The weather is getting hotter, the iced fruit, sweet and ice, it is simply a kind of salvation.
Lychee dipped in soy sauce? Watermelon dipped in salt? Papaya and mango dipped in chili peppers?
As a northerner, I was stunned by the way my friends in the south ate fruit.
How does this feel like cooking?
Soak it in salt water when eating pineapple at most.
It is said that eating in this way is the freedom of the taste buds.
So, I went to look it up. This investigation doesn't matter, it really surprised me.
Studies have shown that the human cerebral cortex has a protective mechanism for feeling tastes, and when exposed to a certain taste, the first stimulation is the strongest.
Salt distinguishes the taste of the fruit, distinguishes the perception of the taste buds, and one sweet and one salty can highlight the sweetness of the fruit.
In addition, salt can promote the accelerated dehydration of fruit cells, thereby flowing out more juice, reducing the water in the pulp, concentrating sugar and amino acids, and naturally increasing sweetness.
The fruit dipped in salt is naturally as sweet as the first bite.
In addition, this way of eating in ancient times, it was exclusive to the court.
Fruits must be used in tropical and subtropical fruits rarely seen in the Central Plains. The salt is only made of sea salt from Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions, which has a high degree of purity and rich taste.
Li Bai of the Tang Dynasty had a poetic cloud: "Jade pan yangmei is set for the king, Wu salt is like a flower and white snow".
This is dipping in Wu salt and eating lychees.
"A red dust concubine laughed, no one knew that it was a lychee coming." It turned out that the noble concubine was laughing at eating lychees dipped in salt.
Peaches, mangoes, plums, oranges, star fruit, olives, apples, watermelons, bayberry, lychees...
These are actually all available, and they are eaten with condiments.
Sure enough, nothing can restrain the imagination.
Do friends in the South eat like this?
Friends from the North, have you eaten like this?
I'm going to buy a watermelon to try.
