1, duck
The traditional dietary custom of Nanjing people is to eat ducks in summer. Ducks, especially the duck in the cooked area of Jiangning Lake in Nanjing, are the most sought after. It is reported that the ducks there are sweet and cold, fat and thin.
If they don't have time to cook ducks, people will go to the deli to buy a duck. If they have time, they will carefully prepare a dish made of ducks at home and give it to their neighbors. This is what people call sending ducks in summer.
2. Longan
The living custom of old Fuzhou is to eat longan with porridge in summer, because the weather in summer is hot and the human body consumes a lot of calories. Eating longan can supplement calories. The older generation ate a bowl of longan and ate it with porridge.
3. White meatballs
Old Fuzhou eats white balls in summer, which is actually glutinous rice balls. It's simple. Eating white meatballs in summer can relieve the greasy mouth in summer. White meatballs are very suitable for summer food.
4. Herbal tea
The custom of boiling herbal tea in summer has been popular since the Tang Dynasty. Every household has the habit of frying herbal tea in summer. People go to the drugstore to prescribe medicine first, and then go home to make tea.
5. Sour plum soup
In the sixties and seventies of last century, there were tea stalls selling sour plum soup in the streets and alleys of Wenzhou city, so there was a proverb that "sour plum soup is extinct in midsummer". Sour plum soup is a very popular drink in summer. It tastes sour and sweet, and it is very delicious.