That is a kind of Chaoshan food.
I don’t know why, people always call these Chaoshan foods “snacks”. When I first wrote the title, I also thought about writing it like this, but in my heart I refused. After all, since we were young, if we eat these, we will all think so. It was eaten as a staple food [face covering]
In fact, in that era, there were no "snacks", it was good to have some for dinner. After the reform and opening up, when the economy gradually developed, people started to eat something in their spare time. Only then did the concept of "snacks" come into being, right?
When I was a kid, you could eat this not far from home. There was also one behind my own elementary school. Sometimes when I get hungry after school in the afternoon, my mother will give me two yuan and let me eat a plate by myself. Some of them are storefronts, some are stalls, and some just put a large flat pot on a cart and come out to sell. At that time, it was called " fried rice ".
But I don’t know when, fried rice cake was also called fried rice cake, and this kind was called fried rice cake . To me it's all the same thing, just the difference between cutting it into strips or chunks. The fried kway teow tastes either too greasy or not good in texture, and whether the fried kway teow is delicious or not depends more on what it is fried with, beef? seafood? pork? Whether these things are fried well or not determines the overall quality of your plate of fried rice noodles. Rice noodles are only a part of it at best.
Stir-fried Beef Kuey Teow
Vegetarian Fried Kuey Teow
The fried cake cakes are different. After frying, the outside of the cake cakes is covered with a layer of golden color, and the aroma is overflowing. And when you take a bite, the inside is still white and tender, fragrant and delicious. The key is that the dipping sauce is white sugar (not the kind of transparent white sugar, but powdered, I don’t know what to call it), which is really boring for people who like sweets. Resistance is gone. Of course, the seller will also give you some pork, tomatoes, kale vegetable leaves, shrimps, oysters, etc., but most of them are just embellishments, and the cake itself can be the protagonist.
Later, there were fewer and fewer shops making this kind of fried cakes, and you often had to travel far to have a meal. It's even harder to find a good restaurant.
The kind of business in which pushing a cart, holding a pot, and setting up a few low tables and stools can satisfy the appetites of the masses and allow you to support your family has almost disappeared.
The wheel of the era is rolling forward. I hope these foods can continue to be developed. It doesn’t matter what the name is, and it doesn’t matter where you eat it [China Like]
