The picture is taken from the documentary "Jianghu Snacks"
Authorized by director Zhang.
"Every city has different flavors and different urban characteristics."
Recently, friends from other places basked in Nanning's delicious food, which surprised me. Why? It's all because I watched a documentary called Snacks on the Rivers and Lakes.
The documentary begins with sour milk, which leads to jelly-like raw sheep blood, grassy mutton flat soup, Zhongshan Road night market and uncle "mayor of night market", 30-year-old uncle grilled fish, Nanning people's favorite snail, weightlifting champion roast duck and so on.
As night falls, Nanning time slows down. The streets and alleys of this city are ready to act together and start its gorgeous transformation. After a while, even the corners were brightly lit and crowded.
Every food stall and supper stall is crowded with diners who come to feed. Looking around, motorcycles are neatly arranged outside the store, and the snack table is crowded with sweaty diners. What's more, some people drink, chat and eat snacks at the edge of the horse, and enjoy the happiness brought by midnight snack under the dim street lamp.
The stall owners of food stalls are also sweating, performing arts in the dark and robbing diners of their stomachs with simmering food.
As Du Xing, the general director of Jianghu Snacks, said:
"When eating a midnight snack, it is more like a person, the label is torn off, and then I don't want to be the same as during the day."
It is these diverse people who paint a picture of Nanning's vigorous midnight snack life with midnight snack food, showing thousands of different lives in the rivers and lakes.
In the documentary, Uncle Jiu, the star manager of Zhongshan Road, Uncle Liu, a well-known grilled fish man, Uncle Wu, a desperate fried snail man, Tang Liming, a sheep herder in Dashan, Huang, a national weightlifting champion, and the fat sister of Pingxi Night Market are the true portrayal of their ordinary life and way of life.
▎ Zhongshan Road Unknown "Brotherhood"
Speaking of Zhongshan Road, Nanning locals describe it this way: "It's like a straw house during the day and a paradise at night."
Indeed, Zhongshan Road is deserted and dilapidated during the day, with old houses on the left and construction sites on the right.
At night, this 400-meter old street is brightly lit and full of people. It usually takes only ten minutes to walk a street, but it takes an hour to walk through the bustling crowd at night.
It can be said that it is the most prosperous place in Nanning's snack rivers and lakes, not only because of the diversity of food here, but also because of the story and life in Zhongshan Road.
# "Night Mayor" Uncle Jiu #
Uncle Jiu is the manager of Zhongshan Road 1, a 400-meter night market with more than 600 stalls. He has 32 years of management experience and is called "the mayor of night market".
At sunset, with Uncle Jiu's command, Zhongshan Road officially started nightlife.
More than 30 years ago, Jiu Shu joined five food stalls and planted the seeds of Zhongshan Road Night Market. Zhongshan Road, which has been noisy for more than 30 years, is supported by Jiu Shu alone.
As an uncle who put in a good word for the self-employed, he slowly won the trust of vendors all over the street, and let the human touch and loyalty be fully exerted in Zhongshan Road. But only those who have worked hard in this street know the taste.
# Grilled fish Uncle Liu #
Uncle Liu is Uncle Jiu's fair-weather brother for decades. Coincidentally, they were all born in the First People's Hospital near Zhongshan Road, and they spent the next few decades in this 400-meter old street.
The two brothers are congenial, meeting, playing cards and drinking every day. Nine uncles patrol Zhongshan Road every day, and six uncles also have their own grilled fish stalls. For more than 30 years, they have become bearers of grilled fish on Zhongshan Road!
All the recipes used by Uncle Liu for grilled fish were debugged by Uncle Liu with his experience for most of his life. Only he knows and never tells anyone.
Uncle Liu relies on his fine barbecue technology, so that the fresh and juicy fish is still locked inside the crispy grilled fish.
Brush with unique secret sauce, the sauce is attractive. Perilla, sour bamboo shoots, sauerkraut, pickled peppers, bean sprouts and other condiments make the grilled fish taste full. Let all the old friends in Nanning have a taste in this grilled fish.
# Uncle Fried Snail #
Wu Shu, who is full of wild energy, began to fish snails in Yongjiang River in his teens, then took root in Zhongshan Road and started his own snail-frying business.
As a foreigner, Uncle Wu met Uncle Liu and Uncle Wu on Zhongshan Road. They accepted and welcomed Uncle Wu to Nanning to achieve his career. So the three became brothers, which can be said to be a lifelong friendship.
Wild and energetic, Uncle Wu is a good cook with extraordinary arm strength and superb cooking skills. Disinfect the washed snail with hot water, stir-fry it in a pot, pour in secret sauce and stir constantly, then add auxiliary materials such as sour bamboo shoots, peppers and perilla, stir-fry it for three times and stew it for three times.
After cooking, the fried snails are infiltrated into the snail meat by the hot and sour sauce, but the delicious snail meat is also fresh and sweet, which is simply enjoyable to pick up! The snail fried by Wu Shu tastes like Wu Shu's personality, which is: Ging in Nanning dialect!
The midnight snack on Zhongshan Road has become stable and interesting because of the loyalty of Uncle Wu Liu Jiu. Their lifelong friendship is particularly precious in today's mixed society.
