Chapter 37 Hop Kee Braised Noodles

Zhengzhou was called Zheng County in history, far less famous than Kaifeng and Luoyang. Since the establishment of the Beijing-Guangzhou Railway, Zhengzhou has become a water and land transportation hub between east, west, south, north and south, and has become an upstart city in Henan Province.Zhengzhou people speak very concisely and are known for their idiomatic use of single characters.Therefore, the Hop Kee Braised Noodles in Zhengzhou is also very simple. The large bowl is four taels, with two noodles, and the small bowl is two taels, with one noodles, all three meters in length. In the city of Zhengzhou, food tends to be crude.It is said that Xinyang people know how to eat. They invented a dish of braised mutton. Zhengzhou did not invent anything, and there is no independent cuisine. Heji Braised Noodles is almost a symbol of Zhengzhou’s diet.Hop Kee Braised Noodles are 1.5 cm wide and as thick as a lily petal.Eat to length, then drink soup.To eat Hop Kee stewed noodles, vegetables are a kind of superfluous food. The noodles are rich in alkali. When kneading the noodles, they should be served with fresh soup, mutton stewed noodles with mutton soup, seafood stewed noodles with seafood soup, and so on.Stewed noodles are also based on soup. The mutton soup of mutton stewed noodles contains some mutton, supplemented with vermicelli, thousand pieces of shredded skin, kelp shreds, wolfberry, coriander, and chili. .Hop Kee Braised Noodles are also hand-drawn and I guess the noodle table is quite long.

This was in the summer of 2000. Sitting on the third floor of the main store of Hop Kee Braised Noodles, I felt that arranging the braised noodles could extend the Beijing-Guangzhou line.This love is long, and I will soon enter the middle and upper reaches of the Yellow River, and the days of walking still run through my whole life.Thinking of the blue sky and white clouds at the source of the Yellow River, my heart is also uneasy.Xu is the moment of eating Heji stewed noodles, knowing the simplicity and openness of Zhengzhou people.It is true that Zhengzhou people also have a little bit of cuteness. They advertise that Hop Kee Braised Noodles is "the best noodle in the world".There are springs in the south of the Yangtze River, and they are often advertised as the second in the world, which makes people feel that there is a foreshadowing.

When eating Hop Kee Braised Noodles, you should eat it with open arms, eat only one foot, drink three mouthfuls of soup, and sweat profusely on your forehead like beans, so that you can feel so happy eating Braised Noodles.After careful inquiry, there is another name for Heji Braised Noodles, which is called "Anti-Japanese Noodles". This allusion has not been formally verified.It is said that the owner of Hop Kee opened the shop during the Anti-Japanese War. One day the Eighth Route Army came to the noodle restaurant to eat noodles. It happened to be bombed by Japanese planes. After avoiding the bombing, the noodles were cold. Cook for a while, serve it up, and eat it to make the anti-Japanese soldiers happy.The boss didn't know until now that stewed noodles with mutton soup is very good.Thus, Hop Kee Braised Noodles was born.

A bowl of noodles is connected with a history of the Anti-Japanese War, which is very meaningful.When I learned about this allusion, I thought, Hop Kee Braised Noodles can open a branch in Tokyo, so that today’s Japanese eat more Hop Kee Braised Noodles, and then tell them the origin of Hop Kee Braised Noodles, which is the testimony of Japan’s invasion of China Food, give the Japanese people a chance for peace education.Eating Hop Kee Braised Noodles can experience the beauty of life, but launching a war will bring disaster to mankind. It is a universal truth. I ate mutton stewed noodles at the main store of Zhengzhou Renmin Road Heji. Now Heji stewed noodles have developed many varieties, but mutton stewed noodles are authentic.Authenticity is the core of Central Plains culture. On the one hand, it maintains the 5,000-year-long Chinese tradition, and it also restricts the Central Plains region from moving towards modernization.Therefore, I decided to come to Zhengzhou once and eat it once. This is also my recognition of Zhengzhou and the Central Plains culture.