If you are traveling to Guangzhou for the first time, or have just arrived in Guangzhou soon, local friends will definitely take you to have morning tea, soup and midnight snack ... and let you know Guangzhou through various delicacies. If I lead the way, I will take you to eat a bowl of boat porridge first, and then wait for the moist porridge water to adjust your stomach, and then eat it.

The porridge in Guangzhou is soft and slippery. When it is gently scooped up, the rice porridge hangs on the soup and slips over the tongue. When it reaches the stomach, there is an indescribable comfort. Especially, the bowl of boat porridge, which contains a large amount of ingredients and is carefully cooked, is delicious in fish and meat, with a little crispy fried dough sticks and a handful of peanuts and millet. It is really immortal.

Boat porridge is a classic Guangfu porridge, which was born on the Guangzhou River and witnessed the life of a cruise ship in Guangzhou for a hundred years. Cruise the river, that is, play by boat. Nowadays, the boat-like scenery is no longer there, and the boat porridge has moved from the boat into porridge shops and tea houses. Lao Guang's feelings for the boat porridge remain unchanged. In this issue, the story after dinner, Peninsula Jun tells you about the past and present of the boat porridge.

Night singing in Liwan, boat porridge

As early as the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, Guangzhou Lizhi Bay was a paradise for wealthy businessmen dajia to grow flowers, lotus roots and lychees. Every summer evening, many scholars and tourists took a boat trip here.

A bay is green with water and litchi red on both sides

In that year, boats with purple holes and foreign planks shuttled back and forth in litchi Bay, which was full of vitality.

The purple hole boat is elegantly installed, and it is a place for rich people to have a big banquet.

yangban boats are equivalent to today's yachts. In the past, middle-class people (doctors, lawyers and literati) liked to play mahjong and listen to Cantonese music on the boats, and there were also some romantic young people who dated by boat.

Guangzhou yacht in Qing dynasty painting

cruise river is a bit scarce? When the yangban boat sailed out to sea and the guests enjoyed themselves, all kinds of food boats began to come into view: porridge boats with porridge flags and fruit boats selling watermelons, lychees and soda ...

Some well-known boatmen sang while setting out their boats: boat porridge, boat porridge, refreshing and fragrant, and a bowl for ten cents, which was delicious and depressing to the ears ~

Lai Chi Wan, which has become a scenic spot

Authentic boat porridge, boiled porridge with raw materials

A bowl of authentic boat porridge, boiled porridge with fish bones, and boiled porridge until cooked. Put sashimi, barbecued pork slices, shredded squid and jellyfish at the bottom of the bowl, pour porridge into it, and the easily cooked, semi-cooked or fully cooked ingredients in the bowl will be cooked as soon as they are scalded. Finally, sprinkle a handful of fragrant and crisp fried peanuts, chopped green onion and shredded fried dough sticks, and stir to eat.

This kind of boat porridge is smooth and delicate, and it is tough when eaten with barbecued pork and squid whiskers. Jellyfish silk and fried peanuts, crispy; Floating skin and fish fillets are refreshing ... all kinds of tastes are surprising.

Boat porridge is full of porridge, and a portion of fried noodles is a snack for many Fangcun people since childhood. It seems that the boat porridge beside the Pearl River is always the best for Lao Guang's stomach.

Xiguan cuisine: boat porridge, fishing for fish skin

Xiguan's ballads, graceful cheongsam, walking gate, Manchu flower window, boat porridge, chicken soup ... Today, boat porridge is still Xiguan's business card, and old Xiguan will still get into the old lane of Liwan and eat a bowl of boat porridge.