Old Beijing dim sum box, haven’t you seen it after 90?

Our old Beijing dim sum box is very memorable. The dim sum box is about one stretch and two stretches long. The shape is similar to a shoe box. The box is made of horse dung paper, and the outside is colorfully printed with "Danfeng Chaoyang" ", "Fu Lu Shou" and other patterns.

lining the inside with greaseproof paper, yard the snacks piece by piece, and then cover with a backing paper and cover the snack box with a red cover paper. In fact, the black cover paper on the red background is the trade name of the pastry shop. Advertisement, after the snacks are installed, press a piece of bright red square paper. The snack boxes are tied up with a paper string. You can lift them up and they won’t fall apart. The snack boxes or snack packs with red cover paper will make you look at them. Joyful.

In addition to Beijing’s eight pieces in old Beijing, the old Beijing pastries that the ordinary people in old Beijing like most include trough cakes, kilns, peach cakes, tuckahoe cakes, dragon phoenix cakes and so on.

In the old days, the vat furnace was bought at Dashilan Juqingzhai. The high-quality cakes, crispy, sweet and nutritious, are the most popular among pregnant women. Later, people began to make "Yili" bread, animal biscuits and Chinese fruit sticks as snacks.

Beijing’s most famous old brand of pastry production and sales is undoubtedly "Zhengmingzhai". Old Beijingers call the cakes 饽饽, so its full name should be "Zhengmingzhai 饽饽店". "Zhengming Zhai" was built in the middle of Ming Dynasty, and its shop is located in Meishi Street outside Qianmen. Since the Xianfeng Dynasty, "Zhengmingzhai" pastry has always been a court tribute, and its varieties can be roughly divided into five categories: crusty, fried, pastry, cake, and sugar crust. Among them, there are dozens of fine pastries, such as milk cakes, dried vegetable moon cakes, Saqima, honey cakes, peach cakes, yellow cakes, etc. All sesame seeds must be peeled before they can be used. Saqima is soft, sweet, and melts in the mouth, which fits the taste of old Beijingers.

The Saqima at Beixinqiao’s Thai Huazhai Pastry Shop was the most creamy, because it is adjacent to the Royal Temple Lama Temple to the north, where the lamas and monks are the first patrons of the Thai Huazhai, as a tribute to the Buddha. Big.

Gui Yingzhai in Di’anmen, because it is near the palace, the eunuchs in the palace often come to patronize. The shopkeeper Gui Yingzhai was in his favor, imitating the characteristics of the Yushanfang Dim Sum Bureau, which made the eunuchs feel like it.

Of course, Zhengmingzhai and Yongxingzhai are the most influential in the market.

Beijingers stop by to buy gifts. If you want to get it out, you usually choose a snack box with a fruit pouch or two bottles of wine or a catty of tea. Of course, there is a habit of sending snacks: In addition to seeing patients, they are generally only given to the elders (you don't need to pack the cakes for your hometown children, and you still need them during the New Year). Many people still keep this habit.

buy a box of dim sum to pack a box or a box, the salesperson will fill the box with several types according to the customer's choice (or choose by him), and then put a piece of red or pink decorative paper on the lid of the box , And then tied up with paper rope (plastic rope only later), and a handle will be punched on it. The whole action is done in one go, beautifully tied, practical and strong. If you stop by to pick up such a thing, even if you only have two kilograms of dim sum, it will have more face than you can mention a few large paper-packed dim sum.

Beijing people have a good face, and they weren't very wealthy in those years. Many dim sum boxes were sent in circles, didn't they say that they were sent back to themselves in the end? In fact, if it is true, Beijingers don’t have a lot of money. Anyway, what everyone wants is face. The ceremony is done. Who else points to eat this as a meal? That year, everyone let each other respect and lift their lives. The real Beijingers will not be shameless for such a thing, let alone tear their face for such a thing.

snacks contain more oil and sugar, they are naturally associated with nutrition and tonic when the goal is to eat full. It is right for the elderly, the sick and the pregnant women to eat, while the children often eat less, and even fewer snacks can be used as snacks.

In the past, the price of snacks made it a luxury by many people. Order a freshly fried oil cake and drink a bowl of hot soy milk, which is rare and dry, and the portion is large; while the dim sum price is high and the portion is small, a few bites are gone.

When I was young, I had very limited pastries, so I always greeted this bite. I have stolen the pastries in the dim sum box, but the dim sum box without the dim sum is not known to whom.

Since the 1980s, life has gradually improved. Many pastries that have not been seen before appear in large and small food stores. All kinds of cakes made in Western France are very popular, especially for birthdays. Not making a cake is simply not an errand. With the popularity of Western-style pastries, the pastry boxes have changed faces, and the "shoe box" has disappeared for almost two decades.

Now sometimes we will start with snacks. Those old snacks are like old friends for many years. Although we also know that it is rich in oil and sugar and unhealthy, we are reluctant to let it go. It is not necessarily better than others. It's a taste of habit.

Time goes by, and the changes of the times are accompanied by the improvement of people’s living standards. Nowadays, although we don’t pay much attention to gifting in dim sum boxes, foreign "sends" and "towers" flood the streets and lanes of supermarket shops, but high-end and exquisite cakes As well as the sweet and salty puff pastry and other old Beijing pastries, they are still people's favorite in our daily lives.

The real old Beijing’s pastries from the inside to the outside reveal the taste of old Beijing, can you say we can forget it.