Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia.
Curry, meat bone tea, Indonesian nine-storey tower.
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A few years ago, a "Curry Curry" was all over the Internet, and these two rhyming lyrics were also widely known to everyone, laying the foundation for it to become a "brainwashing divine comedy".
It is not difficult to see that the two lyrics echo up and down, Thailand's "curry", Singapore's "meat bone tea", Indonesia's "nine-story tower", what we want to talk about today is the middle one - "meat bone tea" from Singapore.
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"Meat bone" refers to pork and pork bone, although the name with "tea", but does not contain the slightest tea and tea components, and has nothing to do with refreshments.
The so-called tea actually refers to the "medicinal soup" made with various medicinal materials such as goji berries, cinnamon, angelica, and ginseng.
The whole is relatively simple, there is no mushrooms, green vegetables, only meat, bone, soup, if you have to say it bluntly, you can also call it "ribs medicinal soup".
The history of "meat and bone tea" is not very long, it originated in Southeast Asian countries after the 20th century, and now it is popular in Malaysia and Singapore, how it was invented, there are also two theories circulating:
One is invented by the Chinese who started the business in the "Lower Nanyang" in that year, because of various reasons such as speech inconsistency, they could only do some cool labor (dock transport, tricycle driver, etc.) to make money to survive.
At the same time, you need to replenish your physical strength in time, you can only buy some pork, pig stew and eat, coupled with the blessing of various traditional Chinese medicines and spices, whether it is meat or soup, after the pot is quite delicious, very popular with everyone.
The second is that a man named "Li Wendi" from Yongchun County, Fujian Province, sells stewed meat bones in the Malaysian town of Klang, and uses "ingredients" and "the last word of his name" as signboards and names them "meat bone land".
Yongchun belongs to the minnan region, and in the minnan language, "di" and "tea" are pronounced similarly, so after a long time, Mr. Li changed the name to "Dedi meat bone tea", and at this point, "meat bone tea" was successfully named and became a local traditional snack.
Due to its origin as "Klang", in the following time, more people opened "branches" in other regions under the name of "Klang Meat and Bone Tea", and even spread to neighboring "Singapore".
Quite a shadow of "Lanzhou ramen".
Although I don't know which statement is correct, the only thing that can be affirmed is that today's "meat and bone tea" has been continuously improved, and it is also derived from black and white according to different distribution areas.
For example, in Singapore, most of the "Teochew pie" is used, and the soup base is only seasoned with white pepper, garlic cloves with skin and a small amount of five-spice powder, which is lighter in color and lighter in taste.
Malaysia is more inclined to the "Fujian school", on the basis of the former, but also add a variety of star anise, angelica, cinnamon and other herbs, spices, and finally accompanied by soy sauce to enhance the flavor of color, relatively speaking, the medicinal aroma is stronger, the taste is heavier.
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In fact, regardless of the black and white schools, each store has its own recipes and methods, and the taste is different, and it is deeply loved by overseas Chinese.
Meat and bone tea is also from the original "civilian exclusive food", advanced to "rich and poor old and young love" cuisine, the value is not what it used to be.
This is all a testimony to the hard years of hard work for the Chinese people who originally went south to make a living, and the only thing that is "fly in the ointment" is the loss of that "city flavor".
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