In Taipei's Zhongzheng District, a well-known Hunan restaurant "Xiaoxiang Garden", which has an online rating of up to 4.1 stars, recently had a meal theft incident! A 76-year-old man took advantage of the store's break time to come to the door and directly said that he wanted to pack and take away, pretending to be a big family and ordering 5 dishes in one go, and when the proprietress entered the kitchen to prepare, he stole the bag and restaurant key on the counter, and then ran away without paying the money. What's even more surprising is that in Taipei City, there are several restaurants called "Xiaoxiangyuan", and all of them use "chopped pepper fish head" as the top brand in the store, but some restaurants maintain the heavy taste of Hunan cuisine, while others improve the spiciness and saltiness to adapt to the tastes of the people on the island. And many of the owners of these shops went to Hunan to learn from teachers, so that Hunan cuisine could be carried forward on the island, and won the favor of many Hunan people from other provinces on the island and their descendants, and these hometown flavors also comforted their homesickness.
The famous Hunan restaurant "Xiaoxiang Garden" was stolen, and he habitually ordered 5 dishes to take out and steal the bag
According to the video taken inside this Hunan restaurant, the man in the raincoat in the restaurant saw that the proprietress had just stepped out with his front feet, and he immediately got into the counter with his back feet and quickly took away the bag, and his head did not come back and run. The victim store is a famous store in Zhongzheng District, Taipei City, and netizens have a 4.1 star evaluation, and as soon as the thief entered the store, he said that he wanted to pack and take it away and pretended to be a big one, but in fact, his target was the bags on the shelves. The victim restaurant proprietor Sean En Lin came forward and said: "This elderly man ordered 4 or 5 dishes, he said that his friend came from the south and didn't eat spicy food, and said that his friend introduced him, and after ordering 5 dishes, he went in and out of my restaurant, going to the toilet two or three times." This Hunan restaurant, Xiaoxiang Garden, is quite well-known in Taipei City, especially the signature dish chopped pepper fish head, which is a must-order dish for many customers. And such a habitual offender saw that it was the afternoon break, and only the proprietress Gu was left, and as long as she entered the kitchen, she couldn't take care of the counter. But at first she didn't order the chopped pepper fish head.
The victim restaurant proprietress Sean Lyn analyzed: "Just about to do it, he ran in again and said, "Boss, I still add a fish head and a chopped pepper fish head." The thief originally said no, but later added a point, suspected of deliberately delaying time. The victim restaurant proprietress Sean Lin also said: "The bag was missing, I went in less than 5 minutes, the fish head was thrown in, other dishes were still being prepared, he rode away on a motorcycle, and my bag was also stolen by him." The proprietress calculated, the restaurant key was missing, the mobile phone in the bag and 5400 Taiwan dollars in cash, and the five-course dishes that the thief ordered but did not pay for, and after the investigation, the recidivist had also been victimized by stealing the Buddha shop near Shuangbei, and the boss said: "He will ask us to help with the packaging, and then keep changing the packaging, I think his lamp may have been changed 3 or 5 times." And the 76-year-old Cheng surnamed habitual thief from young to old, the method is the same, from selling food to selling is his goal, pretending to come to the door to buy things to divert the attention of the industry, and now many stores are careful to be afraid that his three hands will reach out to the counter next time.
Who is authentic in Hunan chopped pepper fish head? Uncover the 3 "Xiaoxiang" restaurants in Taipei
On the island, a search on the Internet will find that there are many restaurants called "Xiaoxiangyuan", among which the oldest is Xiaoxiangyuan in Chiayi City, and this store also introduces itself, Xiaoxiangyuan is the first Hunan restaurant in Chiayi, and his boss was born in Changsha, Hunan, after settling in Chiayi, he initially sold scallion pancakes and fried rice, and finally decided to present the taste of his hometown, which has been open for more than 20 years. In Taipei City, there are also three restaurants called "Xiaoxiangyuan", and there is a restaurant called "Pinxiangyuan" less than a kilometer away from the store where the accident occurred, and two sister stores are "Yongchun Ye Master Xiaoxiangyuan" is also of the same faction as "Xiaoxiangyuan", but the two stores operate separately and are not branches. And these "Xiaoxiang Garden", all of them invariably take chopped pepper fish head as the signature dish in the store, the tarpon is cut in half and spread with red and green peppers, sizzling, drizzled with high-temperature special chili oil and sesame oil, so that the chopped pepper fish head is very popular, no matter what season, come to a foodie super satisfied. Although there are not many people on the island who can eat spicy food, because there are many people from other provinces who are originally from Hunan, these people and their descendants are the main customers of Hunan restaurants.
