Chapter 5 Hengshui BBQ

For the first time, I discovered that the first quarter moon is also orange. It hangs in the night sky east of Hengshui. This is the Jizhong Plain. The moon on the plain is different from the mountain moon and city moon in my experience. The geographical terms encountered, because the Japanese invading army often raided here in autumn, sweeping on the plains, with strong mobility.Gein grows corn in the Jizhong Plain. The corn here is more than two meters high, and the stalks are also thick. Each stalk grows a corn cob that is more than a foot long. The corn forest is really dense. People enter it, no matter what, they can’t find it. Arrived, commonly known as entering the green gauze tent, sweeping in summer, it is difficult to gain anything.The poet Guo Xiaochuan wrote a poem describing the sugarcane forest in the south and the green gauze curtain in the north.I know the sugarcane forest, I have seen the sugarcane forest, but I have never seen the green gauze tent, how disappointed I was when I learned that the corn grove was the green gauze tent, I thought the green gauze tent was at least a mysterious kind of rattan Vegetal tangled strips of greenery.

Just after Teacher's Day, I mean I saw the first quarter moon at this time, it was a bit warm, but it's not cold.We went to the street at the east end of Kangfu Street and turned south to eat barbecue, which was actually kebabs.I have never heard of Hengshui eating barbecue. I know that Hengshui is famous for Laobaigan. Because Hengshui has good water quality, there are also Hengshui fish. Where there is good water, there will be good fish. It is said that the pets raised in the water in the Forbidden City in the Qing Dynasty all originated from Hengshui.Another specialty in Hengshui is the snuff bottle.Snuff bottles are hard to see, but they are still being manufactured industrially here, and there is actually a snuff bottle academy in Hengshui.My friend Wang Guanyu was born in painting snuff bottles, and he is still insisting on painting. He is high-end, ranking within the top 5 in the country, and he has collected more than a thousand rare snuff bottles.I was in Hengshui, and I heard people talking about pots all day long.

Hengshui barbecue, the most recommended is grilled mutton skewers. Unlike in the Hetao area of ​​the Yellow River, here, barbecue materials are packed to the brim, and lamb skewers are sold regardless of skewers.A small rectangular table is set up in front of the grill shop, and each person has a small round chair. After sitting down, the boss and the guy start to grill mutton kebabs.The charcoal box for his kebabs is wider and deeper than other places, and a broken pot is placed on the side of the road curb, with burning charcoal in the pot, and a blower is placed about one meter away from the pot.We were the first group of customers, so the boss added a shovel of charcoal to the broken basin, pressed the blower switch to turn the charcoal in the basin red, then shoveled the charcoal into his grill box, and grabbed two handfuls of mutton Skewer, shake, line up and grill.The mutton skewers sold by the catty are not as thin as the mutton skewers sold on skewers, so thin that people can eat hundreds of skewers without feeling full.

It was probably soaked in the early stage, and the mutton had already tasted. The boss and his assistant were grilling, and his assistant put a baking box about 50 cm long, 20 cm wide, and 20 cm deep on the table. The lamb kebabs are placed on this box so that the eaters can grill them by themselves, and the eaters also sprinkle pepper, chili and cumin powder on it, as they suit their own taste.After such a small pioneering work, it really enhances the fun of eating kebabs. People can eat tender roast mutton, or roast it a little longer.Kebabs are served on the ground one catty per catty, just eat it, and ask for another catty, so to speak, ten more skewers, all in all, it is very convenient and free.

The kebabs are delicious. This is the best mutton kebab I have eaten in recent years. The mutton is plump, tender, and never cold. After eating the mutton skewers, I ate it without rushing, and I also had to drink. I drank Kyushu Jinmai beer, which was brewed by Hengshui Laobaigan Brewery.Mr. Wang Guanyu is not good at eating kebabs. He actually only ate two skewers. I ate 40 skewers, plus 10 skewers of roast lamb.Alas, the roasted lamb tendon is really good, and there will be a piece of roasted sheep fat in it. It is a moist feeling when tasted.When eating kebabs, Hengshui people have created another method, eating roasted garlic.Roasted garlic is to skewer garlic cloves to roast. Roasted garlic has a soft taste, and the spicy garlic is no longer there. The skewers enhance the flavor a lot. The difference is that you don’t need to heat up a skewer to eat roasted garlic, you just pull out a clove from the skewer to eat.