Problem description:
Do you know Xiangxi Village in Luohu District? How old is it? Are you from Nishimura? Make friends!
Analysis:
Xiangxi village is one of the earliest villages in Shenzhen. Although the memorial archway at the entrance of the village says 199 1 year, people have actually gathered in this area since the middle and late 1980s. And the earliest restaurants began to sprout at that time.
After the 1990s, there were ten thousand department stores and many discos nearby, and the catering here developed more rapidly. However, after more than ten years of development, in the impression of most Shenzhen people, Xiangxi Village is still far less well-known than Bagua Road and Nanyuan Road Food Street, and it is not well known by Huaqiang North. This is not unrelated to its geographical location in Luohu District, and the nature of the village in the city has created its own characteristics.
Although the restaurant is small, it has everything.
The density of Chinese restaurants in Xiangxi village is beyond imagination. On the periphery of the residential building, there is a section of Xiangxi Road from Jiabin Road to Shennan East Road. There are almost restaurants on both sides of the street, and the facade ranges from the smallest 10 square meter to the largest 30 square meters. Most of them are unknown. And if you turn into the famous building from the entrance of Dongmen South Road, the local snack bar that follows is even more dizzying. These small restaurants, which are only slightly better than open-air stalls, make it difficult for passers-by to remember their names, but they are an important part of Xiangxi Village. Their sparrows are small but complete, from breakfast and dinner to midnight snack, from eating in the lobby to taking out food. After a tour, the tea restaurants, which account for nearly one-third of the total, have also added a feature here. There is no doubt that in people's imagination, fast food and take-out should occupy the main body of catering in such a densely populated area. But in fact, in such simplicity and popularity, you can also see many seafood restaurants, and the business is also very prosperous.
Chicken soup became a signature in the early 1990s.
Xiangxi Village is probably the only food street in Shenzhen that is famous for a certain kind of food. Chicken pot and pork bone pot frequently appear in the main dishes of different styles of restaurant windows in various fonts. Whether the restaurant itself is Hunan cuisine, Sichuan cuisine, Cantonese cuisine or Guizhou cuisine, it does not prevent it from making chicken pot or pork bone pot. According to Ms. Ma, the manager of the first batch of hot pot restaurants making chicken soup in Xiangxi Village, in the middle and late 1980s, most foreigners gathered in Xixian Village were Sichuanese, so Chongqing people first started to open hot pot restaurants in Xixian Village. In the 1990s, they combined the production methods of Chongqing hot pot and Guangdong pot to make chicken pot. In taste, there are both spicy food suitable for Sichuan people's eating habits and salty food specially prepared for Guangdong and those who are not good at spicy food. Gradually, this fresh food attracted many diners, so other restaurants in Xiangxi Village followed suit and started Chongqing chicken pot, and then developed into pig bone pot, which became the symbol of Xiangxi Village. Even the chicken pot restaurants developed in Beijing and Shanghai proudly claim to be from Xiangxi Village in Shenzhen.
The oldest: Yujun hotpot old shop
So old that even the tables and chairs are in the style of the 90 s.
The Yujun Hotpot opened in Xicun from 65438 to 0994 is probably the oldest restaurant that still exists here. It is said that when it was opened, the whole Xiangxi village was still a relatively depressed scene, which was completely different from the current excitement. Although several have been opened in the same period, not many can support it until now. Signboards with blue and red backgrounds have some signs of obsolescence, and the tables and chairs in the store are still the simplest round tables and white tablecloths in the 1990s.
Being able to operate in Shenzhen for such a long time and maintain a prosperous state is not unrelated to the choice of hot pot, a pleasing food. From its name, Yu Jun can reflect its identity from Chongqing. The hemp, spicy, fresh and fragrant of Chongqing hot pot are restored here. However, after arriving in Shenzhen, there was a slight improvement. The convenient location near the intersection of VIP and Feng Chun brings traffic advantages. It is one of the earliest restaurants to introduce chicken pot, and chicken pot has also become a long-standing specialty of the restaurant.
The biggest: Tang Ziwei's folk crock simmer soup
The four floors have a total area of 5000 square meters.
I believe that no one can turn a blind eye when passing by the taste hall. At first glance, it seems that the whole building near Feng Chun Road is a crock simmering soup; Coupled with the sixteen oversized cylinders lined up on the side of the restaurant, people can't help but look at it.
This four-year-old shop has four floors, with a total area of about 5,000 square meters. Not to mention Xiangxi Village, which is one of the best in Shenzhen. The first and second floors of the dining room are hall-style spaces, and each floor can accommodate about 100 tables; The third and fourth floors provide more detailed services in the form of private rooms. Although the space is so large, if we catch up with the rush hour, there will often be equal positions, and even the number will be one or two hundred. Recently, the appearance has been renovated, and the business is still unaffected.
Most popular: chicken pot home old shop
Lunch can last until three in the afternoon.
Because it is also a signboard with red letters on a blue background, even the fonts are similar, so many people regard this store and Yu Jun next to it as a family. This restaurant named after chicken pot, with chicken pot as the main dish, attracted many guests, and some people specially drove from Nanshan to eat. In addition to the afternoon market and the evening market, even at two or three o'clock in the afternoon, guests can still be seen in the store. There are dozens of equal guests at the peak, which is a good result for small and medium-sized shops with only tens of square meters.
In fact, every chicken pot introduced in Xicun has different tastes. Although most of them use Sanhuang chicken as the main material, supplemented by various seasonings and cooked in a warm casserole, the configuration of seasonings affects the taste. For example, this shop combines the production methods of Chongqing hot pot and Guangdong pot, which not only retains the spicy taste, but also adds more salty taste. Chicken pot is cooked in a big casserole. The raw materials inside include special Sanhuang chicken slaughtered that morning, exclusive sauce, celery, coriander, onion, chives, green peppers, garlic and so on. This big casserole is not small even for four people. Chicken pot takes 13 minutes from ordering to serving with open flame.
The youngest: the king of the phoenix
A * * * has only seven seats.
It is difficult to find the smallest restaurant in Xiangxi village. Most restaurants are pocket-sized. Phoenix King should be said to be the smallest restaurant that can provide in-house dining. Simple fast food round stool, a * * * has only 7 seats. Open operating rooms occupy almost all the sidewalks.
The decoration is very simple, even the big menu common in fast food restaurants is not seen, only the small catalogue next to the checkout counter. The store is not big, but there are many products to choose from, although they are all snacks, such as fish balls, chicken wings, chicken feet and so on. And sugar water and drinks. Moreover, after tasting fish balls, you will find that the food cooked by this little-known street snack bar is quite good. At present, there are two chain stores, and take-out accounts for almost half of the sales.