In rural areas, many old people like to cook sugar water at night, have dinner at night, enjoy a bowl of sugar water under the big banyan tree in their yard, whisper to each other with their families from time to time, laugh from time to time and watch their grandchildren play from time to time. This kind of comfortable life is actually hard-won.
In Guangdong, humidity is very high in most areas. At this time, old people who have been old all their lives will always cook some sugar water that can remove moisture for their families to drink. The weather is hot, and it can relieve summer heat and reduce fire, which is very effective.
What is the secret of sugar water? Can Cantonese people like it so much?
Sugar water, which can clear lung, is a good choice for reducing fire. The ingredients used are different, and the effect of this bowl of sugar water is different.
Mung bean paste syrup VS red bean paste syrup: Mung bean has the effect of clearing heat and cooling blood, which is very suitable for summer consumption; Red beans have the functions of strengthening the spleen and nourishing the stomach, benefiting qi and nourishing blood (children with cold hands and feet, palace cold and dysmenorrhea should eat less mung beans and eat more red beans).
If people are made of water, then Cantonese people are probably made of soup+sugar water+herbal tea. Drinking herbal tea is mostly to relieve physical discomfort (such as relieving a cold or getting angry), but drinking sugar water has thousands of reasons in Qian Qian: dating, catching up, digesting, gluttony, or just to pass the time. Guangdong people's obsession with sugar water always puzzles people in all provinces.
A bowl of seemingly ordinary sugar water is the sweetest footnote in Cantonese cuisine and a precious memory accompanying the growth of Cantonese people. Home-made sugar water, although not as glamorous as western-style desserts, is full of emotions, even if it is thousands of miles away from home, it always makes people feel worried.