It was around five o'clock in the afternoon when he arrived in Zhangye. Li Xiao looked for it on the map and decided to use Zhangye's Wetland Park as his resting place today.
As a park, the environment here is excellent and the air is fresh. As a place to explore stores, the Ganzhou Night Market is nearby, where you can just eat and rest for a night before continuing on the road.
The moment he opened the car door and got out of the car, Li Xiao was hit by all kinds of fragrant hot air coming towards him.
He turned on the camera and started tonight's live broadcast.
"It's six o'clock in the evening, which is about time for dinner. The place I'm at now is the Ganzhou Night Market in Zhangye. I'm looking for something delicious here."
"Maybe it's due to the time. It's still quite cold at this time in the evening, but it's diluted a lot by the heat coming from the side."
Not two steps ahead, an archway with the four characters "Ganzhou Alley" appeared in front of Li Xiao.
"It seems that this is the destination of our trip."
Li Xiao realized that the fragrance he smelled at the parking lot came from here.
The surrounding buildings are all modern, but only the archway specifically imitates the shape of ancient buildings.
The ground was specially covered with a long red carpet, and there were antique stalls selling food on both sides.
These food stalls are different from other places in that they write their names with a banner in front of the shop.
At first glance, the walkway appears to be three or four meters wide, but it is bustling with people coming and going.
"I feel like this night market looks quite like a food street. There are quite a lot of people, but I don't know how the food inside tastes."
Li Xiao, who was walking on the road with a camera set up, was occasionally bumped into by a pedestrian passing by. The other person apologized and walked aside with some embarrassment.
The stall closest to the door said "Brazilian Barbeque" on it. There were quite a lot of diners waiting in front of it. The smell didn't have much distinctiveness. He guessed it was because of the name. Li Xiao walked forward without interest.
Before taking two steps, Li Xiao paused when he looked at the names on the dazzling array of flags in front of him.
"In order to avoid the difficulty of choosing in the future, I'd better order a barbecue now to fill my stomach."
The live broadcast room suddenly had a wave of "prosperity and trance", "to be honest, I also choose difficulty!", "the anchor really made a prompt decision 2333."
Although there were many diners in front of this stall, the couple was very agile and did not keep Li Xiao waiting for long.
"Ten yuan for four big skewers is quite a deal." Li Xiao weighed the skewers he got. The weight of the skewers made him quite fond of it. "Looking at the shape, it should be mutton."
After all, it hasn’t even left Gansu yet, and such famous mutton should be everywhere in the streets.
“It smells like average barbecue, and the spices on it are nothing special.”
Putting the kebab in front of him and smelling it, Li Xiao looked at the piece of meat in the middle and seemed to discern some clues.
"It's a bit surprising, I didn't expect it to be duck meat."
"The heat was a bit too high, which caused the meat to become a bit old. The top layer of skin is thicker. It should be an old duck. Regardless of the meat itself, too much salt was added."
"Maybe it's because my tongue has been spoiled recently, so I can't tell what's delicious."
"It's just below average."
After finishing the kebabs in his hands in a few mouthfuls, Li Xiao continued to walk forward.
"It feels like the style of a food court in a general city. If you really want to be honest, it may be considered a place where locals will not come. So most of the people in front of us are tourists."
"But no matter what, with such a large base, there must be one or two stores with better taste."
Studio:
"What the anchor said makes sense. Almost no locals visit places like the food street and food festival here. On the contrary, more people come to visit or go to school here."
"Upstairs, I went there once out of curiosity when I came across a local food festival when I was studying abroad. I was frightened by the ridiculously high prices..."
"It feels like food festivals are full of "authentic stinky tofu", "authentic Lanzhou mutton skewers" and "authentic fried potatoes". In fact, they taste just like that, and the kebabs I ate in the food street were huge.
The portions are so salty that I really doubt that these skewers stalls have cooperated with the "Authentic Raw Squeezed Coconut Juice" next door!"
"It's so funny upstairs, hahaha!"
“It made me laugh so hard. It’s such a real and sad experience!”
"That's right. I haven't gone to the food court for a second time since then, except of course when I'm greedy."
"Even if I starve to death and jump from here, I won't be able to go to the so-called food court again!"
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As Li Xiao walked and looked around, he felt that his nose was filled with the aroma emanating from these stalls.
"It feels like if I walk around like this, my clothes will be stained with a lot of smell."
