A few days ago, Foreign Ministry spokesman Hua Chunying posted on " Twitter " and mentioned that "Baidu map shows that there are 38 Shandong dumpling restaurants in Taipei, and the taste will not be lie. Taiwan is part of China. Children who have been separated for many years will eventually go home." The topic quickly reached the top of the hot search list on the Internet.
Open a dumpling restaurant in Taiwan, and through the tip of your tongue, you can see what the picture is like "one family on both sides of the Taiwan Strait"? Our reporter recently contacted two owners who opened a Shandong dumpling restaurant on the island and invited them to tell the story of "one family on both sides of the Taiwan Strait" behind the dumpling restaurant.
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Ye Qian
The voice of a cross-strait marriage and family dumpling restaurant owner:
"We have the same taste and preferences as a family, and we are a family."
" Many Taiwanese villagers who came to our dumpling restaurant came from eating the taste of their hometown. I think what they eat is really not just dumplings, they use the taste of their hometown to soothe their homesickness." Ye Qian from Qingdao, Shandong Province opened a snack bar in Puli Town, Nantou County, Taiwan. From only operating rice balls to adding the "dumpling elements" in their hometown, the snack bar not only has a better business, but also allows Ye Qian to feel the warmth of being taken care of by Taiwanese villagers on the island.
"Comrades on both sides of the Taiwan Strait are originally a family. Our folk customs, customs and sentiments are the same. Our stomach tells us this way, and our hearts are also expressed in this way." She told the reporter of People's Political Consultative Conference Daily .
Ye Qian's connection with Taiwan Island began with a marriage on the island when she worked in Xiamen . "I opened a drink shop in Xiamen at that time, and my husband often came to my shop to buy drinks." After a while, a Taiwanese young man sent to mainland China to work as a designer was connected with a mainland girl who was also living alone in Xiamen. In 2015, they formed a small family and when the second baby was born, they chose to return to Taiwan.
Puli Town, Nantou County, Taiwan, where Ye Qian's family is located, is a traditional Taiwan town with a permanent population of 80,000 or 90,000. The people are mainly from the province. Ye Qian's mother-in-law is the second generation inheritor of the Taiwan time-honored food restaurant Qiyi Rice Ball. Considering that his wife has experience in running the catering industry, her husband-in-law handed over the inheritance craftsmanship to Ye Qian.
"After arriving in Taiwan, I tasted some famous dumpling restaurants and found that the taste was not as amazing as expected. There were also customers in the store who hoped that we could develop some fast food to takeout. I immediately thought of dumplings from my hometown." Speaking of the initial addition of "dumpling elements" to the store, Ye Qian said.
What Ye Qian didn’t expect was that the introduction of “dumpling elements” was very popular among customers. "At first, the guests bought 20 with the mentality of trying it out, and then some customers bought 100 or 200." Some customers also heard that Ye Qian's store was selling dumplings, so they drove to satisfy the taste of their hometown that they had long thought about.
"Once a young man came in and asked me kindly, "Sister, you are from Jimo! My grandmother is also from Jimo! When I was a child, I could always eat Shandong dumplings made by my grandmother!" The filling was big, thin skin, and a lot of meat. That was the "mainland mark" that my grandmother gave to this Taiwanese youth.
After opening a store on the island for a few years, Ye Qian not only has a personal experience of the "homesickness on the tip of her tongue", but also has a deeper understanding of the closeness that comes from bloodline of compatriots on both sides of the Taiwan Strait.
"My store often comes to chat with me and ask me 'where did it come from'?" In Ye Qian's opinion, the neighbors chat with her with unskilled rolled tongue sound and Erhuayin, in order to make her feel closeness from a foreign land.
Nantou County where Ye Qian lives is the famous place of origin of Taiwan. Because of the enthusiasm of her neighbors, she was lucky enough to taste this delicacy produced in her neighbors’ own fields in the first year she lived here.
"Ordinary people in Taiwan are very simple and kind. This is what touched me deeply after I came here."When I came to the island for 5 years, what still touched Ye Qian still thought about it was the summer vacation when I first came to the island. When the teacher of the eldest daughter class heard that the child was in the mainland to the third grade of elementary school, he learned the pinyin literacy method, and took the initiative to use the holidays to teach the children the phonetic literacy method learned by children on the island for free, so that the little girl can adapt to the classroom learning in Taiwan as soon as possible after school starts.
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As I gradually became familiar with all aspects of the island, I was immersed in the customs and sentiments of the two sides of the Taiwan Strait, Ye Qian also began to think deeply about why all parties always say "the two sides of the Taiwan Strait are one family".
