Of course Tianbaolou is a time-honored brand, belonging to the food and sauce category. Tianjin is China's earliest and largest industrial and commercial metropolis. When Tianjin became China's international trade and diplomacy metropolis, other regions were still in the agricultural era. The time-honored brands that started in Tianjin during the Qing Dynasty have reached a considerable scale and quantity. The number of time-honored brands in Tianjin at that time should be the largest in the country. After the founding of New China, many of the time-honored brands were allocated to Beijing by the state, such as Yueshengzhai and other brands. , this kind of time-honored brand has its head office in Tianjin and its branches in Beijing. Later, Beijing was mandated to become its head office. Tianjin gradually transferred the brand to the great capital city. There are many such situations in Tianjin. Beijing has been the political center since ancient times. Commercial and trade functions, including national economic management agencies, are all located in Tianjin. The political center in ancient times also had no economic functions. This is a reflection of ancient Chinese values. It is impossible to serve as the seat of a majestic central government. Buy and sell to make ends meet. This value is a bit like today's European and American countries, such as the United States today. Its political center occupies a detached position in the country and does not participate in the economic competition of other regions. Instead, it serves as a referee throughout the country. Then again, there are many reasons why the "Tianbao Lou" brand has not been taken away. It may be that if "Tianbao Lou" is taken away, this time-honored brand will have to be renamed "Beibao Lou", which will not sound good. Today's "Tianbao Tower" can be said to have a complete range of types and everything you need. However, this brand does not produce food in packaged bags and cannot be sold everywhere. This is a shortcoming, because Tianjin's "Jinwei sauce" is still very well-known in the country. The taste of Tianjin's sauce is not as sweet as in the south. The taste is mainly slightly salty, and its taste is very fragrant. In addition, Tianjin also has the "Yingbin" old ham brand, whose ham sausage, rose sausage and other flavors are very unique. The later "Guoshun" ham also tastes good. The canned meat brands in Tianjin are still dominated by the "Great Wall" brand canned luncheon meat. Today, the Great Wall brand canned meat is mainly exported to countries around the world, but locals can buy it on JD.com and Taobao. In addition, canned meat brands such as Tianjin's traditional "Benshijia" and "Changhong Jinxing" also taste very good and can also be purchased on Taobao. The biggest problem of Tianbaolou, a time-honored brand, is the problem of bulk packaging. It only produces timely consumables and does not form a production and packaging chain. If this problem is solved, sales volume will increase several times. Of course, this requires the local government to support local time-honored brands. There are still many Chinese time-honored brands and Jinmen time-honored brands in Tianjin for food across the country, and there are also many famous ones, such as the famous Goubuli, Tianjin 18th Street, Er'eryan, Xiang Dezhai, Guishunzhai, Guifaxiang, Daqiaodao, Baolinxiang, and the palace tribute Xiaozhan Rice, Duliu Laojiang, Huangzhuangwami, etc. are also Chinese time-honored brands and Tianjin time-honored brands in the catering category. Like "Tianbaolou", these time-honored brands in catering are high-quality, low-priced and cost-effective products. These time-honored brands are the business card of Tianjin, the business card of China, and the window to the world. These time-honored brands of Tianjin are also constantly growing and progressing...

You can tell whether you are old or not by looking at the plaque on Tianbao Tower. These three words were personally carried by Hua Shikui, one of the eight famous families in Tianjin in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China. It is said that Mr. Hua often went to Tianjin during the Republic of China. Listen to the opera at the China Grand Theater. At that time, Tianbao Tower was a small business. Hua Shikui's inscription on the plaque cost one hundred yuan (silver dollars). How could he afford to hire a soy sauce seller? But the business owner was smart and paid attention to it every day. When Mr. Hua watched the theater, he would cut and wrap the sauced food exactly when he saw the thing he wanted to eat the most. As time went by, it became clear how well a big man like Hua Shikui should behave. , knowing the intentions of the little boss, Tianjin dock culture, being open-minded and short-tongued, and giving away the three characters "Tianbaolou" for free. It became a favorite story on the street for a while.

However, Tianbaolou’s business has become bigger now, and they are all group-produced. It is definitely not as delicious as the ones that were made and sold in front of the store and in the back of the factory.

