Every spring, it is the season for Hangzhou people to eat Pac-Padmen! Fava beans, peas, sweet beans, lentils, edamame... The vegetable stall owner will intimately classify and peel well, and let you choose.
Recently, with a large number of local broad beans on the market, the saying "broad beans are nightmares" has quietly begun to rise, and in a certain book, a 'Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai nightmare' complaint post attracted more than 3,000 comments! Isn't broad beans a home-cooked dish, how can it also be a "nightmare"?
The problem may be that it is too "commonplace".
One netizen said: "I like to eat very much, but I can't stand eating every day, and I really vomit." What makes some netizens even more devastated is that "after eating for almost a week, I look like I am about to finish eating, and when I turn my head, someone else gives me another bag."
Some people compare broad beans in spring in the south with cabbage in winter in the north.
Why can the seemingly ordinary broad beans become the "table boss" of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai this May? The weather lady briefly analyzed it and came to an obvious conclusion: cheap.
Orange friends broke the news that in the past few days, ten yuan can buy six catties, or even seven catties, on average, one pound is only more than 1 yuan, how is it not heartwarming? And the cooking method is also simple and diverse, you can scrambled eggs, stir-fried minced meat, stir-fried meat slices, stir-fried shrimp, fried spring shoots, stir-fried pickles... If you don't like stir-frying, you can also boil, stew in oil, and stewed soup.
Although it is a little troublesome to peel, but it is difficult to pour the hardworking Chinese, after all, peeling beans is such a thing, there is no technical content, a finger clip, the beans will come down, peeling skillfully, but also peel out a sense of rhythm.
Peeling beans in Hangzhou is sometimes a social activity. With the time to peel the beans, you can sit around with friends, neighbors, and sisters to talk about the mountains, and when the conversation is over, the beans will be peeled.
In addition, it is also related to customs. At the beginning of summer, Hangzhou people have the custom of eating "three roasts, five la, and nine times new", and broad beans are one of them. Wang Xufeng's masterpiece "Tea Man Trilogy" records the "three roasts" of Lixia, that is, burnt cakes, roasted goose, and soju (burnt cakes are summer cakes, and soju is sweet wine); "Wula", that is, yellow fish, bacon, salted eggs, sea clams, Qingming dogs; "Nine o'clock new", that is, cherries, plums, broad beans, amaranth, soybean shoots, lettuce shoots, anchovy, roses, black rice cake.
The reason why Lixia wants to eat broad beans is said to be because of the saying "crutching summer". That is, the human body is easy to be sleepy in summer, and eating broad beans helps to cheer up the spirit and spend the summer safely.
In addition, there is also a folk saying that the shell of broad beans is shaped like eyes, and the ancients ate broad beans in Lixia, but also prayed for the elimination of eye diseases, and there was no disease and no disaster for a year.
However, just like coriander and toon, some people love broad beans, love to eat from the market to the next market, and some people hate how far away and far away they are, complaining that broad beans have a "smelly foot smell".
Do you think broad beans have a "smelly foot smell"? (Orange Persimmon Interactive Urban Express reporter Song Yun)