The roast duck made by Cheap Place is made with exquisite materials and fine craftsmanship, with the color of jujube red, crispy skin and tender meat, which is fat but not greasy. The accompanying food includes lotus leaf cake, hollow cake, sweet noodle sauce, garlic paste, sugar, cucumber strips, radish strips, etc. The restaurant also specializes in Shandong-style dishes. The hotel also specializes in Shandong-style dishes, more than a hundred kinds of specialties are introduced all year round. In particular, the whole duck banquet made of duck tongue, duck palm, duck intestines, duck gizzard, duck liver, duck bladder and duck heart is another specialty of Cheap Place. Duck four treasures with coriander explosion, duck palm with goldfish, duck heart roll with double work, duck liver with nuts and so on are the masterpieces of the specialties of Cheap Place.
Stewed oven roast duck is the authentic roast duck, which was introduced to Beijing from Jiangnan in the Ming Dynasty. The casserole is a ground oven, the body of which is made of bricks and is about one cubic meter in size. Before the duck is roasted, it is first roasted with charcoal from a high beam pole to get the temperature of the hearth right. Stewing stove is a dark fire, technical, the person in charge of the stove must master the temperature inside the stove. This is different from the hanging stove, which uses an open fire to grill and is easy to master. The ducks roasted in the stewing oven have crispy skin and tender meat, which is fat but not greasy and has a lot of meat.
Beijing's earliest no duck store name, not called chicken and duck store, called the box store, the box store is a diameter of about one foot two, four inches thick, round, no corners of the wooden box, outside on the black or red lacquer. The box is divided into ten or eleven unequal small compartments, each compartment can be placed in a food, generally to put the sauce meat, sausage, donkey meat and other food. Customers want the box, mostly box store sent apprentices to send, and when people run out, and then take back the empty box. At that time, Bentley's Place operated more than ten kinds of food, including raw pork, raw chicken and duck, oven meat, sausage, meatballs, chicken pieces, duck pieces, chicken in barrels, meat in clear sauce, and roasted duck in stewing oven. Several commodities such as stewed oven roasted duck, bucket chicken, and meat in clear sauce of Bentley's Place have unique special flavors and have been very popular over the years.
The earliest Bianyifang appeared in the Mi Shi Hutong of Caishikou during the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty and was founded by a southerner surnamed Wang. At that time, it was just a small workshop with no name. They bought live chickens and ducks, slaughtered and washed, to other restaurants, restaurants or rich people to send, do some service processing, but also do the stewed oven roasted duck and chicken and other food. As they clean up the raw chickens and ducks, roast ducks and chickens made crispy and delicious, the price is also cheap, very popular with customers. Over time, these restaurants, restaurants and rich families, they called the workshop cheap workshop.
Front door outside the fresh fish mouth street cheap store duck store, started in the Qing dynasty Xianfeng five years (1855), there are three shareholders, antique dealer Wang Shaofu is a large share, fresh fish mouth street cheap shop (then called the cheap place) although later than the old cheap shop in the rice city hutong, but later on, whether in the stewed oven roast duck roast stewing technology, or in the box vegetables, barrel chicken and clear sauce meat production, to a greater extent, there is development! , which has been unique for more than a hundred years. Qing Daoguang seven years (1827) Rongcheng, Shandong Sun Zijiu full of disciples. Boss in Sun Zijiu help, business is getting better and better. After the shopkeeper for his son's illness, the chicken and duck workshop to Sun Zijiu. To the beginning of the Xianfeng era, some people look at its business is booming, but also hang up the signboard of the Cheap Place, when Beijing hung Cheap Place plaque of the chicken and duck store there are seven or eight. At that time, it became a trend for the children of the Eight Banners to have banquets, and the sedan chair in front of the store was often full of officials and dignitaries, and the Empress Dowager had sent people to send the roasted ducks of Cheaper Square to the palace. According to "Du Men Zuo Ji": "the seat of the whole duck (refers to roast duck) as the main dish, famous for cheap square."
Sun Zijiu took over the workshop, and actively expand the workshop business, Sun Zijiu chicken and duck workshop production of raw chicken and duck billet and barrel chicken, etc., the goods are better than others, always sell low prices, the north and south of the city's large restaurants, restaurants, most of them would like to use Sun Zijiu's goods, and therefore the business did very hot. Cheap Place from the original four or five people, increased to twelve or thirteen people
Cheap Place in order to ensure the quality of roast duck, there are people responsible for raising ducks to fill the duck. There are two sources of ducks, one is from the Chaoyangmen, Dongzhimen area of the chicken and duck house to buy two or three pounds of ducks, their own after a short period of time to feed, and so the ducks grow to four or five pounds, it filled. Another source is that some pick chicken and duck baskets, go to the rural suburbs to buy chickens and ducks vendors, but also to the workshop to send live chickens and ducks.
Cheap Place sold seats in the store from the early years of the Republic of China. They are good at cooking Shandong-style dishes, and are quite good at stir-frying, popping, burning, stewing,糟, steaming and other techniques. There are more than a hundred kinds of famous dishes. Goldfish duck palms, bad slippery fish slices, shredded meat powder skin, clear soup swallow vegetable, grilled three silk shark's fin, abalone two winter, oil chili prawns, fried pork loin wire, dry roasted asparagus and fresh mushrooms, bad steamed duck liver, salt explosion of the four treasures, green onion roasted sea cucumber, braised fish eggs, crispy fish, etc., are representative of the store's dishes. In addition, it also makes full use of all parts of the duck as raw materials to cook a variety of whole duck dishes with different tastes and shapes, and develops into a whole duck banquet on this basis, reflecting the unique style and technical level of the Cheap Square Roast Duck Restaurant.
Bucket chicken is also a famous food in Cheap Square. Bucket chicken, must choose the year's small hen, do bucket chicken bucket, is a deep-bottomed iron pot and no bottom of the cylinder ring set together, reinforced made of special pots, the shape of which is like a bucket. The selected year of the small hen, after killing the feathers, belly broken out of the five viscera, put into the lotus leaf, into the barrel pot, and the onion, ginger, garlic, pepper, dashi, salt and other condiments, put into the pot of water. First large fire, then small fire, simmer and become. Barrel chicken cut into julienne, mixed with fresh cucumber julienne, eat in the mouth, taste light and fresh, is a delicious winter delicacy.
Pork in clear sauce is also a specialty of Bunyipang. Clear sauce meat is to select the best fine pork, cut into moderate pieces of meat, cleaned, first with pepper, salt marinade for seven days, and then put into the soy sauce, sauce eight days, that is, "salt seven, sauce eight", and finally boiled in water. This kind of clear sauce meat than the general sauce meat flavor is more delicious, mouth-watering, the more you chew the more fragrant.
From the warlords to the Anti-Japanese War period, the rice market hutong Cheap Place went into decline, while the fresh fish mouth will be on the road to prosperity. Finally closed down to the liberation of Beijing, only the Bianyifang and Quanjude survived the "Cultural Revolution" renamed "Xinlu Restaurant" in 1978 and renamed "Cheap Square". And in Chongwenmenwai Street, east of the road opened a "cheap square" new store.