Pictures taken from the documentary "Snack in the Jianghu"

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"Every city has a different flavor and a different city character."

Recently, friends from other places have basked in Nanning's delicious food, which surprised me. Asked why, all because they all watched a documentary called "Snack in the Jianghu".

The documentary begins with sour milk, which leads to jelly-like raw sheep blood, sheep flat soup with grassy flavor, Zhongshan Road night market and the "night market mayor" uncle, 30-year-old uncle grilled fish, Nanning people's favorite snail, roasted duck with weightlifting champion and so on.

When night falls, time slows down in Nanning. The streets and lanes of this city are ready to move together, ready to start its gorgeous transformation. After a while, even the corners are brightly lit and crowded.

Every food stall and supper stall is crowded with diners who come to feed. Looking around, motorcycles are neatly arranged outside the store, while the snack table is crowded with sweaty diners. What's more, some people drink, chat and eat snacks on the edge of the horse with a small table, enjoying the happiness brought by late-night food under the dim street lamp.

The stall owners of the snack stalls are also sweating hard and selling skills in the dark, robbing the diners' stomachs with food full of simmering gas.

As Du Xing, the general director of Snack in the Jianghu, said:

"When eating midnight snack, it is more like a person, the label is torn off, and then I don't want to be the same person as during the day."

It is these diverse people who draw a picture of Nanning's vigorous midnight snack life with midnight snack food, and show thousands of different lives in the rivers and lakes.

In the documentary, Uncle Jiu, a celebrity manager of Zhongshan Road, Uncle Liu, a well-known grilled fish man, Uncle Wu, a snail-frying man at the end of the road, Tang Liming, a sheep-herding baby from the mountains, Huang Yanlan, a national weightlifting champion, and a fat sister in Pingxi Night Market are the true portrayal of their ordinary street life and the way they live.

▎ The unknown "brotherhood" of Zhongshan Road

Speaking of Zhongshan Road, Nanning locals describe it like this: "It's like a straw house during the day and like heaven at night."

Indeed, Zhongshan Road in the daytime is deserted and dilapidated, with an old house on the left and a construction site on the right.

At night, this 400-meter-old street is brightly lit and full of people. It usually takes only ten minutes to walk through the street, but it takes an hour to walk through the bustling crowd at night.

It can be said that this place is the most prosperous place in Nanning's midnight snack rivers and lakes, not only because of the diversity of food here, but also because of the story and life in Zhongshan Road, a midnight snack river and lake.

# "Night Mayor" Uncle Jiu #

Jiu Shu is the manager of 1 on Zhongshan Road, a 400-meter night market with more than 600 stalls, and has 32 years of management experience, so he is called "the mayor of night market".

Every time at sunset, with the command of Uncle Jiu, Zhongshan Road officially begins its nightlife.

More than 30 years ago, Jiu Shu joined five snack stalls and planted the seeds of Zhongshan Road Night Market. Zhongshan road, which has been buzzing for more than 30 years, is supported by Jiu Shu alone.

As an uncle who speaks well for the self-employed, he slowly wins the trust of vendors all over the street, so that the human touch and loyalty can be brought into full play in Zhongshan Road, a big snack river and lake. But only those who have worked hard in this street know the taste.

# Roasted fish Uncle Liu #

Sixth Uncle is Jiushu's fair-weather brother for decades. Coincidentally, they were all born in the First People's Hospital near Zhongshan Road, and they spent the next few decades in Zhongshan Road, an old street of 400 meters.

The two brothers are congenial, meeting, playing cards and drinking every day. Nine uncles patrol Zhongshan Road every day, and six uncles also have their own grilled fish stalls, which have been more than 30 years, and have become the bearers of grilled fish on Zhongshan Road!

All the recipes used by Uncle Liu for grilled fish are debugged by Uncle Liu after most of his life's experience. Only he knows and never tells anyone.

Uncle Liu relies on his fine barbecue skills to make the crispy skin outside the grilled fish still locked with fresh, juicy and fish.

Brush it with a unique secret sauce, and the sauce is attractive. Perilla, sour bamboo shoots, sauerkraut, pickled peppers, bean sprouts and other condiments make the taste of grilled fish full. Let Nanning's old friends taste all in this grilled fish.

# Uncle Fried Snail #

The fifth uncle, who was full of wild energy, began to fish snails in Yongjiang River in his teens, and then took root in Zhongshan Road and started his own snail frying business.

As an outsider, Uncle Wu met Uncle Jiu and Uncle Liu on Zhongshan Road. They accepted and welcomed Uncle Wu to Nanning to achieve his career. So the three men became brothers, and they can be said to have a life-long friendship.

Wild and full of energy, Uncle Wu is a good cook with his extraordinary arm strength and superb cooking skills. After the washed snails are sterilized with hot water, stir-fry in the pan, pour in the secret sauce and keep stirring, then add the auxiliary materials such as sour bamboo shoots, peppers and perilla, stir-fry for three times and then stew for three times.

After the pan, the fried snails are infiltrated into the snail meat by the hot and sour sauce, but the delicious snail meat is also fresh and sweet, which is simply enjoyable to pick up! The snail fried by Uncle Wu tastes just like Uncle Wu's personality, which is, in Nanning dialect: Ging!

The midnight snack on Zhongshan Road has become stable and interesting because of the loyalty of the five, six and nine uncles, and their life-long friendship is particularly precious in today's mixed society.

Mashan black goat

Tang Liming, a sheep herder from the mountains, came to Nanning by chance and was attracted by the business opportunities in Nanning, so she decided to stay in Nanning.

