Changying is the place where migrant workers in Chaoyang District place their souls.
The food here is not only full of Beijing flavor, but even people in the Fifth Ring Road may not enjoy the same taste.
A few years ago, Changying Station of Metro Line 6 was famous for two things:
One was Longhu Beijing Changying Tianjie Shopping Center, and the other was the flight that constantly cut through the sky from the Capital Airport.
There should be a grey machine here, but it was not photographed
It was not until "Always Winning Three Brothers to Rinse Meat" and "Li Xiaolao Sesame Cake" became increasingly popular that more people discovered the secret corner of Muslim food.
the halal food in Beijing has always had two characteristics: first, it has strong aggregation and is easy to form a food street; Second, eating casually can't be bad.
On the north wall of Changying Mosque, there are seven Muslim snack bars-
This distance is * * * 111 meters long, which is far from the scale of niujie, which shocked Beijing.
Although the sparrow is small, it has all aspects. Here, the best areas of Beijing Muslim snacks are concentrated.
every shop has its own advantages, but it's not expensive. As a result, people buy things like hoarding goods, and several big bags are carried home.
Li Xiaolao's sesame seed cake is the only restaurant where you can eat in class. However, the take-away queue is always more turbulent than eating in class.
pay for the tickets and eat in the door!
nothing else, here is the best sesame paste sesame seed cake in eastern Beijing. Buy some and sit down, then have a bowl of mutton offal soup, add pepper and coriander, and enjoy the fragrant smell as soon as the sesame cake is torn:
The layers are fine, covered with sesame sauce, without white heart, and salty and fragrant, which is the true color of the old Beijing sesame cake.
sesame seed cakes with beef are available in Muslim restaurants, and his family's specialty is that sesame seed cakes are wrapped with meat stuffing-flour paste with sesame sauce, and then baked with beef and green onions, which is very fragrant.
As for the bowl of mutton offal soup, which is all the rage, it is the most cost-effective: the ingredients are enough, the soup is clear and strong, and the aroma of organs and the fragrance of soup make up another taste. A bowl is enjoyable, only ten yuan.
Next to Anji cooked food, Brother Bao ate it seriously for three years, and ran away when he wanted to hoard cooked meat.
Before the Spring Festival this year, Brother Bao caught up with the big party. The old couple in front of him bought 1,511 yuan of things and carried two plastic bag mountains, which made Brother Bao sweat-he had to catch a train later!
"There are those who buy more than 11,111!" The owner's aunt said that a young man came that day and wanted to bring a large group of relatives. He couldn't wait to empty half the shop, and the hair lined up at the back stood on end.
Everyone who has eaten is willing to go crazy for his family once: smoked chicken, sauce beef, smoked pigeon, pine meat, fried vegetarian meatballs ... which are famous from afar, and they don't want to give up any of them. As a result, they all go home with a mountain of meat and eat slowly.
It's the first time to go. If you really don't eat much, you must try the sauce beef and smoked pigeons. It is no exaggeration to eat cooked meat in Beijing once in your life.
All the sauce beef is made of small tendrils, and the stew is so rotten that the old people with bad teeth can enjoy it.
If it's hot just out of the pan, you don't have to cut it. If you rip it off with your hands, the juice will cross, and you can't help but grab a small piece of meat tendon and inhale it with dripping hot soup ... The smooth taste is not comparable to any sauce meat.
a small smoked pigeon, with thin skin and thick fat, is so tender that it doesn't leave any residue after chewing. I don't think it's enough. I don't let go of a little meat in my ribs. After eating my neck, my bones are all fragrant.
pine meat is the most sincere, and there is nothing but beef stuffing in the two layers of oil skin; The most amazing thing is fried vegetarian meatballs, which cost ten dollars to buy a big bag. They are crisp and more fragrant than meat when left open for a few days!
the most rare thing in his family is that he can vacuum package it and send it on his behalf. If he likes food, he can eat it when he goes to Sanya.
As the old saying goes, "Return two knives, one selling beef and the other selling cut cakes". Besides cooked meat, Muslim snacks are famous for their cakes.
