Exploring Old Store | Memory Hongchun Garden: Taste Memory Crossing for Hundred Years

Pomegranate/Xinjiang Daily reporter Yu Mengfan

From the completion of the Hongchun Garden Hotel in 1904, to the disappearance of Hongchun Garden Hotel in 2003, and then in 2017, Memory Hongchun Garden appeared in people's vision. On July 27, the reporter entered the memory Hongchun Garden on the second floor of Yitianyang Hotel in Tianshan District, Urumqi, and witnessed the memory memory that passed through hundreds of years.

The memory of the memory of the memory Hongchun Garden Restaurant on the second floor of Yitianyang Hotel exhibited Hongchun Garden Historical Data (Photo on November 22, 2021). Pomegranate/Xinjiang Daily reporter Yu Jiangyan (data map)

From Xinghua Village to Hongchun Garden

At the meal, the sweet and sour spine that must be ordered by the table was praised by the guests. After hearing the praise of the diners, Ma Guoqin, the chairman of Xinjiang Hongji Enterprise Development (Group) Co., Ltd., the superior unit of Yitianyang Hotel, was pleased.

Ma Guoqin's father, Ma Lingdao, is the old manager of Hongchun Garden Hotel. Ma Guoqin also worked in Hongchun Garden. He introduced that the history of Hongchun Garden dates back to the last century. In 1904, the Sichuan native Wang Kaichuan expanded his Sichuan restaurant in Dihua City (now Urumqi City) called "Xinghua Village". After two relocation, it was renamed "Hongchun Garden" in 1940. Sweet and sour ridge, Mapo tofu and other dishes are widely praised, and it has become a classic dish for the table for the table.

In 1957, the Hongchun Garden Hotel was converted into a state -owned enterprise. In 1981, on the basis of the original on the second floor, a new five -story hotel building was built with the Chinese Food Department, Western Food Department and Hotel Department and Snack Department. In addition to scattered customers and banquets, they can also receive wedding banquets. Since then, Hongchun Garden has entered a new glory.

Almost every table can be seen with sweet and sour ridge, with enamel rice bowls to buy fresh meat buns, and long lines with aluminum rice boxes with red roast meat have become a scenery of Hongchun Garden. Hongchun Garden opened the first Western restaurant in Urumqi, with cream cakes with in short supply.

"A piece of braised pork is packed home, stewed with tofu, potatoes, and cowpea. It can eat several meals, but it is fragrant! The team who bought the cake can't look at it at a glance. The 54 -year -old Li Jianjun lived near Hongchun Garden and watched the high -rise buildings here.

New store opens old people come

After 2000, the Hongchun Garden Hotel was restructured. In 2003, the Hongchun Garden Hotel, which was merged and acquired by merged, disappeared in people's vision. A business card carrying the delicious memory of the city has made many people regret that many people who have deep feelings of Hongchun Garden include Malacci.

"Fighting my notice, my father took my hand, and walked on the Hongchun Garden wood floor on the second floor." Ma Guoqin said that after Hongchun Garden disappeared, the old employees and old diners wanted to see it. Rebirth.

In 2017, on the second floor of Tianyang Hotel, Ma Guoqin decorated, the masters of Hongchun Garden invited the masters of Hongchun Garden to re -engrave the classic dishes of Hongchun Garden. Nie Lian, the person in charge of the most well -known Hongchun Garden small cross, also participated in more than ten times of research and development. After a lapse of 14 years, the masters were excited. They were busy for two months, and finally screened more than 20 traditional dishes and 6 main snacks such as sweet and sour spine, braised lion head.

On October 8 of that year, Memory Hongchun Garden opened. On the day of opening, the fifth -generation chef of Hongchun Garden Yu Germany and Zhang Jian, the sixth -generation chef Li Xiuquan, Dong Kunming, and Wang Yunlong went to cook classic traditional dishes. After opening, many old diners ushered in the store. The scattered platform was lined up with a long line, and the phenomenon of tables in the box appeared, only to taste the dishes in the memory of Hongchun Garden.

The 55 -year -old diner Yang Hua recalled the sweetest and happy time in life: "Every time when I was a kid, my parents took us to Hongchun Garden to get off the restaurant. Lidhill. "Now, whenever he misses his death, Yang Hua comes to Memory Hongchun Garden. That wonderful time was awakened by taste buds.

Reserve classic continuous innovation

In the scattered platform and the box, the manager Wu Xia, the manager of Memory Hongchun Garden, constantly records the taste and opinions of diners. In her mobile phone, the chefs have combined with seasonal and festivals in the past five years. On the basis of ensuring that traditional dishes are unchanged, it caters to new dishes developed by young people.

Right now, Ma Guoqin is writing a book about the historical memory of Hongchun Garden Hotel, so that people can taste culture while enjoying food. "The main tradition is not blindly 'old." Old and old. Through customer satisfaction, the chef's assessment is continuously innovated, so that the old taste and the new taste will not drop the team. "Ma Guoqin said that in order to meet the consumption methods of young people, the hotel has also settled in the line. On the group purchase platform.

Zhang Xueli, 27, often came to dine. She lamented: "Because she had not experienced her parents when she was young, it was difficult to understand their feelings for a restaurant. Until the parents who loved their parents in their 20s, they suddenly. Understand -everyone's youth is related to some food, and Hongchun Garden is part of their youth. In the future, there will be memories that belong to our generation. "

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