When the night falls, where should you go to spend the long night?

Food streets, or night markets, have become a favorite destination for countless people.

With the vigorous development of night market economy in various places, various man-made food streets have appeared.

It's a pity that there is no such thing as delicious food in these man-made food streets.

Once upon a time, there was a snack street on the fourth floor of a once prosperous shopping mall in the old city of my hometown, so out of curiosity, I went to visit.

However, after going there, I was disappointed. All the food sold there were the same snacks that can be seen everywhere.

Fried skewers, mutton skewers, roasted pig's trotters, grilled cold noodles, crayfish, sixty-year-olds, etc. Not to mention that they have no local characteristics. Even the employees are local merchants. The production process is not exquisite. Anyway, as long as these foods can be made

Once cooked, sprinkled with a large amount of Sichuan peppercorns or chili powder, it will be sold, and the food experience will be almost zero.

In the end, this man-made snack street closed down completely within half a year of opening.

It's just a pain for those merchants who have rented stores but haven't sold much yet.

After Anqing developed the eastern new city, it specially built a street and called it "Seven Streets" because "eat" in Anqing dialect has the same pronunciation as "seven". As the name suggests, this street is indeed a man-made food street, and there are only merchants there.

There are hundreds of households. After 6 o'clock in the evening, when the lights are first turned on and the tables and chairs of roadside merchants are placed on the road, the night carnival begins.

Later, I followed the reputation and went to visit. When I first arrived, I was really shocked. The sidewalks were filled with tables and chairs, and there was an endless stream of people drinking and eating.

However, after walking back and forth, there was a lot to eat, but it was really hard to find anything worthy of gourmet food.

It's just like the man-made food streets across the country, they all have the same food.

Such as barbecue, crayfish, grilled fish, spicy hotpot, mutton skewers, hot pot, lamb scorpion... The whole street is filled with the smell of chili and Sichuan peppercorns, mixed with various seasonings that can be used in unlimited quantities.

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The first time I ate it, I thought it was spicy and satisfying. The next day, I felt like I had eaten nothing because there are so many such food streets across the country.

In fact, almost every city has its own naturally formed food street, usually located in the old city. Some food streets may be hundreds of years old.

However, with the expansion of urbanization, the area of ??urban areas is getting larger and larger. New urban areas also need such food streets to meet the needs of residents, and man-made food streets came into being.

However, it seems that only heavy flavors such as hot pot and barbecue dominate the food street.

The homogeneity of food is the most prominent feature of these man-made food streets. Thanks to the development of modern logistics, the ingredients themselves have been able to break through regional boundaries and reach various places.

You can eat seafood from Guangdong in Xinjiang, and crayfish from the south in Beijing.

However, also accompanying it is the homogenization problem of man-made food streets.

Flavors represented by chili pepper and Sichuan peppercorns have swept across the country, and even in Guangdong, which does not eat spicy food, it is becoming more and more popular.

Heavy flavors now seem to have become the representative of food streets, even seafood. Without Sichuan peppercorns and garlic, it wouldn’t be called night market food.

The food in the night market is more or less connected with alcohol. Only food with strong taste can suppress alcohol, bring double stimulation, and get temporary happiness.