Hedong water-dewed bread, but it has its origin. According to legend, the fried buns in eastern Henan originated from . During the 5th year of the Northern Song Dynasty, a person in Xuehuji, Yongcheng, Henan Province was in Kaifeng Palace in Kyoto. On the birthday of the empress, he invited all the ministers to celebrate the delicacies of the hometown. The chef presented the delicacies of fried buns and bean porridge in his hometown. All the ministers were eaten. The King of Song was overjoyed and rewarded them with great rewards. The emperor gave them a special title of "second-grade buns". Since then, Xuehu water-dewed bread has become famous all over the world, and it has been popular in various prefectures, prefectures and counties. The tender white, burnt yellow, fat and full, the mouth is exposed, the green is green, the upper and lower burns are crispy, tender and delicious, and the fragrance is pleasant, making people feel fragrant and savory.
The owner of the Yudong Shuijianbao Breakfast Restaurant in Yiluo Coal Mine is considered an acquaintance in business. He is the seller, I am a consumer. He sells water-fried buns at Yiluo Coal Mine for more than 30 years. I have eaten in his water-fried bakery for nearly 30 years, although they don’t know each other’s names. But his enthusiasm, simplicity and loyalty, and his fried buns are small and exquisite, crispy on the outside and fresh on the inside, making every diner linger and remember them in his heart.
I went to his shop at 6 pm. He was still busy. I explained my purpose. He was shy, reserved, honest and loyal. During my inspiring inquiry, he slowly let go of his stubbornness and told the story: His name is Guo Yiling, from Xiayi, Shangqiu City. In 1988, he was about fifteen or sixteen years old. In order to learn craftsmanship, he and his elder brother Guo Liuqing and the second brother Guo Liujie went to the Woniu Coal Mine in Xuzhou, Jiangsu to follow his uncle to help while learning to fry bread. After working for more than three years, the three brothers felt that they had learned their skills and wanted to go out and make a breakthrough.
In the spring of 1991, Wang Wenjie, a brother-in-law who works in the Coal Mining Team 408 of Yiluo Coal Mine, said that there are no one selling fried buns here in , western Henan, and there are many fellow villagers in Shangqiu, eastern Henan, and they can take care of each other. The three Guo brothers left their hometown and came to Yiluo Coal Mine. They rented a house in a row of tiled houses at the entrance of Shentun Well (or Dong Mine) of Yiluo Coal Mine. They used wooden sticks to support the shed in front, bought pots, bowls, benches, and the stove was erected. With its fresh and deliciousness, economical and affordable quality, the business in Yiluo Coal Mine is booming and prosperous...
His water-dewed bread uses high-quality fine flour noodles, traditional craftsmanship (fermented with traditional noodles), and add onions (or leeks), ginger, five-spice powder, sesame oil, and fine salt to make it. According to the taste of diners, he carefully selects more than 20 Chinese medicinal materials to mix the filling. Mix the flour and yeast, add warm water to make dough, knead it evenly with alkaline water, put it on the table, and pull it into small clumps, and roll it into thin round slices one by one. Hold the noodles with your left hand and dig a spoonful of them from the stir-fried filling basin with your right hand, and wrap them like making dumplings. Brush the glass with deep concave bottom and thick soybean oil. The buns gathered here as if they heard the assembly number, squeezed and carried it until they occupied the bottom of the glass, poured in enough soybean oil, covered it with a lid and fry for two or three minutes. With a "sourcing", pour in a little flour noodle soup, and the buns jumped happily, like fish swimming in the jade waves. Cover and fry and simmer, so that it turns into steam heat transfer, simmer, then pour in soybean oil, cover and simmer for two or three minutes. When the lid was lifted, the steaming was steaming. The white and tender buns were like jade rabbits hidden in the clouds, like white doves ready to fly, like fat, full and cute suckling pigs. He picked up the shark-hai-long spatula, picked it up and saw that the bottom was burnt yellow, and used a shovel to separate the surroundings from the bottom of the glans. He was like a general commanding thousands of troops, waving the spatula, as if he was placing troops and dispatching troops. After turning over one by one, simmer for a while, and then it will be done with the fire. The fried buns are made of golden background, crispy, rich and delicious filling, and good color, aroma and taste.
Looking at the fried bread out of the cage, I couldn't help but stumble on a poem about Ancient style, saying: "The plain face is delicate and soft, and I practice Zen and water are as good as the gods. The clouds steam out of the cage like jade rabbits, yellow, burnt, tender and crispy and greedy."
With the prosperity of the business, the store has been moved several times, and the brothers have all started their own families. In 2014, the three Guo brothers worked alone. The three Guo brothers' loyal and honest quality, delicious, economical and affordable water-fried buns have always been popular among people.Every morning, there are long queues of people eating breakfast in front of the store, bustling and full of seats.
(Picture provided by Yudong Shuijianbao)
Site writer introduction: Hou Zhitao, pen name: Hou Zhitao, male, net name: Yuelang Changgu, Qingchen Zhuxiang, coal miner . He is from Luoning County, Henan Province, a member of the Henan Writers Association, a member of the Henan Poetry Society, and a vice president of the Yiyang County Poetry Society. He has published more than a thousand poems and prose poems (heads) in "Chinese Ci Fu", " China Energy News ", " China Coal News ", "Henan Daily·Rural Edition", " Dahe News ", " Henan Legal Daily ", "Henan Workers' Daily", "Dahe Health News", "Chuncheng Evening News", "Ethnic Times", "Henan Poetry", "Central Plains Prose Poetry", "Henan Energy News", etc., and has written a collection of poems "Dance on the Fingertips of the Sun". 
