Some experts have studied that people's taste and memory can accompany you for a lifetime. It is precisely because of this that when people miss their hometown, they often think of the delicious food of their hometown first. Don't believe it, the person who used his own body to prove this point of view and make it famous in the world was a famous scholar of the Western Jin Dynasty, known as Zhang Han.
Thoughts of the Perch: The meaning of the drunkard is not in the wine
Legend has it that at that time he was an official in Luoyang, and at that time he was the eastern Cao Tuan under the King of Qi, and he was in charge of personnel affairs. One day in Luoyang, seeing the autumn wind, as a Wu person, he missed not the itchy crab feet, but a bowl of lettuce soup and sea bass meat in his hometown, which shows that the fish can be much more expensive than crabs. So he wrote the famous "Song of autumn wind" and said a famous sentence: "Life is precious in the right mind, how can you be bound for thousands of miles to be famous!" "Translated into the vernacular, it is the most important thing to go home to eat and drink, what a civil servant." So he resigned his official post and returned to his hometown, and went to live happily.
In order to bite the lettuce and sea bass in his hometown, he willfully resigned from the government and returned to his hometown, and nine times out of ten he was using food as an excuse. But after all, this teacher Zhang is a person who is not tired of fame and fortune, even if there is no so-called "thought of the perch", he will come up with some other thoughts, in order to return to the countryside and place his feelings on the mountains and forests.
But this brings it back to the point, how delicious is it to imprint its profound taste in the depths of Zhang Han's soul and pass down for thousands of years?
Lettuce: Gangnam delicacies that are available twice a year
This lettuce soup is a soup made of lettuce. Lettuce is an aquatic plant abundant in Suzhou Taihu Lake, Hangzhou West Lake and other places, produced twice a year, of which Wujiang Chunjing is the most famous. Lettuce itself has no taste, but cooking soup to make soup is extremely smooth and poetic, silky smooth, and it is definitely the existence of Dove.
It's almost impossible to pick up a slice of lettuce with chopsticks, but the best way is to scoop it into a bowl with a large spoon and drink it directly from the bowl. The brown-green lettuce is fresh and delicate, and the delicate taste of the tip of the tongue when it passes through the throat is really tickling. Although it is a drink, after all, I still can't help but chew it, try my best to stop a piece of lettuce with my teeth, taste it carefully, and finally taste some shallow umami.
Lettuce generally eats two stubbles in spring and autumn, and the spring yield is low, but it is expensive in its tenderness; in the autumn, it is the time when it grows vigorously, which is when it is on the market in large quantities. The exquisite Lord loves to eat the wave of spring, and it is said that the eyebrows are rarely dropped. But more often, lettuce is more affordable in the autumn season.
Perch: The delicacies in the classics
Then there's the perch, which is a dish made of sea bass meat. Legend has it that since the Tang Dynasty, the best perch is the four gills of the Wusong River, and this Wusong River is about the current Wujiang river boundary. The perch here has large and thin mouths and black spots on its body. It is characterized by the snow white and fluffy flesh, without a fishy taste.
The most famous practice of this sea bass since ancient times is not to mix with lettuce to make soup, but a dish that even Su Shi once wrote a poem praising the "golden jade". This dish first appeared in the Northern Wei Dynasty's Qi Min Zhi Shu. Feng Zhen's "Southern Fireworks" wrote: "The southern mermaid fish, mixed with fine strands of golden orange, is called the golden fish and jade fish." The so-called golden jade fish, southeast good taste also. "The practice is to strictly select Wu County's perch as a crow," ... When the frost falls in August and September, collect the perch under three feet, make a dry dish and put it on a plate, take the orange peel and cut it into wisps, harmonize with the perch, and mix well with the order. "Well, can't you imagine how delicious it really is?"
Lettuce and sea bass can be said to be the star representatives of the natural gifts in the Wujiang area since ancient times, and it is precisely because of Zhang Han that the two are mentioned together. I think back then, this is all classified into the "delicious food", worth a special trip to taste the delicious, can be called michelin three-star level existence. In the early days, both are delicious ingredients that are readily available to ordinary people, and as long as they are properly prepared, they are all fresh.
Now Suzhou has entered the autumn, autumn lettuce began to be listed in large quantities, the price is reasonable and the quality is superior, it is a good time to buy a little home to taste; as for the delicious sea bass, October is its fattest time, find a good sea bass steamed to eat, I am afraid that I can be different from the hairy crab.
Source: City Business Daily