After watching three meals a day in Zhejiang, I finally understood: why is it called "gourmet desert" by netizens
Recently, I saw a national "gourmet desert" list, the first place is Beijing, the second place is Hangzhou, Zhejiang, the third place is Shenzhen, the fourth place is Shanghai, and the fifth place is Wuhan.
Over the years on the Internet, many people say that This Zhejiang is a food desert, but think about it carefully, isn't there a Hangzhou dish in Zhejiang? Isn't Zhejiang one of the eight major cuisines in Zhejiang? How did it inexplicably become a gastronomic desert?
It wasn't until I traveled to Hangzhou last week, went to a friend's house in Hangzhou to eat, and the meals were served, that I finally understood why Zhejiang is a food desert.
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Hangzhou people eat breakfast is relatively simple, like to eat corn, friends said that since childhood to get used to this way of eating, not only to eat corn but also to drink porridge, but also to eat side dishes together.
Zhejiang cuisine is mainly light and sweet, the same is true at friends' homes, eggs and corn are almost common dishes every morning,
Hangzhou people's breakfast is generally not stir-fried, only the family comes to the guests, the host family will start to stir-fry, Hangzhou people are also very hospitable, breakfast dishes are very richly prepared.
But the taste is still light, whether it is fried loofah or dried radish stir-fried bacon, stir-fried cucumbers look like a little sweet dish, and the same is true for red bean porridge.
Friends in Hangzhou said that red bean porridge is also the most common breakfast delicacy for Hangzhou people.
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After breakfast, I went to Hangzhou with my friends, returned home for lunch at noon, and after the dishes were on the table, I finally understood why netizens would say that Zhejiang is a food desert.
Too light.
A stir-fried bitter melon, looks like it is cold mixed, the color is still emerald green, I took a bite to taste it, too bitter, the mouth instantly tasteless, drinking water is bitter.
Eating cucumbers that are accustomed to Sichuan cuisine, tasting the cucumbers of Hangzhou, sweet, very unaccustomed. Although the table was very rich, a full 8 dishes, my aunt was still very careful, but I only ate the cold mixed kelp with peppers.
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Hangzhou is close to the sea, Zhejiang people also like to eat seafood, in the evening, the aunt made two seafood, a bowl of cucumbers and a dried stir-fried celery.
Unlike Sichuan restaurants to eat seafood, Hangzhou people like to eat directly, without adding any taste, the pursuit of fresh taste of seafood, eat Kiwei shrimp is very sweet, the taste is still light.
This is the three meals I have eaten at my friend's house in Hangzhou, after watching the three meals a day of Zhejiang people, some netizens said that they finally understood: why is it called "gourmet desert" by netizens.
In fact, everyone says that Zhejiang is a food desert, which is more of a ridiculous mentality.
One of the main reasons is that Hangzhou and Zhejiang, everyone's taste is too light, resulting in many people to come to Zhejiang or Hangzhou after traveling, can not taste the local cuisine, the taste is weak, so that people who are now accustomed to eating Sichuan cuisine and Hunan cuisine are very disliked.
Consumers' tastes are getting heavier and heavier, but they have the impression that there is no food in the light Zhejiang region.
In the eyes of many netizens, Hangzhou dishes, light taste, heavy on sugar, too sweet, or like sweet and sour, which makes many people unaccustomed to eating ambiguous.
On the other hand, Sichuan cuisine and Hunan cuisine, heavy taste, good at seasoning, more and more deeply loved by the Netizens across the country, now in the major shopping malls, Sichuan cuisine and Hunan cuisine occupy half of the country, and Hangzhou local cuisine is actually rare.
Even Grandma's house has become a fusion cuisine, a large part of the dishes in it are Sichuan cuisine and Hunan cuisine, and there are not many dishes with real local light taste in Hangzhou.
Today's Hangzhou and Zhejiang area urban construction is getting better and better, full of high-rise buildings, foreign tourists want to eat traditional food snacks walking the streets and alleys can not find, high house prices make a lot of local food snacks withdraw from the city stage, want to eat snacks can only go to the mall, and the food in the mall is the same.
Therefore, the more developed the city is, the easier it is to form a gastronomic desert, but the food and snack categories eaten are less and less, and the taste is more and more uniform.
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