At lunch, 80-year-old law student Lin Miao said that it was about 1987 or 1988. Lao Pan invited him to dinner at Xingguo Hotel at a cost of 1.85 yuan. Lao Pan's name is Pan Weiming. He is a senior in the Chinese Department. He used to be secretary of the Communist Youth League Committee of Peking University, and later served as deputy director of the Propaganda Department of Shanghai Municipal Committee (presiding). Xingguo Hotel is the industry of the reception office of the Municipal Party Committee. Laopan must enjoy the preferential price of the leader. Otherwise, even 1988, 1.85 yuan, it is impossible to eat two dishes and drink two cans of beer. Lin Miao particularly emphasized: "Beer is imported from Heineken."
From left: I, Lin Miao, Xia Nan.
At that time, we were all young, full of vigor and ideals, but we had no money. It is difficult to eat a meal in the school's swallow garden, let alone spend it in a star-rated hotel. But we also like to eat well and enjoy a comfortable life. Perhaps it is because there is nothing that we talk about ideals. Well, it's called emotion now. In the final analysis, the ultimate goal of human struggle is nothing more than eating, drinking, and living comfortably. There are really no two-thirds of the working people in the world who need the people of China to liberate themselves, so it is not easy to liberate themselves. Now that eating and drinking are basically solved, there is really no ideal. If someone asks me about my initial heart, I just want to eat, drink and be a good person, and I dare not expect anything else.
Because I had dinner in Xingguo Hotel building today, General Manager Shi and General Manager made a "Dong Keping dining table" for my first banquet show. Thank you very much for your care. I can get together with my old friends in Shanghai during the Mid-Autumn Festival. I said in a circle of friends: "During the Mid-Autumn Festival holiday, the second meal in Shanghai, I went to Wang Songlou Master Studio of Xingguo Hotel in Shanghai. General Manager Shi and General Manager Huang specially gave Dong Keping the first banquet show in the studio. A table of classic local dishes made my friends and I feast our eyes on it! What's more, two seniors from Grade 80 also came to join Dong Keping's dinner table. Special thanks to Donghu Group and friends who came to join us during the holidays. " Mr. Shi Yibin corrected my statement about Wang Song Building. The correct statement should be: Xingguo Hotel Wang Song Building is the base of "Donghu Group Catering Research Association".
The design of the private room is elegant and luxurious.
For today's meal, the executive chef of Donghu Hotel was specially invited to prepare a table of Shanghai dishes for us. During the period of 1995, when I stayed at Ruijin Hotel, I often went to a Shanghai home-cooked dish next to Xinjinjiang Hotel in Changle Road, and later went to Xiaonanguo, huanghe road, and began to like Shanghai cuisine. I came to Shanghai one year after filming Taste of China, and Li Shifu invited me to dinner, and specially asked his apprentice to cook me several traditional Shanghai dishes. It was the first time I ate "herring bald lung", the first time I ate such delicious "shrimp and black ginseng" and the first time I ate real "braised paddle". Shanghai food is very delicious.
This time at Dong Keping's dining table in Wang Songlou, we still ate Shanghai food, which is the exquisite hotel food that retains the flavor of our gang. Xingguo Hotel belongs to Donghu Group, and there are many government reception tasks every year, so the dishes are exquisite and elegant, the materials are exquisite and the taste is good. These characteristics were well reflected in this lunch at noon.
menu
Shanghai four-dimensional cold current
Old duck whip flower soup
Sauteed turtle
Guaiwei braised fish maw
Crab bean
Snowflake beef
Yangtze lubao fish
Bitter lily and ginger melon
Sanse wonton
My friend, Lao Botou, said: Because the chef in the research room of the group is not alone in Xingguo Hotel, it is Master Shen of the hotel who cooks today. The grilled crucian carp with onion in the cold dish was the old taste my grandmother used to cook for me. I knew the level of this meal would not be low.
Old duck soup is better than ingredients. The so-called soft-shelled turtle sauce refers to processing soft-shelled turtle with thick oil red sauce, not really putting a piece of pork belly in it.
Catfish's stomach is surprisingly big, comparable to flower glue. Burning with spoiled food can relieve boredom. Anyone can do a crab fight, but it's unusual to do it so well.
I can hardly eat any other dishes. I have always felt that we should respect the chef's work and try our best to make up lessons. As a result, I walked several kilometers that night to digest.
Lao Botou is from Shanghai, and his understanding of Shanghai cuisine is certainly much deeper than that of an outsider like me. If he says yes, it is naturally good. Of course, I also think it is particularly delicious.