Why are many older people reluctant to eat in restaurants? Is it really because of thrift? It's not. Decades of reform and opening up, the restaurant industry has changed a lot. Not to mention the old, not to mention the traditional diet. But it's the way restaurants operate and the dishes they offer that have changed a lot.

I live in the north and can only react to the changes in the north. The vast majority of sloppy joes have now been replaced by a variety of rice noodles, spicy hot pots, covered rice, cassoulet rice, ramen, and beef noodles. There are also iron pot stew, wood-fired chicken and fish, which are labeled as Northeast specialties, flooding the dining world. The stir-fry dishes that remain on the street are no longer what they used to be.

It's fair to say that today's chefs know more innovative dishes than old-fashioned ways. I remember that when I was in school, I was very satisfied with the fish-flavored shredded pork I ate at a small restaurant near the Harbin Qiulin Company. I have never seen such authentic shredded pork with fish since then. The name of the dish is the same, up is the cilantro fried shredded pork, spicy shredded pork. And the fish flavor dishes are not related to the cow and horse. There are some traditional dishes that require a lot of procedures, pay attention to the fire. Now is processed into semi-finished products into the freezer, need to use a simple stir fry can be on the table. Don't underestimate this little change, many dishes were eliminated.

These changes, the traditional dishes into a modern fast food. But catering to the needs of young people. Those old loyal fans of traditional dishes feel that the flavor has changed and the essence of the original dish is missing. Once again, I went to Dandong and searched several streets near the train station, but I just couldn't find a restaurant with stir-fried vegetables. In the end, time ran out and I ate rice with rice on top.

In fact, in some streets and alleys there are still small restaurants that follow the tradition. Here are still those old main roads. There are very few young customers. I took my child to these restaurants and she but loved some of the traditional dishes. We went to a state-run Li Lian Gui bakery. The child ate the pot roast, slipped three kinds of meat, skin jelly, bacon, and dried tofu with sharp peppers.

Another interesting thing, there is an old man, every year into the winter first snow will go to the corner of the old restaurant to order a boil white meat pickles, and then hot a pot of white wine, lit a cigarette. The first thing you need to do is to get a good deal of money to pay for the services. The first thing you need to do is to look out of the window and see the snowflakes falling down, not slow down the food, drink wine, taste a mouthful of cigarettes, it's very interesting. I guess he is a poet, an artist. In fact, neither, he is an ordinary person, an ordinary old man. But there are fewer and fewer restaurants like this, and the guests are getting older and older.