My hometown is a coastal city in Shandong. The usual eating habits make kelp my favorite side dish. Sometimes my mother is not willing to cook, so eating steamed bread with kelp is a delicious meal for me. When I was a child, all the snacks I ate were packed with dried kelp, which was very salty, and some tiny salt grains were sprinkled on it. The taste was actually not much delicious, not as good as fresh kelp, but because it was convenient and cheap to carry, it was an ideal snack at that time. Many students around me also took it with them, which attracted us. In fact, it had no other taste, but it was a little spicy, but we were still able to make that small bag of seaweed.

When I was a child, it was not unusual to eat kelp. It was common to pour the packaged kelp into a small bowl and eat it with chopsticks. I don't quite understand that when I was a child, my ability to accept salty taste should not be as good as it is now, but at that time, so salty kelp could be eaten without any dry food, and my parents told me not to eat it dry because it was too salty, and then they stuffed a big cake in my mouth.

Later, high school was a boarding school, and the time spent on campus was longer than that at home, so I didn't eat this kind of dried kelp, but the kelp with soup was sold in the school canteen, which is also a snack that I personally like to eat. The same characteristics as the dried kelp silk before, that is, salty and slightly spicy. After lunch, I usually take a lunch break. At that time, I tear open a bag and eat it by myself. While sticking out my tongue for water, I have to eat another bite.

At that time, I never thought that such a common snack would make me miss it so much now. Now that the university is in the northeast, kelp is basically not seen in the canteen. The dried kelp silk is not sold in the canteen, but a kind of kelp is sold, which completely subverts my cognition. When I first ate it, I thought it was kelp, too. Because I have always felt that kelp silk is the most authentic and normal form, and the taste of kelp has been made less kelp by various seasonings, which is really not as good as that eaten at home.

Then I went home last summer vacation. My mom's friend didn't know where to buy the bales of kelp that I ate as a child. After eating it, I found it particularly delicious. I told my mom that I wanted to take a few bags back to school, and I could eat them myself or share them with my roommates. My mother promised that I would go shopping with your aunt next time, and then the summer vacation passed. I only ate that once and I haven't eaten it until now. That kind of smell is still a familiar one that stayed on the taste buds when I was a child. It was salty, spicy and fresh, and it was a little unclear at that time.