(Historical narrator: Yin Dianyou, Zhang)

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 are only three hotels in Tangyuan County, which is a big hotel. These three hotels are cooperative hotels, state-owned hotels and Huimin hotels. It was generally established in the fifties and sixties.

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

At the beginning, the cooperative hotel had more than 20 employees, and the person in charge was not a manager, nor a manager, but a 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 a buyer, Yang is a tofu master, a noodle master is Lao Wangtou, and Lao Wangtou's apprentice is also Wang. There is an old fan who runs errands. This old fan 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. Once, a puppet policeman went out to a restaurant and wanted to eat a free meal. He got a fly and put it in the dish, and called the old man who ran the waiter to blame him. Lao Fan fell silent at the first sight that it was a fly. He picked it up and looked at it. He threw it into his mouth, chewed it up and swallowed it. He winked and said, this is a fly. It's chopped green onion It smells good. The police did not expect that the humble waiter had such a skill and smiled and took it.

Sun cannon, the chef in the kitchen, is not ordinary. His big spoon is awesome, as if playing acrobatics, and the food is fried accurately. According to the present statement, it is amazing that even the sharp-tongued customers are convinced. Several of his apprentices are 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 it for many years. Li Huicai is also his apprentice. Later, he opened a big hotel in Tangyuan County to buy and sell fire. Customers are interested in the cooking skills he inherited from the master Sun Cannon.

? The name of the cooperative hotel that collects money to sell tickets is Mary, who has worked for many years. Another person named Gu Tonghai 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 for a long time every day to push water for Dajing's hotel.

Let's start with the layout and operation of the hotel. There are seven or eight round tables in the cooperative hotel, with the front hall and the back kitchen, cooking while 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 scalding wine for customers. There is a counter at the west end of the house, which specializes in selling big fruit fritters and steamed bread. There is a small window on the side, where tickets are collected and sold. As soon as customers enter the door, they queue up at the window to buy tickets and pay food stamps. After buying the tickets, they handed them to the waiter and waited for the food to be served. The waiter shouted the name of the dish to the chef who was cooking in the back stove. Waiter's waiter has to obey the chef's orders at any time. When the chef is cooking, he taps the big horse spoon with a frying spoon. The big horse spoon clicked, the waiter went to the kitchen and turned around, and a steaming dish was served.

In the cooperative hotel, you have to get up early to queue at two or three in winter. A steamed bread is fifty cents for two food stamps, and a fried dough stick is eighty cents for a food stamp. Getting up so early may not be possible. Some people will be disappointed that day. There are so many places a day, and when they are sold out, they are gone. But some people will be disappointed.

The cooperative hotel specializes in northeast dishes, such as slippery tenderloin, skimmed liver tip, sliced pine cone meat, skimmed kidney flower, vegetable powder, dried bean curd and so on. Compared with the current price, the food in the hotel was much cheaper at that time, such as skimming liver tip 5 1 cent, dried bean curd1cent, white wine 25 1 kg, and beer was the local sweet beer in the county, and both canned and bottled were 25 1 cent. Let's just say that eight people can eat a meal for five yuan, including food and drink.

At that time, unlike now, ordinary people's major events and small feelings were arranged in their own homes. Usually, few people go to restaurants to eat, even government officials. Except for the government canteen, they eat at home, not outside. Besides, you can't eat out. Tens of dollars a month, a few people in a family, and some old people need to be taken care of. With four or five children, you can support yourself with a salary of tens of dollars. How can you afford to eat out? Beautiful you. 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 food in winter. ?

Speaking of rural members who send meals out to eat, it is a sight. In the past, the production team only played in the old autumn when it was frozen. After tossing for a long time, the food was finished and it was cold. It's time to send agricultural food. The bosses got up early and ran a long way to transport crops, with big whips and four carts. Two bronze bells hung around the horse's neck, red cloth tassels were tied to the big whip, and the big whip made flowers and rang clearly. At that time, carts transporting crops lined up in front of grain depots and oil plants, so it was not easy to deliver crops. After paying the food, the production team will arrange for the bosses to go to restaurants to eat and drink, otherwise they will have to drive all the way back to the village when they get up early, and they should not be hungry. Why do the bosses still suffer that loss? The cooperative hotel is too busy at the moment. As soon as the bosses came in, they took off their shell hats and dog fur hats and hit the corner with a big whip. The rough atmosphere opened, and vegetable powder and dried tofu were brought up. The whole pot of high grain was burned and placed on the iron plate on the stove, and they were flushed with drink. Drive back to the village.

State-run hotels are also old hotels, which are bigger than cooperative hotels. In the present Huaqiang Shopping Mall, there is a guest house 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 collecting tickets, next to the counter selling fried dough sticks and steamed bread, and to the north is the kitchen and counter. There is a chef named Yin Yonglong. He went to the kitchen. Later, a chef was transferred from the stand. His name is Li Chuan and his nickname is Li Shao. Many years later, the catering service company opened another hotel in Baidaonan, called State-run Hotel No.2, and the original State-run Hotel became State-run Hotel No.1..

The third time-honored hotel in Tangyuan County is called Huimin Hotel, which is located in the south of the current health pharmacy. The manager is Lao Wangtou, the cooking master is Wang Denghai, and there can be one or twenty employees, all of whom are Hui employees. Huimin Hotel mainly deals in beef and mutton dishes and steamed dumplings with pasta. Famous dishes include fried belly with water, breast-sliding, grilled meat strips and roasted dumplings. We must respect the national customs when eating here, and we can't mention pigs. I heard that once, a man ran back to the People's Hotel to ask for pig's feet, and several old people gave him a meal. Who told you to order again without asking?

The house of Huimin Hotel is an old house, the foundation has subsided, and the room is dark. Later, in the 1980s, the hotel was contracted by employee Li He. This is the first individual contractor of Tangyuan catering industry, and it is a news event. At the opening ceremony, many people came from county leaders, finance and trade offices, commerce bureaus and guests from all walks of life. After the opening ceremony, all the participants took their seats in Huimin Hotel and had a delicious meal.

In addition to these three restaurants, there is also a 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 decades. At that time, materials were scarce and people lived in poverty. Only a few restaurants don't feel inadequate. After the 1980s, unemployed youths in some units opened several restaurants one after another, and then began to reform and open up. There are more and more restaurants, and the earliest time-honored restaurant in Tangyuan has finally disappeared in history, but the taste of the old restaurant has always remained in the hearts of Tangyuan people.