(historical narrator: Yin Dianyou, Zhang Lianjie)

Food is the most important thing for people! Hotels are indispensable in people's lives, but in the past planned economy era, there were very few hotels in Tangyuan County. There were only three hotels in Tangyuan County, which is a big one. These three hotels are cooperative hotels, state-run hotels and Huimin hotels. Generally, they were established in the fifties and sixties.

Cooperative Hotel is the earliest hotel in Tangyuan County during the planned economy period. It was founded around 1953. It was opened by several old owners who used to be engaged in catering service, so it was named "Cooperative Hotel". The cooperative hotel is located in the middle of Xinhua Bookstore and Huaqiang Shopping Mall, with an area of about three or four rooms.

at the beginning, the cooperative hotel had more than 21 employees, and the person in charge was not the manager or the manager, but the director. The director of the cooperative hotel is Li Zhenfu, the chef in the kitchen is Sun Zhenqing, nicknamed Sun Cannon, and there is another one named Guo Yukui. Xing Guangping is the buyer, Yang Jingxue is a bean curd maker, the noodle chef is Lao Wangtou, and Lao Wangtou's apprentice is also Wang Zhizhi. There is an old fan tou who runs errands. This old fan tou is quite old. When he was in Manchukuo, he worked as a waiter in a restaurant in Tangyuan. I don't know what restaurant it is. On one occasion, a puppet Manchu policeman went out to a restaurant, wanted to eat the overlord's meal for free, got a fly and put it on a dish, and called the old man who ran the waiter to blame him. When Lao Fan first saw it was a fly, he kept quiet. He picked it up and looked at it. He threw it into his mouth, chewed it and swallowed it in his stomach. He blinked and said, this is a fly. It's chopped green onion. It smells good. The police didn't think that the humble waiter had such a skill, grinning and taking it.

Sun Dapao, the chef in the back kitchen, is not an ordinary person. His big spoon is superb, like acrobatics, and the dishes are cooked accurately. According to the present statement, it is amazing, and even the customers who are so sharp-tongued are convinced. Several apprentices he took were very promising. After Sun Chuanyou and Zhang Rong, they all became three-level chefs. That's the highest-level chef in Tangyuan County, and no one has surpassed them for many years. Li Huicai was also his apprentice. Later, he opened a big restaurant in Tangyuan County, buying and selling fire. The customers were interested in his cooking skills inherited from his master Sun Cannon.

? The name of the cooperative hotel who collects money to sell tickets is Mary, who has been working for many years. There is also a person named Gu Tonghai, who later became the manager of a catering service company. At that time, he was a controlled person, working in a cooperative hotel, and going back and forth to a long place every day to push water for the hotel in Dajing.

tell me more about the layout and operation of the hotel. There are seven or eight round tables in the cooperative hotel, with a front hall and a back kitchen, where one side is cooking and the other side is cooking. In the center of the front room is a stove with a shallow iron trough filled with hot water, which is specially used for ironing wine for customers. There is a counter at the west end of the house, which specializes in selling big fruit fried dough sticks and steamed bread. There is a small window on the side, which is the place where tickets are collected and sold. When customers enter the door, they queue up at the window to buy tickets and pay for food stamps. After buying tickets, they give them to the waiter and then wait for serving. The waiter shouted the name of the dish to the chef who cooked in Houzao. The waiter of the waiter had to listen to the order of the chef at any time. When the chef cooked the dish, he knocked on the big horse spoon with a frying spoon. When the big horse spoon clicked, the waiter went to the stove room and turned around and a steaming dish was served.

In the cooperative restaurant, you have to get up early and queue up at two or three o'clock in winter. A steamed bread with two food stamps is five cents, and a fried dough stick with one food stamp is eight cents. Getting up so early, you may not be able to buy it. Some people will be disappointed that day. There are so many quotas for one day, and when they are sold out, they will be gone. But some people will be disappointed.

The cooperative hotel specializes in Northeast cuisine, such as smooth tenderloin, liver-skimming tip, pine cone meat slices, waist-skimming flowers, dried bean curd, etc. Compared with the current price, the food in the hotel was much cheaper at that time, with a liver-skimming tip at 51 cents, a dried bean curd at 11 cents, a piece of white wine at 251 Jin, and the beer was a local sweet beer in the county at 251 cents. Let's just say that eight people can eat a meal for five dollars, including the money for food and drinks.

