www射-国产免费一级-欧美福利-亚洲成人福利-成人一区在线观看-亚州成人

US EUROPE AFRICA ASIA 中文
Lifestyle

The future isn't certain but it's sure delicious

By HU XUDONG ( China Daily ) Updated: 2007-09-04 07:08:04

The future isn't certain but it's sure delicious

We live near a "no-future" alley, which runs through a vast expanse of "no-future" flat houses and decaying buildings before joining a "no-future" road where pedestrians and vehicles are jammed day in and day out among stalls of construction materials.

About 20 meters before it converges with the road, the alley becomes a valley, with people and cars vying for passage through all sorts of rubbish and tremendous noise.

It is amazing that so many small "no-future" restaurants have mushroomed in such a small place. Some of them even set their breakfast tables into the road, causing furious protests from drivers.

As my wife and I have to go through this alley whenever we hunt for fresh vegetables in the morning market, we have witnessed the ups and downs of the restaurants along the way.

Well, there seems to be no "ups". Most of the restaurants are always empty, except for the sorrowful owners who squat at the doorway, smoking the cigarettes and lamenting their unwise decision to take such a doomed place for business.

Among them, the one with the least future has been sold numerous times. From spicy pancakes to Chengdu snacks, then steamed stuffed bun of Hangzhou and fried fish of Chongqing, none of them had a prosperous business.

Recently, we found the restaurant reopened again. This time, it is snacks from Shaxian County of Fujian Province.

My wife and I sneered at it, thinking it was a fake, just like the so-called Chengdu snacks in Beijing are actually run by people of the same village in Wanzhou District of Chongqing.

But we soon found that the restaurant doesn't look "no-future" any more. Among the dusty and hapless eateries, this one even shines with the beauty of a country girl. It seems to be drawing an increasing number of customers. In a few days, at lunch or dinnertime, people have to queue up to get a seat. We've never seen this before.

My wife and I decided to give it a try before the restaurant closes down like its predecessors. An honest-looking couple greet us with warm smiles. Their accent seems to prove that they indeed came from Shaxian. The menu proved our guess: noodles, steamed jiaozi dumpling and other special dishes that Shaxian is famous for.

To give it a real test, we ordered bianrou (literally, flat meat), a strange name that the Fujian people give to hundun dumpling.

When the dish came, we couldn't help praising it: crispy wrapping, tender meat and a light fragrance of danggui (Chinese angelica, a medicinal herb) in the soup.

We kindly reminded the proprietress of the area's no-future history. She smiled: "Don't worry, we've been through much worse times. We people from Shaxian can endure any hardships and we honor honesty.

"We have a local saying: 'Bianrou is our cement, noodle is our reinforcing steel bar.' However bad a place may be, we will make our Shaxian snack enjoyable for our customers!"

(China Daily 09/04/2007 page20)

Tags
Editor's Picks
Hot words

Most Popular
...
主站蜘蛛池模板: 欧美日韩国产人成在线观看 | 午夜爽 | 日本aaaaa级毛片 | 免费看一片 | 亚洲精品久久玖玖玖玖 | 五月久久亚洲七七综合中文网 | 久久久久久久国产免费看 | 我看毛片 | 日本不卡不码高清免费观看 | 久久综合免费 | 免费看一区二区三区 | 亚洲欧美中文字幕在线网站 | 国产亚洲精品一区二区在线播放 | 国产成人亚洲综合网站不卡 | 国产精品久久久久久 | 亚洲视频男人的天堂 | 国产精品外围在线观看 | 午夜三级国产精品理论三级 | 一级欧美日韩 | 国产精品久久久久久久久久久搜索 | 亚洲国产精久久久久久久 | 国产成人久久精品激情91 | 国产自偷自拍 | 美女个护士一级毛片亚洲 | 韩国一级黄色毛片 | 黄a视频在线观看 | 日韩毛片基地 | 亚洲第一成人在线 | 日韩精品中文字幕一区二区三区 | 91国内精品久久久久影院优播 | 伊人不卡 | 亚洲国产99 | 色综合色狠狠天天久久婷婷基地 | 男人天堂网址 | a级在线观看视频 | 香蕉午夜 | 国产精品美女久久福利网站 | 亚洲视频精品在线观看 | 日本亚欧乱色视频在线网站 | 成人国产永久福利看片 | 国产aaa女人十八毛片 |