Just like in a previous life! The last grocery store in Beijing, the sesame sauce here is absolutely wonderful!

As we all know, we Beijingers can't live without sesame sauce and yellow sauce. Especially in summer, it is common to eat Zhajiang Noodles and sesame sauce noodles, so it is very important to buy delicious raw materials and noodles. Xiaobei tells you that there is a grocery store in Zhaofu Street in the bell tower, which must contain all kinds of "sauces" you like!

Li, manager of Zhaofu Street grocery store, prepares small bottles of sesame paste for customers.

Zhaofu Street grocery store-

Three treasures of the old shop "one barrel and one cylinder"

Zhaofu Street is located on the north side of Drum Tower, starting from Zhongtai Hutong in the north, reaching Doufuchi Hutong in the south, and connecting with Guo Sheng Hutong, Guoxiang Hutong and Guoxing Hutong, with a total length of 390 meters. The grocery store is located at 67 Zhaofu Street, which is the northwest corner of the intersection on the street.

1956 zhaofu street grocery store, which was then a cooperative, has provided the residents around the bell and drum tower with the most authentic and delicious yellow sauce, sesame sauce and various non-staple foods since its opening.

Walking into this 60-square-meter shop, there are several pots of pickles and pickles that Beijingers like best, such as pickles, spicy shredded vegetables, pimples and kohlrabi.

On the edge of the pickle basin is an old-fashioned standard platform scale. Old customers will feel more cordial when they see the weight and tray, which is a rare thing now.

In the water tank behind the counter, there are sesame sauce and yellow sauce, which are the "town shop artifacts". Among them, sesame sauce is open and yellow sauce is covered with cloth.

In the words of Li, the manager of the store, "Beijing brand is absolutely first-class in the country." Beijingers pay attention to one taste from beginning to end. For example, these pickles are basically six must-live; This sesame paste is what we Beijingers always like to eat, and that can't be wrong. "

The sesame sauce sold in Zhaofu Street is made of 20% sesame seeds and 80% peanuts, which is the most recognized "Erba sauce" in Beijing. This is carefully selected by Li from many suppliers, which is most suitable for the taste of Beijingers.

Look at the yellow sauce again, scoop a spoonful, and the fragrance runs straight to the nose. Judging from its color and consistency, you can feel that it is of high quality and is a good product of fried sauce.

"The yellow sauce I have here is fried, so I promise not to' drop the pot', and it must have a strong sauce flavor. Do not read it in bulk. As long as it is not as hot as it was a few days ago, you can buy it home and keep it in the refrigerator for a week. "

Li, the manager, is full of confidence in his products. He also recommended a bottled sesame oil that sells well in the store. Its manufacturer, like the sesame paste mentioned above, belongs to "Beijing Yanqiao Sesame Oil Factory".

"Everyone knows this small sesame oil, but I don't necessarily know that there is a layer behind it, called' small grinding water extraction'. This bottle of sesame oil is extracted in this way. This kind of sesame oil can be bought on the streets of Beijing. I'm afraid not much. "

This kind of "small ground water" sesame oil, together with yellow sauce and sesame sauce, is praised as the three treasures of non-staple food in Zhaofu Street by nearby neighborhoods, and most of the guests who enter the store really rush these three kinds, and then buy water bumps and kohlrabi by hand.

Zhaofu Street grocery store-

The pain of transformation changes and remains unchanged.

Different from the bagged sauce sold in supermarkets, Zhaofu Street grocery store has always insisted on "one jar in one bucket", that is, the sesame sauce bucket and the yellow sauce jar in bulk, and insisted on bringing the purest, most authentic and freshest old flavor to everyone.

1987, 28-year-old Li took over his father's class and went to work in Zhaofu Street grocery store. At that time, the furnishings in the store were similar to today.

According to the memories of the old people in the surrounding hutongs, the grocery store at that time had four fronts, with an area of about 1.30 square meters, which were divided into meat group, vegetable group, tobacco and alcohol food group and so on. , the variety is complete.

In the 1990s, with the gradual disappearance of the ticket number supply system, Beijing's vegetable market and comprehensive supermarkets opened one after another, which greatly impacted the operation of state-owned old shops, including Zhaofu Street grocery store.

In the fierce competition, Zhaofu Street grocery has eliminated meat balls and vegetable balls one after another, and more and more employees have left their jobs. Once 1.30 square meters of frontispiece was rented out to others to earn rent, but its performance continued to decline.

Under the dilemma, Li chose to stick to it. In 2006, he signed a contract with a chain company, and Zhaofu Street grocery began to be self-financing and became the "fifth generation head" of this store.

Although the management mode has changed with the times, Li has "stubbornly" chosen the unchanged management mode.

"I thought that rice, oil, salt, eggs and vegetables can't be bought with money. I can buy as much as I want, and I can go wherever I want. For example, the yellow sauce sold in Zhaofu Street, your home is Di 'anmen, so it's not far, is it? Sorry, you can't buy it here either. "

"At that time, there were few things and people had limited choices, but the quality was excellent and the taste was right. Therefore, after the economic system reform, I insisted on selling what Beijingers love to eat, that is, the old taste. When I sell bulk sauce, I always sell it here. The food at the entrance should not be vague. "

Facts have proved that it has achieved success with a constantly changing management model! Bulk sauce, pickles, hawthorn rolls, etc. In Zhaofu Street, the grocery store has become a food that old Beijingers can't get enough to eat.

