Bianjing Minglou in Song Dynasty

Bianjing in Song Dynasty, there were many shops inside and outside the city. Among these stores, restaurants account for a large proportion. According to "Dream in Tokyo", there are more than a dozen restaurants and restaurants in Qiao Zhou on the Imperial Street of Bianjing, and there are countless food stores on other streets. The store names listed in this copy are as follows:

Zhangjia restaurant Cao Popo meat pie Cao Jia Cong Li Shi Si fen cha Qingfenglou restaurant Panlou restaurant

Lujia steamed bun Xuangeng branch Lizheng branch Zhangjia Youjiang Kanniulou Hotel Tangjia Hotel

Duan Jia ao Wu Shi Jia Juan Geng Jia Zheng You Cake Shop Shifeng Bazi

Wanjia mantou madang jiageng branch baxianlou

In a restaurant, the formal operation is called "shop-to-shop", which is probably a bit like the taste of a modern star-rated hotel. "Tokyo Hua Meng Record" said that "there are 72 stores in Zheng Jing, and the rest are called foot stores." Foot shop should be a restaurant for the public. At that time, there were famous shops and chefs. The famous chefs listed in "Hua Meng Record" are: "Those who sell expensive wine and welcome luxurious dishes are the first to promote white chefs, Zhou Xiang and Zhou; Kang Menli, Guo Chu of Dong Er Lane, Song Chu of Zheng Empress's Family, Li Jia of Cao Men Brick Pipe, Li Jia of Si Dong Dice and Huang Pangjia. "Famous shops also have famous chefs." The northern cuisine is Duan and Shifeng Bazi in front, and the southern cuisine is Sijiaqiao Jinjia and Jiuquzi, which are the most prominent. "

Some big stores operate for a long time, day and night, regardless of hot or cold, customers are full. Like Yang Lou, Fan Lou and Baxianlou hotels, the number of drinkers is often more than 1000, which is very large. According to the old story of Wulin, there are many famous shops in Lin 'an, such as Dahe Building, Fengchun Building, Fengle Building, Zhonghe Building, Chunrong Building, Taiping Building, Xichun Building, Sanyuan Building, Wuxian Building, Banquet Building, Rixin Building, etc., which are named after Jiya. Famous chefs include Yan, Weng, Chen, Zhou, Ren, Zheng, Shen and so on. Most restaurants in Lin 'an are run by bian people in the north, including mutton restaurant, southern restaurant, wonton restaurant, vegetable noodle restaurant, vegetarian restaurant, boring restaurant, and home-cooked restaurant specializing in shrimp and fish, vermicelli soup and fish noodles.

There are also many food stall vendors selling along Bianjing Street, and some vendors even go directly to the main store to compete with the shopkeeper for profits. Some shopkeepers don't allow hawkers to enter, and they bring their own sauerkraut to sell and spare no effort.

Restaurants in the Song Dynasty can generally be divided into hotels, restaurants, noodle restaurants, vegetarian restaurants, etc., with certain differences in operating varieties. Bianjing Food Store deals in head soup, stone marrow soup, white meat, Hu cake, tung skin noodles and rice noodles. Sichuan Hotel deals in noodles with meat sauce, large noodles, raw and cooked cooking, etc. Heather restaurant deals in fish buns, fried fish rice and so on. Soup shops mainly deal in shredded pork noodles and the like, which can be incorporated into fast food. After the guests were seated, the clerk held a pen and paper in his hand and asked everyone if the tastes of the guests were different, whether they were hot or cold, whether they were warm or whole, whether they were absolutely cold or carefully poured, and recorded them one by one and reported them to the chef. After a while, I saw the clerk holding three bowls in his left hand, and folding about twenty bowls from his right arm to his shoulder, and delivering them to the guest's table in order. Guests must not make mistakes in the hot and cold noodles they need, otherwise they will report to the shopkeeper and clerk, not only being scolded and fined, but also in danger of being fired.

There are also several types of hotels. Take Lin 'an as an example, there is a tea hotel, that is, a teahouse, which mainly sells wine and adds rice and side dishes; Jiabaozi Hotel's specialties include goose and duck steamed buns, soup steamed buns, thin-skinned spring cocoon steamed buns, shrimp steamed buns, sausage blood noodle soup and so on. And there are direct selling hotels that specialize in selling all kinds of yellow wine; There are scattered hotels, mainly selling large bowls of wine in bulk, but also selling blood stains, tofu soup, clam meat and the like; There are temples, prostitutes drinking with them, and there are hidden beds in the wine booths.