At that time, unlike now, ordinary people's big and small affairs were held in their own homes. Usually, few people went to restaurants and ate out, even government officials. Except for government canteens, they ate at home and didn't eat out. Besides, you can't afford to eat out. A few tens of dollars a month, there are several people in a family, and some elderly people need to take care of them. Plus four or five children, you can rely on a person's salary of several tens of dollars to support you. How can you afford to eat out? Beautiful you. The people who eat out may be people who have no place to eat because of foreign business, or members of the production team who come to the city to deliver agricultural grain in winter. ?

it's a sight to talk about the rural members who deliver grain going out to restaurants. In the past, the production team only played when it was frozen in the old autumn. After all the tossing, the food was finished, and it was cold. It was time to send agricultural grain. The bosses got up early and ran a long way to deliver agricultural crops, with big whips and four carts. Brass bells hung around the horses' necks, red cloth tassels tied to the big whips, and the big whips made flowers, which rang crisply. At that time, the carts delivering agricultural crops lined up in front of grain depots and oil plants, and it was not easy to hand in agricultural crops. After paying the grain, the production team will arrange for the bosses to go to the restaurant to eat and drink, otherwise they will get up early and have to drive all the way back to the village, so they can't go hungry. How can the bosses still eat that loss? The cooperative hotel was busy for a while. As soon as the bosses came in, they took off their shell hats and dog skin hats, and a handful of big whips went to the corner. The rough atmosphere was opened, and the vegetable powder and dried tofu were all brought up. The whole pot of high-grain was burned and put on the iron plate on the stove, and they drank it until they blushed. Driving back to the village.

The state-run hotel is also an old hotel, which is larger than the cooperative hotel. It is located in the current Huaqiang shopping mall, with a hotel in the east and a state-run hotel in the west. There are a dozen round tables in the room. On the west side of the entrance is the window for selling tickets and collecting money, next to the counter selling fried dough sticks and steamed bread, and then on the north is the kitchen and noodle table. There was a chef named Yin Yonglong who went to the kitchen. Later, a chef was transferred from Heli. His name was Li Chuan, and he was nicknamed Li Da Ma Shao. Many years later, the catering service company opened another hotel in Baidaonan, which was called the State-run Second Hotel, and the original State-run Hotel became the State-run First Hotel.

The third time-honored hotel in Tangyuan County is called Huimin Hotel, which is located in the south of the current health pharmacy. The director of the store is Lao Wangtou, the master of cooking is Wang Denghai, and the staff can have one or twenty people, all of whom are Hui employees. Huimin Hotel is mainly engaged in beef and mutton dishes and pasta steamed dumplings. The famous dishes are water-fried belly, chest-sliding, grilled meat strips, and baked dumplings. You must respect the national customs when eating here, and you can't mention the pig. I heard that once, a man ran back to the people's restaurant to ask for pig paws, and several old people gave him a meal. Who told you to order again without asking?

The room of Huimin Hotel is an old house, and the foundation has subsided, so the room is dark. Later, in the 1981s, the hotel was contracted by Li He, an employee. This was the first individual contractor in Tangyuan catering industry, and it was a news event. At the opening ceremony, many people came from the leaders of the county and the Finance and Trade Office, the Commercial Bureau and the distinguished guests from all walks of life. After the opening ceremony, all the participants took their seats in the Huimin Hotel and had a good meal.

in addition to these three restaurants, there is another restaurant at the railway station, which is later than these three restaurants and is a straw house.

This is the earliest time-honored hotel in the era of planned economy in Tangyuan County, which lasted for several decades. At that time, there was a shortage of materials, and people lived in poverty. Only a few restaurants didn't feel that they were not enough. After the 1981s, unemployed youths in some units opened several restaurants one after another, and then began to reform and open up. There were more and more restaurants, and the earliest time-honored restaurants in Tangyuan finally disappeared into history, but the taste of old restaurants remained in the hearts of Tangyuan people forever.