The ancient custom of cooking with oil in Taiwan Province Province.

Taiwan Province Province is a snack kingdom. From the south to the north, from the morning market to the night market, snacks hold up the eighth place in people's diet in Taiwan Province Province, and are also famous all over the world. Among hundreds of Taiwan Province snacks with different flavors, only fried rice plays an irreplaceable role in the life events of Taiwan Province people.

Found the "Linhefa fried rice" hidden in the corner of Dihua Old Street in Taipei, which was founded in 1894. The fourth generation of men poured glutinous rice steamed for 20 minutes into a large pot with a diameter of three feet and a depth of two feet seven, and added spiced aunt, shredded pork and shrimps to stir fry. Ten minutes later, the scent of glutinous rice rising above the cauldron was mixed with the aroma of marinade, and the fried rice was finally cooked. After the hostess quickly weighed and boxed, the customers who had been waiting in line for a long time finally returned satisfied.

In the past, people in Taiwan Province Province would prepare fried rice for relatives and friends on the full moon of the newborn, the first birthday of the baby, the year when the man was weak, and when the daughter got married. On the eve of the Lunar New Year in China, families with children under the age of 16 in Taiwan Province Province used fried rice as food to worship the birthday of "Seven Mothers (Weaver Girl)" and thank "Bed Mothers" for protecting their children. It is said that in some places, the death of the old man is regarded as a happy event in the last life, and oil rice will be given after the funeral.

The hostess of "Lin Hefa" said that in the past, every household cooked their own fried rice, and neighbors and relatives brought their own pots and pans to serve. With the improvement of living standards, professional oil rice workshops began mass production. Oil rice is packed with two red eggs and a whole chicken leg in a red gift box and sent directly to the place designated by the customer.

Today, the full moon of newborn is the biggest day to send oil rice, which is called "Mi Yue oil rice". Large and small oil rice factories in Taiwan Province Province mainly rely on Mi Yue oil rice to support their business. A few years ago, when Linhe was at its best, customers often ordered hundreds or thousands of boxes, and some even added a drumstick to the boxes to show their strong financial resources. The hostess said that the economy is getting worse and worse, and there are fewer and fewer newborn babies every year. There are no large orders of thousands of cases, and now the weight of each case in the order is gradually decreasing.

Every "Tanabata" and "Linhefa", there will be a long queue of five or six meters in front of the retail stalls, and five or six hundred kilograms can be sold in one morning. More often, oil rice is not limited to annual festivals or special festivals, and hot oil rice can be bought at night markets, markets or convenience stores all over the province.

However, due to industrial production, some fried rice has lost its original flavor and is no longer the "taste in memory" of Taiwan Province people. Therefore, Lin Hefa, who insists on the formula and raw materials unchanged for a hundred years, is famous for living in a deep alley. The boss said that the retail business depends on repeat customers, and customers who live far away will come over on weekends.

A mother-to-be who is two months away from the expected date of delivery has started asking netizens about sending oily rice online. She said that although cakes can be delivered next month, oil rice next month is more popular because young people eat less oil rice now.

Miss Fang, a friend of the reporter, said that she likes the fried rice cooked by her mother very much, but she can't cook it herself. Now I'm wondering if I should learn to fry rice, so that I can cook it for my children in the future.

It may be that many young people began to have this idea, so a portal website in Taiwan Province Province searched for fried rice for dozens of pages. In addition to the most traditional "ancient flavor", young gourmets improved and subverted, invented more "modern fried rice" and enjoyed themselves.