A bowl of seafood noodles and a bowl of homesick noodles. My wife and daughter went back to Yantai to visit relatives in the afternoon. They were supposed to go home together, but Fengxi Academy was about to open and there was still a lot of work to be done. Get up early, my wife rolls the noodles, and I make seafood noodles.
I learned the art of making seafood noodles in Yantai. I married a Yantai wife and worked there for five years. Later, I went to work at Qingdao for three years. When I was young, I worked hard outside and devoted a lot of time to the city outside, so I could not spend time with my family.
Noodles are the link between people and their hometown. When I feel homesick, I want to eat it. After eating a bowl of noodles, the distance is temporarily ignored and my stomach is filled. Marrying far away, I was far away from the familiar taste. I changed from the small seafood I was used to at the beach to rice, dry rice, and meat. The reason why I often make seafood noodles is to make my wife miss home.
I don’t know where the love started, but I am deeply in love with Yantai. It is deeply rooted in my heart. I love Yantai and it is difficult to leave. Some of the most nostalgic days in my life were given to me by such a city; the most romantic love and marriage in my life were also given to me by such a city.
These were the years when I left Jinan and developed my second real estate company in my life. Because of my relationship with real estate, I have worked on the most high-end projects in Yantai, and I have the opportunity to get to know Yantai people. Perhaps because of the superior natural conditions, Yantai seems to lack a lot of innovation. I always feel that there is nothing better than here in the world. It seems to be resistant to the outside world and not very receptive to suggestions and development. Life here is comfortable and leisurely. Yantai is a good place for retirement, surrounded by mountains and sea, quiet and simple.
I remember when I was preparing to work and live here for the first time, I was sitting on the beach, looking at the twinkling stars and listening to the waves. I didn’t feel unfamiliar or panicked. It seemed that I had arrived. There is no prosperous and foreign style of Qingdao, no deep ancient roads of Zibo , no elegant temperament of Jinan, simple and unpretentious Yantai, a hometown that is not my hometown.
A city built six hundred years ago is Yantai City. Yantai City is the earliest birthplace of Yantai City and has preserved a large number of traditional residential buildings from the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China. In the 31st year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang ordered the addition of Qishan Guards Qianhu Station, commonly known as Suocheng, in order to defend against Japanese pirates at sea.
Yantai, the Museum of Modern Architecture of All Nations , is mainly preserved near Chaoyang Street in Yantai Mountain. After the Second Opium War, according to the "Tianjin Treaty", Yantai was opened as a commercial port. These colorful modern buildings not only have important architectural value, but also have important historical value. After Yantai was opened as a commercial port, Western capital entered Yantai, and Western culture also entered. With the prosperity and development of north-south coastal trade, Yantai became an important port on the Maritime Silk Road.
The old streets of Yantai are a kind of family affection, warmth and a sense of home to everyone who lives there. Yantai is the day I miss the most in my life, and it is also a city like this that gives me confidence. Some people say that Yantai is a city without style. I think that without really living in Yantai, you don't understand Yantai. After five years in Yantai, I learned Jiaodong dialect, learned to catch the sea, and even learned to cook seafood noodles.
In spring, the sea breeze blows, the sky is high and the clouds are clear; in summer, the green trees are shady, and the flowers are in bloom; in autumn, the fish and crabs are beautiful, and the seafood feast; in winter, the pink jade is piled up, making people nostalgic. Yantai apples large cherries, Yantai wine, sea cucumbers seafood are always so kind. The sea in Yantai makes me lucky to be a young man chasing the sea and keeping a young heart.
The lighthouse on Yantai Mountain is where Yantai’s dream of prosperity began. If you taste it carefully, you will find that Yantai has always had its own character. After so many years, when I calm down, I remember the past events of my life. Those days and those stories seem like just yesterday, when I returned from thousands of miles away and was still a young boy.
Maybe everyone has a different definition of food. Some people think that food is not about price, but only about their own appetite. Food makes people feel happy after eating it; some people pay attention to the price of food. The more expensive it is, the more delicious it is. Delicacies from mountains and seas are delicacies; and for many ordinary families, home-cooked food is the most suitable delicacy for us.
Seafood noodles have no fixed combinations and are simple to make. The most common ingredients are scallops, fresh shrimps, clams, razor clams, Haihong and other ingredients. Seafood noodles must be fried into white soup first, so that the noodles can be moistened by the soup and become fresh and sweet. If the soup is good, the soul of the noodles will be there. There is no MSG in the seafood noodles, and the umami flavor surrounds your mouth until you finish drinking it. The soup is clear but not turbid, and the taste is fresh but not fishy.
Simple food is full of stories, and simple tastes contain deep feelings. A steaming bowl of seafood noodles can cure all the troubles of busy life. The taste of home is the most exciting taste. Every time you taste it, you will feel happy and satisfied.