As he spoke, he picked up his collar and smelled it, and a faint spicy smell came from the fabric.
Most of the streets on this street are snacks, and Li Xiao looked around for a long time but didn't see any place for dinner.
After walking for nearly ten minutes, until the smell of barbecue in his mouth was almost gone, he saw a beef and fish roe restaurant.
"I feel like this thing is quite rare, but I might as well give it a try."
With that said, he walked towards the store.
As I got closer, I realized that several tables in the store were already full of customers, and Li Xiao who wanted to order food had to wait for a while.
"Looking at the flow of customers, it feels like I stumbled into a pretty good restaurant?"
Li Xiao ordered a medium-sized beef poached fish roe at the front desk and successfully received an electronic waiting list.
"If nothing else, I feel like this kind of waiting list is quite convenient."
The number displayed above is 7, indicating that there are still seven customers in front of him to take meals.
After putting away the waiting list, Li Xiao continued to walk forward.
Seeing a steamed rice noodle stall, Li Xiao walked up and took a look. It was a staple food that was steamed after beating rice flour.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! The store handled it very deftly, but Li Xiao, who had just ordered the staple food, did not intend to order another one.
The latter one that interests Li Xiao is gray bean porridge.
He thought he had drunk too much porridge, but this was the first time he had seen greybean porridge. He saw that it was considered a staple food, so he skipped it.
"Since we come to the night market, we naturally want to try snacks. Ordering a staple food is enough."
While walking, Li Xiao saw Sichuan cuisine with eye-catching colors.
When passing by this store, the spicy hot air rushed straight to his body. Li Xiao couldn't help but coughed due to the heat.
“I didn’t expect to be able to smell such a strong spicy smell so far away from Chengdu, Sichuan. It really makes people’s faces change after smelling it.”
Before he had taken two steps, a warm scent of soy sauce floated in front of him.
"It still smells pretty good."
Taking a closer look, what was hidden behind the white steam was actually ordinary braised pork in soy sauce.
"It is said that there is dragon meat in the sky and donkey meat on the ground. I didn't expect to see it today. The smell is indeed very tempting."
Donkey meat is compared with dragon meat because it is a great tonic, with the effects of nourishing blood and replenishing qi, nourishing the liver, calming wind and calming the nerves.
Put onion, ginger and the required medicinal ingredients: cloves, amomum villosum, jade fruit, caoguo, white peony root, star anise, etc. into a pot, press it with a bamboo counter, cook over high heat until foaming, and remove the foam on top
After skimming, move it to low heat and simmer.
When the meat is cooked, take it out and let it cool with the skin side down. Boil the soup in the pot and skim off the oil, let it cool, pour it into a meat plate and place it. Take it out and slice the meat when you want to eat.
When I walked to this stall that sells braised pork in soy sauce, the price of donkey meat in soy sauce was clearly marked on the sign above.
Nine yuan per tael is equivalent to 90 yuan per pound. In addition to donkey meat in sauce, there is also yak meat, which costs eight yuan per tael.
The proprietress of the stall looked interested when she saw Li Xiao collecting money, and she was very enthusiastic: "Would you like half a catty?"
Behind the proprietress was a pot of steaming marinade. The aroma wafting from it made Li Xiao start to salivate.
"The boss lady is very good at her craftsmanship. Do you have any recommendations?"
"If you want to eat yak, eat tripe. Beef tripe has a richer texture and is more chewy. If you want to eat donkey meat, I recommend thigh meat and sausage. One is fragrant and the other is tough."
"Then let's take half a pound of donkey thighs and half a pound of intestines."
"no problem."
The boss lady responded, taking out the intestines and donkey meat, cutting them into small pieces with a few clicks, and ladling the hot stewed soup into a small bowl with the meat.
Seeing the elastic intestines bouncing up and down under the proprietress's knife, the expression on Li Xiao's face became even more expectant.
"The temperature has dropped, so we use hot soup at home to prevent guests who can't eat cold food from getting upset. However, this may reduce the strength of some donkey meat, but the taste is actually not much different."
The small bowl Li Xiao received was about the size of a palm, and the fresh and hot sauce and marinade were fragrant.
Poke a piece with a skewer, and the aroma of the fragrant sauce and marinade instantly hit Li Xiao's nose.
"It's very fragrant." The flavor of the spices is very strong, and you can also smell the unique bitter smell of the medicine in it.
