Have you ever eaten a flood of plants in Britain, turned into snacks in rural China, and sweet and sour have been eaten to extinction?
Different countries have their own special cuisine, mention which country is the most gourmet, presumably China called the second, no country dares to call the first bar. Many exotic species are rampant in other countries but have been eaten and exterminated in China, taking crayfish as an example, in the United States, the United Kingdom and other countries to spend a lot of money to manage.
But in China, stir-fried thirteen spices, spicy crayfish, garlic braised shrimp can be described as a crowd of people. Don't ask why it's not shipped to China to sell, it's because the freight is too high. But today do not introduce you to the crayfish, to introduce you to a plant, I believe that many friends have eaten when they were young, it is "knotweed", but everyone generally calls it "acid tube" or "yellow rod".
Mention of "knotweed" in fact, there are also words to say, first of all, some people say that it is not a native Chinese plant, this thing is strictly speaking" "alien species", penetration is particularly strong, if not pulled out in time once it grows tall, it will penetrate the ground of the house. But this is not the case, it is a native Chinese perennial herb, the rhizome is thick, the stem is upright like bamboo, and up to two meters high, hollow, with leaves, the leaves are mostly wide ovate or ovate oval. The origin is in Shaanxi, Gansu, Central China, South China, Sichuan and other places. This thing is now as rampant in the UK as it was before China, because the UK is sparsely populated, so it can only be removed at great cost but with little effect. But why hasn't it flooded in China?
Then it has to be mentioned that Chinese this group of "foodies", in many Chinese when they were young, the family was not so rich, so they would not have as many snacks as they do now. At that time, some natural plants were everyone's small snacks. For example, some wild fruits, and "knotweed" is something that everyone accidentally found to eat. Knotweed generally grows in fertile places, or by small rivers and streams, we all know that there is sugarcane, very sweet, "knotweed" looks like bamboo wearing "flower clothes", taste like sour sugarcane, so how to eat it?
If you are thirsty in the wild and happen to have no water with you, then the "knotweed" comes in handy, and if you find it and break it open, you will find the hollow inside, and there is juice flowing out. This juice is most likely to be dew, just like the hollow bamboo with juice, you have to ask how it tastes, it is really not very tasty, a little sour. However, friends who like to eat hawthorn should love this taste. So how to eat it? In fact, just like sugar cane, peel off the skin and bite directly, just chew and spit it out like sugarcane.
This plant grows extremely fast, which is why it is flooded in other countries, so why is it not flooded in China? Because this group of Chinese foodies ate when the "sour tube rod" was still small, it was generally picked off after it was found, because once it grew up, it was particularly sour and not very tasty, so it was basically eaten before the full moon. And when I was a child, the sour tube rod was sour and sweet, and there was a feeling of juice and brittle hawthorn, and it was like a sour sugar cane. However, few people have seen this plant again, but some people say that this plant will live in the soil for at least thirty years if the roots are not dug out, which is also scientifically justified.
It is actually not just an ordinary plant, its roots also have medicinal value, at this time it is called "spotted bamboo", generally speaking, it is more than a dozen dollars a pound, the root is a Chinese herbal medicine, the medicinal value is to dig it out and dry, soak water to drink is good for the body, and chrysanthemum tea has the same effect of clearing heat and relieving heat and extinguishing fire, and it can also diuresis and swelling, which is also good for women, can pass the menstruation, cough. In addition, it can also be fried to eat, in childhood digging sun-dried stir-fry with chili sauce taste very good I don't know if any friends have eaten it?
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