Known as "the last scholar in Europe", Benjamin once wrote 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 shops are concentrated early, and chat with neighbors about last night's dream while having dinner. This is the most vivid place of street life.
Most of these breakfast shops in Wuzhen do not exceed 10. They have been open for many years and diners will catch up with them after a day's rest. However, these breakfast shops have some "temper". After 8: 031minute, you can order takeout if you can't finish eating.
Ketchup bullfrog noodles
▲ Long Yuan Road Fat Noodles
People in Wuzhen love to eat noodles.
How much do you love?
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 noodles with pickles. ......
The noodles in Wuzhen are delicious. According to local people, during the Internet conference, many "big bosses" will go to noodle restaurants to eat noodles after various meetings, even at night 10.
There is a place to go, the fat noodle restaurant on Long Yuan Road, and a bowl of bullfrog noodles with tomato juice is not available in other places. I'm sure I'll miss it.
Its toppings are exquisite. Tomatoes, bullfrogs, sauerkraut, fungus, leek sprouts ..... are rich and exquisite in materials and delicious in taste. There is nothing else in the fat noodle restaurant.
Fried bullfrog oil, tomato juice, sauerkraut, black fungus, and thick soup from fire, from Huang Cancan. On the table, it looks good and smells good. In the words of Wuzhen people, "Noodles are strong and clear."
"I found a job yesterday and worked overtime in the scenic spot."
"oh? Tell me about it. "
A mouthful of fresh noodles fell into my stomach, danced in my mouth, and the fragrance bypassed my teeth. Take another bite and speak slowly.
Open the door at four or five o'clock, all neighbors, the boss knows everyone's preferences. The ingredients are all bought now, and there is no takeaway. If you want to eat bullfrog noodles with tomato sauce, you should go early. As the boss said, they usually serve regular customers, and the quantity is small.
If you don't like bullfrogs, you can also make fish with ketchup. This shop also serves shredded pork noodles with pickles, noodles with snakehead, shredded eel noodles, large rows of noodles and so on.
Piaoxiang Xiao wonton
▲ Xinhua Road Tian Tian Xian Wonton Shop
The small wonton in the alley 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 prepared fillings, salty soup base and strong market atmosphere, which is enough to make the finishing touch. Whew, it 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.
10 years old The small wonton in Tiantianxian Wonton Restaurant is light and delicious, and it is another kind of fun to have it fried in a small cage.
However, for the small wonton, the old Wuzhen people have their own unique memories.
When I was a child, my mother always put another spoonful of rice in the wonton bowl, which was called "ginseng soup Rice" at that time. It is said that it is delicious and hungry.
Sesame seed cake youtiao
▲ bridge opening under Beihua Bridge
Under the Beihua Bridge in Wuzhen, people who drive battery cars to work come and go, and there is an unknown biscuit shop opposite the gold shop.
The boss said: "It has been open for more than 20 years and there has been no store name. People who have good things are acquaintances. "
Take a dough, spread it out and put it in into the pit, then knead the dough cake 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 for baking. The sesame cake swelled a little and turned brown.
Take it out with a poker, the sesame cake becomes soft, the onion becomes fragrant, and the internal defense line begins to collapse.
There is also a malicious character in the hot pot next to it-fried dough sticks.
The local pressed rapeseed oil used by Wuzhen people to fry fritters is pure and full of flavor. Will be "paired" long and thin, wrapped in black oil, with the hot oil rolling up and down, two twisted dough gradually fluffy, slowly climb a layer of attractive golden yellow.
Wuzhen people eat both together, which is simply the most delicious in the world. Bite it down, and the crispy cake can't help falling. The onion fragrance of sesame cake and the crispness of fried dough sticks are enough to forget the drowsiness of getting up early.
The business of sesame seed cake shop is very good. At 7: 30, the small shop was crowded with people.
A mother who came by battery car asked her boss, "There are cookies."
The boss roared loudly, "No more."
I looked at my watch. It was only eight o'clock. The city had just woken up and the sesame seed cake stalls in the town had been sold out.
Mother said to her daughter in the car, "Oh, my baby is gone. What should I do? " ? Why don't we buy tea cakes? "
The daughter nodded yes and walked away.
