Xincheng noodles

Henry david thoreau once said, "We have many ways of life as many radii can be drawn from a center." I respect every profession and people who have worked hard in it, including the lowest-level workers, such as vendors in vegetable markets, employees in supermarkets and noodle shop owners. ...

I haven't eaten at the Xincheng noodle restaurant near my home for a long time. I remember the last time I went there to eat noodles, it was five months ago in the summer. I haven't seen you for a long time, and I almost forgot the taste of this storefront. It was midsummer, my son was on summer vacation, and I was lazy to get up. My family wants to eat my breakfast, so it's hard to talk. So during that time, nine times out of ten, our breakfast was solved by this noodle restaurant.

I didn't like noodles very much in the past. As a typical southerner, southerners' stomachs turn sour on pasta. There has always been a question. In recent ten years, even more than ten years, in the city where I live, a typical southern city, noodle restaurants can be seen everywhere, distributed in streets and alleys, large and small, with different flavors, such as Lanzhou Lamian Noodles Store, Henan Huimian Noodle Restaurant, Tongxiang Aneng Noodle Restaurant, Wuzhen Mutton Noodle Restaurant, Sichuan Burning Noodle Restaurant, Shanxi Oil Noodle Restaurant, Shaanxi Cold Noodle Restaurant, Jiaxing Benbang Noodle Restaurant, and so on. There are all kinds of noodles cooked by vendors, a few shredded pork, vegetables and peppers, which are also leveraged.

There are so many noodle restaurants with different tastes, and each store has a dozen or twenty practices. Roughly speaking, in the city where I live, there are at least forty or fifty ways to do it. Among so many kinds of noodles, I have eaten no more than ten. I remember three or four years ago, near my office, there was a noodle restaurant, a local noodle cooking method in Jiaxing. After eating for nearly a year, I chose no more than five kinds of noodles. Finally, I only ate a plate of shredded pork with pickles. For nearly a year, the owner of this noodle restaurant changed hands, and finally changed the door and became a fast food restaurant.

Let me talk about my childhood impression of noodles. My hometown is in the middle of Hunan Province. I am not in the habit of eating noodles. I only eat a bowl of clear soup noodles when the rice is not cooked enough. I remember when I was about ten years old, my neighbor Master He Jiu had been dead for many years. He learned that it was terminal gastric cancer and left with the medicine. Opposite the village-run school is a tea factory, surrounded by tea gardens. He ran a noodle workshop in a bungalow in the westernmost part of the tea factory. At that time, Master He was often seen making vermicelli in the noodle restaurant. He used a manual dough mixer and a manual dough mixer to make even white vermicelli and hung it in the westernmost part of the school playground to dry. Often go to play after school or during lunch break, which makes things worse. When the hand-made noodle machine first came, it failed several times to make noodles because of lack of experience. I am young and ignorant, playing with skins. Sometimes, when Master He enters the workshop, I run into the wooden frame where the noodles are dried, watching the noodles hanging vertically on the sticks and dancing with the wind, as straight as the long hair of a school female teacher. I touched the noodles with my fingers and swept my fingertips. I touched the dried noodles and dropped them all over the floor. The wet noodles just hung up were touched by my finger, slipped off the noodle stick and fell off. He Jiuye saw it, scolded it, and went home and told my parents that I had been repaired. When noodles are not easy to sell, Master He Jiu gives them to my family. Every time my mother cooks noodles, especially at night, I refuse to eat them, resenting Master He Jiu's complaints. After eating noodles, I can't stand the sour in my stomach. It tastes terrible, and I hate eating noodles more.

Because of an experience as a teenager, I stayed away from noodles for nearly 25 years, which can be said to be hateful. Until the last ten years, I slowly tried to eat noodles, and I was more curious that my stomach acid would not return after eating noodles. I always thought that my thousand-hole stomach was used to eat noodles. Later, I heard that some alkali or thickening ingredients have been added to noodles, including dried noodles and fresh-made noodles. I wonder if it was added by Lamian Noodles. I haven't eaten Lamian Noodles for a long time. The alkali in noodles can neutralize stomach acid, so that's it.