The first bite was the intestines. The intestines bouncing on the chopping board made Li Xiao greedy.
The hot braised intestines were still flowing with the signed sausage, and the steam evaporating made his index finger move.
“Very bouncy and supple texture.”
"To be honest, I was a little surprised when I saw the elasticity of the intestines when the boss lady opened them. I have never seen intestines that can be so elastic."
“The panchang is not spicy, so apart from the flavor of spices and herbs, it tastes like the tender panchang itself.”
“Smooth, with a slight crunch in the middle, the heat is just right, and it doesn’t taste dry because it’s overcooked.”
"How can I put it, the taste of such elastic intestines seems to be dancing in the mouth."
“A very good braised sausage with soy sauce!”
"You can get a high score of 80 points here."
"I'll try it with the fish roe later and eat it as a side dish."
Studio:
"I'm so greedy, I'm so greedy. I can't even eat a bite of the intestines when I see the juice flowing all over it. It makes me so sour!"
"Have you heard the "squeaking" sound in the host's mouth when he eats? The taste is unimaginable!"
"On this sad autumn day, tears keep pouring from the corners of my mouth..."
“This is the first time I’ve seen sauced donkey meat in this food street. Watching the anchor eating it makes me feel like my stomach is protesting!”
Feeling that it was a little hot to eat, Li Xiao covered the food and put it back, deciding to eat it later.
It was almost time for him to pick up his meal, and it was really inconvenient to eat while walking on the road like this. After all, he still had to hold a camera in one hand.
Seeing that the end was still about twenty meters ahead, Li Xiao decided to keep walking forward to see if there was anything he could think of.
Another fish roe restaurant appeared in front of him.
Out of curiosity, he walked inside and saw two ladies rubbing the white noodles on the plate with their hands.
Use special iron chopsticks to swipe the white noodles on the plate into the pot, and a strip of noodles shaped like a small fish quickly forms in the pot.
Picking the fish roe, also known as picking the tip, is like what Li Xiao sees now. The iron chopsticks are moving quickly on the board, and one by one the "small fish" appear in the rolling boiling water.
"It looks very interesting."
Seeing that the aunt's skills are getting better and better, the iron chopsticks are almost left behind by her dance.
“I feel like this big sister is taking this project seriously!”
"No, this is our specialty." In just a few words, the white-flour "little fish" on the aunt's plate came out of the pot and began to swim.
Seeing this posture, Li Xiao was filled with admiration.
“You can still talk to people while plucking fish roe, without wasting your time at all. This is amazing.”
Li Xiao felt that it was an eye-opener and continued to the next store. After all, he had ordered beef and fish roe before, and it would be a waste if he couldn't eat another order.
The table in another store was covered with tiny noodles, which looked almost like the fish roe I saw just now.
The lady boss kneaded the dough cut into small strips with both hands into the length of two fingers, and there was even a small pile of colorful noodles next to it.
Li Xiao looked at this noodle shop called Rubbing Fish Roe and was a little puzzled.
After walking a little further, we were almost at the end of the food street, and there was another noodle shop with tables full of tiny noodles.
This restaurant is called Xiangtou Noodles, and it looks very similar to the "popping fish roe" and "rubbing fish roe" we saw earlier.
"I have never heard of noodles made from Xiangtou... By the way, what is Xiangtou?" Could it be vegetables or some kind of meat?
"The Xiangtou noodles are the ones where the incense is added." The boss inside heard Li Xiao's muttering and pointed to his semi-finished noodles and explained.
The shopkeeper spoke with an accent, and the word "香" was pronounced as "新", which made the listeners even more confused.
"Sanxian's head?" Li Xiao was distracted and even more confused.
He had never heard of such a thing as Sanxian.
The boss next to the soup pot looked at Li Xiao with a look of helplessness on his face. Was it because his accent was too strong that the other party couldn't hear clearly? "It's the kind of fragrant incense head you use when you burn incense in temples."
"Oh, that's it."
After being embarrassed, Li Xiao thanked the boss, and suddenly the waiting list in his pocket vibrated.
"We're almost done shopping. It's time for us to go back and have some staple food."
Studio:
"Rub the fish roe and rub the fish roe to make it fragrant. I can't tell the difference hahaha."
"I feel like they all look similar."
"It's made from rubbing fish roe and Xiangtou noodles. The fish roe is picked out with chopsticks. I can't tell the difference between the rest."
