1. There are too many classic paragraphs about eating in a Dream of Red Mansions.
For example, the impressive eggplant owl:
Feng said with a smile: "This is not difficult. You sign the skin of the eggplant that just came down, wash the meat, cut it into broken nails, stir-fry it with chicken oil, then cut the chicken breast with fragrant bacteria, new bamboo shoots, mushrooms and rotten fruits with five spices into Queena Ding, simmer it with chicken soup, put away the sesame oil, mix it with bad oil, seal it in a porcelain jar, take it out when you want to eat it, and mix it with the fried chicken melon ... Grandma Liu shook her head and spat out her tongue. Poured a dozen chickens to match him. What a strange smell! "
There are all kinds of soups, snacks and fruits. When I was a teenager, I liked to watch a dream of red mansions, which was full of all kinds of delicious food.
Exquisite and delicate, there are several places in the TV series, and the restoration is also excellent.
When it comes to eggplant, I think of the way Wang Xifeng talks to Grandma Liu in TV series.
2. Among contemporary writers, when it comes to writing delicious food, Wang Zengqi definitely avoids it.
He wrote about many different local cuisines.
Whether it is hand-grabbed meat, mandarin fish, Yunnan steamed chicken, Gaoyou duck eggs, or simply scrambled eggs with shredded radish, they are all beautifully written.
It's the kind that makes people drool when they look at words.
For example, he wrote about fungi in Yunnan:
Among mushrooms, the one with the deepest taste and ugliest appearance is Ganba mushroom ... it is very troublesome to choose. I didn't choose a big piece, only a line as thick as a crab's calf. After washing, stir-fry with lean pork and green pepper, put it in your mouth and chew it carefully for a long time. Ganba auricularia auricula is auricularia auricula, but it has the fragrance of old Xuanwei ham, Ningbo oil-soaked distiller's grains, Suzhou chicken and Nanjing duck gizzard liver, and it is also mixed with fluffy fragrance. Dried mushrooms, pickled with peppers, taste the same as fresh ones.
The words are very simple, but they seem to have a very fragrant aroma and a strong sense of picture.
Wang Zengqi wrote many essays about eating everywhere.
What is more interesting is that there are many kinds of Wang Zengqi's prose collections that can be bought now.
They have different names, different binding and covers, and come from different publishers, but many books have similar contents after opening.
3. In Liang Shiqiu's works, there are also many descriptions about food.
For example, he wrote crabs, lion heads, crystal shrimp cakes and porridge.
Let's look at a description of porridge in his works:
Northerners cook porridge, sometimes with a lot of cabbage. Once the vegetables are rotten, sprinkle some salt and sesame oil, which has a unique flavor and is called "vegetable porridge" If the porridge is cooked, wash the tender lotus leaves and spread them on the porridge, and the porridge will turn pale green, and the fragrance of lotus leaves will penetrate into the porridge, which is "lotus leaf porridge".