Have you ever eaten fried powder?

After leaving my hometown for three years, I often think of the delicious food in my hometown. I believe most people here have never heard of this kind of snack, because it is a little difficult for this kind of food to rush out of Asia and go international, or even out of Jilin Province.

It takes only half an hour by high-speed train from Changchun to Jilin, but even such a short distance is still a natural barrier for fried powder. Listening to the students who stayed in the province to go to college complained that when they arrived in Changchun, fried rice began to taste bad, but when they left Jilin, it was gone. For travelers thousands of kilometers away from home, the delicious fried powder can only be missed in their dreams.

Cut the starch block, spread it out in an oversized frying pan, fry it in oil until it creaks, and then turn it over. When the six sides are slightly golden (because it is a cube, there are six sides), the fried powder is cooked. The outer layer is fried, fragrant and slightly tough. It tastes like butter softened at room temperature, soft and smooth cream. That wonderful taste reminds me now that my mouth is full of tears.

The cooked fried powder trembled and was put into a plastic bowl covered with plastic bags (as everyone knows). Lao shifu doesn't even look at it. After asking if you eat spicy garlic, he skillfully scooped up salty salt, miso, Chili oil, soy sauce, vinegar, garlic water and coriander powder from a dozen seasoning pots, and finally poured in the soul of fried powder: a spoonful of heavy and fragrant sesame sauce, and.

Ask again: "Do you want tea eggs?"

Ah, the light of my life, the fire of my desire ... the corner shop I met when I came back from kindergarten at the age of five, the back alley stall where I visited my cousin in junior high school, and the roadside restaurant where I cooked dinner in high school in a hurry ... There are too many memories in my life related to this unique bowl of snacks, but now it can only stay in that remote town. Even if I buy vacuum packaging from my hometown and try to reproduce it, it's still not the taste I remember.

Since the outbreak of the epidemic in 2020, I haven't eaten a bite of fried powder for almost two years.