Today, the twenty-third day of the Waxing Moon is a traditional small year in China, as the saying goes, after a small year, will the Spring Festival be far away? During the Spring Festival, it is festive, and eating, drinking and having fun is naturally inseparable.
Friend recommended a good place, according to him, Li Ba Ji is far from the city, belongs to the more remote market, the more such a market, some traditional New Year customs and traditional food is very much, in Li Ba Ji Cross Street, there is a special fried mung bean ball stall, don't look at the open air frying, eat that is called a tunnel Ah, do not believe, let's go to taste together today?
Drive nearly 40 kilometers with friends, along the winding country roads, and finally come to the place where friends say, here is said to be a market, in fact, it is a crossroads, there are some stalls selling dry goods, selling Spring League, selling vegetables and selling incense wax paper cannons, but the flow of people is OK, the bustling crowds, the narrow streets, crowded.
The stall selling mung bean balls that my friend said was just at the intersection, the high chimney emitted faint white smoke, and a strong fragrance came to the nose, attracting the appetite of passers-by at all times.
No wonder the business is so good, now the production of mung bean balls people are less and less, as for young people, presumably many have not eaten, according to the big sister of fried mung bean balls, this mung bean balls, is a traditional snack, is made of mung bean flour, wheat flour, radish crushed, bean sprouts crushed into a paste, squeezed out of the shape of the balls by hand, fried on the line. Of course, there are also mung bean balls that are only fried with mung bean flour and wheat flour, and if you don't put salt, you may as well have any seasoning, and eat the original taste.
Broth made of old bones, put some vegetable sprouts and the like, after boiling, the fried mung bean balls into the bowl a soak, with a spoon to scoop to eat, how fragrant the tip, especially some elderly people, even if the teeth are not good, you can also eat mung bean balls, a few years ago, I made ball soup while croquettes, but there are many years without making soup, I am busy alone, my husband is doing business in the city, no one helps.
My husband has long advised me to go to the city, saying that now there are fewer and fewer people eating mung bean balls, simply collect stalls and go into the city with me to do business, casually than selling mung bean balls in this market. But I am always reluctant, from a very young age, is to watch my family make mung bean balls, eat mung bean balls grew up, to my generation, they have fried mung bean balls have been three generations, the feelings for mung bean balls, no one can understand, including my husband.
Although adhering to the tradition is commendable, the reality is that more and more rural people are going out to work, and even when they are gathered, there are not too many people on the street, and selling traditional snacks on the street has long lost its former style.
However, what makes the eldest sister happiest is that every year near the Spring Festival, her business begins to explode again, and she has to get up early every day to fry some in advance, otherwise the fried will not be enough to sell on the same day.
Rural people have the tradition of eating mung bean balls, especially the elderly, every Spring Festival, mung bean balls are one of the essential New Year goods, both can eat themselves, but also can entertain guests, the most important thing is that each kilogram only sells 8 yuan, today's rural people, everyone can afford to eat.
Finally, the big sister of the croquettes said that the mung bean balls not only taste good, eating in winter is quite good for the body, mung beans and radishes are not only nutritious, but also have the effect of clearing heat and de-fire, especially for the Spring Festival, big fish and meat eat more, eat some mung bean balls, both to satisfy the appetite, but also to take care of the body, very good.