"Don't talk about last night's dream on an empty stomach." -Benjamin's Breakfast Room
Benjamin, known as "the last scholar in Europe", once wrote a breakfast room in his one-way street. He mentioned: "A folklore that has been passed down to this day warns people not to tell last night's dream on an empty stomach the next morning."
It can really make people say goodbye to darkness and dreams. Don't miss the place where the shops are concentrated early, and talk about last night's dreams while eating with the neighbors in the streets and lanes. That is the most vivid place of street life.
Most of these breakfast shops in Wuzhen don't cost more than 1 yuan. They are open for many years, and customers will chase after them after a day off. However, these breakfast shops have some "temper". After 8: 31, you can order takeout if you can't eat it.
bullfrog noodles in tomato sauce
▲ Fat noodle restaurant in Longyuan Road
People in Wuzhen love noodles.
to what extent?
just look at the classification of noodles. Big row noodles, eel loin noodles, fried fish noodles, snakehead noodles, tomato sauce noodles, mutton noodles, beef noodles, shrimp noodles, shredded pork with pickles ...
The noodles in Wuzhen are delicious. According to local people, during the Internet conference, many "big bosses" will go to the noodle restaurant to eat noodles after various meetings, even at 1 pm.
There's a place to go, the Fat Noodle Restaurant on Longyuan Road. A bowl of bullfrog noodles with tomato sauce is not available anywhere else. I'm sure I'll miss it after eating it.
the toppings are exquisite. Tomatoes, bullfrogs, sauerkraut, fungus, leek sprouts ..... The materials are rich and exquisite, and the taste is delicious. There is nothing else in the fat noodle restaurant.
The bullfrog is fried thoroughly in oil, the tomato is mixed with juice, and sauerkraut and black fungus are added. The soup from the fire is rich, and it is from Huang Cancan. On the table, selling well and smelling fragrant, in the words of Wuzhen people, "the noodles are strong and very clear."
"I got a job yesterday and worked overtime in the scenic spot."
"oh? Tell me about it. "
a mouthful of fresh noodles falls off my stomach, dancing in my mouth, and the fragrance bypasses my teeth. Take another bite, and speak slowly.
people who open their doors at four or five o'clock are all neighbors, and the boss knows what everyone likes. The ingredients are all bought now, and there is no takeaway. If you want to eat the bullfrog noodles with tomato sauce, you should go early. As the boss said, regular customers are generally served, and the quantity is small.
If you don't like bullfrogs, you can also make fish with tomato sauce. The store also serves shredded pork noodles with pickles, snakehead noodles, shredded eel noodles, large rows of noodles and so on.
fragrant small wonton
▲ Xinhua Road Tiantianxian Wonton Shop
Lane small wonton is the flavor that the old Wuzhen people can't give up.
As a generation of "old minister" in Wuzhen breakfast army, he is very small, with thin dough, carefully formulated stuffing, salty soup base and strong street flavor, which is enough to make the finishing touch. "Whew" can be inhaled into the mouth, the essence is in the soup, and the taste is deeply rooted in the dream of eating food in the morning.
The small wonton in Tiantianxian Wonton Restaurant, a 1-year-old shop, is light and fairy-like, and it is another kind of interest to match it with a small cage and fried raw.
However, the people of Laowuzhen have their own unique memories of the small wonton.
When I was a child, my mother always put another spoonful of rice in the wonton bowl, which was called "rice with soup". It is said to be delicious and hungry.
Fried dough sticks with sesame seeds
▲ Under the Beihua Bridge in bridge opening
Under the Beihua Bridge in Wuzhen, people come and go to work in battery cars. There is a nameless sesame seed cake shop opposite the gold shop.
The boss said, "It's been open for more than 2 years, and there has never been a store name. It's just acquaintances."
Take a dough, spread it and sink it, then knead it and spread it out, then sprinkle a layer of seasoning mixed with oil and salt into it, then sprinkle onion and sesame seeds, and put it in a bucket to bake. The sesame seed cake swelled up a little bit and became brown.
Take it out with the tongs, and the sesame seed cake is soft, fragrant with onion, and the inner defense line begins to collapse.
There is also a vicious character in the hot pot next to it-fried dough sticks.
The locally squeezed rapeseed oil used by Wuzhen people to fry deep-fried dough sticks is pure and tasty. Will be "paired" slender, black oil wrapped in a large iron pot, accompanied by hot oil rolling up and down, two twisted strips of dough gradually fluffy, slowly climbed a layer of attractive golden.
people in wuzhen eat them together, which is simply the most delicious in the world. Bite down, the pastry can't help falling, the onion fragrance of sesame cakes and the crispness of fried dough sticks are enough to forget the drowsiness of getting up early.
The business of the sesame seed cake shop is excellent. At 7: 3, the small shop is full of people.
A mother who arrived in a battery car asked her boss, "Are there any baked wheat cakes?"
The boss shouted, "No more."
