This hotpot restaurant is an old house in the 1980s in a narrow alley. The outer wall is made of gray bricks, and the sun and leaves are mottled and swaying on the wall. I suddenly realized, what age is this, and I have crossed it? The whole era of environment stopped in the 1980s.
This hot pot restaurant should be called a string shop in Chengdu. The storefront is very simple, so you have to go down a few steps (stairs) first. There is no signboard, only a dirty red banner "Congratulations on the cooperation between Huang Jie Hotpot and CCTV brand through train" hangs in the low gatehouse.
This guard room should be the access to the stairs. Here are some tables and plastic stools, and there are two fans shaking their heads on both sides of the gatehouse. The wires in the spider's web are in a mess. There is cement on the steps, which has been trampled black and bright. The front of the gatehouse is about 2 meters wide, and the sunshade erected with the simplest plastic shed is symbolically blocked with plastic sheets of packaging bags. On the left is the kitchen, and on the right is the cash box collected by the boss.
I don't object to fly restaurants, and like most people in Chengdu, as long as they are delicious, they don't care about the environment. In addition, it is said that all the delicious hot pots in Chongqing are in remote alleys. Look at all the people here. Go in and find a place to sit down.
We sat down near the boss's till (neither the front desk nor the cashier's desk, I said it was called till), and then continued to explore the terrain. After entering, it should be a three-bedroom apartment in the 1980 s. Each room is very small, and each room can hold two tables. Tables vary in size, from large round tables to small square tables. The corner is full of plastic stools, drinks and paper.
I went to look for the toilet and saw a big table in the back, full of people, about 10 table. It's too noisy. Next to it is a typical dirty sewer in the 1980s, not to mention the toilet.
I guess you can't eat after seeing this. )
"There is no parking space here, and those who have not crossed dare not stop." Lao Zhang finally parked the car and said when he came in.
The kitchen is monitored, and so is the room. I looked at the screen. There are nine cameras installed here. The boss uses WeChat or Alipay to collect money, and there is a special charging APP.
In fact, people should have everything, not a few.
We sat down quietly and ordered food. Wow, it's really cheap. Meat dishes from 6 yuan to 25 yuan, vegetarian dishes from 2 yuan to 8 yuan. The service is very fast. As soon as we sat down, the oil dish came up, only sesame oil and garlic paste. The jar was quickly laid out with four squares. At first glance, I knew it was because the business was good and the waiters were trained. We drove for four hours, with our taste buds open and our stomachs growling, ready for war.
"What's your specialty?"
The waiter "Mei Er, tender beef, black pepper beef" is short and pithy, with a distinctive Chongqing accent.
The food was served quickly.
We took a bite and began to evaluate the taste.
"There are many kinds of hot pot seasonings in Chengdu, no less than 20 kinds, which are randomly matched, and the taste of dishes accounts for the majority; The taste of Chongqing lies in the taste of the bottom of the pot. "
To tell the truth, the first bite is really not delicious. We are not used to simple oil and vinegar in oil dishes. I ordered coriander and oil consumption, continued to breathe and continued to evaluate.
"Not as spicy as imagined, not as delicious as so-and-so in Chengdu", only constant evaluation and aftertaste can evoke memories in the taste buds.
After we ate three rounds, the taste became more and more spicy, and the bottom material of the pot became more and more spicy, and the more we ate it, the more fragrant it became. The more I eat, the more I want to eat. Later, I also ordered a lotus leaf and had a dry meal. This is what I think is the most classic way to eat hot pot.
The boss is busy collecting money around us. He said that he had run this shop for 20 years.
Hot pot, for Sichuan and Chongqing people, no one can not eat hot pot or skewers once a week. Hot pot is our eternal complex.
Hot pot is the kind of person who can open his arms and open his mouth and eat it. He is out of breath and says "It's so spicy". Then chopsticks continue to fly into the sky, and you have to eat when your stomach rolls, and you have to take antipyretics when you go home, and you have diarrhea when you eat it. If you are not feeling well today, you can continue to eat God's delicious food tomorrow.
I will eat hot pot every time I go to Chongqing, and I must eat hot pot. Every time we come to Chongqing with different friends, the reason is to eat hot pot. We can't remember which street and which alley it is, but what we remember is who we ate hot pot with, which brought us a strong taste shock.
Food, delicious, remember the taste of us together.
When I came home from Chongqing, I had a terrible headache. In order to fulfill my promise to myself, I start my fantasy trip every Wednesday. During the description of delicious food, my head gradually stopped hurting, and delicious food is the best healing medicine in the world.