The vegetable market in Baoshan is a market full of mountain treasures and wild game. The dazzling wild mushrooms are just the tip of the iceberg, and you can find unexpected freshness in any corner. As a deep ravine in the texture of the city, the wet market imprints the human fireworks smell of a city. Baoshan Vegetable Market, like the vegetable markets in many places in Yunnan, first of all has a little "wild" and "fresh".
When many people are still trying to use the camera to retain the beauty of the blossom moment, the Yunnan people have sent the flowers into the stomach. White flowers are a must-have on the spring table of Baoshan people, go to the market to buy fresh white flowers blanched water and let cool, stir-fry with seasonal vegetables, add water tempeh to taste, and then add a small amount of salt before cooking, the taste is sour and delicious, but also with a wisp of fragrance.
In each season, there is a flower that becomes the main dish of the season: the rape flowers that bloom in spring can be used for stir-frying, and can also be used to pickle pickles; The cascading banana flowers are accompanied by the Dai Songkran Festival, and they are a rare gift of this season; The mulberry flowers in late spring are edible, wash and blanch them and let them cool, add Shimomura vinegar, spicy oil, salt, peppercorns and a small amount of MSG and cold mix, the most is the next rice; The brown rice in the brown bag flower, crisp and bitter and sweet, is used to stir-fry to eat or cook soup, which is a rare delicacy, and is particularly favored by people in Tengchong.
Sour tomato is originally an imported variety, but in Baoshan it has been well used, buying back the yogurt from the market, cooking and crushing it to add seasonings, is the best next meal. There are also grass fruits, rouge fruits and other seemingly similar but completely different "fruits" in the vegetable market, and the Baoshan people who rely on the mountains to eat the mountains not only have these mountain treasures, but even some vegetables and fruits are picked in the mountains or ecologically planted in their own fields. Therefore, the vegetable market in Baoshan is always full of freshness and surprises.
To be able to buy good fruits and vegetables also needs to be worthy of fruit and vegetable craftsmanship. Baoshan people are actually very good at cooking. Fresh glutinous grain is beaten into a pulp, fried or steamed into delicious bun grain dumplings, and if there is no time to cook, you can buy ready-made goods at the wet market. As long as the dishes that can be seen in the field, Baoshan people have their own way of eating, toad leaves (plantain) used to be everywhere in the field, and now people who do not have time to go to the wild can easily buy in the vegetable market, this dish is blanched with water pickles, not only delicious but also cool and anti-inflammatory.
Toon, herbs leaves, etc., are also wild vegetables with medicinal value, Baoshan people are very fond of eating, and naturally there are many sales in the vegetable market. There is a dish called Paha, the people who sell it are generally Dai people, it is known for its "heavy taste", people who like it like it to the extreme, and people who are not used to eating it are also shaking their heads.
Bracken is the king of sales of Baoshan wild vegetables this season of the Qingming Dynasty. Bracken varieties mainly include bracken and mountain bracken, water bracken is washed and blanched in boiling water and then blanched in cold water, cut into sections, and eaten cold with its crisp and tender taste; Mountain bracken is often fried with tomatoes, tempeh, broad beans, etc. or stir-fried, which the Dai family especially likes.
Fragrant willow, bitter fruit, goji berry, eleuthero, eleuthero, thorny bud... Whether you can call it or not, it is sold in the vegetable market of Baoshan. When greenhouses and out-of-season vegetables occupy more and more cities, you will find that the "wild" and "fresh" left in the Baoshan Vegetable Market are even more precious.
This "wildness" in the Baoshan Vegetable Market is the driving force for people to visit the vegetable market; This "freshness" in the Baoshan Vegetable Market has long been integrated into the blood of the locals. When a foreigner comes to visit the Baoshan Vegetable Market, he will be surprised by the "wild" and "fresh" here; And when a Baoshan person visits the vegetable market every day, he can always feel a kind of ordinary and down-to-earth, which makes people surrounded by the romantic atmosphere of life on ordinary days.