"Delicious Smoked Sauce Pork, Talk about Tianbaolou" The strength of Tianjin's time-honored brands during the Republic of China. If you look at the calligrapher who mentioned the plaque, you will know that in addition to Quanyechang, many Tianjin companies such as Zhongyuan Company were It was a plaque inscribed by Hua Shikui. Hua Shikui also inscribed a plaque for Zhengxingde Tea House. There were dozens of shops in Tianjin in the Republic of China written by Hua Shikui. His disciple Geng Zhongyang also wrote many plaques. One of his disciples, Dong Fengtong from Dazhigu, was also very good at writing Chinese calligraphy. Around 1970, he always went to the home of my calligraphy teacher Chu Shouzhi (zi Shizhen) at No. 18 Dongxiapo, Dazhigu. Sometimes he would watch over my calligraphy in the west room. Master Duan Yimin, (my family lives in Beiwu), Mr. Duan wrote "Taikang Shopping Mall" opposite Quanyechang in the 1930s, etc. After 1920, he taught Chinese and calligraphy at Dazhigu University (Houzhong Street Primary School), Students include Ning Shulun, Chu Shouzhi, Dou Hongchang, Mr. Sun and others. At that time, Mr. Chu was competing with Wu Yuru to write the big characters and inscriptions for the Tianjin Martyrs Memorial Hall. I remember that I was in the third grade of junior high school at No. 32 Middle School. When I came home from school one day, Mr. Chu said that the director of the Tianjin Revolutionary Committee, Jie Xuegong, made the decision and chose Mr. Chu to write the inscription. I remember Mr. Chu was very happy that day. During the Cultural Revolution, Mr. Chu wrote plaques for half of Tianjin, especially in Hedong District. Now Guanghua Ping Theater in Hexi, Hedong Park, etc. were all written by Mr. This is all a digression caused by the calligraphy of plaques. .

"Tianbao Tower" was also inscribed by Hua Shikui at a high price. This shows the popularity of Tianbao Tower at that time, which can be known by looking at the plaque of Tianbao Tower. It is said that Hua Shikui ate soy sauce meat and wrote a plaque on it. It is just a legend. Baidu said that when Hua Lao went to the China Theater in the 1930s, the boss of Tianbao Lou often gave Hua Lao soy sauce, so Hua Lao wrote a plaque for Tianbao Tower. In fact, in 1922 When Tianbao Tower opened, the Shandong boss asked Mr. Hua to write a plaque. The China Grand Theater was only built and opened in 1936.

Today's "Tianbaolou" can be said to have a wide variety of varieties and good taste, and its branches are spread across various districts, making it a well-known sauce shop in Jingu. There is also "Shenji Daoxiang Village" at the intersection of Liaoning, which mostly sells southern-flavored spicy sausages. Regarding sauce products, I remember that there seems to be a time-honored sauce donkey meat shop next to Tianbaolou. Although Tianbaolou sauce products are well-known to every household, this brand does not produce packaged food, so it cannot be sold everywhere and cannot gain popularity across the country. "Jinwei Sauce" In addition to Tianbaolou, there are also sauce products from the No. 2 Food Factory, which are still very famous throughout the country. Tianjin’s sauce products are not like the sweet and wine-flavored Cantonese style in the south, but are mainly slightly salty. Its taste is very fragrant and delicious. Tianbaolou chooses ingredients, taking Beijing-style sauce pork as an example. It needs to select pork front and rear legs, which are fat and lean. It is cooked for more than 4 hours with old soup for many years. As for the hot-selling barbecue in autumn and winter (old Tianjin Wei calls it furnace meat), it must use five-layered and three-layer good raw materials. After marinating for 12 hours, it is grilled over fruit wood charcoal until the skin of the meat turns into golden bubbles as big as rice grains. Use in slices. When it comes to flavor, we also need to mention the variety of sauces. When looking for taste, it changes after one bite. Tianbaolou mainly specializes in heart, liver, tripe, strips, and other sauce products, as well as ham sausage, sausage, smoked eggs, roast chicken, and delicious small crispy fish. See Figure 8 and slice them according to a certain proportion and put them on the table. Put them together on a white porcelain plate and drink two taels. Whether it is salty and sweet, or the aroma of wine is rich, the aftertaste is endless.