I looked at my watch, but it was just eight o'clock, the time when the city was just waking up, and the biscuits stalls in the town had been sold out.
The mother said to her daughter in the car, "Alas, the baby is gone. What should I do?" Or let's buy tea cakes to eat. "
the daughter nodded and said yes, and then left.
Xinshi Tea Cake
In the tea cake shop, I accidentally broke into three big boys and took advantage of the summer vacation to travel.
Pointing to the tea cake on my desk, I said to the shopkeeper, "Auntie, what's that? We want one, too."
aunt Li: "this is a tea cake, which is delicious."
In fact, tea cake is not an authentic breakfast in Wuzhen. It originated from the new town next door. Two or three years ago, Aunt Li came to Wuzhen from the new city and opened this new city tea cake shop at the intersection of Fengxian Road and Longyuan Road.
according to aunt Li, the tea cake was a tribute in the early days, but it was later preserved by new people, and it was named "tea cake", which means a cake eaten when drinking tea. It has a history of more than 4 years. In Wuzhen, it has also become a favorite breakfast for everyone.
Tea cakes only put meat stuffing, not sweet stuffing. Moreover, this meat stuffing is unusual, and there are enough ingredients and condiments in a delicate proportion, including pork skin jelly, leek sprouts, fresh meat and so on.
The tea cake is fine and square, with good white rice flour, fine and delicious meat stuffing, thin skin of rice cake and shiny meat stuffing, which makes it full of temptation. Take a bite, and the cake with fresh sesame oil slowly slides into your throat. At this moment, the taste is very similar to the feeling of holding hands with grandparents for a walk.
unforgettable rice dumplings
▲ Sister Snacks in Wuzhen, Shangmao Road+No.5 Soymilk Shop in Fengxian Road
When China on the Tip of the Tongue introduced Jiaxing cuisine, it once said: "Jiaxing people, who are famous for their exquisite and delicate lifestyle in the south of the Yangtze River, started their day with a hot meat dumplings."
most of the zongzi in Jiangnan town are meat zongzi, and only on holidays will they sit on a few small red date triangular zongzi. When Wuzhen people eat delicious zongzi, they must order a bowl of soybean milk to taste. Wuzhen is called "Jiangzong" and is the soul mate of the breakfast world.
For Wuzhen people, salty soybean milk is equivalent to bean juice for Beijingers and hot soup for Henan people. Some people say that soybean milk with fried dough sticks is a beautiful morning, but salty soybean milk directly melts fried dough sticks into itself.
add chopped green onion, diced mustard tuber, shrimp skin and crispy fried dough sticks, then add the soul of salted soybean milk-soy sauce, which is the common soy sauce for cooking braised bamboo shoots in small towns. Finally, pour in the prepared soybean milk and wash it away, and a bowl of salty soybean milk is ready.
Sauté ed Sauté ed Bags
▲ Veteran Hotel in Fengxian Road
At six or seven o'clock in the morning, the sun gradually became fierce, and there were more cars in front of the Veteran Hotel.
The guests were holding a pile of fried buns, talking about anecdotes by the bridge yesterday, biting the fried buns and bursting the juice, and the soup left on their mouths floated into every corner of the air with the rising tone.
Uncle Jiang, the owner, was a soldier in the early years, and he opened this veteran restaurant with his wife, Aunt Jiang. It seems that the breakfast shop is only open for a few hours every day, but the rest of the time is not idle. Aunt Jiang prepares at night, gets up before dawn, and prepares the ingredients for the next day after closing the door. The real kung fu is in the time when diners can't see it.
The fried bun in his house is thin and fragrant with meat. Pick up a fragrant fried bun, dip it up, spread it with chopsticks, and the heat rises. The stuffing is soft and chewy, the bottom is brown and crisp, and the taste of half crisp and half tender collides between lips and teeth. I can't help but buy a few of them, which are deeply loved by the residents of the town.
A tourist walked into the shop and looked at the six fried buns left in the pot. "I'll take them all."
aunt Jiang: "no, no, these six are reserved."
at nine o'clock sharp, the tourist couldn't help saying again, "Boss, it's nine o'clock. I guess I don't want it today. Give me the steamed buns."
aunt Jiang smiled and said, "I promised, and I will come."
Not long after, I saw an old man carrying a tea urn and humming a tune into the room.
"Why was it so late this morning?"
"This morning, Lao Li from Xishi and his neighbor Wang Laotou" scolded "(quarreled) because of a chicken, so everyone went to mediate."
Under the envy of tourists, Grandpa took the last steamed stuffed bun.
well, grandpa paid the long-term meal ticket.
Some people buy steamed buns and eat them while walking. Those who are not in a hurry must be served with a bowl of bean curd or soybean milk, which is a beautiful thing.
Breakfast in a small town may be an early adopter, an adventure, and an experience of the local customs, but at the same time, you can feel the life of the people in the small town carefully. They manage their lives with heart, reminding you to remember to have a good breakfast and not to tell the dream of last night on an empty stomach.