The latter is the nameless breakfast stall that I visited for nearly 10 years. Before, for various reasons, the original booth was banned. After a long time, I found it by accident. Strictly speaking, it can be regarded as a small shop now, but it is only subletted with others.
At 5: 00 a.m. 10, I will go to my boss to do breakfast business, and then I will go to other bosses to make Huangshan special vegetable rice and bone soup. Generally, the boss will start cleaning at 9: 30, and most of the food and drink are sold out. You have to eat early, otherwise you can only eat vegetable rice and bone soup, and let your taste buds go from Shanghai to Huangshan at once.
For many Shanghainese, a good day begins with breakfast. Although the types of breakfast in Shanghai can make you not eat the same thing for a month, when it comes to traditional breakfast, you have to mention four donkey kong: pie, fried dough sticks, rice and soybean milk. Now there are only a handful of shops that can provide four traditional breakfasts at one time. Fortunately, I still remember the appearance of traditional breakfast.
The pie is the first of the four donkey kong. The freshly baked pie is delicious in color, flavor and appearance, and it costs 2 yuan each.
Sweet cake is the first dessert in the morning, so be careful when you eat it. If you are not careful, you will burn your mouth with the sweet syrup flowing out.
Salted cakes are hard to make. Every step of kneading dough, applying ghee, sprinkling chopped green onion, kneading dough and rolling dough is a test of experience and craftsmanship.
After the pie is baked, the water evaporates at high temperature, and the edge part will become warped, so it is easy to fall off the furnace wall with tongs.
Fried dough sticks, it and pie are a pair of CP.
Press the dough prepared in advance with chopsticks, then pull it by hand, throw it into the boiling oil pan, and turn it over several times with chopsticks more than a foot long to make it evenly heated. The whole process goes in one go, like a craftsman performing acrobatics.
Before the guests take it away, they should drop a drop of oil on the filter screen. Smart Shanghainese like to string fried dough sticks with chopsticks, whether dipped in soy sauce or soaked in rice, so the fried dough sticks they bring back are still long and complete. Unfortunately, this kind of scene is really rare now.
Fried fritters are the best. Bite it down, it's crisp and delicious, and it smells good. Remember to wipe your mouth after biting the fritters, or the greasy lips and the fritters at the corners of your mouth will betray you.
Eating by mistake is the most satisfying of the four donkey kong.
The most traditional glutinous rice is white glutinous rice wrapped in fritters. The glutinous rice cooked in advance has been kept warm. Take out a steaming sticky rice and spread it on a white towel, put the fritters into the sticky rice, wrap the sticky rice into a ball with a white towel and finally put it into a plastic bag. The good skill of cooking rice is that you can hide fried dough sticks in white glutinous rice and cook them once without leaving any trace.
Meat floss? Salted egg yolk? Glutinous rice with blood in it? Sorry, this is not the meal we had when we were children.
Soymilk, the only soup in donkey kong, can only be exploded but not filled. Shanghai people drink soy milk, which is light, sweet and salty. No matter which one, it is as warm as a warm current.
Of the three kinds of soybean milk, I like salty pulp and 3 yuan money best. Why? Because the material is full of mellow!
Fried dough sticks have doubled in size after being washed with hot soybean milk, as well as laver, shrimp skin, pickled mustard tuber, coriander and shallots. In addition to all kinds of condiments, I want to add a little more pepper, which is so fragrant that I can't control my mouth, and I have to pour a bowl to satisfy it.
Frugal uncles and aunts often bring their own containers to buy soybean milk, because no matter whether you bring a cup or a big bowl, you only need to pay for a cup of soybean milk.
I asked my boss, "So, aren't you afraid of losing money?"
The boss smiled and said, "All the people here are neighbors. They become familiar faces again and again. A little soy milk is nothing, everyone is happy. "
I asked again, "What time do you get up every morning?"
The boss said, "Just two or three in the morning."
Although I had expected it in my heart, I still admire having to get up at two or three in the morning every day. Summer is fine. It's really hard to get up so early in winter, and it's even harder to persist day after day.
"Do you feel hard?" I asked curiously.
"Hard work? How can it be difficult to make money? " The boss replied airily, scooped up a bowl of soybean milk for the aunt in line, and then turned around and brought a bowl of soybean milk to the guests in the hall.
My eyes are a little moist. Seeing that they are still busy making a living, I am embarrassed to continue asking them.
Life is fair. If you don't work hard to make money, you must worry about saving money. In Shanghai, it can be said that there are yellow (ji) and gold (hui) everywhere, depending on whether you are willing to bend down to pick up (zhua). Ma said well: Opportunity is like a loach in the water. It's easy to see, but hard to catch. Opportunities are often visible to everyone. Many people have tried them and left with a sigh.
I often hear people sigh: "I have no resources, I can't help it, I have no money …" It sounds really pitiful. Come to think of it, it's not really like this. The truth of the matter is that they are stimulated by the beautiful life of others, and their abilities and desires do not match. Finally, I fell into an infinite loop and labeled myself as "poor".
Diligence is a passion for life. Doing breakfast business, many people may feel that it is not decent and hard, but in my opinion, it is very reassuring and practical. Starting with small money every day can at least support the family, which is better than sitting at home and waiting for the pie to fall from the sky.
Thinking about the pie, I subconsciously took a bite of the pie in my hand, feeling that today's pie is particularly sweet and crisp.
There is still a lot of noise in the shop. An uncle won mahjong in an ostentatious manner yesterday, and several aunts are saying that they will retire soon and get a raise. Occasionally, the boss will take the opportunity to come in and hand over cakes, fried dough sticks or soy milk ... a group of people are chatting, as if they were the only one in the whole store.
Every time I come here, I like to eat in class and have a leisurely breakfast, especially enjoying this feeling. A cookie with 2 yuan money, a bowl of salty pulp with 3 yuan money, and occasionally something else, such as salty cakes, fried dough sticks, rice cakes, bean curd, tea eggs and so on.
Although the environment is not so good, I like the taste of the market, which is simple, warm and scarce, and it is also my confidence in facing the complexity of life.