Chapter 25 sky light stick

Huaiyang restaurants in Taipei all sell delicacies, some cut big and thick, some cut small and thin, and the degree of softness and hardness of the meat varies.Even though morning tea in both Yangzhou and Zhenjiang requires a few yuan of delicacies, Zhenjiang's delicacies are indeed better than those in Yangzhou. Dried meat must be dipped in sorghum rice vinegar and shredded ginger. It happens that Zhenjiang vinegar is famous all over the country for its freshness and not sourness.The meat is pressed by hand, so you can make it fat or thin as you like.Yangzhen noodle restaurants earn a very high salary as master chefs, especially the noodle restaurants in Zhenjiang. Whether the pasta in Bai’anzi is good or not is second to none. If the meat dishes are not refined enough, there will be no customers coming to the door.

There are as many famous dishes in Yangzhen as there are famous places for hot-boiled mutton in Beiping. There is a kind of lean meat called glasses. When cut out, it is really a meat ring. It is not only delicious, but also beautiful.If you want to eat neither fat nor thin, there is a kind of jade belt hook. There is an S-shaped lean meat embedded in the middle of the whole piece of meat, just like the belt hook used to tie a belt.The most special is a kind of pure lean meat with a chicken leg bone inserted in the middle, which is called sky lantern stick. One year when the author passed by Zhenjiang, my mother’s uncle asked Cao Yingsheng, a section chief, to accompany me to Wanhualou for morning tea.As a result, there were five sky lantern sticks on a plate of delicacies. Not long after we were seated, figures in capo hats and gabardine coats came over in twos and threes to greet and offer tea.At first, I thought that Mr. Cao was really great, and that he had a wide range of friends. Later, more and more people came to greet him, and there was no end to it, which made me very annoyed.It happened that Lu Xiaobo, the chairman of the chamber of commerce at that time, and Pan Songping, the head of the pharmaceutical industry association, also came to have tea, so they slipped to their tea table to escape the hustle and bustle temporarily.

According to Lu Xiaobo: In teahouses, Yaorou is called Yaorou, and a sky lantern stick on it means that the visitors are not ordinary people.Three sky lantern sticks are the characters with quotations.There are five sky lantern sticks on your table, which means that a foreign tycoon has arrived.Mr. Cao probably wanted to show you something, so he put on five sky lantern sticks. Pan Songping and I will each send another sky lantern stick to your table to join in the fun.After they said this, I realized that there is something special about eating delicacies and holding lanterns on the sky. Since we are not the distinguished guests of Chang'an, I quickly thanked them.

With this experience, the first thing I do when I go to teahouses in the Lixiahe area to have morning tea is to ask the meat to be free from the sky lantern stick.Otherwise, the morning tea will be messed up as soon as the famous local friends show up.There are so many things to pay attention to when eating meat. China is a country of etiquette and righteousness, which is really not bad at all.