Out of this world! The last sub store in Beijing, the sesame sauce here is simply excellent!

It's a well-known fact that Beijingers can't live without sesame sauce and yellow sauce, especially in the summer, when it's common to eat noodles with fried sauce and sesame sauce, so it's important to get the ingredients you need to make your noodle soup; and I've got news for you: there's a restaurant in Zhonglou called Zhaofujie, which has the perfect sauce for you!

Li Ruisheng, the manager of Zhaofu Street Snack Shop, prepares small bottles of sesame sauce for customers

Zhaofu Street Snack Shop--

The old store has three treasures, "a bucket and a jar"

Zhaofu Street is located in the north side of the Drum Tower, starting from the middle taping hutong to the north, and ending at Tofu Pond Hutong to the south. Hutong, the south end of the tofu pond Hutong, and Guosheng Hutong, Guoxiang Hutong, Guoxing Hutong and other connected, the total length of 390 meters. Deputy food store is located in Zhaofu Street 67, for the street in the northwest corner of the intersection.

Since its opening in 1956, Zhaofu Street Food Shop, which was a cooperative at that time, has been supplying the most authentic and delicious yellow sauce and sesame sauce, as well as various kinds of foodstuffs for the residents around Zhongguolou.

When you walk into this 60-square-meter store, there are several pots on the glass counter with pickles and sauces such as soy sauce cucumber, spicy shredded cabbage, water pimples, and dashi, which are the most popular pickles in Beijing.

On the side of the pots of pickles are old standard scales, which are a rarity nowadays, and old customers are sure to feel a sense of kinship when they see the scales and trays.

And in the water tank behind the counter, placed is the "town store magic weapon" sesame sauce and yellow sauce. The one with an open mouth is sesame sauce and the one covered with a cloth is yellow sauce.

In the words of Li Ruisheng, the manager of the store: "Beijing brand name in the country is absolutely too hard, Beijing people eat something to pay attention to a flavor from the beginning to the end, such as these sauces, basically all six Bijiu; this sesame sauce, is our Beijing people have always loved to eat that bite, that can't be wrong."

Zhaofu Street sells the sesame sauce with two percent sesame and eight percent peanut ratio out of the Beijing people most recognized "two eight sauce", is Li Ruisheng strict control, from a supplier carefully selected out of the most Beijing people's tastes.

Then look at the yellow sauce, scoop up a spoon, the flavor straight to the nose, and then judge from its color, consistency, you can feel the quality of the best, is to do the best fried sauce.

"I'm here in the yellow sauce, fried out to ensure that not 'catch pot', must be thick sauce, don't look at the bulk, as long as it is not as hot as a few days ago, you buy home to put in the refrigerator to store for a week is the quality of freshness."

Li Ruisheng, manager of their goods confident, he also recommended a bottle of small milled sesame oil in the store sales especially good, and its manufacturers and the aforementioned sesame sauce, belonging to the "Beijing Yanqiao sesame oil factory.

"Small milled sesame oil this we all know, but may not know that there is a layer behind it, called 'small mill water extraction method', this bottle of sesame oil is to use this method of refining out of the whole of Beijing on the street to buy this sesame oil, afraid that there are not a few."

This "small mill water extraction method" of sesame oil, and yellow sauce, sesame sauce, together, the neighborhood known as Zhaofu Street, the three treasures of the side food, the guests into the store is really running these three kinds of most, and then piggyback on the hand to buy water pimples, big head of vegetables.

ZhaoFuJie sub-store--

Transformation pains change and unchanged

Unlike the bagged sauces sold in supermarkets, ZhaoFuJie sub-store has always insisted on "a bucket and a jar", that is, the bulk of the sesame sauce barrels and yellow soy sauce jar, and insisted that the most pure, authentic, and fresh food. Pure, authentic, fresh old flavor to the people.

In 1987, 28-year-old Li Ruisheng took over his father's work to Zhaofu Street restaurant, the store's furnishings, almost no different from today.

According to the old people in the surrounding hutongs recalled that the store had four faces, an area of about 130 square meters, divided into meat group, vegetable group, alcohol and tobacco food group and other categories, can be said to be a complete variety.

In the 1990s, with the gradual demise of the voucher system, the capital's food markets, supermarkets opened one by one, the operation of the old state-run stores have been greatly impacted, including the Zhaofu Street restaurant.

Under the fierce competition, Zhaofu Street Substore eliminated the meat group and vegetable group one after another, and more and more employees left the shop. The original 130 square meters of the storefront was partitioned off and rented out to others to earn rent, but it still couldn't stop the continuous decline of performance.

In this quandary, Li Ruisheng chose to persevere, and in 2006, he signed a contract with a chain company, and the Zhaofujie sub-store began to be self-supporting, becoming the store's "fifth-generation master".

Although in business management to keep pace with the times, there are changes, but in the way of business, Li Ruisheng but "stubborn" choice of the same.

"Think of the beginning of the year with the ticket with the supply of this month, rice, oil, meat, eggs, vegetables, not money can buy, want to buy how much to buy how much, and not want to go where to buy where you can go to buy, let's say that Zhaofu Street sells the yellow sauce, your family is to live in Di'anmen, not far away, according to the right? Sorry, also can not come here to buy."

"At that time things are less, the people can choose the pattern is limited, but the quality of ah, eat the right flavor, so later economic reform, I handled, I insisted on selling Beijing people like to eat things, is the old taste, when the sale of bulk sauce, I'm here has been so sold, the entrance to the food, can not be ambiguous. "

Facts have proved to be unchanged by the success of the business approach! The bulk sauce of the Zhaofu Street food store, as well as pickles and hawthorn rolls, have all become food that old Beijingers can't get enough of.

