When there are more and more ways to travel, going to a city is more or less for a dish in a store. The power of food has a fatal attraction in the eyes of foodies. It is not difficult to find that famous food producing areas such as Sichuan, Chongqing, Chaoshan and Northwest China have all kinds of favorable comments. For some popular tourist cities, people often have different views on local cuisine. Once there is more controversy, the label of "gourmet desert" is also deducted.

There was a discussion about "gourmet desert" on the Internet. Results According to the citation times (similar to voting), the top ten gourmet deserts in China were selected. These cities are basically concentrated in the developed areas in the east, and there is a large flow of people at ordinary times, so when discussing a topic, the probability of being mentioned is also relatively high. But from the results, Beijing and Hangzhou are far behind these cities in terms of votes, and they have become a pair of "gourmet deserts". Who is my brother?

Let's start with Hangzhou. Hangzhou can become the second largest gourmet desert in China. It is estimated that many partners with similar tastes in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai will be surprised. In our opinion, this is obviously a city full of delicious food. There are two main reasons why Hangzhou's food is spit out. First, the food is light, and many people who are used to heavy taste say they are not used to it. 2. As one of the eight major cuisines, hangzhou dishes is an important school of Zhejiang cuisine. Frequent innovations in recent years have led to the inability to retain the essence of the past and fall into the embarrassing situation of "four unlike".

Hangzhou was the capital of the Southern Song Dynasty. Since the Tang and Song Dynasties, people here have gathered together, and the food life has become increasingly rich and wonderful. Bai Juyi and bamboo shoots, Su Shi and Dongpo meat, and Sao fish soup of Song Dynasty, West Lake vinegar fish, Jia Sidao and Yipin Nanru meat, etc. Not to mention the sweet-scented osmanthus fresh chestnut soup, fish balls and fish head tofu with myths and legends; West Lake beef soup, Longjing shrimp and Wulin duck named after local place names. Behind every hangzhou dishes, there is probably a celebrity standing. Only these dishes need to be eaten in some old local restaurants.

However, many online food guides recommend traditional snacks such as pipa string, fried buns, steamed buns and stewed onions, or some new hangzhou dishes restaurants that are chain-operated, love "innovation" and have no precipitation. So it is understandable that hangzhou dishes was spit out.

Let's talk about Beijing. Compared with Hangzhou, what Beijing has been spit out most is that the audience of traditional snacks is too narrow. In fact, before this list came out, the saying that Beijing was a "gourmet desert" had spread all over the country. Some netizens even directly defined Beijing as the most unpalatable city in China.

The traditional snacks in Beijing that are most spit out are concentrated in bean juice, braised pork, fried liver, inby and so on. Not only do they not have the exquisite appearance of southern snacks, but tourists who taste them for the first time with high expectations are often completely rejected by the taste. Both vision and taste have been hit, and many tourists have come to the conclusion that "traditional snacks in Beijing all taste this way, so Beijing must be a gourmet desert".

In fact, the traditional snacks in Beijing also have a certain historical background; Although many tourists can't get used to it, in many local people's minds, they won't get used to it if their tastes improve towards the public's preferences.

After all, snacks are only a small part of Beijing cuisine. As an international metropolis, Beijing has restaurants operating various cuisines, and the choice of noodles is so rich that it can't be eaten for several years. Bean juice is difficult to swallow, you can choose tofu pudding, which is omnipotent; If you don't like the way of braised and fried liver, you can choose several old-fashioned roast ducks in the city center, and the products are relatively stable. If you really want to taste Beijing cuisine, Building 8 is also a good choice.

I really can't get used to northern food, and there are only a handful of Cantonese food, Sichuan food, Northeast food and Japanese food in Beijing. Food desert or food paradise, sometimes it depends on your own choice.

Finally, if you come to a city that has been on the "gourmet desert" list, you need to have a heart of "listening to all, but not believing". The "hidden food" recommended on the Internet that is hidden in the corner often makes tourists from far away beat their chests with the cost of time and trial and error. Pure and authentic food recommended by local people is sometimes difficult for foreign tourists who don't have "local dialect".

One side's soil and water support one side's people and one side's food, and sometimes it needs a complicated knowledge. So, in your mind, which city is a gourmet paradise and which city is a gourmet desert?