If loneliness has a rank, which category do you belong to

  Single person course menu 35 yuan / serving, one person hot pot 48 yuan / serving

  Our reporter Yang Qian, trainee reporter Zhou Qiwen/photo

  Eat alone, watch movies alone, and go shopping alone. If you are alone, which section do you belong to? Bronze, gold or king?

  Regardless of your type, have you ever tried to go to the vegetable farm to buy food by yourself?

  "Eating for one person is the best way to control the amount of vegetables. Buying more is not fresh and wasteful; buying less is not enough."

  Sister Wang from the Farmers’ Market on Fengqi Road in Hangzhou launched a special set of dishes for one person. A set of 35 yuan, with ribs, vegetables, rice and seasonings, can be said to be very intimate for singles.

  After the manuscript was pushed by the Qianjiang Evening News Hourly News client, many people also sent a person's feelings of living:

  "When I am sick, I go to the hospital alone. Which rank is lonely, can I be the king?"

  "Is it lonely to watch a movie alone?"

  In the message, many people mentioned the loneliness a person feels when he eats hot pot. Fortunately, there is a person who eats hot pot in Hangzhou: "Even if you eat hot pot or eat alone, you will not be watched."

  Single dishes:

  There are meat, vegetables, rice, seasonings

  In the Fengqi Road Farmers’ Market, the second floor is mainly a vegetable stall and a meat stall. At the middle stall in the north, the owner Wang Aiping runs a vegetable stall. She offers a single set of dishes, which are meat and vegetable dishes, properly matched, and can sell up to 15 servings a day.

  "After the tender ginger is washed, it should be dried, sliced, marinated in salt for 40 minutes, the juice is strained, and the sugar and vinegar are added..." The 43-year-old Sister Wang, with short hair and glasses, is doing things very quickly.

  This is a mom-and-pop shop. Sister Wang's husband is from Xiaoshan. She has been in the vegetable business for 23 years and has been setting up stalls at the Fengqi Road Farmers Market. Sister Wang used to work in the factory, and later she came out to sell vegetables with her husband. She also worked for 20 years.

  Sister Wang weighed and packed while listening to WeChat voice. "A customer has booked with me on WeChat, and I have to prepare the goods."

  Why is the singles course introduced? The eldest sister said that she lives in Xiaoshan and her neighbor is a girl. She works in Binjiang and orders takeaways after get off work.

  “I told the little girl that it’s unhealthy not to eat takeaway. The little girl said that cooking alone is too annoying. I was thinking, I just happen to sell vegetables, and I can bring her some and make some convenient dishes to eat.” Zheng It was inspired by this that Sister Wang thought of a single course.

  When the coupons were launched, she had a "single-person course", a course of 35 yuan, which included half a catty of ribs, two eggs, a tomato, a large lettuce, two or three small eggplants, three or two rice , A set of oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, a garlic, a piece of ginger, meat and vegetable mix.

  "This price is more affordable than buying it alone, because I greeted the meat stall owner, and the ribs are all discounted." Sister Wang said that the original dish program was launched to cater to consumer coupons, but now there is no This set of dishes is available, but if young people want to match a set, she can also help with it. "When it was first launched, at most 15 copies were sold a day. Not only young people but also elderly people came to buy it."

  Sister Wang knows that single people eat too little. Some people come to buy bitter gourd, which is too big. If one person can't finish it, she cuts up half and sells cabbage.

  She said that the dishes she served were simple home-cooked dishes, and the kitchen Xiaobai bought it back and made it herself without pressure.

  One person hot pot:

  Eating alone can also be stylish

  There are many hot pot restaurants in Hangzhou for one person.

  Yesterday, in an alley next to the International Medical Center of the Second Hospital of Zhejiang University, a reporter from Qian Bao found a hot pot restaurant with the temperament of a Japanese restaurant. The small seats, a bit like a lattice room, are lined up, there are 15 seats in total, hidden by tall wooden boards. There is a small curtain in front of each seat, which is used for serving dishes.

  At noon, business is a bit weak. A girl was eating hot pot while swiping her phone. "I'm an old customer here, and I'm here for the fourth time. Clean and greedy." She works at a nearby property company and walks for 5 minutes. "I'm not single, but I can eat by myself." She ordered a 48-yuan solo course and ordered a few more dishes.

  Another girl tentatively entered the shop. After she was seated, she also ordered a solo course. "I live in Guali, and I happened to come here to do something. I especially wanted to eat hot pot. I searched the Internet and came over." This is the first time she has tried one-person hot pot. "I deliberately brought the power bank, and plan to watch the drama while eating hot pot." A mobile phone holder is prepared in each seat.

  The two girls chatted sentence by sentence.

  "Sometimes a friend can't make an appointment, and I can't treat myself badly. You can't finish eating that kind of big hot pot. This kind of hot pot is good and the amount is just right."

  "Yes, this kind of hot pot doesn't taste much after eating it."

  ...

  The owner of the hot pot restaurant has the last name Zhu. Boss Zhu said that only 50% of the customers came alone, and half came with couples or friends, and even a small shop was packaged for company dinners.

  I wish the boss is an authentic old Hangzhou, doing trade business. In August 2019, he spent 300,000 yuan to open this store. "The business is pretty good, and there are also Internet celebrities who come to shoot the video. Many people are fresh." Boss Zhu said that 70% of the customers are female customers, and most of them are pretty girls. Sometimes boys come over. "At present, there are few guests at noon and it can be full at night. I hired a worker before, and now my mother and I are busy."