In the Tsinghua Dining Hall at 19 1 1, a table for eight people became a place to fight for eating speed and skills. The canteen is contracted to provide foreign businessmen with three meals a day. As soon as the dinner bell rang, students queuing at the door flocked in and sat in their seats with their student numbers. Some people just eat hard with their heads down, and some people will play some tricks: pretend to let the people at the same table tell a joke, while they are frantically picking up food.
Liang Shiqiu, 14 years old, has been from "two disciplines" canteen to "Advanced Discipline" canteen for eight years. During this period, he and his roommates bet on a game, which set a record of eating twelve steamed buns and three bowls of noodles with slag sauce in one meal. He described it in his novel "Battle of the Chest": "When! Knock on the door. The bell is ringing. It's time for lunch. As soon as he reached Li Sheng's ear, he rushed out, went straight to the canteen, ate five bowls, and came out bulging. " Is a true portrayal of yourself. Liang Shiqiu had a rough life, but he was never vague on the issue of "eating". His situation was "a gluttonous person who manages the world and a useless person in troubled times". Wang Xuebin described him in the book The Establishment of the Republic of China: "When you have money, you can do whatever you want, spend money like water and work hard. When you are poor, you can find another way and be unique. Spending a small amount of money can also make the things on the plate alive and fragrant. "
Liang Shiqiu is the best, but some people in Tsinghua are not satisfied. Zhao Yuanren's wife, Yang Buwei, wrote in her autobiography: "There are two big kitchens in Tsinghua, and the dishes are always the same. My own cooking is not easy to use. After a few days, I feel tired ... I will discuss with several wives, why not invite a few good cooks, and everyone agrees. " 1927 March 14, Yang Buwei hired a chef from Wufangzhai to open a restaurant by the river opposite the south yard in front of the gate of Tsinghua campus. There is a small bridge on the river, so it is named "Xiaoqiao Food Party".
In Beiping, where the feudal atmosphere is still strong, many people don't agree with this practice of "Wen Jun serving as a cop", but Wang Dongming, Wang Guowei's eldest daughter, was deeply impressed by this past: "Xiaoqiao Restaurant serves a lot of southern dishes, but I only remember one kind of baked wheat cake, which is crispy, much like the crab shell yellow now, and completely different from the hard and tough sesame paste baked wheat cake in Beijing." Because Yang Buwei was very hospitable, the cost of this food company was higher than its income, and it closed down after a few months.
Besides, Ye, a professor of physics, is also a gourmet. 1925 After coming to Tsinghua, Ye lived in No.7 Beiyuan, Tsinghua, which used to be the residence of foreign professors. A worker takes care of his life. According to Ye's nephew Ye, "This worker can cook, and there are several professors who are single or whose families are not in Beijing to eat there." Professors take the opportunity of eating to discuss the educational reform of the school together, which is called "Beiyuan No.7 rice ball". There are also academic celebrities such as Jin and others in this group, which is a model of "gluttony is not necessarily a real celebrity". Before 2006, Tsinghua canteens were numbered directly by numbers, from 1 to 15. Well-known blogger "North Point Shan Yao" said: "The eggplant in No.5 canteen, No.7 canteen and the pasta in No.6 canteen have seriously affected everyone's taste in food. Until today, garlic must be put in roast eggplant. "
But later, these numbered names gradually faded out of our sight: No.8 canteen was changed into a bowling alley, and now it is a quantum information center; 9 canteens were changed into laboratories of automobile department; The twelfth canteen has been changed into a table tennis hall and a student employment center. Before 2006, 1-2 canteen in Tsinghua was a staff canteen, and 3- 15 was a student canteen. At present, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 12 canteens no longer exist, and 8, 9 and 15 canteens still exist, but they have been used for other purposes. The old canteens that are still open in the student area are: No.7 canteen (Qingfen Garden), 10 canteen (Tingtao Garden),10 canteen (Wenxin Garden), 13 canteen (Qingqing Fast Food), 14 canteen (.
On the wall brick of Tingtao Garden, we can clearly see its evolution history: "198 1 completed in July, formerly known as No.10 canteen, and renamed Tingtao Garden in June+February 2006. ..... When the breeze comes, teachers and students can listen to Lin Tao and sit in the distance to watch the water waves after dinner, which is far away. "
In 2006, 14 canteen and flavor canteen were renamed Lilac Garden and Qingfen Garden respectively. After the demolition and merger of canteens No.3, No.4, No.5 and No.6, the dining square, 10 canteen and Taoyuan restaurant were named after viewing, listening and smelling respectively, and the first lines were viewing domain, listening to pottery and smelling Xin respectively. All the new names have been carefully considered by the school. Wenxin Garden is taken from the stone carving "Xiang, Xiang Yuan Wen" in Shuo Wen Jie Zi, and Qingfen Garden is taken from the stone carving "Qing Fen Mei, Hua Xia Rong".
