What is the irreplaceable street food in your opinion?

Roasted sweet potatoes and candied haws.

As a northerner, my favorite street snacks have been these two since I was a child, and they must be made first on the street to be delicious. Others are a little less interesting.

Street snacks are changing rapidly. Many snacks slowly disappear from people's sight, and there are also many new snacks that have occupied the public's attention. But roasted sweet potatoes and candied haws are two classic snacks that have endured for a long time.

1. Roasted sweet potatoes

The roasted sweet potatoes sold by the old man pushing a cart on the street are always hot, charred on the outside and tender on the inside. If you break them open and take a bite, your mouth will be filled with sweet potatoes. Sweet scent.

For a northerner, is there anything happier than being able to eat a steaming roasted sweet potato on a freezing day?

Our roasted sweet potatoes sell very well every winter. The man at the gate of our community stays from 5 a.m. to 10 p.m. every day and sells two large bags of sweet potatoes every day. Through his hands, these sweet potatoes turned into fragrant roasted sweet potatoes, which attracted people to buy them. The uncle only works every day for about half a year, and the money he earns in this half year is enough for him to enjoy and drink hot food for a year.

The love for roasted sweet potatoes is probably the complex of every northerner. Anyway, I have never met a northerner who doesn’t like roasted sweet potatoes.

2. Candied haws

The history of candied haws seems to be longer. Anyway, we can see candied haws in many costume dramas, and the man who sells candied haws has become a kind of entertainer. The craftsmanship they imitate.

Speaking of candied haws, that is the childhood memory of many people. I have not liked eating hawthorn since I was a child, but as soon as the candied haws are made, I can eat several skewers immediately.

Candied haws on a stick is also one of the delicacies of winter for northerners. The crispy rock candy paired with the sweet and sour hawthorn is a pleasure to eat in your mouth.

Although there are more and more types of candied haws in recent years, such as apple, yam, cherry tomato, kiwi, etc., the most classic one in my mind is the candied haws. This is The taste of childhood.

Nowadays, fewer and fewer people make candied haws on their own, and many of them come from wholesale. Although these candied haws are rich in variety, they are not as delicious as those made by hand, and they always feel less delicious. A little something.

What remains of street food are classics. Many of them have disappeared with the development of the times, which is actually quite a pity.

Just like the sugar blowers who have suddenly emerged in recent years, although they are famous, almost no one makes them and no one buys them. Occasionally, people buy one just for fun. After all, the ones mass-produced by machines have no special features and are thrown away as soon as the novelty wears off. I hope the day comes when my favorite roasted sweet potatoes and candied haws don’t disappear.