Edo Traveler

Chapter 7: Satiated at the beginning of the day

   There is a must-visit tourist attraction in Tokyo in later generations, called Tsukiji Market. In addition to a large number of seafood shops, there are also a variety of other shops, which are the most direct manifestation of the lives of the people.

   And is there Tsukiji in Edo now? Of course there are, right here in Nihonbashi!

   Tokyo, or Edo’s big market, is not always in Tsukiji. Edo is in Nihonbashi, Meiji is in Kanda, Heisei is in Tsukiji, and Reiwa is in Toyosu. Step by step, we have moved from the city center to the "countryside". You can also get a glimpse of the changes and development of Edo Castle from the location of this market.

   As for the Nihonbashi market, its formation is actually quite ordinary, without any special reason. The Sumida River is directly connected to Edo Bay. The seafood that General Tokugawa in the castle eats every day is caught from Edo Bay and must be sent to the city via Sumida River.

  The place where the officials of the shogunate received seafood from the fish merchants who had the monopoly on the seafood transaction was in Nihonbashi!

   can turn around and deliver fresh seafood to the city for the general to enjoy during breakfast. How many fish can the general eat alone? Even if he counts his dozens of harems and hundreds of great Austrian women, he will eat hundreds of fish, right.

   So General Tokugawa offered his favor, allowing fish dealers to freely sell the remaining catch after paying the share due to the general. The general said that it was the law. The general said that fish could be sold in Nihonbashi, and the prototype of the entire market was formed in Nihonbashi.

   After two hundred years of development, a large market centered on aquatic products trading, all other fruits and vegetables as subsidiary materials, as well as various catering shops and tool boats, has been formed around it.

  Tadaemon and Heizo now have two bad money and have breakfast. The Nihonbashi market, which is close at hand, is the best choice. After all, after five in the morning, the fishermen in Edo Bay had to hand over their catch to the shogunate officials who came to deliver the fish. The restaurant that came into being, naturally opened at five.

   says it’s delicious, but it’s not a big deal, it’s basically all related to seafood. There are two simplest answers, both of which will be somewhat famous in the future.

   One is soba!

  Second is sushi!

   I don’t know how this kind of food that is eaten by the inferior coolies and poor people has finally become a model of high-end Japanese cuisine. It can even be such a **** and god, and what tire Michelin list is still on.

   Strange thing!

   Randomly found a market entrance. There was a trolley beside the road. There were no flags on the cart. Obviously, it was just the most ordinary street vendor. The things sold are also very simple, the so-called Edo-mae sushi.

   A big bucket of rice, a bunch of catches just unraveled from the Sumida River, are all the ingredients, plain and simple. Rice is not white rice. Those who eat sushi are coolies who like heavy tastes. The more salt and heavy oil, the more they like it. Therefore, the rice used to make sushi naturally needs to be added with vinegar and soy sauce, which is particularly fragrant.

   After sniffing his nose, Chungemon was also hungry. There was a brown rice dumpling with salt and brown rice last night. How could a sixteen-year-old body be full. If it weren't for the busy business when I was asking for money, my hungry chest would stick to my back.

   As for the price, you can eat 200 pieces of sushi for one cent!

   So I don’t need any gold coins at all. Ping San counted out a hundred coins from a small cloth bag tied around his waist, and he just had to get 20 coins first. Let's add it if it's not enough, not bad for money.

   The small vendors are also very refreshing, happily accepting the money, and then check the catches received today. These days, I don’t want to order anything, what to eat, and what I can eat in Edo Bay, even the generals are the same.

   When every general succeeds to the throne, the princes in the world will offer him a sea bream as a congratulatory gift. But who knows when the general kicks? The day the general will succeed depends on when God will take over the previous general.

   So whenever the general reported that he was seriously ill, fish merchants throughout Edo would nail it to Edo Bay, order the fishermen to salvage the sea bream, and then do everything possible to keep the sea bream fresh. But even if they don’t sell them, they will dispose of the sea bream that cannot be preserved. In the end, the princes could only buy sea bream from fish merchants at high prices for the general's food.

  Sometimes I think about it, maybe even if you become a general, you may not be able to live happily!

   The swift vendor quickly handled the sashimi, but he didn’t need to pinch, he just had to put vinegar rice on the top of the ruo leaves, and then ensure that there were 20 sashimi on the rice that was enough to cover the rice. Simple and clear at a glance.

   Fish sashimi rice bowl!

   Eat it, Chuuemon didn't eat this kind of raw food at all in his previous life, but after passing through this life, it may be that the original body has become accustomed to it. Fish is not considered meat, so it is not repulsive to eat. He grabbed the bamboo chopsticks and pulled it up. Xu was hungry and ate quickly. Two people each had ten sushi, and it was indeed appetizing.

   I changed my house, and I’m here, and it’s okay to eat a bowl of soba noodles. The carbon water will explode and it will explode. UU reading www.uukanshu.com is not afraid. The same street vendors, a charcoal stove burning all the time, and a large bowl of soba noodles that have been cut, can open the door for business.

   The price is also very fair, you can eat 100 bowls for one cent!

   soup is fish bone soup. It may be that the last sushi vendor processed the fish bones left over from the raw fish, continued to use it as waste, and took the fish soup to the next house. There is nothing useless in the world of the poor. After eating fermented bean curd or pickles in glass bottles, the glass bottles exist. The plastic bags that you bring home when you buy vegetables are not thrown away, but they are put in buckets to make garbage bags.

Maybe Chuemon’s stomach is not that of a wealthy person. It’s nice to drink such a bowl of hot fish bone soup in the morning. After a bite, the whole body is warmed up, and there is only a little bit of green onion and soba noodles in the soup. . It seems incomparable, but in fact it is full of fragrant mouth.

   Standing on the street, holding a bowl of noodles, listening to the fisherman and sailor next to him, as well as porters and vendors chatting, talking about today's fishing prices, the weather on the sea, and talking about the hardship of life, it doesn’t feel like it is easy.

   "One more bowl!" Heizan ate faster than Chuemon, and he hummed a few chopsticks and ate a bowl of noodles.

Soba noodles are always boiled in the pot of the soba noodle vendor, even without the bowl of Pingsan. After responding, he took out a portion of noodles from the pot. It seemed quick and fast, but it was thrown into Pingsan with care. In the bowl, he asked Ping San if he would like to add soup. Fish bone soup doesn't need money, it's waste.

   Heizo was not welcome, and asked the boss to fill up the soup without fear of being hot, so he gulped and took a gulp. The soup was splashing everywhere, and no one cared about it at all. Other diners have finished eating, and let the vendors add noodles and soup. They can work only when they are full. People who work hard can't be hungry.

   A day in Edo began in the noisy early morning...

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