If you haven't even eaten this in Hainan, you really haven't been here

Qing supplement cool, The handle in Hainan sweet water, hainan people's summer standard.

Where there is a late night snack, there is a cooling.

Put on the shorts tank top flip-flops, meet three or five friends, sit around a small table, order several different flavors of qing supplement cool, suì a sip, the heat is gone.

For every foreigner who has just arrived in Hainan, this is almost the most "Amway" food.

In the hearts of Hainan people, this is also a delicacy from snacks to big ones.

Illustration by @Ella Yun

Refreshing and cool, food as its name suggests, cool and cool, refreshing and tempting.

But when people who come to Hainan for the first time hear this name, they will ask strangely:

"Huh? What cools? What's cool? What's up? ”

In Guangdong, Guangxi, Hong Kong, Macao and other places, the name of "Qing Supplement cool" is not unfamiliar, some places practice is to boil old fire soup, while in Hainan it is a dessert.

The ingredients of Hainan Qing supplement are extremely rich, ranging from less than a dozen to more than twenty kinds, which shows the inclusiveness of the ingredients.

For example: red beans! Big red beans! taro! (Accidentally sang along with it...) ）

I do it all over again.

For example, common ones are winter melon barley, peanuts, red beans, mung beans, macaroni, red dates, watermelon, quail eggs, corn, pearls, tangyuan, barley, taro and so on.

Usually, these ingredients are cooked in advance to cool, lined up on the stall, and the choice is arbitrary.

Which one do you like plus which, you can not like to eat all the do not, choose the difficulty? inexistent.

There are 3 flavors of the common Hainan Qing Supplement cool: brown sugar water qing liang, coconut water qing liang, coconut milk qing cool.

In Haikou alone, there are countless Qingbeiliang shops, ranging from well-known Internet celebrity shops to old shops hidden in the alleys.

As for which one is more delicious, come and punch a card to know one or two.

Brown sugar water is cool, the "originator" in the cool.

Hainan people eat Qing Supplement Cool, and the earliest taste they eat is brown sugar water.

Mix the ingredients together, pour the brown sugar water made of the ancient pharaoh brown sugar, add a few ice cubes and stir gently.

Take a sip of sweet brown sugar water, then a spoonful of ingredients, and fill your mouth.

Two words: satisfied!

In a narrow alley on Haikou Bo'ai South Road, Sister Zheng's Qingbeiliang shop has been open for nearly 35 years.

There is no street sign, no store name, and the paper on the door that reads "Traditional Qing Supplement Cool" is even a signboard.

From the initial few cents a bowl to today's 9 yuan, Sister Zheng's brown sugar water has also witnessed the changes of the times.

There are only 3 kinds of desserts in the shop: ice cool, hot cool and sugar water, and the main ingredients are brown sugar water.

Purchased fresh brown sugar, boiled for about an hour a day, the taste is refreshing, sweet but not greasy.

The taste of Q bullets, round glutinous winter melon coix is an indispensable flavor in the ingredients, but The winter melon coix of Sister Zheng's family is very special and flaky, which is rare in qing and cool.

Compared with many other exquisitely decorated, spacious and bright Qing supplemental cool shops, Zheng Dajie's storefront is not large, and she can only sit at three or two tables at a time, and when it is lively, diners simply sit at the door to eat.

Two rows of plastic stools are arranged in turn, one high and one low, the high row is used to put the bowl, and the low row is used to sit people.

Even if you are a regular customer, if you don't come for a long time, you have to repeatedly confirm which intersection and which alley you are in.

But Sister Zheng is not worried because the store is remote.

"People who want to eat will naturally find it."

In addition to the traditional brown sugar water, the "delicious" Hainan people have also innovated with the help of coconuts.

Walking into the second floor of Haikou Tailong City Snack Street, a dessert shop called "Taro Shangpin" came into view first.

Because of the dark skin since childhood, she was nicknamed "Taro Sister" (Hainanese "Black Sister"), and the boss lady opened this shop by taking the word "Taro".

Serve a bowl of coconut water to cool down, a few chopped red dates floating on the surface, white fungus, diced mango, cranberry, raisins, mung beans, peanuts, etc., accompanied by the sweet taste of coconut water.

"Children love to eat red dates, but they are afraid that a whole red date will easily choke, so they cut it and put it in."

The ingredients of "taro products" are almost all "children's favorite food".

"Sister Taro" said that the child loves to eat sweets, worried that the child eats a bad stomach outside, and simply does his own clean and cool.

By doing this, it is "out of control" at once.

Since the opening of the store, it has accumulated many fixed takeaway customers, and even in the face of the epidemic, the business has not been greatly affected.

On the market, sugar water and coconut water are easy to find, but a bowl of pure coconut milk is rare.

In order to be able to eat a bowl, many people choose to drive more than ten kilometers to the town of Lingshan in Haikou to find a cool taste.

"This shop is very hot, we Lingshan people know it!"

In the "new juice source" coconut milk tonic store, seeing that there are new customers coming, some old customers will always be tempted to "publicize" two sentences.

Coconut milk is cool and pure, the key is to see whether coconut milk is alcohol or not.

Only to see the boss Lao Lin take out a number of pieces of old coconut meat from the refrigerator and put them in the blender, soak and rinse without water, and then pour in enough water to start beating.

It takes at least 1 minute for each stirring, and the same action is repeated 5 times until the coconut milk temperature reaches 30-40 degrees.

How is the temperature measured? Feel it with your hands.

"New Juice Source" generally uses old coconuts from Vietnam, but due to the impact of the epidemic, the current store uses old coconuts from Hainan.

Every day, someone sent coconuts, and each coconut had to go through Lao Lin's hands, pat it, and sweep it, and the qualified talents were left behind, which can be described as "one in a hundred miles".

Although the production process of coconut milk is not complicated, the labor cost and the difficulty of selecting coconuts make many merchants "prohibitive".

If it is so troublesome, why do you have to persist for so many years?

Lao Lin's answer made people can't help but laugh: "Because I want to eat!" ”

There are many ingredients for cooling, how to choose? Old Lin has his own set of "guidelines".

Taro balls and rice balls are handmade by hand, in order to maintain the taste, the cooked taro balls should always be soaked in sugar water.

Lao Lin said that although the taro balls made by the machine save trouble and cost, they always lack tenacity, and although the handmade is complicated, it can ensure the taste of Q bullets.

Perhaps it is this kind of ingenuity that makes Lao Lin harvest a batch of "die-hard fans".

"They have a very sharp mouth, and they can even eat it when I don't use Vietnamese coconut."

There was no trace of disgust in Lao Lin's words, and the recognition of diners was the driving force for him to persist.

In the hearts of Hainan people, Qing Tongliang has always had a supreme position.

In a way, it is very similar to the people of Hainan, simple, simple, and extremely inclusive.

Walking in the streets and alleys, almost every owner of the qingtong cool shop likes to say that he is the "first".

But in fact, no matter who is the "first one", every foodie has his own favorite one in his heart.

No matter which one it is, each one also has its own unique password, waiting for diners to unlock them one by one.

Want to eat? The address is here

Brown sugar water cools down

Boai South Road Fengshengda stationery wholesaler in the alley

Coconut water cools down

Snack Street on the 2nd floor of Tailong City

Coconut milk is clear to cool

50 meters west of the intersection of Wenxi Road and Qiongwen Avenue

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