The latter, that is, I visited the nameless breakfast stall in recent 10 years. Before, due to various reasons, the original booth was banned, and after a long time, I accidentally found it. Strictly speaking, it can be regarded as a small shop now, but it is just subletting with others.
From 5: 00 a.m. to/kloc-0: 00 a.m., the boss will do breakfast business, and then other bosses will do Huangshan's special vegetable rice and bone soup. Usually at 9: 30, the boss will start cleaning, and most of the food and drink will be sold out, so you have to eat early, otherwise you can only eat vegetable rice and drink 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 eat for a month without repeating the same thing, when it comes to traditional breakfast, you have to mention the four donkey kong: pie, fried dough sticks, rice and soybean milk. Now, there are only a handful of shops that can provide four kinds of traditional breakfasts at one time in Modu. Fortunately, it still retains the appearance of traditional breakfast in memory.
The pie is the first of the four donkey kong. The freshly baked pie is very attractive in terms of color, fragrance and appearance, and 2 yuan has a dollar.
The sweet cake is the first sweet bite in the morning, so you should be careful when eating it. If you are not careful, you will burn your mouth with the sweet syrup flowing out.
Salty cakes are relatively laborious to make. Every step of kneading dough, spreading crisp oil, sprinkling chopped green onion, kneading dough and rolling dough is a test of experience and craftsmanship.
After baking the pie, the water evaporates at high temperature, and the edge part will become warped, and it can easily fall off the furnace wall with a tongs.
Fried dough sticks, it and pie are a pair of CP.
The dough prepared in advance is pressed with chopsticks, then pulled by hand, thrown into a boiling oil pan, and turned over several times with chopsticks more than a foot long to make it evenly heated. The whole process is done in one go, like a craftsman performing acrobatics.
A drop of oil should be put on the strainer before the guests can take it away. Smart Shanghainese like to string fried dough sticks with chopsticks, whether they are dipped in soy sauce or soaked in rice, so the fried dough sticks they bring back are still long and complete. Unfortunately, this scene is really rare now.
Just fried fritters are the best. Bite them down, they are crisp and delicious, and the aroma is fragrant. Remember to wipe your mouth after biting a fritter, otherwise greasy lips and fritters at the corners of your mouth will betray you.
Misfeeding is the most satisfying of the four donkey kong.
The most traditional glutinous rice is white glutinous rice wrapped in a fried dough stick. The glutinous rice cooked in advance has always been in a state of heat preservation. Take out a steaming glutinous rice and spread it on a white towel, put the fried dough stick into the glutinous rice, wrap the glutinous rice into a ball with a white towel, and finally put it into a plastic bag. The good craft of making rice is that you can make the fried dough sticks hide in the white glutinous rice without leaving a trace only once.
Meat floss? Salted egg yolk? Even glutinous rice with bloody glutinous rice? Sorry, this is not the rice we ate when we were children.
Soymilk, the only soup in the four donkey kong, can only burst and not be full. Shanghai people drink soy milk, there are three kinds: light, sweet and salty, no matter which one, it is warm like 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 by hot soybean milk, and there are laver, shrimp skin, pickled mustard tuber, coriander and shallots. Besides all kinds of condiments, I also want to add a little more chili pepper, which is so fragrant that I can't control my mouth, and I have to have a bowl upside down to satisfy it.
The thrifty aunts and uncles 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 soybean milk.
I asked my boss, "So, aren't you afraid of losing money?"
The boss smiled and said, "All the people who came were neighbors. They became familiar faces once and twice. A little soy milk is nothing, so 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 mind, I still admire the fact that I have to get up at two or three in the morning every day. It's okay in summer. 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 hard to make money? " The boss replied airily, scooping a bowl of soybean milk to 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 wet, and I'm sorry to continue to ask them when I look at them who are still busy for their livelihood.
Life is fair. If you don't work hard to make money, you have to 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 Huateng has a good saying: Opportunity is like a loach in the water. It is easy to see but difficult to catch. Opportunities are often seen by everyone, and 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. If you think about it carefully, it is not the case. The truth of the matter is that they are stimulated by the beautiful life of others, and their abilities don't match their desires. Finally, they fall into an infinite loop and wear a "poor" hat for themselves.
Diligence is a kind of enthusiasm for life. Doing breakfast business may not be decent and hard for many people, but it seems to me that it is very reassuring and practical. Starting from 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 of 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 the mahjong in an ostentatious manner yesterday, and several aunts are talking about a retirement salary increase soon. The boss occasionally takes the opportunity to come in and hand over the cakes, fried dough sticks or soya-bean milk ... A group of people are chattering like they are the only ones in the whole shop.
Every time I come here, I like to eat in class and have a leisurely breakfast, especially enjoying this feeling. A sweet cake of 2 yuan money, a bowl of salty pulp of 3 yuan money, and occasionally eat 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 the face of the complexity of life.