Prior to this, the staff canteen had been named Guiyuan, Yuyuan, Nanyuan and Beiyuan respectively. The names of several canteens in the north of the school form a pattern dominated by flowers and plants: bauhinia, clove, peach and plum, Lan Zhi and Yushu.
Wang Jianhua, a teacher from the School of Journalism and Communication, said: "Now many old Tsinghua alumni come back to find the No.7 canteen and ask students on the way. Almost no one knows where it is, and the sense of history seems to be gone. " There are not a few old alumni who feel this way. "I miss the days when numbers were numbered," Guo Ning, a 2002 student in department of engineering physics, said in Everyone's Journal in 2009. It is simple, catchy, easy to remember and has a sense of history. It's not that I can't remember the new name, but I really don't want to forget the old name. Can alumni who have graduated for decades come back and follow the name to find the place that originally carried so many memories? "
Today, most students in Tsinghua can't understand the deep nostalgia of their old classmates, but they will remember the long queue before the renovation of Qingfen Garden. In the spring semester of 20 13, Qingfen stopped working. The new three-character class and four-character class only know about the "reconstruction project of the southern student canteen" surrounded by the intersection, but they have no chance to meet those who are memorizing words and other buns in the morning.
However, the name of the canteen is not important when enjoying delicious food. What we remember are peach and plum pancakes and bauhinia iron plates, Tingtao oil noodles and Yushu hollow noodles. Even though Lanyuan and Yuyuan Garden are far away from the dormitory, Wu Ping, a 20 12 undergraduate from department of engineering physics, often goes there to satisfy his cravings. "The boiled fish in Orchid Garden tastes good, and the Shaanxi flavor of Yuyuan Garden is very authentic. These two canteens are not subsidized, and there is no advantage in price and location, but they are still eaten occasionally. " Liang Xiao, a 20/0/3 undergraduate from Education Research Institute, entered Tsinghua for postgraduate study. Her most direct impression of Tsinghua canteen is that there are many kinds and wide choices. Bauhinia, a rising star, is now a major student town. "The reputation of the fourth floor of Bauhinia has always been very good, and tomatoes, scrambled eggs, sliced meat and potatoes are all very good," she said. "Doing well is king, but what you eat in the end is feelings." Among the things that Tsinghua people is proud of, the "Origin: Tsinghua University Campus" printed on soybean milk should be regarded as one.
Xinmin Road and Tang Xue Road, which are busy during the day, are quiet at night, and the trucks driving into the campus do not disturb the students' good dreams. The story of garden breakfast begins with a big truck carrying ingredients.
The original fifteenth canteen has now become a workshop for bean products and dairy products, where magical chemical reactions between soybeans and brine take place. At about one o'clock in the morning, the staff were fully armed, wearing dark blue overalls, hats, gloves and waterproof boots. This is the sweetest place in the garden at night. The thick bean flavor is mixed with the slightly astringent pot-stewed taste. After several processing and packaging procedures, it was processed into warm and mellow bottled soybean milk in the bean product filling room, which was delivered to all canteens at 5 am.
In Tsinghua, the speed of food running on the production line is obviously faster than that in other places. Most food processing workshops adopt automatic production lines, and at the same time, the ingredients in each canteen are processed centrally to ensure the full supply of food.
It's almost summer, and the homemade ice cream with "Tsinghua Cold Drink" printed on the carton has been checked into the canteen freezer. Fresh milk, drinking water, sugar, egg powder, edible vegetable oil ... Simple ingredients, but with memories of Tsinghua people all summer. Tsinghua canteen ice cream workshop adopts stainless steel fully enclosed automatic production line, with a daily production capacity of 2 tons.
Girls who are afraid of being fat may prefer yogurt and sour plum soup to ice cream. In 20 14, sweet-scented osmanthus sour plum soup was newly introduced in the canteen, and the sales volume in peak season can reach 5000 cups a day. When the heat is unbearable, drink a cup of sour plum soup, and the taste buds are kissed by sour plums. According to the statistics of dining center 20 14, the sales of homemade sour plum soup and yogurt exceed 70% of the total sales of all kinds of drinks in the canteen.
Jiaozi, too, runs happily on the assembly line. During the seasonal solar terms, the demand in jiaozi often exceeds the supply. 20 1 1, jiaozi production line is established in the catering center. In the past, jiaozi in each canteen needed more than 60 employees, but now it can be basically completed with only 9 employees. On the solstice of winter, students in the north always eat jiaozi and taste the taste of their hometown. At this moment, the warmest thing is to take a bite of jiaozi, a bite of thin-skinned pork and green onions, take out your mobile phone and ask your family in your hometown, "Put on more clothes when it's cold."
