Lv's Pimple Soup is one of the flavors of Qingdao's memory.

This bowl of home-style porridge with a history of nearly 30 years, is the taste of many Qingdao people's dreams of home, no matter where they are, drifted to where, is to cut the nostalgia and longing.

"Traveler's Parlor - Qingdao City's parlor", when a small roadside store, has developed into a chain of catering companies, there are more than a dozen stores open out, and even into the Beijing. But the years have changed, the company's development, the taste of pimple soup remains the same, just a richer variety, from the initial clam pimple soup, into a pimple soup series with nearly twenty kinds of patterns, to facilitate the choice of diners with different taste preferences, the dishes have become rich and diverse.

And the homey, authentic taste of private dining has remained unchanged.

My own favorite store to go to a Lv's pimple soup private kitchen, in Qingdao Zhanshan Temple under the East China Sea all the way to the junction of Huayan Road residential neighborhood, elegant environment, quiet place.

I often recommend this Lv's to friends who come to Qingdao from abroad and love to eat, and at the same time, there is also a famous restaurant not far away from this Xinzhan Road No. 2 "open sea". Are N years of popularity of the restaurant, one if you can not line up, you can try another, three hundred meters away from each other, within walking distance. On the way there's also the Little Four Seasons, a shabu-shabu restaurant that serves authentic lamb from the Hulunbeier prairie.

Kaihai, famous for its seafood and shrimp dumplings on Hongdao Island, is the best seafood restaurant in Qingdao in my opinion, followed by Qingdao Qianhaiyan. I can't get enough of Kaihai's prawn dumplings, Grandma's eggplant with a unique flavor, and the spicy fried clams are definitely of Hongdao origin, and are incredibly tasty. All kinds of stores, such as the old Qingdao fried meat, Wanggezhuang cuttlefish roasted tofu, brine shrimp, salt and pepper shrimp tiger, clams stir-fried cabbage and so on, are the old Qingdao authentic taste of the city. Of course, "open sea" famous, and behind the boss Huang Bo has no absolute relationship, win in the dishes and management.

Back to the topic, Lv's pimple soup.

That said, I went to Weihai in the past two years to work, a long time not in Qingdao, often miss the taste of home, Lv's clam soup is one of the lumps, especially in the morning of the hangover. Weihai's seafood is good, the flavor is also delicious, but ate a few clam soup, but can not compare to the "Lv's", including many other dishes of the same.

I think this may be because it is the wandering wanderer's heart home flavor?

Maybe not.

Today, I have time to visit Lui's again and revisit the flavor of Qingdao in my memory.

I came here for the three dishes: clam soup, single cake rolled with two things, and sliced snails mixed with eggplant.

Regrettably, Daniang burrito sold out, one of the three to go, then ordered the store manager recommended the penpipe fish stir-fried meat with corn nest, Jiaodong dishes. In order to comfort me, she also sent a small gazpacho seaweed stalks, quite thoughtful and considerate!

Lv's private kitchen restaurant "conch slices of eggplant", is one of the old diners must point to the signature watchdog dishes. Sliced conch knife work, hot Nao the right heat, eggplant sticky, with a secret sauce, garlic, green onion and knife cut out of the rolls of green and red pepper filaments, so that the plate out of the character is very moving, the flavor of the wonderful natural needless to say. In a glass of Qingdao Pure Life, three or five friends and friends, tasting slow chat, the cozy life in the anxious world, but so.

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Clam Chowder, as always, the taste of home, more than 20 years has never changed, tender eggs, clams, with a potato, rich in taste, a little green onions and ginger, so that the flavor becomes layered.

In fact, at Lui's, new varieties of lump soup have been added one after another, such as tomato lump soup, green vegetable lump soup, sea cucumber lump soup and so on, which are also to my taste.

I'd like to mention that the manager of the store recommended the Jiaodong stir-fry, which I ate for the first time at Lv's.

Green and red bell peppers, tender slices of meat, eggs, penne fish, with sliced green onions and garlic, special Lv's sauce, in the chef's big iron spoon in the fire, transformed into diners on the tip of the tongue to meet. Golden corn nest, loaded with a spoonful of stir-fried meat, vegetables and rice together to deal with, for home-cooked meals, very affordable.

At Lv's Pimple Soup Private Dining Hall, there are many signature dishes worth tasting, Father Lv's Fish in Casserole, Live Sea Cucumber with Meat Foam, Roasted Oysters with Garlic Vermicelli, Lv's Tender Tofu, and Sister-in-Law's Air-Dried Sausage, all of which are extremely distinctive. And my particular favorite, there is also a garlic explosion hand-torn big head of cabbage.

In addition to the owner's perseverance, a restaurant that has stood for 20 or 30 years is only as good as its back-of-the-house cooking, its craftsmen's dedication, and the sincerity and goodwill with which it treats its guests.

"Traveler's living room - World traveler", I do not know from which day, Lv's goosebump soup, with the times, a small roadside store, sublimated into a place for travelers to provide a warm taste of home.

I think, today's Lv's, has not only focus on the fire and iron spoon in the glow of the stove, on the dishes and diners in the integration, has begun to try to jump out of the self, jump out of the business, with a more rounded mentality, in the view of the world, look at their own and the people in the world.

Lv's Pimple Soup Private Dining Hall, Qingdao's living room. Come to Qingdao, let me accompany you to go, taste the old flavor of this Qingdao city memory.

Qingdao welcomes you!

A small episode, a big chance to add a restaurant encounter:

Chatting with the neighboring guests from Taiwan, quite a chance, Mr. Mou asked me to taste the "DALMORE" he brought from the Baiyun Airport, a Scottish Highland single malt whisky, the taste is soft, smooth with dried fruit sweet flavor, very good. The taste was soft and smooth with a sweet flavor of dried fruits, very good. Asked how he knew about Lv's Pimple Soup, he said he knew it when he came to Qingdao in 2008, and it's a place he often comes to.

Further chatting, I was surprised to learn that he is a descendant of the famous "Mou family" in Qixia, Yantai, Shandong.

When it comes to the Mou family, if you lift the clouds of history, there are too many sad stories. A country, an era, a nation, a family's destiny stumbles, ups and downs of all kinds, the natural book is not a book, it is difficult to say.

I wonder, when he returned to the Mou's Manor, see the family's old house nowadays, the heart will be how a kind of feeling and taste?

Probably only he knows.

The so-called family and country, never is the same thing, from ancient to modern.

The first time I saw this, I was in the middle of a conversation with a woman.