Hunan specialty snacks on Yueyang Tower Bianhe Street

After more than eight months of holding back at home, I was finally able to go out and wanted to go to Yueyang to see the elderly. My friend knew that he was going to Yueyang and said, "You must go to Bianhe Street, which is the retro commercial street in the Yueyang Tower Scenic Area. There is an Internet celebrity shop on the street, "Hunan Specialty Snacks", you must go there." "When asked what the special features were, my friend was impatient and waved, "Anyway, you will know if you go and take a look. Sugar and oil cakes, fairy bean cakes, shrimp paste, lard mixed with rice noodles, etc. are delicious. You must have them. Try it. "

The road is a bit congested, and the bustling traffic is fast and slow. Everyone is in the same mood of letting go. We set off from Wuhan in the morning and arrived in Yueyang in the afternoon. After a quick meal, we went to Yueyang Tower for a walk in the evening. Along the scenic area to the west is a lakeside landscape avenue. According to my daily habit, I jogged along the avenue for an hour. I walked back sweating. I remembered the store recommended by my friend, so I turned to Bianhe Street in front of the scenic spot.

The winding retro streets are paved with bluestone roads, and the pavements on both sides are antique buildings with blue bricks and gray tiles. There are many tourists on the street, and it is lively. The prosperity of the past has been completely restored. Look There is no trace of the raging epidemic. Many of the operations that used to be done in the store have been moved to the front of the store. The small bosses are constantly shouting in Hunan Mandarin, "ginger candy", "xiangganzi", "candy man", "Thirteen Villages", etc., etc. . Like most tourist attractions, there are also many sellers of handicraft souvenirs, including folding fans, water cups, sweatshirts, etc. with "Yueyang Tower" printed on them.

Following the flow of people, I saw a stall at the entrance of a shop next to a stage in the middle of the street. There were particularly many tourists, and there were several layers of people surrounding it. A few neat little girls were busy in front of the stall. The signs on the stall read "Fairy Bean Cake" and "Hand-made Shrimp Slime". Looking up at the shop, it turned out to be the "Huxiang" recommended by a friend. Specialty Snacks”.

There were several rows of seats inside the store, and there were some tourists who had ordered snacks. After checking that there were still empty seats, they went in and sat down. The boss is a stocky middle-aged man. When he saw the person who came in was sweating profusely, he quickly handed over a pack of tissues with a smile and a glass of cold water. "Wipe it, wipe it to make it more comfortable", he said Hunan. mandarin.

The shop is not big, with only five or six rows of double seats facing each other. There is a calligraphy "Hunan Specialty Snacks" hanging on the wall near the door. There is also a counter with Hunan specialty chopped peppers and so on. Seasoning, above the counter is a Chinese-style menu, with each dish written on a brown wooden board hanging down. The shop is neatly kept and very tidy. It is not like the snack bars in ordinary scenic spots, but has the elegance of a high-end community coffee shop.

After running, I wasn’t very hungry, so I tried ordering the “hand-made shrimp sliders”. It was brought up two minutes later. It was also a small disposable bowl. It was light yellow and had dark edges, which exuded sophistication. There were a few pink shrimp slips floating in the amber clear soup, sprinkled with chopped green onion, and minced garlic in the soup. After taking a sip, it was really fragrant and I couldn't help but eat the shrimp slips in a few mouthfuls. There are vermicelli noodles and two slices of cucumber at the bottom of the bowl. The umami flavor of the shrimp is combined with the fragrance of the cucumber, plus chopped green onion and minced garlic. It is indeed a very delicious combination.

After finishing the meal and praising them, the boss asked the boss to bring a piece of each fairy bean cake, which he also brought over quickly. When I brought it to ask, I found out that my friend told me that Yueyang Tower's famous fairy bean cake is made of flour and eggs as the skin, and purple sweet potato, durian, red beans, etc. as fillings and baked. It also tastes very good and is very popular among girls.

I looked in the store and didn’t find any sugar-oiled cakes. I asked the boss. The boss said that they were also his snacks. They were not in this store but diagonally across the street. The little girl brought a bowl. The round cakes made of glutinous rice mixed with white sugar lie in a small porcelain white bowl like beeswax. The bowl contains some sugar oil for cooking. Pick it up with a bamboo skewer and take a bite. The glutinous aroma in your mouth is full of burnt aroma. Sugar is uniquely sweet and comfortable.

A bowl of shrimp paste, a few bean cakes, and a bowl of sugar-oiled cakes made me full. I heard that there are also more famous stinky dried seeds, lard powder, Hunan rice tofu, etc., but unfortunately I can only try them again.

Seeing that it was already past eight o'clock in the evening, there were slightly fewer tourists in the store, and the busy boss also had some free time, so I asked him to sit down and chat. After chatting for a while, we found out that no wonder the store is so tastefully decorated. It turns out that the boss’s hometown is near Yueyang. He worked as the design director of an art production factory in Shenzhen more than ten years ago. Later, he got older and didn’t want to be too far away from home. I also really like food, so I came back to start a business. In the past ten years, he has grown from a shop owner selling stinky dry food to the owner of three stores, including a "Wei Ai" tea shop and a two-story snack bar. The Hey Tea Shop is connected to the Shouganzi Shop, and the shop is also very uniquely designed. The owner’s son painted a lot of interesting cartoons to decorate the shop, which has led some wedding companies to use the shop as a backdrop for photography of couples wearing wedding dresses.

“The three stores have their own characteristics. Hunan Satellite TV came to Bianhe Street to record a program some time ago. It was raining and we had lunch at noon. The children who were recording the program searched all the stores and finally chose to eat here. Fans The shop was completely surrounded." The boss recalled the scene at that time, feeling very proud.

"But there are also regrets. There were too many customers at the time and we were too busy to have the celebrities take a photo in the store."

"The three stores all serve pinch (eating) food. The main ones are Real ingredients, such as flour, glutinous rice flour, oil and other raw materials, must be purchased from large supermarkets, and the shrimps must be fresh large shrimps. Don’t be careless about these.” The honest boss was smiling when he talked about his ingredients. , suddenly became serious. "Also, all the waiters are college students who work-study. Firstly, they are highly qualified, and secondly, they also help these children."

During the peak tourist season, I have to be busy until about 11pm every day to close the stall and open the door again at 8am. It is very hard, but I can see that the waiters in the shop are working hard and their faces are full of excitement.

When traveling to a place, I like to taste local snacks. Only snacks from different places can best appreciate the different customs and customs. Sometimes the snacks in tourist attractions have just the name, and you will be disappointed and regretful after tasting it. However, this snack bar on Bianhe Street in Yueyang Tower is different and worth recommending to friends who like to travel. If there are a large group of people, you can try all the snacks in the store, which will give you a better food experience.