Most of the people who come here are repeat customers. Some used to live nearby, but now they have moved to Tiantongyuan, Tongzhou, Daxing and Shijingshan. They want to take the subway and bus, so they come here to buy this mouth-watering sesame sauce and yellow sauce.

There is even a young man in Tianjin who often drives across the Beijing-Tianjin-Tangshan Expressway to buy sauce. Every time, food such as yellow sauce and sesame sauce is piled up in the trunk of the car.

Vats for holding sauces, obsolete counters, abacus, platform scales, rotating ceiling fans, gouache paintings depicting solid soy sauce, lotus root starch, Daqianmen cigarettes and other old objects on the wall, let every customer who enters the store have a feeling of seeing the drama of the times.

It is said that manager Li is going to retire. Why don't you visit this primitive grocery store? The prices of sesame paste, yellow paste and sesame oil are as follows:

There is also a bottle of fresh sesame paste from 20 yuan, which can be kept in the refrigerator for one year.

However, Xiaobei would like to remind that Zhaofu Street and surrounding hutongs are currently undergoing demolition work and road surface rectification. If you come, be sure to pay attention to the road conditions and watch your step. Don't stumble. It's best to come when the light is good during the day. Try not to drive, or you will be in big trouble if you stop and turn around.

Address: No.67, Zhaofu Street, Chonglou North.

Transportation: Subway Line 2 or Line 8, exit G of Gulou Street Station.

Bell and Drum Tower-

The head of the central axis is the best in Beijing.

Speaking of hutong renovation, Zhaofu Street grocery store can "survive" in the great social change, rapid economic transformation and fierce market competition, which is not unrelated to being in the Bell and Drum Tower, a boundary with deep cultural accumulation in old Beijing.

To put it bluntly, unlike other hutong areas left in 49 cities that have been rented by migrant workers, there are many old Beijingers living in the hutong courtyard around the Bell and Drum Tower, so the original Beijing flavor elements are still well preserved.

Like heaven and earth, it sits facing south, facing the market outlook, square, grand and rigorous ... The words on it are the central axis of Beijing that Mr. Liang Sicheng never forgets, magnificent and magnificent, and the starting point of its northern end is the Bell and Drum Tower.

Beijing Paris

Drum Tower, also known as "Bridge Tower", was called Zhengqi Tower in Yuan Dynasty. The bell tower used to be the central pavilion of Wanning Temple in Yuan Dynasty, and it didn't show today's appearance until it was rebuilt in Qing Dynasty.

Beijing Gulou

There are four leaky pots on the drum tower, namely Tianchi, Pingshui, Wanji and Shuishou.

In the early years, the chimes and drums of the Bell and Drum Tower used to be an important part of people's life in Beijing. The bell tower is responsible for ringing the bell at noon during the day; In the evening, the Drum Tower should take the responsibility of beating the drums and telling the time. The so-called "morning bell and evening drum" is like this.

The existence of the bell and drum tower has also given literary and art workers inspiration and a source of creation. Liu's famous novel is called the Bell and Drum Tower.

He Yong, one of the "Three Masters of Magic Stone", sang a classic of Beijing-style rock, also called "Bell and Drum Tower", which was once popular throughout the 1990s.

He Yong (left) and Dou Wei.

Not long ago, in "Evil Does Not Press Right" directed by Jiang Wen, Black Lee, played by Eddie Peng Yuyan Swift, started to ring the bell on the bell tower. Following the password of "tight eighteen, slow eighteen, slow eighteen", he rang the bell while dating his sweetheart, waiting for revenge, and pushed the film to the final climax.

Stills of "Evil Does Not Suppress Right"

Today, in the south of the Drum Tower, there are two famous cultural and tourist landmarks in Beijing, Shichahai and Nanluoguxiang. Coupled with Di 'anmenwai Street and Gulou East-West Street, tourists wave after wave, watching the bustling, shoulder-to-shoulder and crowded days.

Behind the Bell Tower and around the Bell Tower Bay, there is a new Bell and Drum Tower Little Square, where people play badminton, play chess, play diabolo and chat ... basically, they are neighbors and citizens nearby.

To the north of Gulou Little Square, there are traditional Jingweier Hutong, such as Zhaofu Street, Tofu Pool, Zhuzhong Hutong, Guo Wang Hutong and Zhang Wang Hutong. The atmosphere here is more comfortable and livable, extending from the old Gulou Street to the North Second Ring Road.

"The Bell and Drum Tower is smoking dust, you can draw its face ..." As Yong Yong sang in the song, the Bell and Drum Tower, the central axis and the whole old Beijing city seem to have changed beyond recognition.

Now Xiaobei is looking forward to it. In the alley behind the Bell and Drum Tower, the old Beijing style like Zhaofu Street grocery store can still exist for some time; Because it is behind the noisy "network celebrity scenic spot", the last pure land of Beijingers' life contains our feelings and roots!

Beijing-style bell and drum tower

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