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Preface
As the saying goes, the people live on food. As a travel blogger, the first thing I pay attention to when I go to a place is what is good to eat.
Even when I write travel tips for my friends, I put the local food first, capitalized and close-up.
Unfortunately, however, not every city has its own flavor and taste, and some regions have not developed their own culinary characteristics for various reasons.
Netizens have launched a vote and voted for several "food desert" areas, and today I will also sort them out for everyone to see.
Which cities are on the list of "food deserts"? Are you from your hometown? The last city you would never expect!
A city with a different taste: Hangzhou
It is said that there is heaven above, and there is Suzhou and Hangzhou below, Hangzhou has always been considered a rich place, the capital of merchants, with a very long history and culture, and countless local beauties.
Hangzhou itself is also a large city with a fairly large population, so when it was chosen to be ranked second, it was a surprise to everyone.
This is a ranking that outsiders are curious about, but locals think is well deserved.
Some people may ask, since Hangzhou is so rich in natural resources and has never lacked talents, why has it not developed its own special dishes?
In fact, this is wronged Hangzhou, and the city has indeed given birth to a cuisine called "Hangzhou Bang Cuisine".
The more representative dishes in Hangzhou cuisine are West Lake vinegar fish, Dongpo pork, lotus leaf steamed pork, etc., which at first glance feel quite like that.
Especially "Dongpo meat", this dish should be regarded as a dish that all people who love Su Dongpo want to taste.
However, contrary to expectations, although the name and the name of the dish sound delicious, it actually tastes completely different.
The taste of Hangzhou cuisine is salty and sweet, and some are too light, which belongs to the kind of cuisine that is difficult to please even if it is heavy and light.
There are many people who try the West Lake vinegar fish dish without believing it, and finally feel that they have wasted the ingredients.
This dish may not have been so unpalatable when it was first invented, but there are so few people who can master the core technology that most people can only eat the vinegar smell that can't suppress the fishy smell.
Even Dongpo meat is too sweet and greasy, and it is acceptable to eat one or two bites, and it is a nightmare to eat a whole plate of dishes.
It can only be said that it is very greasy, quite greasy, sweet fatty meat, who eats who knows.
Other Hangzhou dishes are almost the same, each with its own unpalatable.
This dish is not even liked by the locals, and they feel that Xi they are not used to eating it.
If you say to a person in Hangzhou, "Your Hangzhou is a food desert", they will probably reply: "No way, KFC in Hangzhou is still delicious!"
A city full of migrant workers: Shenzhen
Guangdong is a big food province, but when people take stock of Guangdong food, they often exclude Shenzhen first.
This can't be blamed on netizens being biased, it's really because there is really nothing delicious in Shenzhen.
Shenzhen is a very special city, at the beginning it was just a "small fishing village", and the food culture was completely inferior to that of Guangzhou next door.
Later, it was not until Shenzhen was selected for economic development that it took a leap forward, and its population and urban construction were developing rapidly.
However, Shenzhen's food has not had time to keep up with the development, and for Shenzhen locals, the best food is actually KFC, McDonald's and other fast food restaurants, or go to Shaxian snacks.
However, for those migrant workers from all over the world in Shenzhen, whether it is a hamburger fast food restaurant or a Shaxian snack can't satisfy their stomachs.
Even later, it was difficult for everyone to satisfy Cantonese cuisine when it began to settle down in Shenzhen, because for many migrant workers, Cantonese cuisine was expensive, the taste was quite light, and the portion was not much, which was really difficult for them to accept.
It wasn't until with the economic development that more and more local cuisines settled in that migrant workers finally had a choice.
Some people say that the lives of Shenzhen locals depend on Hunan cuisine, and in this humid southern city, eating those light soup dishes will always feel a little uncomfortable.
But Hunan cuisine is different, just the right amount of saltiness and spiciness, which can arouse people's taste buds and make people's appetite move.
However, it is a pity that not everyone can accept the taste of Hunan cuisine, and there is still a group of people who cannot eat spicy.
As a result, they still have to look for other delicious and cheap dishes in Shenzhen, but they have little to gain.
There are also Jiangsu and Zhejiang cuisine and Northeast cuisine everywhere in Shenzhen, and the price of Jiangsu and Zhejiang cuisine is generally high.
Although Northeast cuisine is a good choice, it is also difficult to make the most authentic taste because of the geographical distance, and only Northeast dumplings can taste a little familiar.
The most unexpected city: Beijing
The city with the highest vote was actually Beijing, which must have surprised many people.
In everyone's impression, Beijing, as the capital since the Ming and Qing dynasties, has nurtured and developed countless cultures in this place, and countless people have lived here.
Most of the most picky dignitaries have lived in Beijing for a long time, but they don't want it to be a food desert.
It's not enough to say that Beijing really doesn't have anything to eat, the city's food is characterized by the purest locals, but not at all by outsiders.
Almost every foreigner who travels to Beijing may be dragged by a friend to taste a meal of bean juice, and this particularly lethal dark material ideal must be the inner shadow of countless people.
For people who don't like to eat soy juice, the taste of this thing is like a bucket of "swill", which is extremely sour.
But for the local bean juice lovers, the taste of this thing is extremely sour, and the aftertaste is endless, and they can taste the aroma from this strange liquid.
It's really hard not to wonder if Beijingers have a different taste bud system than outsiders.
In addition to bean juice, Beijing's stewed and fired are also quite puzzling.
This kind of stew is different from other cities, the method is relatively simple, and the method of processing the ingredients is relatively simple, and it is difficult to really remove the taste of these organs.
There are many things like the large intestine, which emit a faint smell, and it is difficult for anyone to really accept this smell.
Then some people may ask, the local food in Beijing is so unpalatable, what do people living in Beijing eat mainly?
In fact, they mainly eat Shandong cuisine, if you want to go to Beijing to eat, you must pay attention to screening, after all, Beijing people have also carried out a certain degree of transformation of Shandong cuisine.
If you don't distinguish it well, it is very likely that you will eat the transformed Lu cuisine, which is really quite painful.
epilogue
Fortunately, the transportation and network are relatively developed, although these cities are "food deserts", but after all, they are large populations.
Where there are people, there is demand, and where there is demand, there will be business, so many snacks from other regions have come to these cities to set up stalls.
Therefore, even if there is nothing to take stock of the local food, it will not really satisfy the appetite.
The inventory of this food desert is just a vote on a whim of netizens, and it can be used as entertainment to talk about, and there is no need to really go online to discuss it.