Portable space

Standing on the side of the street and looking at the buildings on both sides, you can feel the invisible atmosphere.

Luoyang, standing between Heluo and Luoyang, is located in the middle of the world. It is not only endowed with the majestic and majestic spirit of the Central Plains, but also has the charming and romantic quality of the southern water town.After the creation of the world, since the Three Emperors and Five Emperors, Luoyang has become the capital of gods envied by heaven and earth with its great beauty of heaven and earth.Luoyang represents the earliest China, the most authentic China and the deepest China.

Compared with Xi'an, although it is an imperial capital of a thousand years, it gives people a different feeling.Xi'an is like a domineering emperor, while Luoyang is a wise emperor.

Yang Wanli was a little emotional: "It is reasonable to say that Luoyang is located in the Central Plains and should be an imperial capital that can be rejuvenated, but why is every dynasty here short-lived?"

The fat man said: "Because the geographical location is so good, in the hinterland of China, people often lose the tough aura of the northerners. If you have a general understanding of history, you will find that most of the emperors living here are arrogant and extravagant, so they will not perish early. No wonder."

"Well, the main reason is that Luoyang is too rich. It has been a granary since ancient times, and there are not many worries living here." Yang Wanli nodded and said.

"Stop talking about that." The fat man patted his stomach and said, "Hurry up and find a place to eat first."

Yang Wanli said: "I've already booked the hotel, why don't we set up a place to stay before going out for dinner."

The fat man shook his head: "No, no, you haven't heard that all fat people are impatient. Let's eat first."

Zhang Taiping also said: "Anyway, we don't have any surname Li, so let's eat first."

Then a group of five people found a nice restaurant and walked in. It was time for dinner and there were quite a lot of people inside.Found a table in the corner with the help of the waiter.

The fat man asked casually: "Have there always been so many people eating here?" From the number of people in the restaurant, we can also see the quality of the restaurant's cooking.

The waiter put the menu on the table and said: "There are usually many people with people, but not as many as during this period. During this period, there are many people who come to Luoyang mainly because of the peony flower festival, and there are more people all of a sudden. Listen to a few The accent is not from a local, and you also came to visit the Flower Fair?"

The fat man nodded: "Come here because of the reputation." It seems that the peony in Luoyang will greatly stimulate the economy.I flipped through the recipes but didn’t know which dish to order, so I asked, “Do you have any Luoyang signature dishes in your store? If you have any, please introduce them.” The waiter introduced with a smile: “The most famous dish in Luoyang is the’ "Four Mouwei", "Eight Big Pieces" and "True Different" water mats, and "Four Town Tables". These shops have them all."

"Oh? Let's talk about it carefully."

"Okay." The waiter opened the menu and told several people respectively, "The four endings are 'Shark Fin Flower Arrangement', 'Golden Monkey Exploring the Sea', 'Opening Squid for Spring' and 'Bibo Umbrella Ball' and 'Four Town Tables' respectively. It is jelly-dried vegetables, tiger head carp grilled with green onions, cloud-covered fermented bean curd meat, and dried sea rice for a variety of colors.”

Among them, the "really different" Luoyang water mat making technique is a "national intangible cultural heritage", and it is the only national intangible cultural heritage item selected in my country with a complete set of banquets.This was Fatty's favorite, but it was a bit troublesome to make, so he chose the "Four Towns Table".

There were too many people eating, and the serving speed was naturally a little slow. The fat man couldn't wait and ordered some desserts first.

Zhang Taiping took Xiao Zi out of the space when the few people were not paying attention, the little guy jumped on the table and sniffed the dessert on the plate, and then quickly ate a piece of dessert that the fat man was about to hold in his hand in his mouth.

The fat man was taken aback by Xiao Zi's sudden appearance, and after seeing it clearly, he asked strangely: "Why is this little guy here? I remember I didn't see it when I got on the train?"

Zhang Taiping replied with a smile: "It is inconvenient to go through the security check in the train station, so it is not in the train." His words were ambiguous, and it depends on the imagination of several people.

"Could it be on top of the train?" the fat man asked in surprise.

Zhang Taiping smiled without saying a word.