This time, the stolen restaurant is also called Xiaoxiang Garden, located on a section of Zhonghua Road in Taipei City, and there are quite a lot of chili cans in front of the store, with red and green colors, which are very eye-catching, and make people look at it as a restaurant that makes Hunan cuisine. In the early days, because of the large number of customers, Ye Jiquan was too busy to open a branch, so Ye Jiquan took over the branch. After Boss Ye took over, the business was also very hot, he originally named the name of the store "Xiaoxiangyuan Zhongxiao Store", because "Xiaoxiang" is the synonym of Hunan, and the people knew that there was a restaurant specializing in Hunan cuisine at a glance, but he was afraid of colliding with others, and he would be misunderstood that it was the branch of Xiaoxiangyuan that changed its name and redesigned the storefront, so it was changed to the current storefront "Yongchun Ye Master Xiaoxiangyuan" to show the difference. And there is also a chopped pepper fish head in the alley 700 meters away from the main store of "Xiaoxiang Garden", what is the relationship between the two shops? According to Xiao Enlin, the proprietress of Xiaoxiang Garden, "Our two sisters are both Xiaoxiang Garden, so the difference is that customers will make the wrong call to Xiaoxiang Garden, so my sister simply changed the name of the store to Xiangyuan to avoid confusion."
The boss of Xiaoxiangyuan went to Hunan to steal the art and turned the chopped pepper fish head into two colors
Ye Jiquan, the owner of "Yongchun Ye Master Xiaoxiang Garden", said that he has loved Hunan since his debut at the age of 19. Ye Jiquan analyzed: "The taste of Hunan is more salty and chili oil, and the stomach of the people on the island can't stand it, so the spiciness of the dishes has been adjusted, and it can be made according to demand. As for the salinity, it has become about 80%, and it has been changed to a saltiness that is acceptable to the people on the island." Go to the turnip to conform to the taste of customers on the island, and occasionally come to launch creative dishes, so that the fragrance of the dishes is not afraid of deep alleys, and many celebrities are guests. After steaming with chopped peppers, the sour and spicy fish body is soaked into the fish, and the rich gelatinous matter is turned into a fresh soup, and a spoonful of hot oil is choked on the table, awakening the fragrance of onions, garlic and chili peppers, and also arousing the appetite of the hungry insects in the stomach. Ye Jiquan also said: "I went to Changsha to eat everywhere, and I saw why the chopped pepper fish head is different from us, because Hunan is made in two colors."
Ye Jiquan also learned a lot from Hunan, a vegetable field in Hunan Province, and he not only improved the fish head with chopped peppers, but also covered it with red and green peppers, increasing the layering of its flavor and the impact of its appearance. The steamed pepper fish without adding a drop of water, the soup of the steamed fish is not wasted, and it is full of fish oil gelatinous essence, and many customers on the island are also accustomed to using it to mix noodles or bibimbap. And in his shop, there are also the boss's homemade chopped peppers and pickled peppers, which are all skills he learned from local Hunan cuisine masters, and these chopped peppers and pickled peppers are also indispensable elements for making Hunan cuisine. These chili products can also be purchased separately from the boss, and many customers will also buy some for their own cooking. Ye Jiquan's specialty Hunan cuisine is not only chopped pepper and fish head, but also "fried smoked bacon with garlic sprouts", which has a long history in Hunan, is also a must-order dish for customers in his store. Many Hunan provincial families are absolutely indispensable, especially on the eve of the New Year's holiday, they will always make homemade smoked bacon, many children from other provinces are familiar with this dish and full of nostalgia, and Ye Jiquan's garlic seedlings fried smoked bacon, let them find the taste of their mother.