In the hearts of Tianjin people, the most popular thing is the "Welcome Card" of Tianjin Food Factory No. 2. See picture 2: ham sausage, sauce series, sauce elbow, sauce pork, vermicelli sausage, and pine nut tripe. , sausage, smoked large intestine, smoked rabbit meat, smoked pigeon, sauce sauce (heart, liver, tripe, mouth strips), etc., are all good dishes to go with wine. Its ham sausage, pine nut tripe, rose sausage and other flavors are very unique. I remember that in 1980, when I was getting married and having a banquet, my colleague Wang Fengxiang bought all the sauces from Uncle Wang, the sauce technician at the second factory. After the wedding, I went to his house to give him two boxes of snacks. At that time, pork sauces were in demand. But it is very difficult to buy. The consumption history of soy sauce products is a history of changes in the lives of the Chinese people. The soy sauce products of Tianbao Tower and No. 2 Food Factory have left endless emotions and memories for Tianjin people. Later, some private sauce factories were also good, such as "Guoshun" ham, which also tasted good.

The main canned meat brands in Tianjin are "Great Wall" brand canned luncheon meat. I remember that in the 1970s and 1980s, we often bought this fragrant canned food to satisfy our cravings at the factory canteen. Living standards at that time were generally low. , being able to eat canned food is also a blessing, unlike now that chicken, duck, fish and meat are celebrated every day. Besides, eating Tianbaolou’s meat and other delicacies now, I always feel that it is not as good as before. In fact, our taste buds have become numb.

My 88-year-old parents live in Zhongshanmen, where there are two Tianbao restaurants. Every time, my father makes me buy Tianbao bacon. Because of gout, I can only eat old rice sausages. I miss the taste that I will never forget! I always feel that many of the products of Tianbaolou and Yingbin brands should be packaged in imitation rotten small packages like Zhangjiakou's "Chaigoubao Bacon", so that everyone can buy them online, and time-honored brands can become famous throughout the country.

Tianjin's "Tianbao Tower" is considered a time-honored brand. The original location is on Liaoning Road, Heping District, across the street from Tianxiang Shopping Mall. To say that Tianbaolou’s sauces taste pretty good, the old Tianjin Wei people agree. In the mid-1990s, I occasionally went there to buy some soy sauce to go with my drinks. At that time, Tianbaolou had an obvious "time-honored" feature, that is, no matter how much you bought, the salesperson would definitely make it for you on the packaging. "Honest!" The specific operation is to give you at least three pieces of straw paper that are three times the size of A4 printing paper when weighing. At that time, the people were not yet wealthy, and eating soy sauce was considered a small luxury. But at that time, Tianbaolou engaged in diversified businesses and also ran a paper business. One time, I happened to be queuing up to buy soy sauce at Tianbaolou. A middle-aged man rushed in angrily from outside the store. He entered the store without saying a word and threw a thick bag of soybeans at the middle-aged woman selling the goods at Tianbaolou. on his face, and then yelled at the unscrupulous businessmen for their immoral behavior. At that time, the straw paper used to package sauces was so heavy that it was commonly known as a weighing scale. At that time, several people at the sales counter knew they were in the wrong and returned the money without even giving a shit. Since that time, I have never bought anything from Tianbaolou.

, do you think you dare to eat it? Guoshun’s intestines are the main thing, and I’ve also bought ducks. Do you think it’s Tianbaolou? I know a lot of them. It’s better to buy some from the second factory or a small stall.

Tianjin Tianbaolou is indeed a nearly century-old store. Tianbaolou mainly serves Beijing-style sauced pork. Its sauced pork is fragrant and can be said to be the taste that Tianjin people remember.

Recommendation: Tianbaolou Sauce Beef

A whole piece of beef shank, the texture of the meat is clear, fragrant and soft, and the more you chew, the more fragrant it becomes.

Sauced pig's trotters

One is about eight taels, medium size. The meat is soft and glutinous and filled with collagen.

