At lunchtime, my brother Miao Lin of the 80th grade of the Law Faculty said that it was about 1987 or 1988, when Lao Pan invited him to dinner at the Xingguo Hotel, with two dishes, two cans of beer, and one soup, at a cost of 1.85 yuan. Old Pan called Pan Weiming, is the Chinese Department of the brother, served as secretary of the Peking University Youth League Committee, then Deputy Minister of Propaganda Department of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee (presiding), Xingguo Hotel is the Municipal Party Committee's hospitality office of the property, the old Pan is certainly enjoying the leadership of the preferential price, otherwise, even if it is in 1988, 1.85 yuan is not possible to eat two dishes and drink two cans of beer. Miaoling especially emphasized: "The beer is imported Heineken."

From left: I, Miaoling, Xia Nan

At that time, we were very young, energetic and ideal, but we did not have money, in the school's Yan Chunyuan dinner is a difficult thing, not to mention the star hotel in the But we didn't have any money. But we also like to eat well, like a comfortable life. Maybe it is because there is nothing to take the ideal to say things, well now it is called sentiment. In the end, the ultimate goal of human struggle is just to eat and drink well, live comfortably and play happily. The world really does not have two-thirds of the toiling masses need to be liberated by the Chinese people, can liberate themselves has been very difficult. Nowadays, eating and drinking well is basically solved, there is really no ideal. If someone asks me for my first thought, it's to eat well and drink well, and I don't dare to have other expectations.

Because today's lunch at the Xingguo Hotel Wang Songlou to eat, Mr. Shi and Mr. Huang Bin total Wang Songlou's first banquet show let me do a "Dong Keping table. I am very grateful to the two bosses of the importance, but also allowed me to meet with old friends in Shanghai during the Mid-Autumn Festival holiday. I said in the circle of friends: "Mid-Autumn Festival vacation, the second meal in Shanghai to go to the Shanghai Xing Guo Hotel Wang Song Lou master studio. Mr. Shi, Mr. Huang specially put the studio first banquet show to Dong Keping table. A table of classic local dishes so that friends and I ate with joy, beautiful feast! What's even happier is that the two 80th grade brothers also came to support Dong Keping's table. Special thanks to the Donghu Group, thanks to friends who came to support during the holidays." Mr. Shi Yibin corrected my statement about Wang Songlou, the correct expression should be: Xingguo Hotel Wang Songlou is the base of the East Lake Group Catering and Gastronomy Research Association.

private room design elegant luxury

For today's meal, specially invited the executive chef of the East Lake Hotel for us to prepare a table of Shanghai dishes. 1995 when living in Ruijin Hotel, often go to the Changle Road new Jinjiang Hotel side of a Shanghai home cooking restaurant dinner, and later went to the Huanghe Road where the South China, that's when began to like Shanghai dishes. One year after the filming of "Taste of China", I came to Shanghai, Master Li Yaoyun invited me to dinner, and specially let his apprentice do a few traditional Shanghai dishes for me to eat, which was the first time I ate "mackerel bald lung", the first time I ate so delicious "shrimp seeds, big black ginseng", the first time I ate the real meaning of "Shanghai". The first time I ate so delicious "shrimp seed big black ginseng", the first time I ate the real meaning of "braised paddle water", Shanghai food is really delicious.

This time in the Wang Songlou "Dong Keping table", eat is still Shanghai food, is the kind of exquisite to retain the flavor of the hotel food. Xingguo Hotel belongs to the East Lake Group, there are many times a year the government reception tasks, so the dishes presented in pursuit of exquisite elegance, with good ingredients to do a good job of flavor. These characteristics of this meal at noon has a good embodiment.

Menu

Shanghai four-flavored cold platter

Old duck whip flower soup

Soy sauce square turtle

Bad aroma catfish maw

Crab bucket

Snowflake beef

Yangtze River Perch Bowfin

Bitter lily stir-fried ginger stalked melon

Tri-color ravioli

My friend, old Botanic Head, said: Since the group's research laboratory, the chef is not the only Xingguo Hotel one, today's spoon that is the East Suburb Hotel's Master Shen. Cold dishes in the onion grilled crucian carp in the mouth, is from the old grandmother to eat the kind of old flavor, I know that the level of this meal will not be low.

The old duck soup is winning in the ingredients, the so-called turtle sauce party refers to the sauce side of the burning method of thick oil sauce shellfish, not really put a piece of meat into it.

The catfish belly is amazingly large, comparable to the gelatine, burned with bad, can be unctuous. Crab bucket who will do, but do so refreshing is not very common.

Other dishes, almost can not eat. I always feel that we should respect the labor of the chef, desperately stuffed desperately stuffed, the result of the night walked a few kilometers to digest.

Old Botou is a Shanghainese, and his knowledge of Shanghainese food is much deeper than that of a foreigner like me, so he said it was good. I think it's very good, and I think it's very good.