Text: Liu Shuliang **Liu Shuliang Channel
I'm not a person who cares about eating, I can eat anything when I'm hungry, I don't pick up colors and flavors, and I never take a second look at food shows. How can a food problem be used to be on TV and talk about production methods with relish?
Some people say that I am too tasteless, and the word food and clothing in life occupies the first two major events in life, and eating is the first major event in life. Do you dare to say that if you have steamed buns, you are still looking for a nest, and if there are braised prawns, you must eat boiled cabbage?One sentence reveals the essence of human nature.
There is a saying in the north that it is not as delicious as dumplings, it is not as comfortable as upside down, and now this sentence has been completely subverted. I'll admit that I can't stand the delicious **, and I don't have to eat it. Otherwise, I wouldn't have shouted for ten years**, and I am still the same.
Now having a meal is not the goal, but a reason to get together, in order to meet and chat, or to express a certain demand, you will not stare at the office and say something dark, right?Chinese pay attention to talking about things at the dinner table. At one end of the wine glass, the policy is relaxed, and the principle is mixed with feelings. This is an unhealthy trend in officialdom and a source of corruption.
What we are going to say today has nothing to do with officialdom, it is purely a private dinner. When I was younger, the issue of eating was extremely important, and the first thing we said when we met was: Have you eaten?It can be seen how important eating is in people's consciousness.
Now eating has become a burden, and you can leave wherever you go, and you can't eat outside if you can. But there are some dinners you can't refuse. For example, I often go on business trips to different cities, and my friends there want to invite you to dinner from the bottom of my heart, even if he doesn't want to go to a restaurant, he still has to go to a restaurant, just like a friend from afar who comes to Beijing, I have to invite people to dinner anyway, so as to fulfill the friendship of the landlord. There is nothing wrong with this, the Chinese pay attention to such human exchanges.
I walked a lot of places, and found that there are famous restaurants all over the place, especially snacks that can best reflect the local characteristics. From north to south, chicken stewed mushrooms in the Northeast, braised noodles in Henan, snacks on Nanjing Road in Shanghai, Lulai in Shandong, Pibaoshui in Yangchuan, and white-cut chicken in Guangzhou have their own merits.
Once I went to Pingliang, Gansu Province on a business trip, and a friend said that a breakfast here made mutton steamed buns is the most distinctive, and even the mayor came to eat there with friends. I think the mayor is the biggest official in Pingliang, and all the guests go there to eat, how big should this restaurant be?My friend said with a serious face, don't look at the big store, it's also very broken, and you have to queue up for a long time!I said I don't mind, the mayor is not afraid, what are we pretending to be?
Walking into the not spacious alley, I saw the voices of people in front of me, and the people who ate breakfast lined up in an orderly manner, and the queue was very fair, regardless of the old and the young. In the queue, everyone has a sea bowl in their hands, and a hard dough cake is placed in it, and the queue is not idle, and the flatbread is pinched into small pieces, and we line up and receive such a large bowl. Naturally, I can't go through the same queuing process as everyone else. This scene is a unique scenery of steamed buns in the northwest.
Although the famous shop is broken, the taste is unique, and the inside and outside of the house are full of people snoring and eating. Soon we were one of them, munching on them and devouring them without hesitation.
Each place is unique, and it doesn't have this flavor anywhere else. The most distinctive food in the country is Beijing, the original old Beijing snacks are also very distinctive, in recent years by the foreign food culture of the falling flowers, is slowly being swallowed up. Even if it is called an old Beijing snack now, the taste is not as good as before.
A few days ago, I went to Nanjing, and after eating three tours and five flavors in a large hotel and a small restaurant, my friend Brother Zhenguo said that he went to Qinhuai River to eat, and the snack was the most famous. I secretly thought that the Qinhuai River is a tourist attraction in Nanjing, and it can still be called a scenic spot if you don't kill touristsBrother Zhenguo insisted on going there.
When I arrived at the place, it exceeded expectations, and the snacks were naturally very distinctive, with **21 dishes per person. While everyone was discussing how to eat the 21 dishes, everyone was soon placed in front of them with a full number of foods. Surprised, they took pictures one after another. No one can finish the food in front of them, even if you don't want to waste it.
Over the years, doctors have solemnly warned me that I must lose 15 pounds to be the standard weight for heart bypass patients. My daughter has also studied a large number of Western dietary taboos for heart bypass patients, and she has come to a clearer conclusion: vegetarian, vegan to the point that you can't drink milk or eat eggs, these are the enemies of such patients.
In order to survive and live healthily, I was determined to correct my gluttony even though I was not a picky eater, such as not eating meat for several days, such as skipping meals at night, and so on, but for several years I had little success. The reason for this is that I go to the hotel too many times.
In fact, eating is no longer a problem, the problem is that eating like this every day, how to make the determination of **?
The author is the editor-in-chief of the journal and a member of the Chinese Writers Association).