The story of "Flowers" is complex and complicated, involving foreign trade, business wars, and revenge. It's simple: it's just four women, a man and two roads.
To condense it a little more, it can be summed up in four words: diet men and women.
The Book of Rites reads: Men and women eat and drink, and people's great desires are saved.
When people are full, they want to talk about love. It's not interesting to talk dryly, you have to eat and drink after all. In the play, Po and his four girlfriends correspond to four kinds of food.
Mr. Bao ate too much fish and meat on the Yellow River Road, and his mouth was oily and greasy, and he needed to scrape the oil and water, so he came to the night Tokyo on Jinxian Road.
The proprietress Reiko prepared for him a "six-piece set of pickled rice" known as "Mantanghong", which was written: a bowl of soaked rice that is too simple to be simple, and then paired with all kinds of side dishes: bean curd, pickles, snails, kohlrabi, radishes, pickles, etc.
After a bowl of hot rice, Bao always felt "stomach", and finally got a little leisure after a busy day. The thing of soaking rice is too daily, and it is easy to associate with the word "home", so it's no wonder that Reiko once thought that Night Tokyo was Mr. Bao's home, and she was Mr. Bao's woman.
But Reiko was wrong, ordinary people wouldn't eat soaking rice like this. The delicate six small plates and the blue and white porcelain soup cup are not the containers for daily rice.
Pickled rice is not a delicacy, but it was once the breakfast standard for a generation of Shanghainese. When I get up in the morning, I make a bowl of rice to show off, and at most I go to work with a fritter or a flatbread, and I go to school.
Sitting at the dinner table like Po and eating the rice slowly and methodically, at least I rarely have this kind of experience.
And there are so many exquisiteness about making rice**. The rice is leftover from last night, just pour some boiling water and stir it, at most put it in a pot to heat it up. When time is tight, eat it in a pot, and ** what porcelain bowl with a lid is needed to make a container appearance.
Generally speaking, the side dish used to serve the rice is either Xieqiao mustard, Shaoxing fermented bean curd, or pickled edamame, basically no more than two.
I'm not Korean, and I have to set a table of kimchi for a meal. At most, the food will be improved during the New Year, and the fried ribbon fish or eel fish left over from the Chinese New Year's Eve rice will be used as a side dish, which can be regarded as the "top match" in the rice industry.
"Bao Zong Rice" is to complicate simple things, no wonder Reiko later went to engage in Japanese cuisine that focuses on form.
A wife is not a wife, a lover is not a lover, a partner is not a partner, and Reiko's rice is "stomachy" but not "happy", after all, it is in vain.
Generally speaking, there are two places to go to negotiate business: a café or a restaurant. But Mr. Bao and Miss Wang are different, they talk about business in the pork rib rice cake shop.
Is a pork rib rice cake shop a restaurant? Shanghainese call this a dim sum shop.
When I was a child, my mother often took me to the "Xiandelai" pork rib rice cake shop on Yunnan South Road to make a tooth sacrifice, and the standard configuration of a pork rib rice cake ** at that time was a piece of pork ribs, two rice cakes and a bowl of fat cabbage soup. Later, the fat cabbage soup was gone, but the ** of pork ribs and rice cakes rose sharply.
The second job in my life was near Yunnan South Road, when Huanghe Road was lonely, and Yunnan Road Food Street was quite lively. On my first day on the job, I was running back to reminisce about my childhood, and it didn't taste ......Tsk, let's not talk about it, if life is only as it was first seen.
Speaking of pork rib rice cakes, it is like the relationship between Miss Wang and Mr. Bao, the two are a dish together, and there is nothing wrong with separating them. The rice cake can be used to make Ningbo rice cake soup with shredded pork and rotten paste, and the best partner of pork ribs privately thinks that it is actually noodles.
