I took out my mobile phone and searched for food shops around me, and I specifically wanted an old shop.
In Chang'an City, it seems that the most indispensable thing is old shops.
I found an old mutton steamed bun shop nearby, turned on the navigation, and arrived at the shop in about five minutes.
Walking slowly and leisurely, watching people coming and going around, I feel pretty good.
And when he came to Lao Mo's mutton steamed bun shop, Chen Wenzhe was in a better mood.
Although it has been modernized and looks like a fast food restaurant with bright and clean windows, it still smells very good.
This is probably also an Internet celebrity store, because Chen Wenzhe saw many people live broadcasting, and they were eating and broadcasting at the same time.
"I heard that the bowls in this store are dozens of years old."
"Look at the blue and white porcelain bowl. Isn't it very antique?"
When he walked to a little girl, Chen Wenzhe heard these two sentences.
Only then did he notice that the large blue and white bowl here was really primitive.
At first glance, it was at least made during the Republic of China. I didn't expect to see so many antiques here.
"Young man, are you here for the live broadcast? Why are you holding so many books?"
As soon as I walked into the store, an aunt in her thirties or forties came over and asked.
"live streaming?"
"That's right, it's not lunch time at this time, and 80-90% of the guests who come here are taking advantage of the lack of people to do live broadcasts!"
This aunt is a waiter in the store. She explained while clearing the table.
Chen Wenzhe took a glance and found that the style of this store was really strange. The waiters here were all middle-aged women.
Maybe young people are no longer willing to do this kind of work? Or maybe it’s just to save money?
He saw some middle-aged waiters clearing away the tableware quickly and steadily.
These middle-aged women are capable and not pretentious, so perhaps it would be more cost-effective to hire them.
"Auntie, are the bowls in your store really antiques?"
"Really, I didn't use antiques on purpose. It's just that the store has been open for a long time, and the dishes used are old. Later, it was discovered that some of them were stolen, which would be troublesome.
Originally, the boss was thinking of replacing all the old porcelain with modern porcelain, but then he thought about it and simply took out all the old porcelain at home and used it. In this way, all the porcelain was old porcelain. No matter who used it and lost it, it would be stolen.
"
As she said that, the aunt pointed to some customers leaving the store.
When checking out, someone will come over to count the tableware used by each guest.
And at this time, Chen Wenzhe discovered that the dining table here was also specially designed. As long as he did not seek death, the bowls and chopsticks on the table would not fall to the ground and break.
It seems that this store is advancing with the times.
It must be because of the antique theft incident that they saw an opportunity and simply used antique dishes to build their reputation.
"You only have blue and white flowers here? I brought six tea bowls here, but they are not yours!"
Arriving at an empty dining table, Chen Wenzhe took out his six tea bowls.
"Hey, you just came out of the antique city, right? These six broken tea bowls are far different from ours."
"Huh? You also have white porcelain here?"
"Not only white porcelain, but also blue and white porcelain, celadon and black porcelain. I heard from the boss that celadon is a wine bottle and black porcelain is a wine and tea cup. They are all old things that were originally used. They are not official kilns, they are all private kilns.
Although it is worth some money, the value is not high.”
"How about you do it all so that I can see what you're doing?"
"Then you want the full set meal?"
Mutton steamed bun set? Chen Wenzhe felt a little strange, but in order to see the antiques, he still nodded.
It’s really a set meal. The first one is the classic local mutton steamed buns. Others include home-style mutton steamed buns, new lamb steamed buns, mutton steamed buns in soup, and mutton steamed buns.
It’s not too late, next comes the “Seven Deadly Sins” of fragrant mutton soaked in kimchi mutton pot, steamed noodle buns, cumin mutton steamed buns, non-authentic mutton bone soup steamed buns, roasted lamb...
The set meals for one person are very small, and some even only have a few bites.
However, there are many styles.
Looking around, Chen Wenzhe found that there were quite a few people eating like him.
What we were eating was something strange, not an ordinary meal.
Since there are so many varieties, Chen Wenzhe doesn't mind trying them all.
Of course, he also looked at other people's antiques by the way.
They must all be from private kilns, and they are also used for daily use. Moreover, these porcelains have really been used for many years.
There are large white porcelain bowls, medium blue and white porcelain bowls, yellow glaze covered bowls, flat plates, small butterflies, etc.
A small white-glazed wine pot, a small black-glazed wine cup, and a matching large jade pot and spring vase.
The Yuhuchun bottle contains a local grain wine, which tastes good. It is called a "powerful" grain wine. Although it is quite popular in the province and its sales volume is not low, no one knows it after leaving the province.
Chen Wenzhe can drink some wine, but it is three o'clock in the afternoon, and he cannot drink alcohol at this time.
Therefore, he only dabbled in it.
"Huh?" While tasting the food and wine, he checked the memories of these antique porcelains. Unexpectedly, he actually saw some interesting things.
Chen Wenzhe discovered that many of these porcelains were probably not from here, but were later collected with great effort by the boss.
If the time is early enough, such as in the 1980s and 1990s, it is not too difficult to collect a batch of old porcelain from private kilns.
Chen Wenzhe discovered that these old porcelains were of different ages, with the longest being more than three hundred years old. Unfortunately, that period was also the Qing Dynasty, and these porcelains were all for folk daily use, and their value was definitely not high.
For others, this kind of porcelain for daily use has no collection value, but for Chen Wenzhe, it is really different.
These old porcelains have their own long lives, and the experience of watching them is like watching a movie.
Of course, Chen Wenzhe was not bored enough to see how the owners of these porcelains lived. What he wanted to see was some useful information.
For example, these meals are served on porcelain?
How are these meals made? So what if it’s a Man-Han banquet?
So, after looking at so many antiques, I didn’t learn any porcelain-making techniques, but instead inherited some cooking methods of delicacies?
Chen Wenzhe is not interested in cooking. Even if he inherited Chaotian Hotpot, he would not be allowed to think about developing in this aspect.
However, when he saw some useful and interesting things, he was happy to take a look at them.
For example, the bowl I have on hand came from a long-established family of a large landowner, and was a tea bowl used by the landowner's wife at that time.
This tea bowl is not just for drinking tea, no, it is for drinking tea, but what people drink is not ordinary black tea or green tea, but ginseng tea!
This tea bowl was originally used to brew ginseng tea for its owner.