There are only five or six noodle restaurants near the bell mouth, such as Chinese Lamian Noodles in Lanzhou. I feel that there is no business. It has been open for four years, and its vitality is strong enough. It is estimated that this is the way for Hui people to stick to business. Wuzhen mutton noodle restaurant closed at the end of last year. The boss is a couple with a daughter of seven or eight years old. I often hang half a sheep at the door, and the meat drips all over the floor, and the smell is mixed with blood. People who pass by avoid it. After nearly two years of operation, business was dull, making ends meet, and finally abandoned the store. There is a Sichuan noodle restaurant opposite Wuzhen mutton noodle restaurant, which has been closed for less than half a year and turned into a hair salon. In the east of the noodle restaurant, there is a small noodle restaurant in Chongqing, which has been open for less than two years and now it has become the Hui noodle restaurant in Henan. I used to eat it often, but I always had diarrhea after eating it. It is estimated that there is something wrong with the ribs on the sparerib noodles. There is a big pot of braised pork ribs in the freezer. It is estimated that a large pot was burned ten days ago. Take your time. The noodle shop owner is a couple, and the accent should be from northern Henan or Anhui, which is a bit interesting. It is not Chongqing people who open small noodle restaurants in Chongqing. I like to put some sour beans or soaked spinach stalks in ribs noodles. I came to this noodle restaurant for appetizing sauerkraut. I don't know why, sauerkraut hasn't been served for a long time and has no taste, so I went to another store to eat it.

To the west of Chongqing Xiao noodle restaurant is Xincheng noodle restaurant, which has been open for three or four years. The boss cooks his own noodles, and there are two middle-aged women and an aunt. Intuitively, one of the middle-aged women is the proprietress, and the aunt should be the boss's mother. I believe in the magical power of genes. Mother and son are alike.

The owner of the noodle restaurant is from Jiaxing, or rather from Jiaxing New Town. I guess from Wu's accent that the boss should be called "Jianguo", but I don't know his last name. Three or four years ago, when the noodle restaurant opened, I occasionally went to his shop to eat noodles. My wife likes Sichuan noodles, and my son likes Chongqing noodles. The family is divided into three ways, each chooses its own shop and eats its own taste. A family of three has different opinions, not to mention all beings. Thousands of people have thousands of stomachs. In a pluralistic society, we should be more tolerant. It should be said that all rivers run into the sea, and laymen can eat pasta and rice in their bellies. As long as they feel delicious and don't waste, they can accept anything.

When Xincheng noodle restaurant opened, the business was similar to other noodle restaurants. Because the boss is good at management and constantly improves his cooking skills, from the original couple shop, with the business getting better and better, the boss called his mother for help. Last year, he hired a middle-aged woman as a helper and occasionally saw the boss's daughter go to the cashier.

Speaking of the boss's daughter, she is not cut out for opening a shop. Noodle shops should order noodles on a first-come-first-served basis. When a bowl is finished, tell the kitchen what the next bowl tastes like. She has a bad memory. If more guests come, she will be completely confused and won't write. She wants to remember the noodle varieties ordered by the guests line by line with a pen. After notifying the kitchen, they crossed it out and proceeded in order. When she was in a mess, the guests fled angrily, and the boss who was cooking noodles in the kitchen was furious and flushed. After the guests order noodles, most of them will pay first and then sit down and wait, some will pay in cash, and some will pay electronically. Once, my son and I ate noodles, wiped our mouths, and were ready to go with toothpicks. She caught up with me and asked me to pay for the noodles. I was shocked in an instant. In front of a dozen people, I was treated as a "free meal" or a "king meal" by others. She was reprimanded by me on the spot and showed her the electronic transfer record. She quickly apologized. After leaving the shop, my son and I said, "Never come to this noodle shop for breakfast again? The son echoed and said, "Then let's go to Chongqing noodle restaurant to eat sparerib noodles. "? So, I haven't been to Xincheng noodle restaurant for breakfast for a long time.

