Tang Bao, Heze, full of dreams.

Speaking of Heze cuisine, it is impossible not to burn sesame seeds. I didn't start writing hot bread because my impression of hot bread was too vague. Unlike fried bread, hot bread can often be seen in the streets of Heze, which can appear as the protagonist of breakfast. I only ate it twice when I was a child. At the end of last century, I ate it again in Hehe, which is no longer the taste of childhood. According to my old father, Heze Yinsheng Garden also has hot bread, which is the best hot bread in Heze. But it's still not as delicious as the previous Red Flag Hotel.

My surname is Fu. I used to run a teahouse at home, south of Gulou, south of Pan Yushou Road and north of Hongqi Hotel in Heze Old Town. I estimate that he must go more often than I do, for one thing, because he is near, and for another, because his family is relatively well-off. Hot bread is a luxury family in Heze traditional food industry. I haven't eaten it once in many years, and even if I eat it, I will scream.

Before becoming Hongqi Hotel, Hongqi Hotel was privately owned and operated, and it was the only shop selling hot bread in the old town of Heze. Later, it was named Hongqi Hotel in the form of public-private partnership. Now the Red Flag Hotel is gone, and it has become a yellow photo and memory.

Hot bread is wrapped in pork. Fuminge recalled that the impression was not pure meat. Maybe kidney beans were mixed in summer and radishes were mixed in winter. But my mother said that the hot bread she ate when she was a child was not mixed with vegetables. Whether there is a dish or not can actually be explained. Mixed with vegetables, in order to reduce costs and prices, so that ordinary people can afford it. At that time, ordinary people only cut meat once a month. How many people can eat more white bread, hot bread with white flour and fine pork during the New Year? Anyway, I have a vague impression that I probably went to eat once or twice before I went to college in the provincial capital. Because hot bread can be called a luxury from technology to materials, it has never become the protagonist of Heze cuisine.

At that time, the red flag hotel had a small facade. There are five or six square tables and more than twenty long benches in one room, and the other room is an operating room. After customers enter the store, they pay for cards first. If you buy a brand, you can sit on the bench and wait, but many customers still have to wait in the operation room, because the smell of steamed stuffed bun and another food is really attractive and it is difficult to sit still.

Paired with hot bread is another aristocrat of Heze cuisine, called old hen soup wonton. The reputation of Hongqi Hotel depends on these two luxurious dishes. A restaurant is a restaurant for eating, and it is worthy of the name not to sell fried dishes. There is an old man selling fried fish and shrimp at the door all the year round. In the hotel operation room, there is always a cooked old hen lying by the pot, which is intended to tell customers that the old hen soup is true, not deceptive or adulterated. Red flag restaurant's old hen soup wonton, a bowl of several, I can't remember clearly. The hot wonton is thin and crystal clear. You can see shredded chicken, shredded eggs, fungus, coriander and a layer of oil flowers floating in the soup, which makes people want to stop. Years later, I ate wonton in Wuyue, only to know that the last process before serving wonton was to add a little cooked lard to the soup, so that it would taste delicious. Sublimate the fresh flavor of wonton with the smell of lard, which may be the same as the chaos of Heze old hen soup.

There are 10 pieces of hot bread in a cage. If two people share food and are not full, it is the most beautiful enjoyment to drink a bowl of old hen soup wonton alone.

The hot bread in Hongqi Hotel is delicious. First, chop the stuffing into diced meat with a knife, fat and thin. Unlike the stuffing in hot bread now, it is minced meat with a meat grinder. At that time, pigs could not run fast. The second is skin, which is not only strong, but also very sweet. Sweetness is indescribable, not the sweetness of sugar, nor the sweetness of any fruit. In fact, it is not difficult to make steamed buns with hot noodles, but it is too difficult to make them well. It is especially difficult to make hot crust in Hongqi Hotel. First of all, hot noodle soup, hot water, what degree of water is it? It all depends on the feel. What's the ratio of noodles to water? Enough once or many times? Then there is stirring. My mother recalled seeing it. It is stirring with a rolling pin. To what extent? After mixing, there is still kneading. To what extent? These, it is estimated that everyone has their own experience.

Hot bread in Hongqi Hotel probably became a legendary delicacy in the 1990s with the retirement of a generation of masters.

The last time I ate hot bread in Hongqi Hotel was before the Spring Festival of 1997. At that time, I felt that I could no longer taste the taste of childhood. At that time, I thought it was because of the bad taste and the improvement of living standards. Today, Xiao Xia solved the mystery for me, because the Red Flag Hotel had been contracted by individuals at that time, and the original master had retired, including a tall and fat master.

Now more than 20 years have passed, even if those masters are still alive, they are all in their eighties. Although hot bread and old chicken soup wonton have not been lost, the lingering taste has disappeared in the past. A moment that should last forever has come and gone before I know it.

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