Xinshi tea cake
In the tea cake shop, I accidentally broke into three big boys and took advantage of the summer vacation to travel.
I pointed to the tea cake on the table and said to the shopkeeper, "Aunt, what's that? We also want one. "
Aunt Li: "This is a tea cake. Very delicious. "
In fact, tea cakes are not an authentic breakfast in Wuzhen. It originated in the new town next door. Two or three years ago, Aunt Li came to Wuzhen from the new town and opened this new town tea cake shop at the intersection of Fengxian Road and Longyuan Road.
According to Aunt Li, this kind of tea cake was a tribute in the early days, but it was later preserved by new people. It was named "tea cake", which means a cake to eat when drinking tea. It has a history of over 400 years. In Wuzhen, it has also become a favorite breakfast for everyone.
Tea cakes only put meat stuffing, not sweet stuffing, and this meat stuffing is unusual, and there are enough ingredients and condiments in a delicate proportion, including: pigskin jelly, leek sprouts, fresh meat and so on.
The tea cake is thin and square, the white rice flour is good, the meat stuffing is delicate and delicious, the rice cake is thin, the meat stuffing is shiny and full of temptation. Take a bite and the cake with fresh sesame oil slowly slides down the throat. At this moment, this taste is very similar to the feeling of holding grandparents' hands for a walk.
Unforgettable zongzi
▲ Sister Snacks in Wuzhen, Shangmao Road+Soymilk Shop No.50, Fengxian Road
When introducing Jiaxing cuisine, China on the Tip of the Tongue once said: "Jiaxing people, who are famous for their exquisite lifestyle in the south of the Yangtze River, start their day with a hot jiaozi with meat stuffing."
Most of the zongzi in Jiangnan town are meat zongzi, and only on holidays will you sit on a few small red jujube triangular zongzi. When people in Wuzhen eat delicious zongzi, they must order a bowl of soybean milk to taste. Wuzhen, known as "Manager Jiang", is the soul mate of the breakfast world.
Salted soybean milk is to Wuzhen people what bean juice is to Beijingers and hot soup is to 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 your body.
Add chopped green onion, diced mustard tuber, shrimp skin and crispy fried dough sticks, then add the soul of salty soybean milk-soy sauce, which is the common soy sauce for cooking braised bamboo shoots in small towns, and finally pour in the prepared soybean milk to open it, and a bowl of salty soybean milk is ready.
Stir-fried buns
▲ Fengxian Road Veteran Hotel
At six or seven o'clock in the morning, the sun gradually became violent, and the flow of people in front of the veteran hotel began to increase.
The guests were holding a pile of fried buns in their hands, talking about the anecdotes at the bridge yesterday, biting into the fried buns and bursting into juice. The soup left in their mouths floated to every corner of the air with the rising tone.
The owner, Uncle Jiang, was a soldier in his early years and opened this veterans' 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.
There is also his fried bag, which is thin and fragrant. I picked up a delicious fried bag, dipped it, and spread it with chopsticks, and the heat soared. The filling is soft and chewy, the bottom is brown and crisp, and the semi-crisp and semi-tender taste collides between the lips and teeth. I couldn't help but buy a few, which were deeply loved by the residents in 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 all booked."
At nine o'clock sharp, the tourist couldn't help saying, "Boss, it's nine o'clock. I don't think I want it today. Give me the steamed stuffed bun. "
Aunt Jiang smiled and said, "I promised and I will come."
After a while, I saw an old man carrying a tea urn and humming a tune into the house.
"Why is it so late this morning?"
"This morning, Lao Li of Xi Shi and his neighbor Wang Laotou' scolded each other' (quarreled) because of a chicken, and everyone went to mediate."
Under the envy of tourists, grandpa took the last steamed stuffed bun.
Well, grandpa paid a long-term meal ticket.
Some people also bought steamed buns, ate them while walking, and hurried on. Those who are not in a hurry must serve a bowl of tofu or soybean milk, which is a beautiful thing.
Breakfast in a small town may be an early adopter, a novelty hunter, and an experience of local customs, but at the same time, we will also carefully feel the life of the people in the town. They run their own lives with heart, reminding you to remember to have a good breakfast and not to talk about last night's dream on an empty stomach.