On the eve of the college entrance examination, after studying in the evening, I bought fried chicken tenders for 5 yuan at a roadside stall in front of the school. At that time, I told my friends around me that when we make money from work, we can come over and buy chicken tenders for 100 yuan, with extra spice.
Add cumin and have enough for one meal.
In the first year after I started working, I came as promised, but the roadside stall in front of the school gate disappeared without a trace. My wish to eat enough fried chicken tenders for 100 yuan came to nothing, and the memory about the campus also felt like it was missing a corner and no longer complete.
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When I was in college, my roommate fell in love, so we went to a roadside stall to drink and have skewers at ten o'clock in the evening. Our roommate cried while drinking and eating while crying. The lady boss of the barbecue stall gave us an extra half dozen oysters to comfort our roommate's broken heart.
I told the lady boss that I would come when I fall in love, and remember to give me half a dozen oysters as well.
Later, I was still in love, but the wife of the barbecue stall stopped coming. It is said that the urban management was very strict during that time, and all the roadside stalls went to Jiangbei to practice their stalls.
After working, the first house I rented had a night market downstairs. There were roadside stalls on both sides of the road, grilled cold noodles from the Northeast, stinky tofu from Lu Xun’s hometown, Liangpi from Xi’an, coconuts from Hainan, and potato pancakes.
, oden, grilled gluten, spicy hotpot, hot and sour noodles... I know them all very well.
The money I had when I was just working was warmly contained in these delicious foods. They are high quality and low price, enough to provide enough food, and they are not the same every day, which made me have a good impression of this city.
No one in the rental house would turn on a light for me, but the light from the roadside stall was enough to keep me warm.
Acquaintances and frequent customers, roadside stall owners greet each other with "the same old", which makes me feel as friendly as returning home.
Later, when I moved, the thing I was most reluctant to part with was the roadside stall downstairs. I told the stall owner who I often visited about the move and said a solemn goodbye.
In such a big city, I leave early and come home late. They stay out day and night and have moved away. Where can I find them? How can they always remember me.
Of course, the memories of roadside stalls include not only warmth but also embarrassment.
You can feel the smoke in the rental house, the thick oil smoke and the noisy voices will not dissipate for a long time.
Occasionally, I would wake up from my dreams and realize that it was drunken diners who were quarreling or fighting and disturbing me.
Early the next morning, you will see piles of garbage scattered on various stalls. For the cleaners, the workload is undoubtedly heavy. The road after cleaning is covered with thick oil stains, which are mixed with the white clouds and blue sky.
, the surrounding tall and bright buildings look out of place.
In addition, food is not easy to preserve in summer, and my stomach is fragile in winter. It is common to have diarrhea after eating at roadside stalls. As for the hygienic conditions of roadside stalls, I can only turn a blind eye and pursue cost-effectiveness and efficiency.
Of roadside stalls, can you expect more? This is a compromise.
On the one hand, roadside stalls provide convenience to citizens' lives; on the other hand, they make urban management more difficult to a certain extent.
The stall owners who practice the stalls are friends with the diners, and it’s like mouse meets cat with the urban management staff. When they see the urban management staff from a distance, everyone drops their hands and runs away with the cart. Once the food cart is confiscated, you have to go through the process to redeem at least half of it.
Month, the stall owners don’t want to waste a day.
Nowadays, all over the country are canceling roadside stalls for the sake of city appearance, food safety and other issues. Guanqian Street in Suzhou, Pengpu Night Market, Wujiang Road and Shouning Road in Shanghai have been demolished one after another. It is known as the last night snack spot in Shanghai.
Changli Road also announced its complete closure in April last year.
Neighboring residents clapped their hands and applauded, while foodies who didn't feel the disadvantages of roadside stalls wailed.
In fact, we need night markets and roadside stalls, just as people who wander outside need the warmth of the city, and people who come home late need a bowl of delicious and inexpensive hot noodle soup. Roadside stalls are the childhood memories of local people.
A place where outsiders feel warm.
Roadside stalls should be sparse and not blocked, and it cannot be simply one-size-fits-all. The city has gained cleanliness but lost its human touch. Such a city cannot retain people's hearts.
As a friend said, "Urban governance should have systems, but it should also have temperature." Is there a way to allow their existence under the premise of effective management?
The certified folk artists in Jing'an Sculpture Park are a reference method.
We are pleased to see that many cities have upgraded roadside stalls. The stalls are still the same stalls and the taste is still the same, but with more reasonable and standardized business guidance, there are restrictions on the stall owners and the
Diners are also protected.
One size fits all cannot solve the "dirtyness" of roadside stalls, but instead cuts off the umbilical cord that connects cities and people.
Tolerance is also an important mission of the city. The seemingly irregular fireworks carry not only a bite of food, but also the precious human touch in the city.