Those who come here are basically repeat customers, some used to live in the neighborhood, but now moved to Tiantongyuan, Tongzhou, Daxing, Shijingshan, take the subway, reverse bus, so much trouble to come here to buy this mouthful of gluttonous sesame sauce, yellow sauce.

There is even a Tianjin boy, regularly driving across the Beijing-Tianjin-Tanggu highway to buy sauce, every time the yellow sauce, sesame sauce and some other food are piled up in the trunk of the car.

The vat that holds the sauce, the old-fashioned counter, the abacus and scales, the rotating ceiling fan, and the gouache paintings on the walls depicting solid soy sauce, lotus root powder, Daqianmen cigarettes, and other old objects, give every customer who enters the store a sense of immediacy of watching a period drama.

It is said that Li Ruisheng, the manager, is about to retire, so the original flavor of the small store, you do not hurry to come to shop, sesame sauce, soy sauce, sesame oil, the three treasures of the town store is priced as follows:

In addition, there are 20 yuan a bottle of ready-to-buy, ready-to-sheng sesame sauce, to buy home into the refrigerator, can be stored for a year.

However, Xiao Bei would like to remind you that Zhaofu Street and the surrounding hutongs are recently being demolished and road surface rectification, you must pay attention to the road conditions, pay attention to the foot, do not touch the fall, the best daytime light good time to come; do not try to drive, or parking turnaround will be in big trouble.

Address: Zhonglou North Zhaofu Street No. 67

Transportation: Metro Line 2 or Line 8, Gulou Street Station, Exit G

Zhonggu Lou -

The head of the central axis of the most of the flavor of Beijing

Speaking of hutongs to rectify, the Zhaofu Street sub-store was able to in the huge social changes The rapid economic transformation, fierce competition in the market "survival" down, and is in the Bell and Drum Tower - the old Beijing cultural deposits deep boundaries are not unrelated.

To put it bluntly, unlike the other hutongs remaining in the city, which have been rented by workers, the hutongs around the Bell and Drum Towers are inhabited by a large proportion of old Beijingers, so the original elements of the Beijing flavor are still intact.

The image of heaven and law, sitting north to south, nine by nine, left ancestor right community, facing the back of the city, square and symmetrical, magnificent and rigorous ...... The above vocabulary, is Mr. Liang Sicheng heart of the Beijing Central Axis, she is gorgeous and magnificent, its northern end of the starting point, is the Bell and Drum Tower.

Beijing Bell Tower

The Drum Tower, also known as the "Qiao Lou", was called the Qi Zheng Lou during the Yuan Dynasty, and the Bell Tower was once the centerpiece of the Wanning Temple during the Yuan Dynasty until it was rebuilt during the Qing Dynasty to take on its present form.

Beijing Drum Tower

Drum Tower set on the leakage of carved pots a **** there are four, respectively: Tianchi, Pingshui, Wanfen, receiving water.

In the early years, the bell and drum tower of the chimes and drums used to be an important part of the composition of the people's life in the capital. During the day at noon, the bell tower is responsible for ringing the bell; and at night, the drum tower to take up the responsibility of beating the drum to tell the time. The so-called "morning bells and evening drums" is so.

The existence of the Bell and Drum Tower has also given inspiration to literary artists. The famous novel by writer Liu Xinwu is titled "The Bell and Drum Tower";

One of the "Magic Rock Three", He Yong, sang a Beijing rock classic also titled "The Bell and Drum Tower", which was a hit throughout the 1990s;

The Bell and Drum Tower is a great example of how the Bell and Drum Tower can be used as an inspiration to artists. p> He Yong (left) and Dou Wei

In Jiang Wen's The Evil Within, Li Tianran, played by Peng Yuyan, hid in the bell tower as a bell-ringer, following the command "eighteen tightly, eighteen slowly, and eighteen again if not tightly, not slowly," ringing the bells while waiting for the right moment to take revenge, pushing the movie to its final climax. The movie pushes to the final climax.

Stills from "The Evil One"

Nowadays, south of the Drum Tower, adjacent to Shichahai and Nanluoguxiang, two of the capital's most famous cultural and tourist landmarks, together with Di'anmenwai Street and Drum Tower East and West Street, tourists come one after another, and the days are full of hustle and bustle, shoulder to shoulder, and crowds of people.

And after the Bell Tower and the Bell Tower Bay area, is the planning of a new Bell and Drum Tower Square, kicking the shuttlecock, chess, shake bamboo, cool chatting ...... The basic is the neighborhood and the public.

The north of the Drum Tower mini square is Zhaofu Street, Tofu Pond, Cast Bell Hutong, Guowang Hutong, Zhangwang Hutong and other traditional Beijing-style hutongs, where the atmosphere is more restful and livable, by the old Drum Tower Street, which stretches all the way up to the North Second Ring Road.

"The Bell and Drum Tower sucks in that dust and smoke, letting you paint its face ......" As He Yong sang in the song, the Bell and Drum Tower, the central axis, the whole old Beijing, seems to have changed its face.

Right now, Xiao Bei is looking forward to the hutongs behind the Bell and Drum Towers, similar to the Zhaofu Street restaurant, such as the old Beijing style can exist for some more days; because this is hiding behind the hustle and bustle of the "net red scenic spot", the last side of the net land of the life of Beijing people, the survival of our Beijing people's feelings, the root of the Beijing people!

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