A bowl of Xuzhou rice noodles, hot old city alley hot fireworks

I am Li Wanxing, and my friends call me Wanxing. I am 26 years old this year. I am a native of Xuzhou Yunlong District. On weekdays, I like to talk about Xuzhou's local street snacks in aifoodnews. I specialize in digging up the taste of old stalls hidden in old alleys and opened for more than ten years. I am not a professional food blogger, and I don't know any exquisite food dishes. I am just an ordinary girl who is fed by Xuzhou rice noodles. As long as I can remember, breakfast, lunch and supper can always be full of rice noodles. In Xuzhou, rice noodles are never eaten by a small number of people, but are the daily necessities engraved in the bones of the local people. It is not as gentle as Jiangnan soup, not as fresh as Cantonese flour, and with its unique hotness and mellow flavor, it is full of fireworks in the old city, and it is the taste of my hometown after I left home to study and work. The essence of Xuzhou rice noodles is never in a well-decorated store, but in a stall with a low table and a low stool at the corner. A bowl of rice noodles is warm and enjoyable. This is the most authentic taste of Xuzhou.

Xuzhou's rice noodles are completely different from those elsewhere. They are not as soft as hair. They mainly focus on the thick, solid and strong pure rice noodles. They are not boiled, chewed and played, and are especially tasty after being filled with soup. This is the unique taste of Xuzhou's rice noodles. Old Xuzhou people all know that the soul of a good bowl of Xuzhou rice noodles is all in the soup base and toppings: the soup with big bones and slowly boiled, thick, white and mellow, without extra spices, is all fresh bones; The secret meat sauce, stir-fried with spiced pork and stewed with bean paste, is the soul partner of rice noodles. There is also a spoonful of special red oil and spicy oil, fragrant but not dry, spicy but not rushing, not less or more, just to improve the taste, with crisp and raw diced pickled mustard tuber, fresh and fragrant coriander, flavored garlic yellow, a few simple combinations, is addictive taste.

My childhood was almost filled with the rice noodle stalls of aunt Zhang at the corner. At that time, the family lived in the old lane. Zhang Yi's rice noodle stall was set up under the buttonwood tree at the corner of the lane. There were no fancy signs, only a big steaming soup pot and a few low tables and stools with paint off. They went out of the stall before dawn every day. From early morning to evening, there was always a long line after school. They were all students carrying schoolbags and off-duty neighborhoods, lively and full of smoke. The first thing I did after school was to hold the change my mother gave me, go straight to the rice noodle stall, shout at the top of my voice, "Zhang yi, a bowl of rice noodle, put more meat sauce and less spicy", then find a low stool to sit down, stare at the white air rising from the soup pot, smell the more and more meat fragrance and spicy fragrance, full of expectation.

Zhang Yi's method of scalding rice noodles is extremely quick. Boil the big pot of water, grab a handful of soaked coarse rice noodles and put them into a colander. After scalding them in boiling water for two or three minutes, the rice noodles become bright and strong. Then they are put into a large bowl of coarse porcelain, scoop a spoonful of scalding big bone soup, pour a spoonful of meat sauce, sprinkle diced with pickled pickled pickled pickled pickled pickled pickled pickled pickled pickled pickled pickled pickled pickled pickled pick, A steaming bowl of Xuzhou rice noodles is served on the table. The porcelain bowl made the palm of the hand slightly hot, the aroma went straight into the nose, the red and bright spicy oil floated on the soup noodles, the meat sauce sank on the bottom of the bowl, and the green coriander was dotted with it, which made people have a big appetite. The autumn and winter wind in Xuzhou was strong, and a bowl of hot rice noodles was held in the hand, which warmed the hands and feet in an instant.