The only thing that mixes the pork ribs with the rice cake is the soy sauce soup. Miss Wang eats pork ribs alone, and Bao eats rice cakes alone, although each has a little soy sauce on each other's mouths, but Mr. Bao will never really leave his whole net worth because Miss Wang is willing to sell tea eggs with him.
Pork rib rice cake, in the final analysis, is a dim sum, you can't eat it at once, eat it as a meal.
Eating hot pot with Xuezhi is eating big pot rice hot pot in the era of eating big pot rice.
There are more than a dozen people on a round table, each with a soup dish in front of them. On the surface, they seem to be doing their own thing, but they are actually tasting each other's saliva.
The scientific name of this cauldron is "Republic Cauldron". In the 70s, Hong Changxing Restaurant, which specialized in hot mutton in Shanghai, ate pot like this. I have read some northern literary works, and I should have a similar way of eating.
Dating between men and women should have been the most private thing, sitting opposite each other in the private room under the moon, but Po and Xuezhi's date was in full view, only half of each other's bodies could be seen, and the other half was covered by the rising mist.
It's like the relationship between Po and Xuezhi, looking at flowers in the fog and looking at the moon in the water. At the most intimate time, you can smell each other's hair when you are head to head and shoulder to shoulder on a crowded bus. But it was only a momentary intersection, and the next second it was separated by the crowd and went in the opposite direction.
Po and Xuezhi were swept away by the tide of the times, or they didn't really stop.
The date was on the rushing thirteenth bus, and the meal was at a table full of strangers. I can't see each other clearly, and I can't see the way out.
Li Li is a catfish that flew from Shenzhen to Shanghai Beach, and as soon as it landed, it stirred up the Yellow River Road.
Li Li's life trajectory is very interesting, born in Qingdao, made a career in Shenzhen, and took revenge in Shanghai. The three places are all harbor cities, and finally fall on the Yellow River Road, which is inseparable from "water".
Chinese superstitions believe that water can bring wealth, and the relationship between Li Li and Bao Zong is not only a relationship between men and women, but also inextricably linked with money.
These two people complement each other and fight each other, and the process of fighting and moving each other is hearty, just like eating a steaming hot pot on a hot day - the root is enjoyable.
The hot pot that Mr. Bao and Li Li ate on their date was not the kind of "Republic Pot" that they ate with Xuezhi, but a brass charcoal hot pot.
I also have one of these things at home, and I can count the number of times I have used it on one hand. Before eating, you should brush the pot, burn charcoal, open the door to prevent carbon monoxide poisoning when eating, and clean up the cold charcoal and cold pot after eating. It's troublesome, it's too troublesome, I really don't have the heart to serve it. With an induction cooker, this thing was shelved.
When Mr. Bao and Li Li were eating hot pot, Li Li persuaded Ah Bao to eat fish, and Ah Bao said that he was afraid of trouble and never ate fish.
Seeing this, I felt a "chuckle" in my heart, and understood that these two people were out of play.
The original party knows that Po has a childhood sweetheart Betty in his heart. Teenagers Po and Betty sit on the roof looking at the cathedral in the distance, collecting Betty's favorite stamps and listening to Betty play the piano. Reiko, Xuezhi, and Miss Wang all have Betty's shadow on them.
Little Betty ended up going a**? Book in the book: The crazy Shuhua said that she and Grandma Shaoxing turned into goldfish and were taken into the water by a cat.
Since then, Betty's psychology of staying in Po forever has become an unsolvable mystery.
At first glance, I didn't understand what it meant, but when I looked back, I finally understood: In that special era, Betty and the nanny should have jumped the Huangpu River together.
The young man can't accept death, so in Po's heart, Betty didn't die, she became a fish. So how can Po be willing to eat fish?
Li Li is also a fish, that is a catfish that can live in the big rivers, it is a fierce, meat-eating fish. After all, it's not the one in Bao's heart.
In room 72 of the Peace Hotel, Po keeps a small red goldfish in the fish tank, which is his Betty.
Author: Matcha Platinum Bag |on the Internet.