With his fifteen years' efforts and the support of his brothers, he established himself in Nanning's midnight snack rivers and lakes with unique sheep blood soup and baicao sheep sauce soup.

Tang Liming's sheep blood soup is a Guangxi-style side dish made of raw sheep blood. It is extremely delicious when it is mixed with stir-fried five flavors of sheep, peanuts and chopped green onion.

It is fresh but not fishy, and its taste is silky. This unique taste in Guangxi has made Tang Mingli popular with many fans.

There is another equally famous Baicao mutton sauce soup, which is also unique to Guangxi. It is commonly known as mutton flat soup, and its production process is particularly curious.

This dish is used to take out the small intestine of a sheep that has just eaten grass, cook it directly without cleaning, add sheep liver and sheep gall at the right time, and then fry it until it is golden yellow and then chop it up. At this time, you can smell the fragrance of grass in the sheep intestine in the air.

The fresh taste of herbs dilutes the greasy feeling of fried sheep intestines, and finally, the rich sheep bone broth and appropriate seasoning are injected, and the Toona sinensis is sprinkled. The combination of all flavors can complement each other.

Tang Liming said: "Everything we have now is inseparable from the support of our brothers."

In Nanning, a midnight snack, we rely on brotherhood and sincerity. His personal story aptly shows the theme of Nanning's snack rivers and lakes. Tang Liming is the one who can grow into a towering tree by grasping a handful of soil.

▎ Weightlifting champion lifts the burden of life with "roast duck"

Passers-by are easily attracted by the name of this weightlifting couple's halogen-burning shop near Guangxi Sports Bureau.

Although "husband and wife" no longer exists, the phrase "once lifted the dignity of athletes, now lifted the burden of a new life" still carries the boss's own state of mind.

The proprietress, who used to be a weightlifting champion, chose to give up her stable life and start a new business because she wanted to lead her brothers and sisters to live the life they wanted. So I started to cook my best roast duck again.

The roast ducks that Huang Yanlan sold to the guests were all freshly baked ducks that day. The fat was sizzling and the skin oil was golden yellow, which made people salivate.

After cutting the skin, the duck meat is tight but not firewood, and the unique juice of duck meat overflows between the mouth and teeth, which makes people want to stop.

Because Huang Yanlan's roast duck tastes salty in her hometown, it is not as sweet and greasy as the roast duck brushed with honey in Nanning local market.

Relying on her own creativity, she mixed the roast duck with salty and fragrant old friend powder. I didn't expect this kind of collocation to be liked by many diners, who called it a perfect match.

▎ "Fat sister is sour" supports a family.

Speaking of the snack rivers and lakes in Nanning, of course, it is indispensable to be sour.

There is also a saying circulating in Nanning: "The hero is sad about the beauty pass, and the beauty is sad about the sour wild stall." This sentence didn't come out of thin air. Even the lover of Huang Jue, a star who went out from Guangxi, couldn't resist the temptation of being sour and drowned in front of the sour wild stall.

As a good appetizer, sour cream appears on various snack tables with all kinds of delicious food. It is like a door to snack life. Only by eating a few mouthfuls of sour cream can you enjoy the snack.

For Nanning people, sour taste is a kind of cultural inheritance, and the famous sour wild stall may be represented by fat sister sour taste.

The sour food made by Fat Sister always uses the freshest ingredients, and then through her own experience, the sour water for pickling the sour food is prepared, so that the acidity, spicy and sweetness are properly modulated. The fruits and vegetables made by Fat Sister are pickled enough to taste, and they taste crisp, sour and enjoyable, so I can't stop. Let people watching from the sidelines swallow their saliva.

There is a sign in front of Sister Fei's stall, "Building the most influential sour food stall in Nanning in 30 years". This is not her arrogance. As long as she has eaten the sour food she made, she will know that this sign is not a hollow reputation. No one in Nanning can resist the temptation of fat sister.

Fat sister, who is also a foreign population, came to Nanning from a small village for more than 30 years to get married, because the embarrassing life prompted her to start her own sour career. The fat sister who just started to set up a stall was once shy in front of the stall because of her face.

After more than 30 years of precipitation, Feijie has changed from a shy little girl to an all-powerful figure in Pingxi night market. She has made her own world in the rivers and lakes of her life. Although the process is hard, she can always stand in Nanning.

In this episode of gourmet rivers and lakes, perhaps midnight snack and gourmet are not the only ones.

Among them, those who struggle in this Jianghu, the stories that happened to them, and the way everyone is trying their best to make a living are more worth expressing.

Gourmet rivers and lakes are just one of the worlds where human beings live, but in fact, every industry is the same, and the process may be arduous. It is normal not to be understood or recognized, but as long as you work hard, you will definitely get the life you want.

Seeing the words "I love Nanning" from people who came from other places but eventually took root in Nanning, I couldn't help but feel tears for him. Just like Fat Sister said, "I am indeed from Nanning", I am happy for her.

It is these street people who make delicious food in the dark, which brings the noise of night to Nanning, and it lasts until three or four in the morning, no matter whether it is spring, summer, autumn and winter.

-Tencent video documentary "Snack in the Jianghu" Nanning-

-This episode of midnight snack map-

* According to netizens' news, the halogen-burning shop of the weightlifting couple has moved away.

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-The producers of this episode-

Photo ▏ Tencent video documentary "Snack in the Jianghu"

Part of it comes from eating all over Nanning.

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