"You see the Puli Town in my life, the mainland mark is the one. What I feel here is that no matter whether you are from Henan, Guangdong or Shandong, we are both Chinese, we have the taste and preferences of being a family, and we have a natural psychological connection, and we are a family. "She told the reporter of the People's Political Consultative Conference Daily.
Wei Xiaoyin
The nostalgic memory of a "second-generation Taiwanese dumpling restaurant owner:
"Everyone eats nostalgia, the taste of returning home"
Wei Xiaoyin, who is in his sixties this year, is a Shandong fellow born in Taiwan. Before 2013, he also ran a Shandong-style restaurant in Nantou County, Taiwan, and gave the restaurant a very warm name "My fellow beef noodles", "because Shandong people are used to calling people 'My fellow villagers'. "He told the reporter of the CPPCC Daily.
"My old diners still miss the authentic Shandong flavor in my store. "When talking about the memories of opening a shop in those years, Wei Xiaoyin's face felt pride.
Wei Xiaoyin was born in Taiwan and is from Sishui County, Shandong Province. After retiring from the army, I followed my father to learn Shandong noodle craftsmanship and opened a noodle restaurant. The signature of the store is beef noodle and dumplings with Shandong flavor.
Wei Xiaoyin has his insistence on the flavor of dumplings. "You must put pepper noodles in the filling, because the stuffing is like this in my hometown. For leeks, cabbage, , karis , etc., you should rub them with salt and rub out the astringent water inside the dish, so that the dumpling filling will be firm and tasteful. "When talking about a set of "private secrets" for making dumplings, Wei Xiaoyin couldn't stop talking.
"We Shandong people don't do fake things, they want to give them the best food. At that time, I bought the best quality beef, but it sold at the usual price. "Although he was born in Taiwan, Wei Xiaoyin thought in his heart that he was a Shandong native, and he also exuded the grandeur, simplicity and refreshingness that the descendants of Shandong people had in the genes of Shandong descendants.
is this authentic "Shandong flavor". Wei Xiaoyin's fellow villager beef noodle restaurant attracted a group of Shandong villagers living in Nantou. One of the guests made Wei Xiaoyin unforgettable.
One afternoon, a car passed by the door of the noodle restaurant, drove over, retreated, and stopped at the door. A girl came in and asked Wei Xiaoyin if there was a Chinese toon noodles in the store.
"I brought her a bowl of Chinese toon noodles, and the noodles were just in my mouth. She chewed it twice and she burst into tears. The taste of the noodles was exactly the same as her father made. "After some exchanges, Wei Xiaoyin learned that this girl was also a descendant of Shandong people who came to the island. When she passed by the noodle restaurant, she saw the words "Chinese Toon Noodle" written on the sign, it instantly touched her. The girl told Wei Xiaoyin that since her father passed away, she had never eaten Chinese Toon Noodle again, which also became the "taste of hometown" and "memory of noodle" in the heart of this young "second-generation Taiwanese". For this reason, before leaving, Wei Xiaoyin specially gave the girl a can of Chinese Toon pickles.
In Wei Xiaoyin's view, what she tasted on the tip of her tongue was not only the taste, but also the affection. Shandong Noodle Restaurant, Shandong Dumpling Restaurant and mainland food are popular on the island because the Shandong villagers on the island miss the taste of their hometown very much, "Everyone eats homesickness and the taste of returning home. "He said. After witnessing the scene of this little fellow Shandong, the Chinese toon noodles in Wei Xiaoyin's restaurant has become a reserved menu.
talked about more "memories of hometown" left to him, Wei Xiaoyin told reporters that he had returned to his hometown in Shandong three times in total.On the first trip, he took the address written by his father to him and then got off the plane from Jinan. After chartering a car, he found his hometown Dongzhongdu Village, Sishui County, and met his uncle. On the second trip, he took his son and daughter back, went to the grandparents' grave to worship, and told the children that his roots were here, "No matter how you do in the future, our roots are here," he said.
reporter learned from the Shandong Provincial Party Committee Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao Office that there are currently about 1 million Shandong Taiwanese compatriots living in Taiwan, and more than 21.5 million Taiwanese living in Shandong. Since the opening of the two sides of the Taiwan Strait, nearly 5 million people have traveled between Shandong and Taiwan.
Source: "People's Political Consultative Conference Daily" (08th edition, September 10, 2022)
Reporter: Xiujing
Layout editor: Xiujing
New media editor: Xue Jing
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