There are many kinds of soups in Luoyang, each with its own strong points. Everyone in Luoyang can proudly introduce to foreign friends that "if you come to Luoyang, I will take you to have soup in the morning, and a week will be different". Mutton soup, beef soup, donkey broth, meatball soup, non-turning soup, bean curd soup, miscellaneous liver soup, small bowl soup, water mat soup, and bean jelly soup unique to some areas. , too numerous to mention, enough to make people taste for a while.
The soup in Luoyang is different from the soup in Suzhou, Hangzhou, Fujian, Zhejiang and Guangdong, especially the old fire soup in Laoguang, which has a long reputation. All kinds of products, meat, poultry and vegetables, can be beautifully written in Lao Guang's hands. But compared with the soup in the north, the soup in the north is vigorous and powerful, and the soup in the south has the agility of "sneaking into the night with the wind and moistening things silently"
In the morning in Luoyang, the most popular are "three meats and one dish" mutton soup, beef soup, donkey broth and tofu soup; In the streets, these four soups have the highest appearance rate. In the soup restaurant in the morning, people lined up in long lines, waiting for the password to open the spirit of the day (today, there is a soup restaurant in Luoyang to keep the price of a bowl of soup in 5 yuan, and 6 yuan and 8 yuan range from 10 yuan to 15 and 20 yuan). Young people are mostly between 8 yuan and 15 yuan; Older people, out of frugality and light diet, generally choose 5 or 6 pieces of soup, with less meat. Generally, relatives and friends from other places visit and want to taste the soup. Out of enthusiasm and noodle arrangement, the host will order two bowls of more than 20, knock on the ground, eat half a bowl of meat, eat two biscuits and a bottle of aquamarine. Pure is not going to let people eat at noon (presumably it is also a means, but lunch is still not hungry, saving a lot, haha). There are a group of mysterious soup-stock customers who pursue the original flavor for the purpose of health preservation; Drink original soup, sweet soup (without salt, monosodium glutamate and spices) and pure broth. If you haven't eaten soup for decades and are old enough, you won't be so easy to try.
In addition to the food in the hall, some are packed in plastic bags and taken away, and some people carry heat preservation barrels, aluminum pot or steel pots in their hands; A dozen are customers of a pot. It's difficult to get up early, and the family can drink delicious hot soup in the house against the cold wind.
Generally speaking, there are three motives for serving soup:
First: buy two soups, let the seller add more soups, and a family of three or four will have breakfast, which is a good way of life;
Second: because it is not used for dining, once the soup is not enough, diners can't return to the bowl to add soup, so sellers usually add more soup;
Third: maybe a little more care, make more soup, you can't finish it in the morning, but you can eat it at home at noon, which is wonderful;
Regardless of the above reasons, both buyers and sellers are tacit; Because soup is basically calculated for free, the so-called 8 pieces, 10 pieces and 15 pieces are used to measure the price of meat; In addition, those who can serve a pot of soup are usually regular customers nearby. Usually, thanks to the care of merchants, sellers will never bargain for this soup; In most cases, such a big soup pot for two people (the kind that can hold a whole sheep, commonly known as the pig-killing pot), even if your stomach is huge, how much can you drink? It is estimated that ten bowls and eight bowls of soup will evaporate every day;
There are few restaurants selling Huimian Noodles on the streets of Luoyang, because this business will naturally be taken over by the soup restaurant. The unique conditions make me worry about a bowl of noodles while guarding a pot of good soup. Ordinary soup restaurants will extend their business hours until noon to cater to a wave of lunches, such as Hui Mian and Daoxiao Noodles. The busy day will end after two o'clock. Cleaning, tableware cleaning and material preparation; Because at one or two o'clock the next morning, I have to get up again to make soup and start a new day. I have seen the earliest soup restaurant in Luoyang. It opened at five o'clock in the morning, and it is chilly in winter. I think it's a hard business, so the restaurant has always been called "diligent". If you are not diligent, you will never do business well.
Luoyang people who run away from home will drink a bowl of soup for breakfast on their first day home. This is a precious reunion, which brings back long-lost memories. Is this an exaggeration? The country is so big that there are not a few places to drink beef mutton soup. There are mutton soup and beef soup that can be named. How can we see that Luoyang soup is the best?
There is the simplest feeling in this, one side of the soil and water raises one side of the people, and the moon is the hometown circle; I tried many soups inside and outside the province, but I shook my head. I once swore with a buddy that "I won't look at the mountains when I return from Huangshan, and I won't drink soup when I leave Luoyang", haha.
People in Luoyang don't need spoons to drink soup in the morning. ...