In the past 50 years, Huguosi snack bar has retained the traditional varieties of Beijing flavor of the old shop, but the appearance of the store has changed with the transformation of Beijing city, and the dining environment has also changed. Moreover, the snacks sold not only keep the flavor of old Beijing, but also are adjusted according to the changing needs of modern people's tastes. Specially hired an old technician, Yang Boru, to enter the store to teach skills and turn the original big, dark, thick and unpalatable food into a small and exquisite snack. Although the environment has changed, the purpose of serving the people economically has not changed. Due to the change of dining environment, snacks are of high quality and variety, attracting a large number of Chinese and foreign diners. 200 1, Huguosi snack bar was further renovated, which not only highlighted the characteristics of old Beijing style, but also allowed customers to enjoy the elegance of old Beijing while tasting old Beijing snacks. The roof of the store is decorated with blue tiles, the picture frame of the temple fair of Huguo Temple is hung on the wall, snacks and celebrities are hung on the four pillars of the house, and a plastic display stand of the old Beijing noodle restaurant is specially set up.
In addition, Huatian Catering Group has also given special policies to its snack bars, including investing in the unified decoration and marking of the gables and environment of snack bars, and constantly excavating and improving traditional varieties: pea yellow is too thin, snowballing and adding layers, screwing screws, spitting honey from horses and toads, and standardizing procedures to ensure accurate materials. Snacks pay attention to seasonality, such as yellow peas and aiwowo in spring, fish in the "ice bowl" in summer, beef tendon and limp flowers in autumn, pot stickers, bowl cakes, fruit rice cakes and Yuanxiao in winter. At the same time, snacks are also popular according to the changes of customers' tastes. There are all kinds of dry, thin, sweet and salty meat and vegetables, such as glutinous rice cake with butter mouth, assorted fried bumps, spicy chicken noodles, ox-eye steamed buns, cream fried cakes, pork chops with ginger sauce, mandarin duck cakes, butterfly rolls, beef biscuits and orchid lanterns. After excavation, introduction and innovation, the variety of snacks in Huguo Temple has reached 100, which can be described as dazzling and colorful.
During the 1999 Spring Festival held in Singapore, the 13th Spring Festival went to Binjiang Beijing Folk Exhibition, and more than a dozen kinds of classic snacks of Huguo Temple were splendid, which made Singaporeans' eyes "bright". The headline news of the radio and TV station that day: Beijing snacks are great! Singapore Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong attended the event and immediately booked 65,438+000 "snowballing children" for the state banquet. In the following years, Huguosi snacks gradually became famous. Whenever large-scale international and political activities are held in Beijing, Huatian Huguo Temple is specially invited to serve snacks.
List of Beijing Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection —— Muslim Beijing Snacks in Huguo Temple
Huguo Temple Muslim Beijing-style snacks is a collection concept, which is the main variety of Huguo Temple Snacks Division under Jude Huatian. Huguosi snacks, headed by Huguosi snack bar, has 9 chain stores, including Di 'anmen and Xi 'anmen, and has become the largest snack chain enterprise in Beijing.
Huguo Temple is located in the north of Xisipailou in Xicheng, starting from Deshengmennei Street in the east and Xinjiekou South Street in the west. The total length is over 580 meters. Muslim snacks in Huguo Temple are named after Huguo Temple Market.
Snacks are commonly known as tea or "eating". Qu Yuan first described it. Gan Bao of Jin Dynasty also recorded snacks in Sou Shen Ji, but called them snacks. Beijing snacks can be divided into three series: Muslim, Han and court. Muslim Beijing snacks in Huguo Temple are the essence of early Huguo Temple fair. In old Beijing, temple fairs are held in combination with Buddhist and Taoist religious festivals. People go to temples mainly to burn incense, seek happiness and pray for good luck. But after burning incense, shopping and entertainment, if you are tired and hungry again, you always have to rest and make up. Temple fair snacks are therefore prosperous. During the period of 1956, famous "big family" vendors such as tea soup, red sesame seed cake and sweet potato organized and opened Huguosi snack bar at the government temple fair.
In order to inherit and develop ethnic snacks, display food culture, and let domestic and foreign guests enjoy the flavor characteristics of snacks and appreciate the old Beijing style, Huguosi snack bar has created a "snack banquet" that integrates snack products and halal specialties. "Snack Banquet" is famous for its rich variety and unique banquet style.