I believe that everyone who leaves home not only wants to take away their luggage, but also wants to take away the taste of hometown.

I was born in a small town in the southernmost part of Wenzhou, surrounded by mountains on three sides and the sea on one side.

I spent my childhood and adolescence there. The mountains and rivers of my hometown nourished me as a person, and the taste of my hometown nourished my stomach.

I have been away from my hometown for more than eight years. When I think of the taste of my hometown, I still feel that the breakfast in my hometown is the most nostalgic.

When I was studying in high school, I lived in the county town and was lazy. When I got up, I was already in a hurry for morning self-study. I could only go to the cafeteria to pack bread and the like, purely to satisfy my hunger, and there was no interest in enjoying breakfast alone.

After arriving in big cities, housing prices skyrocketed, and many breakfast shops could not survive. They could only "catch" one or two stalls in the streets and alleys, and buy some porridge and steamed buns to fill their stomachs, showing that they had had "breakfast".

Now that I am thousands of miles away from home, I don’t know whether it is because of the fermentation of homesickness, or because after tasting delicious food from all over the world, I have begun to miss the taste of my hometown more and more.

Wenzhou Glutinous Rice Wenzhou Glutinous Rice is the most popular among Wenzhou delicacies. It has traveled far and wide and is the most famous.

It consists of steamed glutinous rice, topped with minced fried dough sticks or chunks of fried dough sticks and minced meat soup.

Some time ago, several articles introducing Wenzhou sticky rice were being forwarded like crazy in the circle of friends, as if people were using it to comfort themselves from being far away from their hometown.

What's more, they are no longer satisfied with reposting, and directly contribute to the spread of hometown delicacies, opening Wenzhou glutinous rice restaurants in other places. There are several in Hangzhou, such as "Liangmi Liang", "Qishi", etc.

Wenzhou meat soup Wenzhou meat soup, also known as "Wenzhou lean meatballs", is divided into two types: pork and beef.

Wenzhou meat soup is a delicacy that can be compared with Wenzhou glutinous rice, and it is also very famous.

There used to be one at the school food festival, but later I discovered that there was always a small stall in an inconspicuous corner of Hangzhou.

Boil Wenzhou meat soup in boiling water, add coriander, vinegar and some seasonings, and it's enough.

In my hometown, there are also special onion oil and pickled bamboo shoots for seasoning, or you can add a little nine-layer cake to make it more filling.

Outsiders are not used to eating pickled bamboo shoots, so they simply skip the seasoning. They can’t help but lament that another Wenzhou flavor is missing.

Wenzhou Fried Rice Cake Most of the rice cakes eaten in other places are Korean rice cakes in the shape of discs or cylinders, while the rice cakes in my hometown are rectangular slices.

During the Chinese New Year when I was a child, my father and I went to the workshop to make rice cakes.

Dad used a tricycle to carry a basket of his own rice. When he arrived at the workshop, the master put the raw materials into the rice cake machine. After a while, a long rice cake came out of the exit. Dad stood at the exit, holding a knife and cutting it into sections.

It's a pity that I haven't made rice cakes for more than ten years now. During the Chinese New Year, I go to the vegetable market to buy some and make up for it.

The rice cake workshop is also gone.

I have never seen this rice cake wrapped in deep-fried pancakes anywhere else except my hometown!

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There is no other place in Wenzhou!

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In southern Fujian dialect, it is called "a bag of oil seats".

I talked about the rectangular rice cake above. This rice cake is not shaped. It is steaming early in the morning. My aunt took a piece of rice cake and kneaded it into a cake shape. Then put the oil cake in and put it together. The rice cake is sticky and can be wrapped.

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Sausages are also added to the rice cakes. For those who like sweet food, some people wrap a little brown sugar in the rice cakes.

There is an old shop on the street in my hometown. It doesn’t even have a sign on the storefront, but everyone knows it is a noodle shop. There is an endless stream of people coming here to eat noodles from breakfast to dinner every day.

Their hand-made noodles are made by themselves. The hand-made noodles are divided into equal portions and lined up there. With the words "Boss, a bowl of hand-made noodles", the boss takes the divided handful of noodles and eats them.

Bring the pot to a boil, add the green vegetables, put it into a bowl with the seasoning, and then pour a bowl of soup stock down to make the bowl of noodles come alive, and add some special minced meat.

Some people also like to add some large intestine, pig blood, etc., but of course these ingredients cost extra.

Wenzhou Pork Noodles This noodle is something I haven’t seen anywhere else so far.

The meat noodles are delicious and chewy, whoever eats them will know!

I rarely go back to my hometown a few times a year, and I never sleep in. What wakes me up is not the alarm clock or dreams, but these breakfasts.

Shen Hongfei commented on Chen Xiaoqing, the director of "A Bite of China", "If you ask him where the delicious food is, his finger will always automatically point in the direction of his hometown like a prop."

He himself also said: "Just like me, a native of Anhui, who has lived in a city as big as Beijing for a quarter of a century, every time I think of the dishes on the banks of the Huaihe River in my hometown, my index fingers are inevitably moved." Maybe for everyone.

It is the same for people who have left home. The world has its own delicacies, but we only miss the taste of our hometown.

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