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"When I met my mother, she was already a mother." "Old-School Girl Shopping Route" is the first prose book of the writer Hong Aizhu. After her mother died of illness, she turned her long thoughts into words as crystal clear as pearl fossils, recording the rich food and fulfilling daily life her mother gave her, from kitchen gadgets to the human vegetable market, from porridge, flour and rice to tea and food in foreign lands. She recalled that she and her mother would overprint her grandmother's footsteps and add the stores she discovered in recent years to form an old-school shopping route. Old food, old things, old shops, and old markets are passages back in time and clues for tracing memories. She uses food to recall past memories and convey feelings. The fireworks in the kitchen, the long-lasting family emotions, and the human customs and customs of old Taipei are all gathered together in her words with appropriate shades. Hong Aizhu's writing style is gentle, elegant, concise and witty. With home-cooked food as the main theme and the mother's grief as the underlying line, she returns to the family's past and the era of the prosperous times, reproduces the aspirations and styles of the old-fashioned people, and also bluntly expresses the hardships of women's living conditions. Old school is a way of survival. In an era where everyone is eager for the avant-garde and trendy, you might as well be a little old school.