While talking, Xiao Zi quickly ate all the desserts on the plate, and then jumped on Zhang Taiping's shoulders, with a pair of black gemstone-like eyeballs moving around to look at the people eating around.

"Hey, this guy has a quick mouth." The fat man looked at the naked fat man and said with a wry smile.

It took about half an hour for the food to be served, and the fat man said, "It's so slow, I almost starved to death."

The waiter said with some embarrassment: "I'm sorry sir, there are too many people today, please forgive me."

The fat man waved his hand to express that it didn't matter, most of the people eating in the restaurant could be seen, he just sent a sigh and didn't mean to blame or make trouble.

The waiter introduced the name of each dish before leaving.

The fat man said, "I'm too hungry today, so I won't drink any more, you can do whatever you want." After finishing speaking, he put down his chopsticks.

Each of these courses has a small story.

Jelly, now the jelly in Luoyang area is often called "peony jelly".Because Premier Zhou Enlai accompanied Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau to visit Luoyang in October 1973, the leaders of Luoyang City entertained them with water seats.The famous chef carefully made a peony flower with eggs and put it on the jelly.Premier Zhou was very happy to see it, and said: "Luoyang peonies are the best in the world, and peonies bloom in the dishes."Since then, jelly has been renamed "Peony jelly".

No matter how interesting these dishes are, the fat man can't take care of them now, it's better to fill his stomach first, chopsticks come quickly.

Grilled tiger head carp with scallions. The carp is top grade long-whiskered carp from the Yellow River in Mengjin.Now, the direction of the head of the fish must be the venerable, elder, or distinguished friend of the lord, and the person sitting in the lord moves the chopsticks first to show respect and courtesy.

However, regardless of seniority, there is no such emphasis. Naturally, the fat man is the first to move the chopsticks.He was also the first to comment: "The taste is good, but I don't know if it is really the long-bearded carp from the Yellow River in Mengjin. It would be even better if the fish from your family is used for this dish."

Zhang Taiping said with a smile: "After learning about the cooking of this dish, I will try it when I go back."

"Haha, I'm so kind, I'll order this dish when I go to your house."

There is one thing to pay attention to when eating fermented bean curd meat. The person sitting next to the seat moves the chopsticks first.

According to legend, all four sons born to Wu Zetian made her dissatisfied, but Princess Taiping was quite pleasing.Later, Taiping married Xue Shao as his wife, and when sending her daughter off to marry, Wu smeared her own milk on the meat and told her to eat it, so that her daughter would never forget the old lady's heart.

The last dish is Baicai with dried sea rice, which is stewed cabbage with sea rice, called "Baicai" for auspiciousness and joy.Cabbage is also a vegetarian dish, which is actually used for the two previous meat dishes.

Naturally, these four dishes were not enough for the four big men, and they added a few ordinary dishes and several bowls of rice for each person to be full.

After the meal, the fat man picked up a toothpick and commented on the dishes he had eaten. He is considered to be half a food critic, and it is estimated that his figure came from this.At the end of the review, the conclusion is that if all the ingredients of these dishes are made from Zhang Taiping's family, it will be even better.

Zhang Taiping could only shake his head and smile wryly.

Yang Wanli said: "I see that you ate so fast just now, similar to Zhu Bajie eating ginseng fruit, and you can still taste the quality of the food?"

The fat man said proudly: "You don't understand this. Our dish is already quite hot. Don't look at how fast you eat it, but you can taste all the color, fragrance and taste."

"Is this considered a foodie?"

The fat man said proudly: "What's wrong with being a foodie, can you enjoy the food?"

"Okay, you're amazing." Yang Wanli had nothing to say.

After dinner, they checked into the hotel under the leadership of Yang Wanli.

Yang Wanli said: "The five days I have set, if you think it is not enough, you can renew the time for a few more days."

Five days is probably just the time to finish visiting the Flower Fair. Zhang Taiping has other things to deal with after the Flower Fair. Five days is naturally not enough, but he may not be staying here when the time comes. He said: "Let's stay for five days first, and we'll talk about it later."

It was noon now, and there was still half a day left. Naturally, we couldn't waste time in the hotel. After washing up, several people discussed going out to have fun.

Fatty was the first to make an opinion: "This is not far from Shaolin Temple, why don't we go there?"