Wild vegetables, collectively referred to as "bobcat wild vegetables" by people in mountainous areas, are naturally enduring and weathered. Except for a few sweet and delicious wild vegetables, most of them are more or less bitter. Therefore, in the past, when people in rural areas had insufficient food and clothing, almost no one ate wild vegetables. Now that life is good, people are tired of eating big fish and big meat, and they begin to miss the ecology, which is a bit bitter of bobcats and wild vegetables. Let me introduce some local ways to eat wild vegetables.

One is acanthopanax senticosus. It is a kind of traditional Chinese medicine, but people in mountainous areas like to pick its tender stems and leaves to eat, and it can also be dried and made into acanthopanax senticosus tea to drink in water. I like to cook with it. I usually make soup, whether it's meat or vegetarian. Those who like to eat meat can add some fresh pork appropriately, which tastes fragrant, bitter and sweet. You can also add garlic and dried peppers and stir fry. The most direct way to eat is cold salad, which is tender, crisp and slightly bitter. Chewing in your mouth feels like the taste of nature.

The second is water celery. This is an aquatic plant, which likes to grow in ditches, ponds, paddy fields, swamps and other places with rich water resources. It often grows into a large area, and rural people often regard it as a weed. I like to pinch its tender stems and leaves and go home to cook. I can also make soup and stir fry, but I prefer to use it in cold dishes because of its pungent taste.

Blanch with water first, scoop up and drain the water, add your favorite Chili noodles, soy sauce, salt and a little sour vinegar according to your personal preference, or you can make a cold salad directly with pickled tofu soup. That taste can eat two bowls of rice! However, it should be noted that children who are too young should not eat this dish.

The third kind is water coriander. This wild vegetable plant, just like its name, has a special fragrance. People who can smell it will feel particularly fragrant and comfortable, and those who can't smell it will feel stinky, but I prefer this fragrance, and I want to eat it as soon as I smell it. Water coriander belongs to a "wet plant" and likes to grow in a humid, hot and watery environment. It is particularly picky about the water quality it grows. The water quality is bad, polluted, destroyed and disappeared.

So this dish is most suitable for cold salad, especially sweet and crisp, fresh and tender. Especially in our hot place, people like to add garlic and millet to tomato salad, and some people like to use it to make fish and soup.

In addition to the three kinds I introduced above, there are dozens of wild vegetables, such as stinky vegetables, gray vegetables, horseshoe leaves, narrow grass, bitter vegetables and cold dishes. No one used to eat it in the countryside, but now it's basically dug up and sold in our local restaurant!