It may be that there is no decent noodle restaurant in the horn mouth, just like people living here, they are content with the status quo. Over time, my son and I went to Xincheng noodle restaurant for breakfast again. The most frequent time period is summer vacation or winter vacation. I seldom visit at ordinary times. I am a lazy person who is too lazy to eat breakfast.

The winter vacation has started this year. The warm sunshine shines on the land and people at the trumpet mouth, shines into the humble room through the thin screen window, and falls on my empty yard, shining brightly. A yellow and white cat came out of the yard lightly, walked out of the fence and hid in the bushes outside the yard. I woke up from my dream and had to start eating breakfast again. As the Spring Festival approaches, there are fewer pedestrians on the road and there is no noise in the past. I'm not used to it. There are only three noodle restaurants in Labakou Town. Lanzhou Zhonghua Ramen Restaurant, I don't like it, because there is too little beef. A big bowl of Lamian Noodles covered with two or three pieces of beef as thin as paper is not enough for us to fill our teeth. Add beef, and it will cost 10 yuan, which is only five or six yuan. We will definitely not patronize. Huimian Noodles Pavilion in Henan, which has never been eaten at all, should not be suitable for southerners' tastes, and the business is not big. There is no doubt that Xincheng noodle restaurant was chosen for breakfast. It was almost a quarter to nine when the glass door of Xincheng noodle restaurant was pushed open in the past few days. The noodle restaurant was very lively and steaming.

Looking around the store, there are many guests. There are eight yellow square tables in the noodle restaurant, four near the western wall, and four not near the wall in the east, three or four feet away from the wall, enough for a stool to sit on. I found people sitting on every table, ranging from one or two to three or four. I asked my son to find a seat first.

I went straight to the bar, looked at the busy boss in the kitchen and said to a middle-aged woman, "Two bowls of shredded pork noodles with pickles, less noodles, and one egg in each bowl." "

The middle-aged woman looked at me doubtfully and said, "Not spicy?" As I spoke, I recorded with a pen the noodles I used to eat, especially the shredded pork with pickles, which was absolutely spicy. People who are not spicy and unhappy suddenly stop eating Chili, which makes her suspicious.

I took a plastic cup and said, "It's not spicy, just hurry up." I wonder how soon I can get it. There are several guests waiting in front of me.

After paying 20 yuan electronically, I took half a cup of boiling water from the hot water tea stove and took out two pairs of chopsticks from the chopsticks tube on the table next to me. In fact, it is unnecessary to soak the mouth of chopsticks in boiling water for disinfection. I have seen my boss wash chopsticks and soak them in boiling water for sterilization. It's more reassuring to get used to taking a dip. After all, the noodle restaurant is generally hygienic. According to the local people, this is a "laxi" noodle restaurant, which means an unclean noodle restaurant.

The noodle restaurant has been open for three or four years, and the square table is mottled and stained with oil stains. I habitually took out some paper towels to wipe the table, and the paper towels I wiped out were disgusting. In fact, it doesn't matter if the table is not clean, and it is not a disease if you don't eat it clean. Occasionally, some oil stains will fall off wooden stools, and I will also wipe them with paper towels, especially those plastic stools, which are covered with all kinds of stains. If you don't look at them, you will definitely lose your appetite. You will find that the guests who eat noodles around you are all immersed in eating noodles, waiting for them to play with their mobile phones, regardless of people and things around you.

Noodles are finally here. Give it to my son first. The little guy likes spicy food recently. He is indeed the son of Hunan people. He took a can of chopped pepper from the next table. Chopped peppers are canned with "Xianmei" empty wine, which is the hottest morning pepper, also called Thai pepper. It was cut into small pieces and salted. Basically every table has it, and there are more than a dozen cans in the transparent freezer. I used to like it very much. It felt super spicy and sour. The little guy opened the bottle cap and put one or two or three red peppers in the noodle soup. I stopped him when he was about to play the fourth one. It is too spicy. I was afraid that he couldn't stand the spicy taste and begged me to buy a drink.

