Wuchan Breakfast: The Essence of Hometown Flavors
People who light fires where they gather for breakfast, there is comfort of soul.
In the morning, the people of small towns hurried about with a hot breakfast to start the day's work. The breakfast shop began to stage 'kitchen symphony'.
Noodles are the first choice on the table for northern people. In the hands of various northern people, noodles can always make many kinds of shapes, become exclusive hometown flavor.
Bagua, first lightly fry the basic dough for deep-fried youtiao, then put the raw eggs into youtiao, put into the oil pot to fry until golden yellow. The two aunts have a clear division of labor, one is in charge of putting eggs into bagua, and the other is in charge of frying bagua, based on home-style short time, a pot of hot and steaming fried bagua came out.
The freshly fried bagua is plump. Cut into three pieces, the eggs inside have already adsorbed on the youtiao, become the 'filling' of youtiao. Bite into it, the oily and tender noodles and eggs combination taste makes people have endless aftertaste.
Breakfast is about matching, for example, bagua must be paired with a hot bowl of tofu brain. Different from tofu brain in Shandong and other regions and tofu brain in Henan, the tofu brain in Wuchan Town is not of a thick type, the soup is light and flavorful.
Scoop up two large spoonfuls of soft tofu brain, purple cabbage, coriander, pickled pepper, shrimp, salt and other seasonings added in, and finally pour in hot original soup, the fragrance is enticing. Take a sip, you can warm your stomach and can harmonize with fried dough stick, let your stomach enjoy the benefits.
Of course, foreign delicacies will always be improved by local people, become more popular local flavors. The improved Hu La Tang, paired with youtiao, and the hand-pulled bun in the street corner are also a choice.
Zhang's Candy, Wuchan people have always missed the hometown flavor. Everyone calls it 'Red Dot Candy Cake'.
Starting from the 1980s, a Mr. Zhang ran a candy shop on North Gate Street, then passed the skills to his son and son-in-law. Mr. Zhang's son-in-law, Brother Yu, started selling candy cakes and then developed smaller steamed face, which was popular among the people.
Due to the renovation of North Gate Street, Zhang's Candy moved several times, but none left North Gate Street. Brother Yu, who was full of emotion for the place, continued to set up a stove and cook 'Red Dot Candy Cake', allowing people to find solace in the familiar taste.
Almost early in the morning, a young man came to the store first. This is the son of Smaller. He is in charge of the basic work of steaming face. In a short while, the whole family went all out, Brother Yu and his wife came to the store to knead the dough, put the steamed dough into white sugar, and constantly rotate it in the wife's hands, shaping it tightly.
There is no modern manufacturing means, rely on day after day's proficiency and accumulation.
Feel, is about quantity.
Pinching out the candy cake dough, the size of the mold is almost the same, sesame red dot without a less, finally two hands pick up the dough, along the pot side put into the oil pot, Brother Yu is the pot front examiner, in charge of pulling out the fried candy cake out of the pot.
In the pot, a pot of candy cake one after another, a pot of red dot candy cake succeeded in coming out, piled into a small tower shape. Take a bite while it's hot, oily but not greasy, a lot of white sugar juice flows into the mouth, fragrant and crispy. Bite by bite, it's the fragrance of sesame and the little children love red dot, paired with Wuchan bean curd is delicious. In the lip and teeth, the soul got full comfort.
As cities expand, people's breakfast is constantly 'transferred' from their own pots and pans and roadside stalls. Breakfast shops with spacious and tidy environment and large floor-to-ceiling windows, and the various self-service breakfasts in hotels, have become people's new choice.
But no matter when, in a sunny and breezy morning, you will still come to this bustling place, carrying a bowl of stew or tofu brain to shuttle between various stalls to find a place, see the hair slightly messy girl holding hot and steaming egg cake, see middle-aged greasy uncle eating a bowl of chili oil 'red' bean curd, see wearing loose clothes middle-aged grandma carrying a thermos bucket guarding at the stall… countless town mornings like this start and end and then follow again, constituted our small town life part.
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