Yili breakfast: the first thought in the morning

Breakfast in Yili: the first thought in the morning

Among the numerous and complicated sayings in China, I remember two sentences very clearly, one is "Food is the most important thing for the people" and the other is "A plan for the day lies in the morning". From this, I pay special attention to my breakfast in three meals a day.

Especially in Yili, after middle age, eating a delicious breakfast has almost become my biggest thought after getting up every morning.

This kind of breakfast is usually prepared from the night before. You should buy bulk milk from the milk kiosk on the street, cook it slowly, buy Kazakh firewood naan, and put it in food bags.

People's energy is limited and basically fixed. When all the reasons for being busy seem far-fetched and can't convince themselves, the attraction of food is surging and direct. This exquisite and patient eating mood can make a small city more human and interesting.

A typical breakfast in Yili should be like this: after getting up early, pick out the red potato in Zhaosu bought in the morning market, slice it, cut it into pieces with green peppers, add a little mutton, stir-fry the chowder, and when it's more exquisite, take out the cabbage, add vermicelli and mutton, stir-fry another plate, be more luxurious, stir-fry the meat with peppers, and serve the dishes well. Heat the milk, boil the tea, four spoonfuls of milk, one spoonful of milk skin, a pinch of salty salt and strong tea, and the hot milk tea will be successful. Just eating side dishes, drinking milk tea and eating naan cakes, if accompanied by ghee, honey, etc., it will be more perfect. This morning gives people a practical feeling.

Life has its own fun, and people are pursuing and enjoying themselves in different directions in different environments.

In Yili, there are many people who can have this kind of breakfast, but in Beijing, Shanghai and even Urumqi, you can rarely see people pay so much attention to breakfast. People seem to be busy, and fast-food life speeds everything up. There are often young people holding pancakes and fried dough sticks with soy milk or hamburgers and pure milk on subways and buses. They are all in a hurry and have moved their lives to a fast-forward state.

once, I was miserable because I couldn't find anyone to drink milk tea with in the morning in a city.

I remember that I went to Urumqi for training and got up early. I habitually wanted to find a tea house for breakfast, but I couldn't find one in a street near my residence. When I called a friend in Urumqi, he smiled. This is an international metropolis, and all the rhythms are following. A leisurely place like a tea house is no longer suitable. People here are more willing to spend their time on work, business or other "important" things.

It seems that this is the case. I really feel it in the so-called big cities. People seem to be busy, including those people of the same age who have gone to small cities. You go to see him enthusiastically. If he is not on a business trip, he will invite you to dinner at most. The very simple kind will basically be controlled within two hours, and it will span several districts. The topics discussed during dinner are mostly about making money, housing, starting a business, etc., which is realistic and cold. My friends in Yili, for those who come from Beijing and Shanghai, are enthusiastic. They must treat themselves to dinner several times wholeheartedly. If they don't get drunk, they don't count. They have to accompany them all the time, and they can't wait to give each other the best things.

I'm not saying that people in big cities don't love each other, but it's a common phenomenon. Being in it is like a top. If you don't run at a high speed, you will fall behind and even be thrown off the track. In this busy life, any safe and serious eating is time consuming, and people who can't help themselves have to make sacrifices under the pressure of their future and life.

fortunately, I live in Yili, a place that is suitable for my life at present.

In Yili, apart from breakfast at home, there are many milk tea houses on the street. No matter how remote the corner is, there will definitely be a simple but warm breakfast restaurant when you walk 2 meters away. Moreover, it must be crowded with people who are eating flowers and fragrant milk tea. It seems that they are never in a hurry, eating vegetables and drinking tea one after another, and talking about the shortcomings of their parents.

Time seems to be a lot slower here.

besides the protagonist of milk tea, there will be noodles, lungs and beef noodles for breakfast in Yili. Generally speaking, most people who go to eat these two kinds of breakfasts had a grand wine party the night before. This grand wine party does not refer to ostentation and extravagance, but to the actual intake, which is the kind of wine party that drinks too much. The direct result of this wine party is that there is basically nothing to eat on the wine table. After a night of vomiting, headache and discomfort, it is these two foods that people on an empty stomach look forward to most in the morning. There are soup and meat, and a lot of old vinegar can be added.

Xibo set meal is also one of the choices for Yili people's breakfast. It is also a bowl of fragrant milk tea, accompanied by a hand-torn Xibo cake, with pickled flowers and carrots, or with some leek sauce, which is another feeling.

Of course, traditional fried dough sticks, soybean milk and bean curd, as well as Henan people's hot soup, are also one of the breakfast contents of Yili people.

Ili people put great enthusiasm and heart into breakfast. They put their expectations and blessings for every beautiful day in the breakfast time with the sunrise. Only by killing these casual days can we feel the happiness that belongs to us and can only be understood.

this kind of happiness has nothing to do with money, but with the state of mind.

A good day should start with a comfortable breakfast, and in a good life, eating calmly and happily should be one of the main contents. It is rare and valuable to have a mood of eating breakfast in a calm mood in a busy work and life.

In Yili, it's comfortable and lucky to have a delicious breakfast.

(Cai Lipeng)