Chapter 33 Sitting around the stove and potting with pride

Chinese talented people like to show such a posture: they don't care about what they are good at, such as poetry and articles, but they comment on other small things, such as flowers, birds, fish and insects, and they like to spread their own literary views into it.Yuan Mei wrote with a look of wit and disapproval of hot pot, because "all of them are forced by fire", which loses the original taste of food. In fact, even if the old man didn't criticize the hot pot, a clean freak like Mr. Yuan, who has to use rice vinegar in order to clean himself up, can't be listed on the guest list for hot pot.Because the hot pot cares about whether you are from east to west, north to south, and how reserved and elegant you are at the beginning, but in the end, you will be surrounded by a stove and hold chopsticks together.My friends in Beijing said that the hot pot was used by the Mongolian cavalry to cook thin slices of mutton everywhere in the rush of war; but the girls in Chongqing argued that the trackers on the river beach had already cooked pots in the pile of rocks.Anyway, either they are born from Mobei, or they are trackers from Nanman, neither of them are very fastidious people.If you blame them for "it's wrong to press them all with fire", they probably just roll their eyes and ignore them.When a scholar meets a soldier or a tracker, he always has reasons and cannot explain clearly.

A friend said earlier that the Eight Banners children who know how to eat best in the north also had a different idea from Mr. Yuan.Take the birdcage and shake the folding fan to the restaurant, first order the stewed meat jelly, and use the soup to serve the hot pot, which is probably similar to the soup hot pot.When I go to Beijing, I will be dragged by friends who are foodies, and I will walk through the streets and alleys to eat fried belly.My friend invited me to go to the famous Baodu Feng in Beijing. I walked through some rickety tables and chairs, surrounded by the chewing sound of traffickers and pawns. It was dark and greasy.As for eating boiled animal offal dipped in peanut butter and garlic, it is raw and brutal, and gourmets who like delicate food may frown.

In, Miaoyu said that people drink tea, or savor, or just "thirst-quenching fools".Probably gourmets also think that eating is either savoring carefully, or satisfying hunger.However, Beijing's water-boiled dipping sauce and Southwest's spicy boiled soup are all delicacies in the streets and alleys of Lower Liba.Just to relieve hunger, why bother? There are so simple or complicated rituals that border on brutality? Students who often eat hot pot know that you can't invite friends who are volatile, and of course, you can't invite friends who are impatient.Eating hot pot is the same as tasting wine, drinking tea, and playing chess. Acquaintances who know each other invite a few, and they want to confirm the type of each other like a docking sign. Like addicts, they secretly order their favorite things, and then gear up and wait.As soon as the pot was put on the table, the fire was a little louder, and the courage immediately strengthened.If it's winter, the people around the stove are like robots stuffed with fuel, their backs are stiff, and they wish they could snow like goose feathers outside, so as to appear "what can you do to me"?Experts who know the basics don't need to greet each other, each stretches out his chopsticks to pick up his favorite things, and cooks them in the boiling soup.At this time, the slow-tempered or cautious ones will of course feel embarrassed; while the quick-tempered ones can easily ruin the whole table by throwing the pot upside down.You cook your own, and you can control the heat, which is equivalent to a fresh and hot buffet.The mutton and fried tripe in the north are cooked and seasoned, and they are refreshing to eat; in the south, no matter whether it is fresh, sweet or crisp, it is unbearable when it is spicy.After taking it into the mouth, few people chew it carefully to distinguish the taste. Like Hong Qigong, he narrowed his eyes and analyzed the fineness of Huang Rong's dishes: "This is scorpion meat, this is beef".Eating hot pot around the stove, most people are like thieves: Although they talk loudly when they are talking, they eat quickly after cooking, and swallow the jujube whole, as if there is a live fish in their mouth. .This hustle and bustle can only be used when eating hot pot. If it is used to eat other delicacies from mountains and seas, Zhu Bajie will inevitably have the regret of eating ginseng fruit—but fortunately, he eats hot pot around the stove. Everyone knows that it is not to eat When Xiwei pretends to be a connoisseur, what he eats is the energy of blasting fire, swallowing dates, and wolfing down.

In the south in winter, there is a vast amount of snow at night, cold and wet, condensed but not melted.If it weren't for the phone call saying please eat hot pot, there is indeed little reason to coax people to go out.Putting on thick clothes and boots, he walked on thin ice and walked all the way, worrying about which car would be slipped by the ice and greeted himself.I found a restaurant, opened the door and went in. A group of barbarians who looked like kings of the mountain were eating with big spoons, big bowls and ladles. Rose tub.Turn on the fire, and a pot of soup on the stove roars like an uncontrollable anger.Grab the chopsticks to pick up the mutton and put it in the pot to be scalded. Before it cools down, put it in your mouth quickly. Your tongue will be scalded like a branding iron, and you will close your eyes and take a sip of wine.Don't wait for the wine to be spicy, just continue eating.You chase after me, meteors chase the moon, dancing and dancing so busy that you are sweating.After eating, I feel like I have become a king of the mountain, with an open mind, and I have some plans to go around the street to buy road money.With his coat open, he yelled "It's snowing heavily", and he dived into the snow with his companions around the stove. He still had a vague feeling of anger in his mouth, and felt that he would become the fire-breathing dragon that knights love to kill at any time—this is The effect of "all force it with fire".