Come to think of it, it seems that I haven't drunk Douren tea for a long time.
Peanut is the "bean kernel" in Chaoshan population. As the name implies, Douren tea is made of peanuts, but "Douren tea" is not tea, but a sweet soup. When it comes to sugar water in Guangzhou, although it is "water", it is not literally water; Douren tea in Chaoshan area is "tea", but this tea is different.
Soak raw peanuts in soda water until the skin on the surface falls off, drain the water to clean the peanut skin, then pour it into the pressure cooker, add some water and rice slurry, and cook it to make a thick and delicious Douren tea. The menu sold in the breakfast shop outside is slightly different from that made at home, and every household has its own habits and preferences. Oh, no, a little soulless! How can bean kernel tea lose sugar! After adding sugar, it is really a bowl of bean kernel tea. Every time I discuss the food in my hometown with my classmates and friends from other places, I will recommend Douren tea as one of Chaoshan foods, because I really grew up drinking Douren tea after all.
I am in primary school. 10 years ago, at the breakfast stand, a bowl of bean kernel tea cost 50 cents, and bean kernel tea with almond paste or black sesame paste cost one yuan. Sometimes when my mother doesn't get up to cook porridge in the morning, she will give me and my sister money to have breakfast by ourselves. A bowl of bean kernel tea and a piece of tiger skin cake are a little sweetness in the long school life. And every time I save some money for myself, I always drink only 50 cents of Douren tea.
After studying away from home, I seldom drink Douren tea. The reason is that there seems to be no fighting tea in other places except Chaoshan area or narrowing the geographical boundary to Mianhu area. In addition, under the banner of anti-sugar, I always have a mentality of staying away from too sweet food.
But every time I go home on holiday, I will buy a bowl of bean kernel tea. Not for myself, but for grandma. Because grandma wears dentures and only the upper gums have dentures, she can only eat very soft and rotten food. Therefore, the soft and rotten bean kernel Chata is suitable for the elderly. Every time I buy Douren tea for grandma, she always takes out two bowls from the old plastic cupboard and divides Douren tea into two bowls, half for each. After eating, she will say exactly the same thing: "Sweet, delicious." (so sweet and delicious)
When I went home this summer vacation, I haven't bought bean-kernel tea, that bowl of too sweet bean-kernel tea.
Grandma left last winter.
There seems to be no reason to buy Douren tea suddenly.
Chaoshan people's grandmother, which is what we call "aunt"; The peanut soup in Chaoshan is what we call "Douren Tea".
Speaking of which, I suddenly remembered my mother. Every time someone asks me what I want to eat at school, she will say first, "Do you like to send canned floss?" Do you want to send a can of meat floss? Maybe next time, you can also tell a story about "Chaoshan mother and dental floss".
Sometimes I think that memory must have taste buds. It's like having "Auntie and Douren Tea" and "Grandma and Rousong" in your head.
But taste buds must also have memories. Just like a bowl of sweet bean kernel tea, sometimes it tastes a little sour.
As far as things are concerned, this is unfair.
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