Noodle paste is the breakfast of Quanzhou people, when the morning ushered in the first ray of sunshine, you sleepy eyes out of the door, the door of the stall of the noodle paste, is the beginning of your day gas station . You skillfully ask the owner to give you a bowl of batter, and then add the egg with large intestine, or liver, tofu, mushrooms, shrimp and other ingredients, and then a stick of doughnut, a small piece of fried vegetable kuey teow, and a small piece of bowl cake, and then it is a nutritious breakfast.
The noodle paste is also a snack for Quanzhou people at work, you work halfway, thoughts stop, you can order a noodle paste, when the delivery boy to the noodle paste to your desk, you eagerly drink a mouthful of noodle paste, already let the thoughts fly forward. You can skip the tea in the afternoon and have a noodle paste, which will give you the energy you need when everything is stagnant.
The noodle paste is also the night snack of Quanzhou people, after working overtime at night, after the night study, you are accompanied by the stars in the sky, and three or five friends to the noodle paste store to have a bowl of paste, plus fresh squid and nine-jointed shrimp, the seafood with the taste of the sea and light paste, will eliminate your day's fatigue.
So, the noodle paste, it exists in the daily life of the people of Quanzhou, exists in every cell of the people of Quanzhou, no matter where you go, the noodle paste is the nostalgia of your soul.
My children have been studying abroad for many years, and will occasionally send messages in the ticket circle: I miss the bowl of clear and light noodle paste, and sometimes will be thousands of miles away from the space and I pampered: Mom, I want to eat your cooked noodle paste.
So, every time I go home, to receive the dust is the noodle paste; every time I go back, the farewell is also the noodle paste; every morning I woke up, I give her to cook is also the noodle paste. Sometimes I thought it was funny, "Can't we eat something else? But she said, "That's all I'm good for.
The last night to pick up the plane, all the way to the dusty, rushed back not to the door, but the Zhongshan Road that night out of the stalls of the noodle paste stretcher, a wide range of food, full in front of the eyes, the pot is burning a large pot of clear paste, rice cooker stewed brined sausage, brined eggs and brined tofu, and the shelves full of a plate of food are: fresh squid, nine sections of shrimp, fried pork loin, fried pig's liver, deep-fried vinegar pork, fried shrimp, stewed bean curd, stewed mushrooms and other 20 to 30 kinds of ingredients. The unique appearance of the stall, always silent boss, let the daughter called very Quanzhou flavor.
And my daughter's mouth is tricky, even a few points of Quanzhou gourmets look, come to a clear paste, plus the large intestine and marinated egg, and then a stick of doughnut, she thinks this is the perfect match for the noodle paste. Haha, this is the old Quanzhou people's way of eating, the food on the noodle paste stall is ever-changing, each family has its own specialties, the only constant is the pot of marinated sausage, marinated eggs and marinated tofu, as well as the thousands of years of unchanging fritters on the shelf, fritters dipped in the noodle paste, soft and fragrant and the refreshing taste of the paste blended together, a common thing that is found throughout China, but in the south of one of the most common food to play the greatest gastronomic temptation! The most common food in the south of the most common food to play the greatest gastronomic temptation, really seduced people.
I remember one time, my daughter to roll back to her big city. I said, what do you want to eat tonight? Mom do. She said: noodle thread paste, fried vegetable kuey teow.
To do a meal of noodle line paste is not so simple, seemingly clear soup clear paste, the ingredients process is somewhat complex. My daughter wanted to eat, I went to buy, three points of crab, shrimp and big eye fish, big eye fish peeling, steamed, the fish meat crushed fish bones and fish head and pork bones, shrimp and simmering soup, after the dregs of the soup under the pinch of crumbs of noodle threads, noodle threads to be produced by the Quanzhou hand dragged the fine noodle threads to be able to add to remove the shell of the crab white crab meat, thickened with a micro-thickening, and then add a little bit of cool water, and wait for the boil, it is a pot of fresh, sweet, sweet, and fragrant noodle threads clear paste.
Sometimes I will brine my own sausage, of course, the process of brine sausage more have to suffer and stand hard work, with groundnut powder, salt and repeatedly scrubbing, to master the degree of washing over the top will become bitter, washing is not clean is a stinky smell, and then first in the pan fried sugar color, into the sausage, add star anise and cinnamon angelica packets of ingredients, cooking wine, flavor fresh, as well as boiled peeled eggs and halogen.
More often than not, I buy fresh squid, or shrimp, burned on the line, added to the batter, a few drops of angelica rice wine, a few wisps of coriander or scallions, sprinkle pepper, is a rich and free of charge noodle paste.
I don't usually deep-fry doughnuts for my home-made noodle paste, I steam my own vegetable kuey teow, grate white radish and add hard rice flour and stir it well, steam it together and cut it into small pieces, put it into a pot and deep-fry it, deep-frying vegetable kuey teow is crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, and it's a great flavor to go along with a bowl of salty-sweet noodle paste.
This is what I can give my daughter's mother's flavor, so she in every cool night, can think of home, can let her hang on to, can let her the next day full of blood resurrection, is such a with the hometown of the sea breeze of the ------ noodle line paste.
I think, all the people in Quanzhou who are working outside, the bones miss should be this kind of light taste of home, ordinary and simple, but it can give people the greatest comfort and the energy to go forward.
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