"Raisins, don't hoard goods in the southern warehouse of the desert, the mainland is not easy to preserve..." The supplier's sincere suggestion made me pay relatively little attention to raisins when I was in Xinjiang. Back home, looking at the photos on my mobile phone, I found that the fate with raisins had always been there, but I didn't find it.
In Turpan, grapevines and shaded houses can be seen everywhere, and residential buildings are also very Xinjiang. In the season, the grapes have basically been removed from the shelves, and there is no busy scene of grapes entering the shade room. Fortunately, there is an exhibition hall in the Grand Bazaar in Urumqi, which is full of raisins, even if you have seen a scene of grapes.
In the exhibition hall, a picture marked the distribution of grapes in Xinjiang, dividing the grapes into 9 varieties, namely horse milk, seedless purple, seedless white, Jufeng rose fragrance, Rizamat, flame seedless, red tip (red earth), Munagh, and Hetian red.
The main raisins (commodity labels) sold on the spot are: Green Fragrant Princess, Red Fragrant Princess, Black Raisin (produced in Ili), Red Raisin (produced in Hotan), Red Horse Milk Raisin, Sancai Raisin (not seen), All Green Raisin, Ruby Raisin.
The size of the red princess is slightly larger than that of the red raisin, and the red onyx raisin is more distinctive. Merchants also mix two or more raisins together for a rich variety of colors and convenience for diners.
In recent years, dried fruits and nuts have been sold in combination packaging. I personally still like the dried fruits and nuts of primary agricultural products for the time being, washing them before eating, peeling off the shells, interesting and hearty, and the "plasticity" for secondary cooking is also high.
After returning to my hometown, I made some market adjustments for raisins, and the common varieties were (product name): blackcurrant, raisin (green), tree yellow, red fragrant concubine, green fragrant concubine, margot. The yellow on the tree is similar in appearance to the raisin (green), the price difference is 30%, and the yellow on the tree is the cheapest.
Up to now, I have not been able to correspond fresh grapes with the varieties, origins, product characteristics, etc. of the raisins, and many of the names of the raisins on the market are not uniform, and the prices of seemingly identical goods will vary a lot, in addition to the size, there will be dry and wet, new and old, and there will be a lot of learning.
If you ask me which grapes in Xinjiang do I know best? I might think it's Munagh. At the farmers' wholesale market, grapes are purchased on a piece-by-piece basis, and on that day I wanted to eat grapes so I bought the next one and ate it in the hotel for many days. The munagar is green and white, the skin is thin and the fruit is crisp and sweet, but it is a little difficult to store. When washing the grapes, it was found that there were two bees hidden in the basket. The process of releasing the bees made me feel that this Munagh was sweeter...
Raisins can be eaten empty, can be drunk in water, and I prefer to stew them in rice. Not too much, a few grains are good, the stewed rice, the smell with a raisin fruit aroma, raisins are also wrapped in rice sweet and soft glutinous.
Another day, about three or five friends, starting from afternoon tea, began to chew different raisins, let them listen to my bragging, and then talk about how we would play if we lived to be 120 years old, and there were more than eighty years to play. In the evening, stew a pot of raisin rice and enjoy the sweetness of life together...
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