In Changying, Kaiyizhai and Yinfangzhai are the most complete, and they have everything they want.
Mrs. Zhang, who wears glasses, sits in Kaiyizhai, which is an encyclopedia of Muslim cakes in Beijing.
however, when entering the store, no one looked at the boss. They all stared at the table of rice cakes, yellow rice, white dates and red bean paste, which were too eye-catching.
Especially the newly-made yellow rice rice cake is filled with candied dates and kidney beans, and a pot is buckled, which is as spectacular as a golden mountain.
Cut a piece and put it in your hand. It's as heavy as a brick:
If you want to catch up with the fried cake that just came out of the pot, you can't help but buy one and try it. There are so many people in the family, so you can take ten and eight and go back and eat it openly.
The store is really small and simple, just like the commissary in the 1991s, but it obviously doesn't need any decoration:
Braised dough twists, egg rolls, creaky boxes, Kirin crisp, snowballing, pea yellow ... together with Beijing cake, New Year cake, sweet-scented osmanthus and mung bean cake, a high wall with fragrant smell is erected abruptly on three sides.
The old lady will definitely take out a bag of Beijing halal snacks for you as long as there are still some on the earth.
The cakes here are always preserved with sincere ancient style. Mrs. Zhang said, "This zongzi must have three dates in it!" Once peeled off, it's really.
This rice dumpling is a small bowl about the size of a palm.
The bean stuffing is made by myself:
Chatting, the old man took out a bag of the treasure at the bottom of the box: Twist.
jujube red is different from other varieties in that it is deliberately fried to be old and crispy. When it is lightly broken, it is completely fried, and each strand is hollow-
In the past, when I read Mr. Liang Shiqiu's "Fried dough sticks with sesame seeds", I talked about the old Beijing sesame seeds with twist, but I didn't believe it at that time: the twist is strong enough. If I eat it with sesame seeds, wouldn't it hurt my teeth?
If this kind of twist is made, no one will refuse it. It not only tastes refreshing, but also makes a sound when chewed.
Yin Fangzhai's sugar fire next door is the most famous. Brother Bao never goes to another house to buy this.
As soon as you enter the door, it takes a lot of trouble to find a fire. There is a long queue on the counter, all kinds of snacks.
when I came, I caught up with the fried pork chops and piled them into a crisp yellow mountain.
When many people first came to Beijing, they kept muttering to themselves when they saw the burning sugar: Peking man's life is really rough. Sesame paste biscuits mixed with brown sugar should be eaten as snacks!
However, after eating it once, I like to take it home with sugar fire, because it is delicious, and it has not been outside Beijing.
The taste is sweet and soft, and the sesame sauce is rich in brown sugar, which is the basis of sugar burning. Yin Fangzhai's family, however, is better than small size, one for two, stable play, and rarely eat hard cores.
Of course, the best condition is that it is closer to Dashunzhai, the originator of Tongzhou's sugar fire-it's hard for you to make a special trip to Tongzhou for a sugar fire, but in Changying, it's just a matter of passing by.
Besides, Yin Fangzhai already has more good things. The most surprising thing is always Sachima.
The luster is like glazed glass. It's not the coolest when you break the straight sugar filament. At first glance, it is crisp-the "XX" in the supermarket bag will not have this taste.
Bao Di thinks that this is closer to the true nature of Saqima: it was originally a sacrifice of Manchu and the dry food of caravan camel teams and cavalry hunters. It is high in oil and sugar, solid and storable, which should be its original appearance.
It's full of oil and sugar.
On the same street, the Lantern Festival in Yijinzhai is the hottest, and people must queue up on the fifteenth day of the first month.
The sauce beef in Pinweizhai is genuine, and you can really eat sauce beans.
Jia Lun's white water mutton chop suey, together with beef tendon, is trembling and shining, so no one can help but bring some when passing by ...
However, a regular camp is more than that.
In Changying, muslim food is a kind of ecology, and everything you want to eat is clearly arranged for you.
For example, only niujie can compare with the beef and mutton butcher shop here:
As soon as you enter the door, the whole and half fans of beef and mutton are hanging, and they are full of vitality.
