Chapter 17 Shandong meat fire

When I was working in the Jiaodong area, I found that there were three foods with the strongest local flavors. They were Chaotianguo with fatty soup and tender meat, donkey meat burritos with mellow and rotten taste, and roasted meat that was crispy on the outside and moist on the inside.When you come to Taiwan, just talk to friends from Shandong in Jimo and Weixian, and there is no one who doesn't want to salivate. The Chaotianguo may have a unique structure, and the craftsmen here cannot imitate it. Ximen sells it, so it is not satisfactory.Small donkeys are the most common means of transportation for carrying goods in the northern part of the mainland, but in Taiwan, small donkeys are rare and expensive, and they have become guests of honor in zoos. It would be extremely difficult to cook and eat them.Only the fried meat is cooked on fire, the stuffing is scallion meat, and the noodles are crispy.However, after living in Taipei for several years, snacks and snacks from mainland China have appeared on the streets one after another.

A few years ago, I went to Hualien for business. There was a small wooden house built on the river in Dashuigou, Mingyi Street. It sold breakfast in the morning and fried noodles and rice at noon. His house actually sold pork and round-grained rice porridge.Although the fire-fired noodles are not too crispy, the japonica rice porridge is boiled with horse dung as fuel, and it smells like a northern porridge shop as soon as you enter the house.It's a pity that the trip was in a hurry, and the local area has become a park on the river again. If you want to eat japonica rice porridge and pork fire again, you can only think about it.

Two years later, I went to the Huwei Sugar Factory to visit my brother-in-law Zhou Xingbei who was suffering from a serious illness. While walking on the street in the morning, I saw a shop selling fire roasted meat. After trying it, it tasted exactly the same as the fire roasted in Hualien.After careful questioning, I can tell that there was a fire in Hualien, and the wooden house was reduced to ashes. The butcher shop was burned, and the relatives came to Huwei, and they resumed their old business.Later, I settled in the south-central region for many years, and I have never eaten real Shandong-flavored meat.

I moved to Taipei last year, and at the end of the year, I was walking in the Minsheng community in the morning. I suddenly found a shop selling breakfast. There were a few sticks of beef horns in the basket at the door, and the steaming tofu paste in the house was sold.The boss and the man are arranged by the old couple. There is also a large electric oven in the Ganqing room, and the sesame cakes are baked. There are long pretzels, orange cakes, sweet shortcakes with red bean paste, and the pork fire that I haven’t eaten for a long time. I remember that when I ate meat fire in Shandong, there were two kinds of fillings, one was meat fire with green onions, and the other was fire fire with cabbage meat.The scallions in Zhangqiu, Shandong can be regarded as a treasure in Shandong, and they are also well-known throughout the country. The scallions are more than a foot long and as thick as a child's arm. Peel off the onion skin and eat it, the taste is fresh, like sipping nectar, it can not only quench your thirst but also satisfy your hunger, and use it to make fire stuffing, can it still be delicious?However, Zhangqiu scallions are seasonal. When there are no scallions, cabbage and pork are used as fillings. The vegetables must be finely chopped, and the meat must be chopped rotten.

Of course, there are no Zhangqiu scallions in Taiwan.The fire in this small shop is stuffed with cabbage and pork.The old couple are authentic Shandong natives. They have a straightforward personality. They respect the ancient method of making sesame seed cakes. People from Shandong in the area go there every morning to taste the taste of their hometown. Even compatriots from this province come to the small shop for breakfast. It is true that everyone has the same taste.Tired of eating fried dough sticks and glutinous rice every day, it’s really good to have two meat fires for a change!