Jia Wenqing
In the past, in the cold winter nights of Xining Ancient City, there were often vague shouts coming from: "Hot Winter Fruit--" That was the vendor selling boiled Winter Fruit pears carrying a load and traveling around the streets to attract business. If you buy his winter fruit pear , it must be a clean and soft-cooked pear, with a big red date, and a tablespoon of sweet pear soup. If there were not enough red dates, or the coal fire in the stove was not strong, he would rather carry the load back than deal with the remaining pears cheaply. For hot winter fruit, you will drink the warm pear soup with sweet red dates. He wants to do his business well and be beautiful, and never settle for it.
Although the business is small and the profits are not much, he still adheres to his business integrity. This is the old Xining. No matter the industry, big or small, has its own industry rules, and maintains the commercial prosperity of Xining Ancient City with the principles of honesty, trustworthiness and fair transactions. Small shop owners, handicraftsmen, and even peddlers and peddlers, stewards and other people, also actively abide by the principle of business integrity. Some are agreed upon by the buyer and seller during the trade process, while others are unilaterally abide by the seller. For example, the breakfast mixed soup used to be for the hard-working people was cheap and affordable. Before dawn, a red lantern was hung up to open the door. Those early craftsmen, rushing households, and farmers entering and leaving the city all rushed to the store with the fragrance of mixed soup. As soon as he entered the door, the shopkeeper did not say a word and scooped a bowl of hot soup to serve it to the diners. This is called "silently". It doesn’t matter whether you buy breakfast or not. This bowl of hot soup is free, so let diners moisten their throats first. Drinking this bowl of delicious and hot mutton soup not only warms the body but also warms the heart. Diners will probably pay for another big bowl of mutton soup with meat. The owner of the crumble shop used a bowl of free hot soup to attract diners from all directions.
Eat and drink in the miscellaneous store, wipe the oil and sweat on the forehead, and leave with satisfaction, the red lantern at the door of the miscellaneous store reflected a couplet: "The big sheep head and the little lamb head are meaty, the small intestines are fat and the sheep is fat intestines are constantly intestines." The horizontal banner: "Catch the bowl full." This simple and straightforward language fully expresses the business philosophy of the miscellaneous store and its care and compassion for the people.
In fact, whether it is a messy store or a seller of other food, the capital is small and the profit is small, and the boss has a small income. He just uses his own skills and diligence to make some hard money. Even so, they will never be careless, let alone take shortcuts. Instead, do your small business seriously and tangibly, which reflects respect for customers and respect for your own craftsmanship.
In the 1930s, there was an old man selling jelly on North Street in Xining, with his surname Yin. Old Man Yin’s jelly is his own and has a secret recipe passed down from his ancestors. The jelly produced by the pine is famous for its tenderness and tenderness. What’s even more amazing is his seasoning. Although it is also pepper, garlic, soy sauce and vinegar, his vinegar should be soaked in , grass fruit ; soy sauce must be reboiled with brown sugar. The soul seasoning of jelly is even more particular. Not only the local Xunhua straight pepper in Qinghai, but Old Man Yin also spent a lot of money to buy foreign peppers from Shaanxi and Sichuan. After drying, they ground them into pieces. Several kinds of peppers are mixed together and poured with hot oil. His oil splashed chili is fragrant and spicy. Good jelly with good chili peppers, Old Man Yin's jelly has become a famous brand in Xining Ancient City, and everyone calls him "Yin Ji". Every day when the stall is opened, his jelly will be snatched up immediately. Even with such a good business, Old Man Yin often doesn’t make any stalls. The diner who came here asked him why he didn't make jelly. Old Man Yin had no choice but to spread his hands: "The seasonings are not complete." In that era, transportation was inconvenient, and pepper seasonings often could not keep up with the supply, so Old Man Yin had to close the door and not do business. Some diners thought he was too serious and advised him: "If the seasoning is not complete, it is not complete. It is the same if you use other chili peppers and mustard instead." Old Man Yin angrily raised his beard: "That is other jelly, not my Yin jelly."
and Yin Ji noodles sell snacks at the same time, including Liu Zongzi, Du Ji noodles, Yeliang noodles, Wei Ma Shi, Yang Fatzi braised pork, etc. Liu Zongzi is the first in the ancient city of Xining to sell glutinous rice dumplings. His rice dumplings are not only soft and sweet, but also full and elegant, and are a gift that women must bring when they go back to their parents' homes to visit relatives. Du Jirt's water-washed brewed skin is also the favorite of women. Like Yin Ji noodles, he also pays attention to the preparation of seasonings and does not dare to be careless at all. It is said that after eating his brewed skin, the last brewed skin at the bottom of the bowl is put up, and the soup in the bowl is also dipped with the brewed skin, leaving no residue stains. This is the skill and ability of others to prepare seasonings.