When eating Xuzhou rice noodles, pay attention to stir the bottom of the bowl while it is hot. First, stir the bottom of the bowl to make the meat sauce and the bottom of the soup completely merge. Each rice noodle is wrapped in soup. Then, the strong rice noodles play their teeth in the mouth. The mellow rice noodles of big bone soup, the salty fragrance of meat sauce and the mellow fragrance of spicy oil spread out on the tip of the tongue. The salty food is delicious food and spicy food is delicious food is delicious, but the stomach, the crisp pickled mustard tuber dices neutralize the mellow nature of the soup and taste particularly greasy. I always like to finish the rice noodles first, then hold the bowl and drink the rest of the soup. I don't even let go of the meat sauce dregs at the bottom of the bowl. I sweat all over and all my tiredness and chill are dispelled. The feeling of being steadfast and enjoyable is beyond any delicacies. At that time, a bowl of rice noodles cost only three yuan, but it was the most luxurious happiness of my childhood. Aunt Zhang always secretly scooped me an extra spoonful of meat sauce and said with a smile, "when the little girl is growing up, eat more." this simple goodwill, together with the taste of rice noodles, is engraved in my memory.

In Xuzhou, rice noodle stalls are spread all over the streets and alleys, and each family has its own unique taste. Some focus on the rich meat sauce, some focus on the mellow spicy oil, and some add marinated eggs, roasted sausage, and beef slices as ingredients. However, no matter how you do it, you cannot do it without the core of "real, enjoyable, and grounded. Xuzhou's human nature is straightforward and its food is the same. If you don't play with the empty, you can keep your regular customers if you have enough weight and good taste. Aunt Zhang's rice noodles have been spread out for more than 20 years, from a young girl to an aunt, and the shops around her have changed one crop after another, but her stall has always been there, growing up with generations of Xuzhou children and becoming the same fireworks symbol in the old alley.

Later, I left Xuzhou, went to work in other places, traveled to many cities, and ate rice noodles and rice noodles from many places, but I could not find the strength and hotness of Xuzhou rice noodles. The rice noodles from other places are either soft and easy to rot, or the soup is light, or spicy, which is always less mellow and real than Xuzhou rice noodles, making them tasteless. Every time I miss home, what I miss most is the rice noodles of aunt Zhang at the corner, the hot fireworks and the excitement on the low table and stool. I tried to do it myself, repeatedly cooking big bone soup and fried meat sauce, slowly groping for the taste, and finally made a taste close to my hometown. When the hot aroma floated all over the rental house, I seemed to return to the alley of my hometown. The rice noodle stall under the buttonwood tree was steaming, and the shouts of Zhang Yi and the laughter of the neighborhood were full of warmth.

I often share the fireworks story of Xuzhou rice noodles in my aifoodnews. I don't talk about the complicated practice. I only talk about the taste of my hometown hidden in the old lane. I didn't expect to gain the resonance of many Xuzhou villagers who worked hard outside. Some people said that they were homesick after watching it. Some people said that the first thing to do every time they went back to Xuzhou was to have a bowl of rice noodles. Some friends from other places followed suit and fell in love with this hot and spicy Xuzhou flavor. I suddenly understood that Xuzhou rice noodles are not just a bowl of snacks, it is the daily life of Xuzhou people, the fireworks of the old city, the homesickness of wanderers, and the taste symbols engraved in the bones of Xuzhou people.

The fireworks in Xuzhou are hidden in the hot rice noodles, in the stalls at the corner, and in the refreshing shouts of the locals. A bowl of simple rice noodles, no expensive ingredients, no complicated techniques, but with the real taste, hot fireworks, warm generation after generation of Xuzhou people. No matter how far you go, as long as you have a bowl of authentic Xuzhou rice noodles, it is as if you have returned to the alley of your hometown. All the drifting and exhaustion are smoothed by this hot bite.

If you come to Xuzhou, don't miss the old rice noodle stall at the corner, find a low stool to sit down, order a bowl of hot Xuzhou rice noodle, gulp on powder, gulp on soup, and feel the hot fireworks that belong to Xuzhou alone. This taste will definitely make you remember the fresher and warmth of this city.