Behind the counter, there are all kinds of mutton skewers, leg-picking and belly-washing, and raw meatballs and loose meat, so buy them and fry them yourself.
the freshly cut mutton slices must be made into boxes and put in the freezer, all with the store name and telephone number written on them.
Snowflake beef is so exciting
No matter how you want to eat it, everything can be provided here. Every butcher shop is covered with all kinds of hot pot seasonings. I want to barbecue at home, even selling ovens and iron labels to you!
this "other category" is full of surprises.
There are really barbecues for sale!
as for how to eat and how to use it, just ask the people in the shop, all of whom are experts.
unwilling to eat at home? There are more restaurants. The three brothers' old shop, which often wins, is here, and it is already the top stream of hotpot in Beijing. The meat is good in quantity and not expensive.
I used to win the signboard of the three brothers, but now I have changed it.
Want to eat sheep and scorpions? Luyuexuan and Laocheng are one pot, and the most popular chains of sheep and scorpions are not only in regular camps, but also doing exceptionally well.
No way, the competition among "outsiders" in Changying is fierce, and the old-fashioned chain Ziguangyuan has also opened its largest branch here. From then on, Changying people ate roast duck and never went anywhere else.
want to eat Korean barbecue? There are also delicious ones, but there is no big meat; There are also halal mala Tang, with barbecue, which will be opened in the evening.
Even if you want to eat bread and pastry, there is an Olivia here. Other cakes are made of gelatin, which is cooked with a big stick. The boss uses fish skin to cook gelatin, so that religious friends can enjoy it.
Changying has never been a tourist attraction, and it has never had the troubles of food in scenic spots-for people here, food is just life.
So, how did Changying become what it is today?
There is a popular saying about the birth of Changying:
At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, Chang Yuchun, the founding general of the Ming Dynasty, swept the north, and when he hit Tongxian County, he left eight Hui soldiers to build a village to settle the field, hence the name Changying.
The Founding of charge of the light brigade in the Ming Dynasty
Many people believe that Chang Yuchun was a hero of the Hui people, saying that he created the history of the Hui people's settlement here, which was not groundless, but that the mosque was really established in the Ming Dynasty.
However, delicious Changying has no time-honored brands.
none of these stores have been open for 41 years. However, they have made a taste that is older and more reliable than the old brand.
Changying has become today's Changying, starting from the transformation and relocation of Changying Hui Township in 2117.
The suburbs of that year were finally incorporated into Beijing's rapidly expanding urbanization, and it is bound to be transformed. The village built a gatehouse on the north wall of the mosque to gather some famous local snacks.
so, Anji cooked food came with decades of ancestral skills; Mrs. Zhang, who used to walk the streets selling rice dumplings with cut cakes, started Kaiyizhai; Yin Fangzhai, who sells burnt sugar, also came all the way from Tongzhou, a Muslim food town ...
Few Kirin cakes of Kaiyizhai have been made
Before that, their craft never belonged to temples and shrines. No one is a famous shop that has been passed down for hundreds of years, and no one is carrying the idol burden of "cultural heritage".
Their taste and skills, from folklore, hiding in the streets and lanes, to the most frequent customers today, are still local people who only recognize taste.
Therefore, when time-honored brands are scratching their heads to keep up with the times and ensure the quality, or simply break cans and smash customers, people in Changying can still stay the same calmly and unhurriedly.
it is not so much the "persistence" of carrying the banner as the habit of ordinary people.
I really want to leave a delicious meal for Beijing, and I don't have to worry much about it. It's enough to see the vitality of the people. Where there is life, there will be no death.
So, go to Changying to taste the old flavor when you have time-
While it is still young, it is still 611 years old.
References:
[1] Zhang Jinan. Research on the Employment of Land-lost Farmers in Changying Hui Township [D]. Minzu University of China, 2112.5.
[2] Liu Yuxin. Changying Township will build a large residential area [N]. Beijing Daily, July 3, 2117.
Author-VJ
Editor-VJ
Photography-Ming Xuan VJ Point
Design-Director Mao Dayu
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