Rose Sausage

The main ingredient is pig hind leg meat, the fat and tendons are removed, and it is smoked and marinated in rose wine. It is not greasy at all.

Autumn and winter barbecue

Use five-layered three-layered high-quality raw materials, marinate for 12 hours, grill over fruit charcoal until the skin of the meat becomes golden-yellow bubbles the size of rice grains, slice into pieces and eat .

Smoked large intestine

The large intestine smoked with special sauce is fat but not greasy. People who don’t like large intestines will be tempted to try it.

Add the sauce to the water

Mix the heart, liver, tripe and mouth strips in a certain proportion. Tianjin people go well with wine and food.

There are also pine nut tripe, sausage, and smoked rabbit meat. Smoked pigeons, smoked eggs, roasted chicken, etc. are all specialties in the store.

Store: Tianbao Building (Hebei Road Store)

Address: Hebei Road (Binjiang Road Exit)

Store: Tianbao Building (Jieyuan West Road Store) < /p>

Address: Shop on the ground floor of No. 9, Liuyuan Lane, Ke Yuan West Road

Store: Tianbao Building (Long Xiyuan Store)

Address: Long, Haiyuan South Road No. 34 Xiyuan (next to Lele Fresh Fruit Shop)

Note: Many people tend to mistake Tianbin Building for Tianbao Building, so be careful to distinguish~

The taste is pretty good, However, the two salespersons at Wangdingdi are probably both employees of the old supply and marketing cooperative, and they always plot against the cunning one: weighing things not only requires wrapping them in paper, but also putting them in bags; there are always a lot of cheap ones on the bottom of plates similar to haggis. The powdered sausage has a thin layer of miscellaneous ingredients on top, which makes it feel boring and undercooked.

Tianbaolou is indeed a time-honored brand, but I don’t know if it’s because Tianjin people don’t know how to do business or for other reasons. Now it’s as disappointing as Goubuli Baozi.

Talking about service, there are three Tianbao Buildings opened near my home, and two of them closed down within two years. When I went to these two stores before, the eldest lady selling goods looked depressed and had an extremely bad attitude. She wanted 20 yuan for her head. Meat, this cut costs more than 30 cents. If you ask her to cut it again, you will often get yelled at, as if she is giving it to you. The other one could barely survive because the proprietress was pretty.

Speaking of taste, Tianbaolou’s sauces taste too average, the pork is extremely salty, the beef with sauce is too spicy, and the ham is not made in-house. They are all delivered at the same time, and the rice sausage is just okay.

Speaking of prices, Tianbaolou is now located in a wet market. If another store selling cooked food opens next to it, its business will be squeezed out because it is expensive.

They all make cooked food. Yours is expensive, your service attitude is not good, and the taste is average. For ordinary people, who will buy it? And now they are all mass-produced, which is far from the standards of the time-honored brands back then.

Now Tianbaolou has nothing to do with what it was thirty years ago. The cooked food is not as good as Guoshun and Wanfanshun, let alone the No. 2 Factory. In the past ten years, we have rented out signboards, but now we have our own products. If you are a friend from out of town, you can simply ignore this brand.

Of course, an absolute time-honored brand, Tianbaolou can be said to be a household name in Tianjin. As a "Chinese time-honored" store with a century-old history, it has been spread all over the streets and small shops of Tianjin in recent years. Lane, whether in a bustling commercial district or an ordinary residential area, you can always see the big signboard of Tianbao Tower. There is a saying that has been circulating in Tianjin: "The picky guy wants to eat Tianbao Tower", which shows its status in the hearts of Tianjin people. .

The history of Tianbaolou soybeans has a long history. Even the gold plaque of "Tianbaolou" was inscribed by Mr. Hua Shikui, a famous calligrapher in Tianjin.

Tianbaolou’s sauces specialize in sauced pork and pork elbows. They are all made from a century-old exclusive secret recipe. They are absolutely authentic and old-fashioned Tianjin taste. If you want to buy some Tianbaolou sauce during the Chinese New Year If you want to buy the goods, you will definitely have to queue up. As a specialty of Tianjin, it is definitely a good choice to give some Tianbaolou sauce goods to friends and relatives.