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Cai Lan said that the taste of his hometown is not boring. When taste buds are seduced together with nostalgia, memories travel through time and roar in. It is better to tear off the labels of "efficient" and "996", wait for a bowl of rice balls, a sweet and sour fish, and let the food heal you.
Taste connects you and me, and nostalgia connects the twin cities. Every Wednesday, "Knowing the Taste of Two Cities", not seen or scattered.
A few days ago, Zhou Xiaoyu received such a message.
Xuanping wontons, vinegar chicken, wheat cakes... Is Wuyi snack really so tempting? Pet powder Zhou Xiaoyu set off immediately.
In the early summer, Zhou Xiaoyu found a small food with a Wuyi style, one of the ten bowls of Wuyi - small fried mountain branches.
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The aroma is a refreshing early summer solstice
Gardenia, Jasmine, Brandy,
Gangnam rainy season, summer three white.
In the early summer of Qinghe, these three small white flowers are often placed together by Grandma to sell. Or tie it with white thread, or string the flowers on a piece of lead wire to make a pendant ring, hand string, etc.
The flowers have a pleasant aroma and a unique charm. Only Jiangnan women know the deep taste.
"White orchids, jasmine, do you want them?" Wu Nong's soft language selling has also become an early summer scene. "The Tale of the Little Window" lists more than a dozen sounds, and the author believes that the sound of selling flowers is the most beautiful.
"Those who talk about the rhyme of sound, the sound of streams, streams, bamboo, pines, mountain birds, ravines, banana rain, and falling flowers, are all the clear sounds of heaven and earth, and the advocacy of poetry is also the sound of soul-destroying, and the sound of selling flowers should be the first." - "The Little Window"
In the early summer, Wuyi met a flower seller, and four or five meters away he smelled the fragrance of gardenia flowers.
"This flower, danger incense (Wuyi dialect, very fragrant meaning). Buy something and try wow. ”
Try? Gardenia is actually a flower that can be eaten?
At the Wuyi Vegetable Farm, almost every stall is decorated with blanched gardenias. How to cook gardenia, wuyi housewives have their own skills.
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Beauty and deliciousness can not be disappointed
The edible gardenia is not the kind of gardenia with large flowers and large leaves called "white toads", but small and delicate mountain gardenias. The Wuyi people used to call it "mountain branch flower".
The picture on the left is the garden, and the picture on the right is the mountain garden
Lin Hong recorded the practice of frying gardenia flowers in oil in the "Mountain Family Qing Offering", called "Eaves Frying". Compared with fried and soupy soup, Wuyi people love stir-frying more.
In the mountains from May to early June, single-lobed, six-leaf gardenias bloom in all corners of the forest. They are always opened in clusters, glowing snow-white.
The petals of the mountain gardenia are far less fat than the gardenia, the leaves are not as oily green as the gardenia, and even the aroma is three points inferior. But the seemingly disorderly growth method of the mountain garden has long hidden the mystery of deliciousness invisibly.
Near noon, the wuyi old rural restaurant diners gathered, and chef Pan Jianlong was making final preparations for the "small fried mountain branches".
The harvested mountain branches are washed. Pale yellow buds taste slightly bitter, and bothered diners will ask to remove the buds.
After the boiling, the mountain branches and flowers are much softer, and the color is no longer as white as before, showing a brownish yellow.
Heat a pan with cold oil and season with garlic, ginger and chili peppers. After a simple stir-fry, a plate of "small stir-fried mountain branches and flowers" is delicious.
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And with this flower to honor youth
The small stir-fried mountain branch flowers are easy to make, fresh and refreshing.
A chopstick mountain branch flower entrance, a faint floral fragrance lingering on the tip of the tongue. The rich petal juice is full of water, which contains the delicious taste of the mountains.
"Mountain branch flowers have the effect of clearing heat and diarrhea, if the children at home do not like to eat bitter melon, it is better to try the mountain branch flowers." Chef Pan Jianlong said.
I have to say that before that I didn't really like gardenias. It always blooms in the parting season, and the bright hot summer carries the grandest parting.
Even "Gardenia Blossom" sings: "Gardenia blossoms, so cute, wave goodbye to joy and helplessness." ”
Make this "parting flower" into a delicious dish, and the time of farewell is less tearful.
Here, Zhou Xiaoyu would like to take this "small fried mountain branch flower" to wish all the graduates of the class of 2020 to fight with the world with great interest and have been walking on the road full of flowers. I wish you all a bright future and see you at the top!
Old Village (Pagoda Road Store)
Address: Jinhua City Wuyi County Pagoda Road Xianglong Vegetable Farm nearby
Tel:0579-87675757
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