After a while, the fish soup was half eaten, and the guest asked the waiter to take it back to the kitchen and smash the hot and sour fish soup again. The chef took the plate for the second time and said, "I'm from Boshan." After a while, the fish ate only bones and bones. The guest once again asked the waiter to take it back to the kitchen and said that he would smash the fish soup with egg flowers again. This time, the chef was so excited that he threw away the spoon and hurriedly ran to the front desk and said, "My father is here!" "

it was raining lightly on the day we arrived at zhonghaoyu village. Walking in the street, I saw vendors selling mountain products in twos and threes under the cloth shed. Walnuts, chestnuts, kiwis, honey, pine mushrooms, eggs ... everything is native to the mountains and is favored by tourists. The stall owner is a stocky young woman. The goods sold are all at a price, and they refuse to bargain. In her words, it is "real, not flickering". I like to eat chestnuts. See the chestnuts on the stall, small, round and shiny. I bent down, one-on-one hit the radio, picked three pounds, and wanted to taste it. The stall owner opened the bag and let me pick and choose. She said, I went to the tree to pick up these chestnuts one by one, and none of them were broken. You can choose whatever you want. When I came home, I washed the chestnuts, chopped them, laid them on the electric baking pan and baked them. Sure enough, it is sweet and fragrant. It is really a good product.

in zhonghaoyu village, the food impressed me the most. However, it is definitely not simply opening a restaurant. "All the guests come here, all by mouth." No! Its genius lies in that every household is a food class.

It is a restaurant, a parent-child garden, a manual workshop and a DIY training camp. This idea is wonderful! Nowadays, all the children in the city are masters of "eating pork and never seeing a pig go". Take their class to the kitchen and workshop, do it while eating, and eat while doing it. It is really a good thing to let them taste the hardships and fun of labor.

In Ma Auntie Tofu Workshop, I met a female teacher with ten children learning to make tofu. Each of them has a small square "tofu mold" in his hand. "Aunt Ma", wearing a traditional big flower coat and a flower hat, spreads gauze for them and scoops up tofu brains. After covering the gauze, the children pressed the tofu with boards. After making tofu, the children held their works and asked the teacher to take pictures one by one. Then, Ma Auntie helped the children put tofu in a bowl and added the prepared seasoning. The children are eating tofu made by themselves, and they can imagine their pride.

At the Laoliang Pancake Shop, Zhai Jie, a colleague, showed her talents once. She also spread pancakes when she was young. Because of the large population at home, I have to squat down in front of the cigarette every morning and spread a thick cover with pancakes. Laoliang Pancake Shop stands "Wheel Rake" pancakes. This is a difficult technical job. Scoop the paste with your left hand, and each spoonful of paste is no more or less. Turn the rake with your right hand. The speed and angle of rake rotation need to be controlled properly. Zhai Jie's pancake works have been well received by everyone. Every time a new pancake is baked, five or six people rush into it immediately, and each person grabs a small piece. Dig a little sesame salt with a wooden spoon, sprinkle it evenly, roll it up and eat it in your mouth. It is a long-lost fragrance.

in zhonghaoyu village, I didn't count the number of such food classes, but there was one every few steps in the alley I passed. Mother-in-law's big bowl of tea, four aunts' cake noodle shop, two scorpions' steamed bun shop, scholar's box shop, Lao Liang's pancake shop, mother-in-law's daughter-in-law's ingot shop, etc., are really varied and varied. Follow the arrow on the wall, walk into those farmyards, and cook food with the aunt in the shop, make tofu boxes, spread pancakes and wrap jiaozi. Outside the fence, there are big sweet potato flowers and strings of nail peaches. They are in full bloom with a simple and honest face, which makes people feel warm and warm.

among the many signboards in the village, I like two best. They are "gluttonous monkeys" and "lingering fragrance". Glutton monkey, what a kind name! I remember that when I was a child, I was scolded by my grandmother as a "greedy monkey" because of my greedy mouth. As the name of the restaurant in the mountain village, the greedy monkey is simply nothing more appropriate. When I first saw the words "Liuxiang" written on the wooden sign, I was puzzled. What does this mean? When asked, the enthusiastic villagers told me that it was a restaurant that drank noodles. I'm happy when I hear it. The humor of people in Zhonghaoyu village can be seen. I seem to see a group of foodies drinking noodles in steaming hot air. They all ate a little sweat on their noses and foreheads, and the sound of "sneaking out" and drinking noodles came and went. If it is not a group activity, I really have the impulse to pick up the big bowl and "slip out" a bowl of hot noodles.

lunch was eaten in an outdoor food stall. Down the stone steps, under the shed, a row of low square tables were placed. Mazazi surrounded, sat down and had dinner. Twelve dishes. The protagonist is two pots of stew. One pot is stewed mushrooms with ribs. One pot is stewed vermicelli with mushroom. Just say that ribs stewed with mushrooms. The fragrance is not greasy, and the smell is thick and rotten, which is enough for people to clap their hands and say absolutely. The rest are home-cooked vegetables. Nothing more than kidney beans and potatoes, onion eggplant, cucumber and green pepper. There is frying, frying and mixing. How can the temperature be so in place? The salt is just right. A circle of greedy monkeys, all with their necks stretched out, staring, eating so much that they forgot to talk. Pasta is "high-piled steamed bread". It is a kind of thin and tall steamed bread, and the entrance rib is its biggest feature.

Mr. Lin Yutang said: The ideal life of one world is to live in the countryside of England, with American water, electricity and gas pipes in the house, a China cook, a Japanese wife and a French lover.

In my opinion, that China cupboard should come from Zhonghaoyu Village, Chishang Town, Boshan.