Chapter 24 "Wine and Meat Country Friends" Dirty Wife

Hu Shi has a catchphrase: "We Huizhou", which shows that he is very proud of his hometown.People who are proud of their hometown are generally very confident in their hearts. People in Huizhou often live in clusters. Those surnamed Hu, Wang, Cheng, Wu, and Ye are mostly from Huizhou.As a native of Huizhou, Hu Shi is no exception. He often invites Huizhou fellows in Beijing to have dinner and chat.The place where Hu Shi often invites fellow countrymen to eat is Minghuchun, which is often recorded in Hu Shi’s diary: But Minghuchun is not actually a restaurant serving Anhui cuisine, but an authentic Shandong restaurant.Its signature dishes are: Bazi meat, boiled double crispy, fried kidney, breaded duck liver, braised crucian carp, cattail dish in milk soup, cabbage in milk soup, etc.

Among them, boil double crisp, which is now the famous Lu cuisine soup double crisp.The so-called double crisps are pork belly and duck gizzards. Because they are fried in soup, the dishes will not be greasy. Among the above dishes, Hu Shi's favorite is duck liver in bread and cattail in milk soup. Breaded duck liver is a traditional flavor in Jinan, Shandong, and is now called "Snowflake Duck Liver".Its method is: wash the duck liver, slice it into 16 slices, each slice is one minute thick, add refined salt, Shaoxing wine, and monosodium glutamate, put egg white, wet starch, and flour in a bowl to make a paste.Coat both sides of the duck liver slices evenly with a layer of batter, and then stick one side with bread crumbs.Put lard in the frying spoon, and when it is six minutes hot on medium heat, put the duck liver into the oil one by one and fry thoroughly, then remove it.Finally, with the crumb side down, place on a plate.The duck liver in this dish is as white as snow on the top, golden on the bottom, crispy on the skin and soft on the inside.

The practice of this dish can also be transplanted to foie gras. Another dish that Hu Shi likes is Pu Cai in Milk Soup.This dish is made of milk soup, cattail cauliflower, shiitake mushrooms and cooked ham.The cattail used here comes from Daming Lake in Jinan. The rhizome grows in the lake's silt and the leaves are long and pointed. Taiwanese gourmet Lu Yaodong once raised this question in his book "Hu Shi and Peking's Restaurant": Why does an Anhui native like Shandong's restaurants?I think so: Although Minghuchun is an authentic Shandong cuisine restaurant, the new Shandong cuisine it launched at that time had many innovative dishes, which may have attracted Hu Shi.In addition, geographically speaking, Anhui is surrounded by six provinces, which means that Anhui cuisine is destined to be integrated.Moreover, the difference between Shandong cuisine and Anhui cuisine is definitely smaller than that of Sichuan and Hunan cuisine.

At that time, Hu Shi had a close relationship with many restaurants in old Peking.At the invitation of Haiquancheng's boss, he personally wrote a couplet for Haiquancheng: "Scholarly articles are popular all over the world; cooking with spoons is as good as Haiquancheng on the beach." Once this couplet is hung, the business of the restaurant will immediately increase. Hot. Having said that, I noticed that before 2009, many restaurants would use couplets and plaques inscribed by cultural celebrities to attract business.But now it is Weibo that is most effective in attracting business: being able to attract celebrities to post on Weibo to promote your restaurant has already played a vital role in restaurant operations.A friend of mine opened a hotpot restaurant, relying on Faye Wong's Weibo posts, within half a year customers started queuing up.Now celebrity inscriptions and inscriptions on plaques can no longer achieve this effect.

In Beiping, because he often had to receive foreigners, and he was an advocate of the New Culture Movement, Hu Shi was also very accepting of Western food. "Hu Shi's Diary" often records that he went to Beijing Restaurant to eat Western food.His teacher, the American philosopher Dewey, came to Peiping and specially invited Hu Shi and his wife to have a meal in the western restaurant of the Beijing Hotel. Western food was introduced into China by missionaries in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties.The earliest Western food recipe in China is the "Book of Making Foreign Rice" by Shanghai Huamei Press. The practice of "Western Cake" is recorded in Yuan Mei of the Qing Dynasty: "Use egg white and flying noodles to make thick water and put it in a bowl. Cut a pair of copper clips , the copper joints are less than one point. Bake the copper clips over a strong fire, paste and clip, and become cakes in an instant. White as snow, bright as tissue paper, slightly added with ice chips and pine nut chips."

Hu Shi likes wine, but not much.When he was young, he often invited Liang Shiqiu and other friends to drink. Once a friend got married, Hu Shi was invited to witness the marriage.Only one bottle of wine was served on each table at the banquet, and they were quickly consumed.Hu Shi shouted for more wine, the groom was very embarrassed, saying that the bride is a member of the wine festival, so it is not appropriate to add wine on this occasion.Hu Appropriately took out the foreign currency and gave it to the clerk, saying that our friends had a good time drinking and bought wine with our own money, and we didn't do the business of the bride and groom.The owner had no choice but to ask the buddy to add more wine.

When Hu Shi was young, he used to drink alcohol to make mistakes, and later he suffered from heart disease, so he drank very moderately afterwards.He once wrote a poem on alcohol abstinence in "Attempts Collection": "Young people hate vulgarity, and they are against vulgarity. They think that they are six feet tall, and they are not worth a glass of wine. If it is not for the help of friends, I have been drunk for a long time." However, Hu Shi also got drunk after drinking, so his friend Ding Wenjiang asked Liang Qichao to inscribe this poem on alcohol abstinence on the fan, and gave the fan to Hu Shi to persuade him to quit drinking. Hu Shi was greatly moved.

Once when Hu Shi went to Qingdao, eight professors including Wen Yiduo from Qingdao University hosted a banquet in honor of him, known as the Eight Immortals Drunken.During the banquet, thirty altars of Huadiao wine were drunk in a blink of an eye.Seeing that he was exhausted from drinking, Hu Shi took out a ring from his bosom and asked everyone to pass it on. There were two words engraved on the ring: Jieyou.It turned out that these two characters were engraved by Mrs. Jiang Dongxiu herself to persuade her husband to quit drinking.It was just because of Jiang Dongxiu's low cultural level that he mistakenly engraved "abstinence from alcohol" as "abstinence from you".After everyone saw it, they stopped embarrassing Hu Shi.

Hu Shi is well known for being henpecked, so he specially collected stories about henpecks all over the world, and later found that only three countries did not have such stories, namely Japan, Germany and Russia. Hu Shi and his wife Jiang Dongxiu are in an old-fashioned arranged marriage, but they love each other all their lives.Jiang Dongxiu loves playing mahjong.Every night when I go out to play mahjong, I cook a tea egg, put it in a bowl, and leave it for Hu Shi to make supper.Later, Hu Shi didn't like tea eggs, so Jiang Dongxiu specially bought a Hong Kong soda biscuit for him. Hu Shi spent his later years in Taipei under the care of Jiang Dongxiu.Hu Shi lived to be seventy-one years old, the longest among his brothers.