Friends come to Xishuangbanna often eat special snacks are: lemongrass grilled fish, lemongrass steamed chicken, sour shoot boiled fish (chicken), fried cowhide, sour bamboo shoots boiled chicken, pineapple purple rice, yellow ant eggs, sour bamboo shoots boiled snails, pineapple purple rice, etc., the following dish I don't know if you have eaten it.
The fresh stinky vegetables picked are not like feathers in many places in China snacking on the surface of the very smelly food, eating is very fragrant, the typical representative is stinky tofu. However, there are also similar varieties of vegetables, that is, stinky vegetables. Stinky vegetables are mainly grown in Xishuangbanna, alias feather leaf golden lotus, which is a perennial plant of the legume family. Each 100 grams contains carotene 0.82 mg, vb1 0.5 mg, vc 112 mg and k, ca, mg, zn, fe and other trace elements, it is very nutritious, protein content (up to 8.59%) is higher than soybeans, containing vitamin B12 for about 10 grams, and the lack of vitamin B12 is to make the brain aging, there is a prevention of Alzheimer's disease, is the most distinctive wild vegetables in Xishuangbanna and other places, stink is a taste, is the raw material to breed a mold and formed, there is appetizer to help digestion 3. Enhance appetite effect. It is a popular dish among consumers and loved by many ethnic groups in neighboring Laos, Myanmar and Thailand.
Edible part of the plant's young buds, young leaves, young shoots, in the harvesting of edible parts, you can smell a special odor, Dai people eat stinky vegetables there are many ways, stinky vegetables boiled tomatoes, stinky vegetables boiled bitter shoots, rotten vegetables fried eggs, rotten vegetables boiled fish is the most common cooking method.
Listening to the old man in the village, stinky vegetables were originally like other spice plants, very fragrant and fragrant, but why has it become "smelly" now? It turns out that there is a little-known legend in the meantime.
Legend has it that a long time ago, there was a hunter who used to go hunting in the primeval forest. One day he followed a red deer into the forest, and as a result, he got lost in a deserted place, at that time, it was already dark, and his stomach was hungry and grumbling, there was really no way, he saw that there were many small shrubs on the side of the road, the leaves looked very good like feathers, he picked a lot of young leaves and cooked them to eat, I didn't expect that this young leaf tasted excellent, very sweet. The next morning, he took some uncooked young leaves with him, looking for a way home. When he got home and cooked the young leaves again, he found that the taste had become smelly.
Stinky dishes in the Dai family courtyard
So the hunter managed to transplant these small shrubs into his own yard and pick them fresh when he wanted to eat them so that the taste didn't stink. Since then, the Dai family has had the custom of growing stinky vegetables in their own yard.