Chapter 7 Ouyang Yingji: The pleasure of sticking to the ground

There is a saying in Cantonese to describe oneself in a terrible state, which is called "decay to the ground". It is also because there is basically no soil or nature in Hong Kong. Being close to the ground means being close to asphalt roads, concrete, steel bars and glass. I have just experienced the most down-to-earth state I have lived in Hong Kong for so many years, but it is okay and not bad. Sitting behind my old friend Pokit, I rode a motorcycle for the first time and drove half a circle around Hong Kong Island at high speed.Because he has a small belly and is covered in sweat, I didn’t reach out from behind his waist to wrap my arms around him like many little girlfriends sitting in the back of his car. The gap under the seat cushion, wearing the helmet that is a bit small for my big head, taking care of myself.Except for the first minute or two when I was on the road, I was a little timid. If passers-by could see through the helmet that I was gnashing my teeth, but when the motorcycle left Central and passed Wanchai and walked up the Eastern Corridor at full speed, I was already willing to go all out.

Although I didn’t dare to wave to people, trees and sky all the way, I can already hold the camera in one hand and take random pictures along the way. I kept thinking all the way, if I were given 20 years younger, maybe I would become a motorcycle rider, a A knight who will ride a motorcycle to forage around Kowloon and New Territories in Hong Kong in the morning, afternoon and evening. I once tried to actively introduce Hong Kong to friends passing by, but after much deliberation, there is nothing really good to introduce, only the food, which is okay. Motorcycles are actually not related to Che Zai Noodles, but riding a motorcycle to eat Che Zai Noodles is finally a fun thing made out of nothing.

From Lui Tsai Kee on the downtown East Street in Ju Kei Wan, East Island, Hong Kong, I arrived late at the ** noodle stall next to Shek O Beach on the southeast coast (he ran away without looking at the name after eating), and then returned to Wing Kee in Causeway Bay through the tunnel. Noodles, and finally at Chezai Noodles House in Wanchai—I swear that I have never eaten four bowls of noodles in one and a half hours so intensively in my past half life, and I have to eat pork skin, pork red, and leeks , radish, curry fish balls, squid, pork offal, beef offal, sliced ​​sausage, brine chicken wing tip, mushroom, crab stick, fried tofu, green vegetables, etc. "Is it oil noodles, river noodles, rice noodles, vermicelli, or udon—this kind of 3% Hong Kong car noodles that has been around since the 1950s. In the beginning, illegal itinerant hawkers pushed simple wooden carts. Go to the street to sell noodles, filling the belly of the poor and grassroots class, a ball of egg noodles that can be thick or thin for a dime, add some ingredients for two or three cents, surround the noodle stalls, everyone has a rooster bowl with a worn and cracked bowl mouth in hand , three pulls and two calls to solve it as soon as possible, lest the hawker management team come out of that field unexpectedly, and the people in front of them hurriedly "ghost", leaving a group of diners standing on the street, holding half-arrived Chezi noodles, not knowing what to do .

This has always belonged to the poor and grassroots of the society, destined to belong to the young and Dangerous, and destined to be inferior to the most down-to-earth car noodles of the noble relatives such as wonton noodles, fish ball noodles, beef brisket, etc., and our generation of Hong Kong people grow together.Even though it has been strategically purged by the government, Che Zai Noodle stalls have gradually moved from the streets to formal stores, but Che Zai Noodles have not become "cultural" because of this. It is still relatively cheap, with many choices, fast, and its own mix. Undisciplined taste, this is exactly the core value of the Hong Kong market that I understand and agree with.

Where there are cars and people, there are motorcycles every day, car noodles every day, and Hong Kong every day.