Chengdu people love to eatBalls.
Balls are easy to make. To weigh a piece of fresh pork in the market, it is best to choose one with more fat. Take it back and grind it up, and slaughter it in fine piecesGinger pieces, salt, pepper and starch, and finally beat an egg white into it. Be sure to mix well clockwise.
The method of forming the balls varies slightly from one company to another. For example, our family, that isUse the scoop root to smooth the edge of the minced meatLike scooping a single ball of ice cream, little by little it gathers into a ball.
There are also those that are pinched directly by hand.
I still remember when I was in junior high school, my classmate took me to her mother's shop, and my mother was standing on the side of the street with her waist tied up, with a pot of boiling water in front of herSqueeze out a small ball of meat from the tiger's mouthThen make the chopsticks one by one, and the balls will be in the pot.
Chengdu people's dumplings are mostly seen in soup. For example:Green cabbage ball soup,Not anymoreBean sprouts and ball soup,Although the oil beads are floating, there must be tomato flocculent that has long been soft and rotten. There are also Chinese New Year onesBurnt assortment,Deep-fried balls are also one of the main ingredients.
The freshness of the balls does not eliminate too much seasoning at all. Therefore, if you want to sell ball soup in Chengdu, you need to be afraid of a little effort, but also a little courage. It was cold, and I suddenly wanted to drink ball soup.
The place was brushed by chance, saying that their family is roundQ bomb rush,There is no hint of pork. And there isFungi,YesChops.
I patted my head and thought, hey, it's so good to eat this in winter!
The place is very remote, in ShuangliuSanjiang Communityon the street. CloseWest Harbor. The people who live in this place have a sense of ease in the suburbs.
Men put it on"Provincial service".Walking all over the street, the woman will take the doll and sit outside the shop to drink tea and eat melon seeds after dinner. In front of every house, there are sausages and bacon in front of the house, which can be seenEach piece is carefully selectedJust wait for this flavor to be served in time for the New Year's Festival.
At twelve o'clock in the afternoon, there were already three or four tables of customers in the store. The hall is not big, whether it is ten people or two people eating, there is only a large round table. It was a middle-aged lady who came to receive me, and I waited for her to get the menu, and she only asked me: yesCauldron or cauldron cauldron.
Without waiting for me to answer, the eldest sister replied: Small pot. You two have too much to eat.
The boss is a chubby big brother with a leather waist bag around his waistThe red light is full of faces, and the seal hall is full. As soon as the list was ready, he walked slowly to the kitchen and lit the blackened antimony pot in front of the stove.
What is boiled in the antimony pot is the soul soup base of this round soup. The fat boss kept it until it was opened, and when it rolled away, it was bubbled, and then it was bigger, and it was almost overRaise your hand and sprinkle a handful of green onionsFlip over the stainless steel pot and serve it to the table.
From ordering to seeing this pot of balls, the whole process takes less than 10 minutesHot gasRising all the way, it is like cutting the ribbon for the red carpet of this round soup shop, directly filling this unique winter warmth.
I took the scoop root and shook it in front of this round soup pot, and it was full of balls, ribs and mushrooms. The pot is boiling, and the soup is drunk first.
The soup is snow-white and clear, with a few oil beads floating on the surface, but it doesn't feel a little greasy when you drink it. There is also a hint of garlic in the mouth. Probably for the fungus"Anti-poisoning"., the boss spread a lot of garlic cloves on the soup base.
This pot of meat is hereTightly tieAgainTamp. The pork ribs are less fat and more lean, the texture of the lean meat is clear, and when you bite into it, a hint of pink inside reveals a little soft and glutinous.
The balls were distributed by the head, and I counted them, and there were about a twelve. AndThe fat-to-lean ratio is about 7:3. The chopsticks can be put into the bowl with a slight pinch, and then gently clamped, and it will rot in half.
As soon as you take a bite, the juice oozing from the fat meat explodes between your teeth, and you can cut the lean texture by chewing it carefully. The freshness of the pork and the faint smell of green onions come on the heels. Serve a clipChicken fir fungus adsorbed to the essence of the soup……Only this mouthful, fresh eyebrows, warm into the heart.
The matching dipping dish is also the ordinary people's watercress plate, the color is ruddy, the taste is spicy, and the taste is fermentedAged sauce fragrant,Not bad.
If you eat too much boiled meat in this white soup and feel bland, put the meat into this dipping dish and wrap it and dip it.
Oh forgot to mention that before the dumplings are served, the owner will scoop you up some free homemade side dishes. LikeCold beans, cucumbers, tiger skin and green peppersand so on, the main one is an appetizer.
And what really goes with this soup pot is this plateLeafy greens,And there isKnife-cut surface. Wait until you've taken two bites of the meat before you give them a second look.
The tips of the spinach and peas come in a good place, and it's perfect to put them in the pot when the saltiness of the soup starts to become more pronounced. Mix with the remaining soup in the bowl and eatThe greasy smell that had accumulated in the taste sense due to the flesh disappeared in an instant.
By this time, the meal had been almost two-thirds of the way through. What I regretted and what I didn't expect at all was that all the praise I was going to give was over here.
Mixed with soup twiceAfter that, the pot of rice dumplings became saltier and saltier the more it was cooked. The smell of garlic that was originally quietly staying at the bottom of the pot gushed up, not only did not add freshness to the mushrooms, but also robbed the protagonist of the balls and pork ribs, which was really a bit appetizing.
Seeing that this knife-cut noodles were refreshing, I picked two more to put in the pot. The noodles are not easy to cookThe salty dumpling soup can't suppress the fishy smell of the wide noodles, and even if you add watercress and mix it well, it is difficult to call it delicious.
At this time, I met the next table to pay the bill, and there was a big pot left, and a man suggested packing, but he was a little embarrassed. Another woman agreed:"I can't usually eat too many hoof flowers, but this can be sprinkled! ”
She proposed to pack a bowl and go back, and cook two noodles with vegetables in the evening, which was another suitable meal.
The fat boss was at another table, mixing two taels of white wine, and also cooking a small pot for himself. watched the people pack in a hurry, and also enthusiastically accosted: "Take it back to cook pork ribs and noodles, scoop more soup,."Towndo is not a bad thing. ”
As soon as the table left, he hurriedly beckoned me to the table: "Is there enough food?" Not enough to call me! ”
Talking and eating at the same time, he didn't look up the whole time.
If you don't eat it, you don't need to eat it again. When I paid the bill, the boss asked me if it was delicious, and I didn't answer positively. I asked him how long the shop had been open, and he said38 years.
It turned out that 500 meters away from this store, he had another oneFarm stay. The farmhouse has been open for 24 years and the restaurant has been open for 14 years. It adds up to 38 years. It can be seen that the fat boss should also be an old restaurant man.
To put it pertinently, this pot of ball soup is not amazing, and it is not worth a special trip to find and eat. The umami brought by the balls is only in the past perfect tenseBut it cannot last in the present continuous tense and future perfect tense.
Before leaving, the boss said goodbye to me as usual with other guests: delicious next time!
Okay, won't come back next time. Outside, there are many delicious ball soups. No matter how bad it is, the Chengdu People's Congress can go homeSlaughter some balls and cook them in a potJust as delicious. Isn't it?