Mashan black goat
Tang Liming, a herdsman from mountainous areas, came to Nanning by accident, was attracted by the business opportunities in Nanning, and decided to stay in Nanning.
With his fifteen years' efforts and the support of his brothers, he established himself in Nanning's snack rivers and lakes with his unique sheep blood soup and white grass mutton sauce soup.
Tang Liming's sheep blood soup is a Guangxi-style side dish made of raw sheep blood. It is extremely delicious with stir-fried mutton, peanuts and chopped green onion.
Fresh but not fishy, and the taste is silky. This unique taste of Guangxi makes soup popular with many fans.
There is also an equally famous white grass mutton soup, which is also unique to Guangxi. Commonly known as mutton flat soup, the production process is particularly curious.
This dish is used to take out the small intestine of a sheep that has just eaten grass, cook it directly without cleaning, add sheep liver and sheep gall in time, then fry it until golden brown and chop it up. At this time, you can smell the smell of grass in the intestines of sheep in the air.
The delicate flavor of herbs diluted the greasy feeling of fried sheep intestines, and finally injected rich sheep bone soup and appropriate seasoning, sprinkled with Toona sinensis. Various flavors can complement each other.
Tang Liming said: "Everything we have now is inseparable from the support of our brothers."
In Nanning, a midnight snack depends on brotherhood and sincerity. His personal story aptly shows the theme of Nanning snacks. Tang Liming is the kind of person who can grow into a towering tree by grasping a handful of soil.
▎ Weightlifting champion relieves the burden of life with "roast duck"
Passers-by are easily attracted by the name of this weight-lifting couple halogen-burning shop near Guangxi Sports Bureau.
Although "husband and wife" no longer exists, the phrase "once lifted the dignity of athletes, now lifted the burden of a new life" still carries the boss's own state of mind.
The proprietress, who used to be a weightlifting champion, chose to give up a stable life and start a new business because she wanted to lead her brothers and sisters to live the life they wanted. So I started cooking my best roast duck again.
The roast ducks that Huang sold to his guests were all freshly baked that day. The fat meat sizzles and the skin oil is golden, which makes people salivate.
After peeling, the duck meat is tight but not firewood, and the unique juice of duck meat overflows between the mouth and teeth, which makes people want to stop.
Because the yellow roast duck tastes salty in her hometown, it is not as sweet and greasy as the roast duck brushed with honey in the local market in Nanning.
Relying on her own creativity, she mixed roast duck with salty and fragrant old friend powder. I didn't expect such a match to be liked by many diners. They called it a perfect match.
▎ "Fat sister is sour" to support the family.
Speaking of the snack rivers and lakes in Nanning, of course, there is no shortage of acid.
There is also a saying circulating in Nanning: "Heroes are sad about beauty, and beautiful women are sad about sour wild stalls." This sentence didn't come out of thin air. Even the lover of Huang Jue, a star who went out from Guangxi, couldn't resist the temptation of acid and drowned in front of the acid picnic.
Sour cream, as a good appetizer, appears on all kinds of snack tables, with all kinds of delicious food. It's like a door to snack life. Only a few mouthfuls of sour cream can you enjoy this snack.
For Nanning people, sour taste is a cultural heritage, and the famous sour wild stall may be represented by the sour taste of Fat Sister.
Sauerkraut made by fat sister always uses the freshest ingredients, and then through her own experience, she prepares sour water for pickled sauerkraut, so that it is sour, spicy and sweet. The fruits and vegetables made by Fat Sister are pickled enough to taste, and they are crisp, sour and enjoyable to eat, which makes me want to stop. Let the bystanders swallow their saliva.
There is a sign hanging in front of Feijie's booth, "Building the most influential sauerkraut food stall in Nanning in 30 years". This is not her arrogance. As long as she has eaten her own sauerkraut, she will know that this signboard is not a false name. No one in Nanning can resist the temptation of fat sister.
Fat sister, who is also a migrant, came to Nanning from a small village for more than 30 years to get married, because the embarrassing life prompted her to start her own acid career. The fat sister who just started to set up a stall was once shy in front of the stall because of face problems.
After more than 30 years of precipitation, Feijie has changed from a shy little girl to an all-powerful figure in the night market in Pingxi. She has created her own world in the rivers and lakes of life. Although the process is hard, she can always stand in Nanning.
This episode of gourmet Jianghu may be more than midnight snack and delicious food.
Among them, the people who are struggling in this Jianghu, the stories that happened to them, and the way everyone is trying to make a living are more worthy of expression.
Gourmet Jianghu is just one of the worlds where human beings live, but in fact, every industry is the same, and the process may be difficult. It is normal not to be understood and recognized, but as long as you work hard, you will definitely get the life you want.
I can't help crying for someone from other places who wrote "I love Nanning" but finally took root in Nanning. As Fat Sister said, "I am indeed from Nanning", I am happy for her.
It is these street people who cook delicious food in the dark, which brings the noise of night to Nanning, and it lasts until three or four in the morning, regardless of spring, summer, autumn and winter.
-Tencent video documentary "Snacks in Rivers and Lakes" Nanning-
-This episode of midnight snack map-
* According to netizens, the halogen-burning shop of the weightlifting couple has moved away.
Please leave a message if you know where to move.
-The producer of this episode-
Figure▏ Tencent video documentary "Snacks in the Rivers and Lakes"
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