There are many sources of ingredients in Tsinghua canteen, so we are likely to eat green food from our hometown. In June 2005, the Food Service Center established the first green food procurement base in Changbai Mountain, mainly supplying auricularia auricula, and then established 12 bases in Qing 'an, Heilongjiang, Wulanchabu, Inner Mongolia, Mengyin, Shandong and Zhongning, Ningxia. Direct supply of raw materials such as meat, flour, eggs, potatoes and carrots. Keep the price of Tsinghua canteen stable. In the Beijing News in 2007, there even appeared the headline that "the price of food in Peking University canteen rose, and some students went to Tsinghua for dinner".
"I remember the purple exercise in the summer that night, the small bridge with lights on and the moonlight were just right", and I sang Xiao Hui's theme song "Laughing Youth". In April, when the food in each canteen teased the tip of the tongue, there was a long queue in front of the small bridge under the night, and many bicycles were quietly parked there waiting for their owners. From squid and crab chops to quail eggs and tofu, the aroma floats across the bridge and flows into the moonlight from the "Zizi" iron plate. Sometimes I get tired of the same "China's ninth largest cuisine" canteen food. Fortunately, new canteens or new dishes can always appease us in time.
"We arrived at 4: 30 in the afternoon and got the number 1. Finally! " Li Mingxi of the three-character class of the School of Life Sciences said. "But we shouted a thousand times before she started coming to us." Zhilanyuan Hot Pot opened on April 3rd, and was favored by students. "On the first day of trial operation, we went around 5 pm and queued for more than half an hour." She recalled, "We went again last weekend night. There were too many people, and the way to eat food was bumpy!"
Li Mingxi and her boyfriend Qiu Shi, who is a civil engineering department, are both food lovers. In her words, "As two foodies, where there are new products, there are our figures, and the dishes on the second floor of Yushu have basically been eaten." Taking stock of Yushu cuisine, she is a few treasures: "Red bean dumplings are recommended for supper, all kinds of porridge are good, and all kinds of pasta are soft and glutinous. The glutinous rice chicken is spicy and oily, but the meat is good. The shape of the mushroom bag is very good. "
From the spicy pot to the old bowl of fish, from going to Qingqing pizza to Yushu pie for midnight snack, Li Mingxi said with a smile: "The canteen is our second matchmaker. Since we are together, as long as we eat together, we can effectively increase the frequency of meeting each other. We accompany each other in raising meat in a garden full of food. Love and food can't live up to it, and then we live up to my weight. "
As early as 200 1, the school intends to introduce fast food brands into the campus to meet the needs of teachers and students. However, in order to ensure favorable prices, the Food Center opened its own western-style fast food restaurant in Tsinghua in 2002, and named it Qingqing fast food restaurant after taking the word "Qing" from Tsinghua and the word "Qing" from young people. Since then, Qingqing Yonghe with reference to Yonghe King, Qingqing Pizza with reference to Pizza Hut, Qingqing Leisure Restaurant with reference to Xianlin, Lan Zhi Buffet, Qingqing Noodle Bar and Yushu-style fast food have also appeared on campus.
Activities such as "Famous Chefs Enter Tsinghua" and "Chinese Snack and Food Festival" have left some reserved windows in the strong voice of students. In recent months, on the WeChat "Aishengquan" of the official WeChat account, new notices in the canteen have come one after another. Guo Ye, director of the life rights and interests department of the school student union, said: "It may have been reported less in the past, but the speed of providing new dishes in the school has really accelerated recently, and the canteen is also very attentive."
"The communication channel with the school food center is very smooth. If you have any questions, report them directly to the teacher. Students will also communicate with teachers about the demand for new dishes. " Guo Ye said so. The first School Leadership Reception Day this year, Shengquan put forward the proposal of "increasing the supply of fresh milk in the canteen". At the end of April, when Tsinghua 104 celebrated, pure milk was already lying in the beverage window of the canteen. At the intersection of Tsinghua students and the canteen, there is another bag of warm milk. In Tsinghua, food is a talisman to protect us from the ends of the earth. The fragrance of the lamb rolls in the shiny spicy hot pot; Bite the crispy fried fresh milk, and the dessert can be dessert; The delicious onion soup in the old jar is no longer available ... They are waiting for you in every corner of the canteen every day, waiting to meet and know you who love life.
Judging the quality of a university from the canteen seems to be a ridiculous analysis, but you have to admit that when you look back at the university, there are always many memories related to the canteen. The voice of calling friends, the waiting team, makes all the time feel. The food is changing, the location and name of the canteen are changing, the people passing by are changing, and the youth story inseparable from the canteen is staged in the time of every student in Tsinghua people.