In Nanjing, such a couple from Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province, opened a medicinal food shop called "Tongyuantang" on Taiping South Road in Qinhuai District. Whenever a customer enters the door, the owner must first hand over a bowl of white ear peach gum snow lotus seeds or red bean lily soup at just the right temperature. One or two hundred yuan of trading is done, and three or four yuan of small business is also done. Even if the customer just enters the door and casually looks, the same smile greets each other, soup and soup are sent. A school principal who lives nearby uses the small shop as a walking punch card every day, calling the hostess of the small shop Xu Dan the "plum ziqi" of Nanjing.
TongyuanTang, whose name sounds like an old brand, is actually just a narrow façade on Taiping South Road. The decoration of the store is also very simple, the slightly crowded space, the high and low shelves are full of various foods and medicinal herbs, and there are seven or eight large baskets in the middle, which are posted with the names and uses of various Chinese herbs, full and orderly. Although it is a medicinal restaurant, there is no space for tables and chairs in the store, and customers are packed home after purchase, but no one complains, but many people are willing to stay and chat with the hostess to understand the function of the newly imported medicinal materials. "More than 100 yuan of things, we also earn a few dollars, are civilian consumption." We are repeat customers, and with trust there is business. After the 80s, Xu Dan's smiling face, simple and warm, several "treasures of the town store" products in the store, printed with her smiley face, "I give my own product endorsement, no need to spend money, the result of my son said, mom you are not ashamed, think of yourself as a star!" Wang Dahai, her husband, who was silently grinding medicinal herbs on the side, suddenly picked up the topic just now, "Now that the business is like this, the old customers are already very powerful." When the epidemic was serious, there were few people on the road, and there were still customers in our store. We choose the best goods, the price is also fair, you say to get those fancy packaging, the price is three or four times more expensive, how interesting it is! ”
Outside the store, a light rain was pouring down; inside the store, under the warm yellow light, the couple skillfully sorted out the goods, grinded the ingredients, weighed and distributed accurately and quickly, some put them in the pot and simmered slowly, the ingredients mixed with the fragrance of herbs spread in the air, and their stories slowly opened in this unique aroma...
Different from the general cuisine "delicious" and "creative" and other characteristics, Xu Dan's main shop combines chinese herbs and seasonal ingredients that nourish the body, and the "signature" product is medicinal food and health, which stems from her relationship with traditional Chinese medicine since she was a child. "My family is a wholesale of medicinal herbs, so I have often gone up to the mountains with my mother to collect medicinal herbs since I was a child, and the mountains in my hometown are full of medicinal herbs all year round." Following his mother, Xu Dan has been familiar with every kind of medicinal herbs since childhood, and whenever he cooks at home, his mother will grab one or two Chinese herbs and make several medicinal dishes.
Unlike her mother, Xu Dan had professional medical training, and in order to open this medicinal restaurant, she also went to the health management department. She said that many people think that health care is an expensive thing, and I opened this small shop to prove one thing: ordinary people can also maintain health, daily health care does not need to cost too much, and integrating dietary methods and lifestyles into daily life is often the best special medicine.
In the small medicinal restaurant, there are hundreds of kinds of Chinese medicinal materials. Mr. and Mrs. Xu Dan have a number of treasures for each herb, and can accurately say the medicinal properties and efficacy of each herb. "Dendrobium officinale can lower blood pressure and blood sugar, nourish yin and replenish qi; astragalus has the effect of tonifying qi, and can be added when cooking soup when you feel tired..." Xu Dan according to his own understanding and grasp of Chinese herbal medicine, in the selection and collocation of ingredients to make great efforts, delve into a delicious and healthy cuisine -
Bright appearance, sweet and soft texture of the red jujube cake, xinjiang Ruoqiang red jujube as raw material, add walnuts, sesame, cashews, etc., to satisfy the appetite at the same time can replenish the spleen and blood; "town store treasure" honey brown sugar ginger tea, is chopped ginger after adding ancient brown sugar and hundred flowers of raw honey, boiled for more than three hours, used to dispel wind and cold, eliminate moisture; the most common steamed bun, mixed with handmade brown sugar, cranberries, walnuts, red dates, guiyuan, a box of 6 only sells 9.9 yuan ... The same origin of medicine and food, the same origin of medicine and food, and the Chinese folk diet therapy and health have a more vivid interpretation in Xu Dan's ingenious hands.
In Xu Dan's eyes, how effective the medicinal diet is, the selection of goods is the most important. For this reason, the small shop has a strict rule, the selection of ingredients, medicinal materials must be in season, and no greenhouses are used to grow things. Every time the medicinal materials are harvested, the family in Wenzhou will contact the local medicinal farmers to send the freshly picked wild medicinal herbs to the store. "For example, the honey brown sugar old ginger tea we made uses the mountain turmeric in the Yandang Mountains of zhejiang, which is pure natural, pollution-free, and the pungency is higher than that of ordinary ginger."
Some merchants often use colors or additives to enhance the shape and taste of food when making food, and in Xudan, this is strictly prohibited. Her philosophy is that we must adapt to seasonal changes, using seasonal ingredients to adjust the medicinal diet, in Xu Dan's view, eating seasonally can not only allow us to avoid eating anti-seasonal foods using ripening agents, but also a way of life close to nature.
The popular price, carefully selected medicinal herbs, and green additive-free food have accumulated a lot of popularity for this small shop. Two days ago, a Singaporean customer who had been shopping online at her home for many years called to ask for a medicinal meal made by the small shop, "Three or four hundred yuan of things, the postage costs three or four hundred yuan, but some people really like the things in our store, really happy and very accomplished ah." Xu Dan said.
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