Minzi, a snack in Dalian

Many people probably have the experience that they have been to a city, but they can't remember the scenery there, but they can't forget the local snacks. In fact, many places are famous for their snacks. What about the snacks in Dalian Street? This will start with the eating habits of Dalian people.

The vast majority of people in Dalian are from Shandong, and their diet is naturally dominated by Shandong cuisine, which is characterized by more pasta and stuffing, jiaozi, steamed stuffed buns, pies, fried dumpling, wonton and noodles. The advantage is that food with rice and soup with water are delicious and convenient. A hundred years ago, the old shops around Tianjin Street set up charcoal stoves in front of their doors, set up cauldrons, branded and steamed them, and shouted for sale. Vendors who specialize in wonton and biscuits walk the streets with heavy burdens at both ends, and get up early and get greedy for the dark.

At the beginning of the last century, there were 1, coolies in the streets of Dalian, most of whom had no families. They relied on street snacks for three meals a day, or squatted and stood everywhere. Those men who do heavy manual work such as carrying sacks or pulling rickshaws gobble up pig's head with two steamed buns or sesame cakes. Steamed bread is not made of pure white flour, but full flour, corn flour, sorghum flour, and even mixed with acorn flour. This kind of food is called "improving life", which is used to cushion hunger and fight hunger, but it is not often available, and people who can't make great efforts or earn money can't afford it. More people, more often, drink corn porridge with pickles in the morning and evening, and try to eat less dry food, a meal and a few cents.

In the early days of liberation, the urban population of Dalian had exceeded 8,, and there were more hotels with four pretexts, which were equivalent to four-star hotels today. That was not the place where most citizens could go. When people go to the streets, if they want something to eat, they still go straight to snacks. The most common and popular snack is braised pork. Braised pork has a long history and is unique to Dalian. It can be regarded as a humanistic snack in Dalian. Now, Dalian people in their forties and fifties have never eaten authentic braised pork in Dalian. Those who go out to make a living, miss their hometown, and the taste of braised pork may also fill their dreams. Braised pork was born almost at the same time as the city of Dalian. Shandong people ventured into the Kanto and planted high-yield sweet potatoes in the surrounding areas of Dalian. The sweet potatoes were processed into starch. In addition to making vermicelli and vermicelli, they were mixed with water, kneaded into balls, cut into cubes the size of many beer bottle lids like tofu, and fried in a flat-bottomed oil pan. The braised pork was cooked in a bowl with tender outside and seasoning, which was very suitable for Dalian people. Braised pork is a fine food, which is appreciated for elegance and vulgarity. Women and children are the favorite patrons. Nowadays, most people use convenient chopsticks to clamp the braised pork, but many years ago, people still used their own "nest" wire to fork it. The braised pork with fork and the braised pork with clamp taste just different.

Salted fish cake is another sign of street snacks in Dalian. Dalian is surrounded by the sea on three sides. In the early days, it made a living by fishing. In order to land early and sell marine products, fishermen must go out to sea early, and they must eat a meal at sea. Eating salted fish cakes is convenient and convenient. For the general public, in the past, there were few fresh vegetables in winter, only cabbage and radish. When adjusting dishes, small fish, which is economical and can be bought everywhere, became the first choice of housewives. Every household salted and dried some salted fish every year, and salted fish and corn flour cakes became the best combination. Eating at home and taking meals out were indispensable, and gradually they took to the streets and became famous snacks.

some snacks are also famous. As hard as a stone, anti-bite, anti-hunger and anti-release barbecued dough cakes, Jinzhou donkey meat buns, Tianjin Street's hanging stove cakes, Goubuli buns, all kinds of glutinous rice food and bacon cakes, and roasted sweet potatoes flowing in the streets, as well as soybean milk, bean curd, fried dough sticks and twisted dough sticks, are all familiar snacks that can be made in shops and streets, sold inside and outside shops.

Later, Dalian was open to visitors from all over the world, and it was also compatible with many foreign snacks. Tea eggs and pancakes wrapped in eggs made in street kiosks became the cleanest, most convenient and affordable snacks. Xinjiang mutton kebabs, a barbecue snack, add many seafood features of Dalian, making street barbecues richer and more popular. At night, under the lights, Dalian people sit around the barbecue, call friends, talk loudly, eat barbecue and drink heavily, showing their true colors. The variety of barbecue food is still expanding, which seems to lead the trend of street snacks, especially in summer, some barbecue stalls almost stay up all night, attracting many young men and women.

In recent years, Taiwan Province meatballs, Wuhan stinky tofu blocks, Hong Kong sausages and some indescribable southern delicacies have entered Dalian one after another. There are many kinds of snacks in the street, which are dizzying and mouth watering. Although these exotic snacks are attractive, they can't replace the old snacks in Dalian. Dalian people still have a soft spot for local traditional snacks.

Strictly speaking, McDonald's, hamburgers and KFC, which have settled in Dalian at present, are not famous dishes, but should also be included in the snack list. Dalian youth, especially Dalian girls, have pretty eyebrows and bright eyes, holding them and eating while walking in the downtown area like no one's watching, which is also a landscape.

In Dalian, some people have made a fortune by operating snacks, and have made a career. Some snacks have a long history, and they will last for a long time. Some snacks, such as salted fish cakes and braised pork, have reached the elegance hall and occupied a place in star-rated hotels, but with a little variety, the essence has not changed. Outsiders can see one aspect of Dalian people's material life and spiritual life from the snacks in Dalian Street, because snacks are also a kind of culture.