Yeliang Noodles is a cold noodle stall set up by an old man from Hui people. He improved the traditional cold noodle and poured beef or mutton sauce on the mixed cold noodle, which suddenly improved the grade of the cold noodle, which is much richer than the traditional vegetarian cold noodle, and is called "cold noodle hot food". This is also the prototype of the earliest sheep intestinal noodles. However, Yeliang Noodles did not carry forward the hot food of cold noodle. After saving some money, he opened a halal noodle restaurant to research and develop more high-end noodles - lamb strips, stir-fried firecrackers, stir-fried second-sections, noodle soup noodles, etc. His noodle shop is the predecessor of a well-known dry mixing restaurant in Qinghai. His sauce-sauce cold noodles have been improved by others and developed into today's sheep intestine , which is also a famous snack in Qinghai.
Wei Ma Shi has no unique skills. His trick to doing business is economical and affordable. Those households holding camels, coachmen holding whips, "Boer" carrying hemp ropes, and craftsmen busy in the shop are all regular customers of his noodle shop. Traditional Ma Shi are all stewed, and the ma Shi is cooked and picked up in a bowl. Inside, pour sauce on the sauce, a hot bowl. There are many kinds of sauce, just like the current rice noodle shops, including meat sauce rice noodles, seafood rice noodles, sauerkraut rice noodles, etc. Of course, the sauce was not so rich at that time, and it was two types of meat and vegetarian. However, in Wei Ma Shi's shop, there was only one sauce, which was mixed with meat and vegetables. Moreover, his sauce was not stewed, but was fried. A large bowl of sauce was served with meat slices, and various vegetables. A bowl of sauce was served with three bowls of other people's houses. People called his sauce "dry clew". Eat a bowl of dried sauce and then drink a bowl of noodles soup, which was particularly hungry, It can ensure that those who rely on their strength to eat are full of energy all day long. Unlike other people's pasta, it looks like a big bowl of soup, but it doesn't matter. I'm hungry for a short while.
Yang Fatty Mackerel Shop is run by Lanzhou people. After the business grows, Yang Fatty Mackerel became a native of Xining. Needless to say, his braised pork is a necessity for adults and children to teeth sacrificing during festivals or when going out for a trip. His braised soup oil is more popular than braised pork. Housewives buy some and put them in crock pot , mix them with strips and noodles. Especially a must-drink soup every day - whether it is inch-inch noodles, whirlwind noodles, or chess-flower noodles, uncover the lid of the pot, scoop a spoonful of braised soup oil and stir into the pot. Suddenly, the pot of clear soup and poor water have a soul, and the oil flowers float on the soup like stars, and the fragrance is even more fascinating. A spoonful of braised soup oil makes the dinner of a family-sized meal particularly sweet and warm.
The ancient city of Xining on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau was once a remote and remote town with relatively backward economy and inconvenient transportation. Although there are extremely rich Chinese medicinal materials, animal husbandry products and ethnic handicrafts on the plateau, most of them are "raised in the deep boudoir and unknown to the people." Fortunately, with tea and horse market , Tang and tibet ancient road , and Silk Road , the mysterious and precious medicinal materials, skins and mineral products on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau are recognized by the world, and these treasures have left Qinghai and went to the world, and the materials outside have also flowed into the ancient city of Xining. Xining people do business with their simple, innocent, bold and kind nature, and even more about human nature. Relying on fairness, integrity and excellent quality of goods, Xining people have made their business across the country until they go overseas.At that time, Xining Dabaihai, produced by Tibetan sheep on the plateau, and Chaka Salt Lake , were well-known brands in the international market.
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