There is a stainless steel chopsticks tube in the middle of each square table. The pipe wall is rusty and the surface is stained with a lot of stains. Chopsticks are inserted upside down and uneven. There are condiments such as Chili powder box, Tongxiang Chili sauce jar, vinegar bottle and Chili bottle next to the chopsticks tube, which are convenient for guests to season.

Noodle varieties and price lists are hung on the wall on the west side of the noodle restaurant. There are many kinds of noodles with prices ranging from 8 yuan to 30 yuan. 2 yuan with poached eggs, noodles 1 yuan. The price of mutton noodles is handwritten with a black oily pen. After several changes, the price changed from 20 yuan to 2 1 yuan, and now it is changed to 23 yuan. The price of mutton is rising every year, and so is the price of mutton noodles.

I seldom eat mutton noodles. I always think braised mutton is too sweet. I don't like sweets. But in Jiaxing area, from early winter to early spring, many people like to eat a box of mutton noodles with five wines, which is a kind of enjoyment. It used to be a petty bourgeoisie life, which made many people proud.

I like to eat shredded pork noodles with pickles made by the boss of Xincheng noodle restaurant. 10 Yuan for a big bowl and a poached egg. The price is reasonable and can satisfy my stomach, especially the salty and sour taste, which makes me full of noodles, and then I almost finished the noodle soup. I was afraid of embarrassment and left some soup at the bottom of the bowl, so I was not so hungry. Many people eat noodles like this. This is human nature. When I was in the noodle restaurant, I seldom saw guests drink noodle soup to the bottom.

Most of the people who come to Xincheng noodle restaurant to eat noodles are workers from printing and dyeing factories and textile factories, especially those who have finished the night shift. Order a bowl of noodles, a small bottle of wine, and drink cold beer in summer. They can have a good sleep after eating and drinking enough. A truck driver came in with a tea can, first went to the tea stove and carefully filled the teacups. There are migrant workers in the community, vendors and courier brothers in the market sit together, chatting while eating, and there are also several young couples.

This morning, a young couple ordered two bowls of noodles. Perhaps the middle-aged woman who ordered noodles misheard and served a bowl of shredded noodles with green vegetables. She ordered beef noodles with vegetables, and they began to argue. The young woman insisted that the middle-aged woman in the noodle restaurant said that she would only charge you 8 yuan. You know it can't be beef noodles. The young woman who eats noodles feels indefensible, and someone next to her says she won't eat me. She looked at the noodles and felt that there were many people in the shop. It will take some time to burn again. She held her face and bowed her head to play with her mobile phone.

The people in the noodle restaurant have left, and the business continues. I feel much warmer after eating noodles. Walking out of the noodle restaurant, I was thinking that a simple bowl of noodles can satisfy my stomach, which is cheap and delicious. Among them, some universities asked, first of all, it is delicious, then it must be fast, can't wait, and the arrangement should be reasonable to make people eat comfortably. Even if the hygiene is poor, not many people will care. All the people who come to eat noodles are street people, and the owners of textile mills and printing and dyeing factories next door will never patronize them. A bowl of noodles can be eaten for 30 days for 8 yuan. Its price is not expensive, and everyone can eat it. Its profit is not high, many a mickle makes a mickle. The income is definitely higher than the salary at work.

The shops on both sides of Shengli Road have lost their former liveliness. Under the embellishment of a string of red lanterns, I feel the breath of the coming New Year. There are fewer vehicles on the road, and fewer people go in and out of the farmers' market. Looking at everything familiar, I am at a loss and my life is wandering around. No matter how social civilization evolves and industry changes with each passing day, human beings cannot do without food. The simpler the food, the better. Maybe one day, I want to change my lifestyle. Why not open a noodle restaurant? I want to learn the same craft as Xincheng noodle restaurant and make a living with my hands. A simple life will have another meaning. Remember not to decorate it too well, it is simple and grounded, suitable for ordinary people's eyes and more suitable for our stomach.

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