China Kuibao - Hair Dish

Aliases: hair vegetable, hair algae, cord dish, ground hair, hair hair vegetable. Hair vegetable performance: is a wild rosary jujube plant, is a kind of river hedge family, river hedge algae and kelp, seaweed belongs to the same genus. It is also believed to be the candidae, rosaceae. Observed through a microscope, each silk resembles a string of rosary beads used by the Buddhist monks. The outer wall is dark and translucent, and is wrapped by a fine film of polysaccharide colloidal matter. The outside looks like a net of tangled clumps, like unkempt hair. Each filament is about 10 to 20 cm long, and the longest is 50 cm. It grows in desert areas and grows close to the ground, so it is named as ground hair or hairy vegetables. The hair vegetable is drought tolerant and has a dark black color when dry, slender. When the climate is humid after the rain, the color changes from black to bluish brown, full of vitality, and the silk strips become large and soft. The body of the hair vegetable is easily folded, the summer is mixed with wild grass, and the winter is hidden under the ice and snow, and the best harvesting season for the hair vegetable is the early winter and early spring wet weather. The cooking sites are mainly distributed in Gansu, Ningxia, Inner Mongolia, Qinghai, Shaanxi, Xinjiang and other places. Hair vegetables are mainly limited to wild harvesting. With edible value, the medicinal value is high and the economic value is extremely expensive. As a commodity in the country in the hundreds of dollars per kilogram. Fa Cai Li has the reputation of "Gobi Jiazhen" or "Five Treasures Leader". Therefore, the rare dishes cooked by hair dishes compete all over the country. For example: "Fried Hair Vegetable Roll" in Beijing, "Three Silk Hair Vegetables" in Shanghai, "Stuffed Money Hair Vegetables" in Shaanxi, "Hair Vegetable Raw Ribs" in Guangdong, and "Half-Day Shenjiang" in Xiamen. Because it is rich in high nutrients, hair dishes are not only a kind of expensive dried vegetables, but also an indispensable precious dish in the vegetarian feast, and it is also a health food with high nutritional value. It is also a tribute to the royal family of the past. Because of its appearance similar to human hair, it is also named "hair dish". And because of its harmonic sound "fortune" so for the festive banquet, gifts to relatives and friends of the best, to be dishes, is china's Gansu products with excellent texture, pure wild without any pollution "green food" and has a high edible value. It contains prominent high protein, low fat, rich vitamins and calcium, iron, phosphorus, iodine, selenium and other trace elements. Therefore, it is deeply loved by people from Hong Kong, Taiwan and Eastern European countries.