Chapter 19 Soybean juice and coke ring

When I lived in Nanchizi in the early years, I loved to go to Donghuamen to find snacks. I once made a vow to eat one province every day, and eat all the whole country in a short time. This saves the fatigue of the journey and the long time. Running around, the bowls of snacks are small, and I can eat two small bowls for a meal. If I eat a lot, I can eat three bowls for a meal, but most of the time I eat two bowls.Eat two bowls without eating from the same place. For example, if you want a bowl of Xi’an mutton steamed buns, and then a bowl of Ningbo glutinous rice balls, the same is never the same, and the snacks are not too expensive. A bowl is 2 to 5 yuan, and you can save dinner .

After eating in other provinces, I came back to eat Beijing. For Beijing snacks, I had a strange mental journey. For Beijing food, or other things in Beijing, I worshiped at first, then despised until contempt, and then turned around and started anew. Examine until I feel that things in Beijing can't be underestimated. Its underlying logic is so strict that it sometimes exceeds my imagination.For example, about the matter of the old man in Beijing carrying a birdcage, I used to shake my head every time I discussed it with my friends, but now I look back and see that this city is really suitable for carrying a birdcage instead of being too philistine.Last year, I took the train back to Beijing from the south. I went to the station and asked an old man who sold "Beijing Map" about the bus to Tongzhou. He actually said: "I will tell you when I buy a map."I was furious in my heart, why is this so?Where do you think this is?This is in Beijing, why is it so utilitarian?

In the imperial city, once people have developed this kind of utilitarianism, and everyone is staring at the small profits in front of them, how can we cultivate tolerance and generosity, and the grand and overall thinking of the world?Forget it, I won't ask, and I won't buy the map, I'll find it myself.However, when I lived in Nanchizi, my mentality was in the transition period from worshiping Beijing to despising Beijing. I went to drink soybean juice and eat Jiaoquan, and what I experienced was an extremely civilian mood. Soy milk, at first I thought it was the southern soy milk, milk and juice, literally, the distance should not be too big, or it is Beijing-style soy milk.After I drank it, I knew that this soy milk was not the other soy milk. The bean juice in Beijing had a musty smell in the mouth. When I caught it carefully, the musty smell lingered and lingered until I couldn't catch it. I held it for a while. , this smell wanders around, and the musty smell suddenly appears again, as if entering a virgin forest, a little vanilla rot smells from the bottom of the valley, blown by a small wind, and drifts away.After drinking the second sip and half a cup, the mellow aroma gradually lingers, and it is especially suitable to chew the coke ring at this time.The burnt ring is like a bracelet, hard and crispy. If you bite off a joint and chew it, the very fresh burnt fragrance permeates the air. It makes the taste of the bean juice disappear instantly. This cycle constitutes the fun of drinking soybean juice.

Soybean juice is not a professional production at all. When making mung bean starch or vermicelli, soak mung beans, twist the skin, remove it, add water and grind it into fine mung bean milk, pour it into a large tank for fermentation, and what sinks into the bottom of the tank is starch. Those who float are soybean juice.The fermented soybean juice is then poured into a large casserole with water and then boiled. After boiling, it can be kept warm with a simmer, and can be taken as you drink.To drink bean juice, you need fine pickles. This shredded pickle can be made from kohlrabi in summer, or old salty mustard shreds mixed with chili and sesame oil. Knowing the taste of soybean juice, how do you know the joy of drinking soybean juice?Mr. Wang Luobin, the famous folk singer, has been in Xinjiang for so many years. However, before he died, he still wanted to drink soybean juice.