There is a saying that people in Guangdong and Guangxi (Guangdong and Guangxi) dare to eat two legs except their parents, and four legs except the table and bench!
Although it is a joke, it also reflects the generosity of Guangdong and Guangxi people in eating. It goes without saying that many things are eaten or even unheard of by outsiders.
People in Guangdong and Guangxi dare not eat anything that flies in the sky, crawls on the ground or swims in the water, from birds to beasts, from birds to insects.
At the time of SARS, it was widely rumored that the pathogen was carried by civet cats, and it was forbidden to eat it, but people in Guangdong and Guangxi refused to do it ~ At least I ate it several times during SARS, and the taste ... The Central Plains people said that "there is dragon meat in the sky and donkey meat on the ground", so I guess even the dragon meat is not as good as civet cats ~ During SARS, people in Guangdong and Guangxi still ate civet cats, and they risked their lives to eat puffer fish.
People in Guangdong and Guangxi eat snakes and can make soup. They can make a pot out of snakes, bobcats and chickens and name it "Dragon Tiger Phoenix". You can soak in wine. Dozens of snakes, large and small, float in a big wine jar. Timid people don't talk about drinking, even if they look at it, they are shocked. The ancients in the idiom "Cup bow and snake shadow" are definitely not from Guangdong and Guangxi.
People in Guangdong and Guangxi love seafood, especially all kinds of raw fish, but not only fish but also shrimp can be eaten raw. There is a saying about this way of eating, called "drunken shrimp" ~ there is a bowl of white wine on the table and a lively shrimp under the table. Grab one by hand, break off the shrimp head, soak it in a wine bowl for a while, and then pick it up and eat it. I feel really heroic ~ Listen to my grandfather, he picked up a piece of raw pig liver with chopsticks, stirred it mentally, and then picked it up. The pig liver turned from red to white, and it is said that it was "cooked" by the gods. Although I didn't see it with my own eyes, I was really fascinated.
People in Guangdong and Guangxi eat things, not just things that others don't eat or dare to eat, but even in ordinary eating, people in Guangdong and Guangxi can find new things.
If nothing else, everyone has eaten pork, beef and mutton, but none is more delicious than Guangdong and Guangxi. Pig's eyes, ox's lungs, sheep's whip and so on have long been a cinch. Let me give you a few more examples, one for cattle, one for pigs and one for sheep.
Among the four claws of a cow, there is a small tendon, and a sheep has only four. Guangdong and Guangxi people collected all the muscles of dozens of cows and fried them into a plate numbered "Zhangbao" ~
When I came home this year, I ate a midnight snack that I had never eaten before. It is as long as a finger, thinner than a girl's little finger, white, like meat instead of meat, like tendons instead of tendons. It is delicious when eaten, but it is not greasy. I asked my father, what is this? He replied, "pig eyeliner." Do you know what this is? This is the pig's optic nerve ~ Needless to say, how did Guangdong and Guangxi people think of eating this ~ But this Kung Fu collection can show how Guangdong and Guangxi people pay attention to eating-you know, each pig has only two thin optic nerves ~
There is one thing that I dare not touch, even as a Guangdong and Guangxi person, but there are many people I like, which is even more commendable. This thing is called "sheep turtle (the fourth sound)", which is to put the food residue digested and absorbed by the sheep in the sheep's small intestine and add various Chinese herbal medicines to make soup. It tastes like Chinese medicine ~ but it is said to have the miraculous effect of clearing fire. At every banquet, drink such a bowl of "sheep and turtle soup" when you are full, no matter what you eat that day or how much you eat. I will never be angry again the next day.
People in Guangdong and Guangxi love to eat, and there are countless examples, but there are also some hardships in it. Ancient Guangdong and Guangxi were remote and barren, and people's lives were hard. This is why people have developed so many foods that people don't eat or dare to eat. I thought that the internal organs of animals, all kinds of birds and beasts, were discarded or not eaten by the rich Central Plains people, but they were developed into delicious food by Guangdong and Guangxi people.