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When I think back, the most serious period of my homesickness is not after many years away from home, but just those years when I just went to study abroad. Originally thought, hometown, it must be the longer away from home, the farther away, the more I will miss it. Not necessarily. I now find that when I am homesick, most of them are related to food.

Regarding the relationship between food and homesickness, writer Acheng once wrote, "When people are not mature, there are many possibilities for the composition of protease. With the types of food entering the small intestine, the types and structures of protease begin to form and even become fixed. This is why, for example, when I was a child, I didn't drink milk. When I was older, I would have diarrhea when I drank milk. "

Therefore, he thinks: "I have observed that the so-called homesickness is basically due to eating foreign food, which is not easy to digest, so I began to get emotional. "

This explains why I was homesick in those years. From childhood to seventeen, I always ate at home. Suddenly I arrived in a strange city and began to eat those strange and strange foods every day. All kinds of enzymes in my body were unhappy at first. Besides, the food in the school canteen is not only strange, but also terrible.

so I always lose my appetite at school. At night, I am often as hungry as a ghost. Have to eat midnight snack. Midnight snack is often instant noodles and the like. When you are hungry, you can wash the boiled water and even drink the soup with water. Sometimes I forget to buy supper, and when I get hungry, I find that the dormitory building is closed, so I have to go door to door to ask for instant noodles. Fortunately, I can borrow a bag and eat it happily. Bad luck, sitting in front of the computer empty-handed, feeling very lonely. Suddenly I remembered some food in my hometown, and I felt a spasm-like pain in my stomach. Now I know that it was the earliest homesickness in my life.

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According to Mr. Acheng's statement, the more simple the childhood recipes and the more regional characteristics, the more serious the food homesickness will be when you grow up.

The diet is single, the more stubborn the protease composition is, and only those foods can satisfy the craving. If a person lived a turbulent life when he was young, lived in different places and grew up eating different styles, he probably didn't have that deep obsession with food when he was an adult.

regional food can arouse people's lovesickness most. Because other places can't eat it, it's not authentic, but it's even more disappointing. I remember seeing a Guilin rice noodle shop on the street in Shanghai one year. I was very excited and sat down in the shop. My heart was full of tender and sweet feelings about my hometown-until I drank the first soup. That soup is actually sweet! Take a bite of barbecued pork, and the meat is sweet! Since then, when I meet any rice noodle shop in a foreign land, I always have doubts and stay away from it.

So, I'm afraid that teenagers who grew up in small towns and villages have a more serious taste of homesickness. The children who grew up in metropolis have tasted all kinds of food since childhood, and the city where they live has changed too fast, so the concept of hometown is probably very vague.

When a countryman comes to the city, no matter what, he still misses the taste of his hometown the most. At the climax of returning home at the end of each year, no matter how hard and tired, you still have to go home. The Spring Festival atmosphere is also the warmest in rural towns. I thought that Spring Festival travel rush would not be so nervous without the temptation of food in his hometown and the call of rice wine, fried bacon and pork dishes in the countryside.

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Wang Zengqi's talk about things in his hometown is particularly touching.

Mr. Wang is from Gaoyou. Gaoyou is a water town with many ducks and eggs. Gaoyou salted duck eggs are very famous. Wang Lao is also very confident about his salted duck eggs. He said that the salted duck eggs in Gaoyou are really good. I have traveled a lot and eaten a lot of duck eggs, but they can't be compared with those in my hometown! Once the sea was difficult for water, and salted duck eggs in other places were really contemptuous of me.

I have no way to prove whether Gaoyou salted duck eggs are the best in the world. But I can understand Wang Lao's mood. Perhaps, in everyone's hometown, there is a food that used to be difficult for water. No matter what others say, it is always the best in my hometown.

Like my hometown is in the area near Lingnan and Xiangxi, there is nothing else, except the bad pepper chinese odyssey pickled in my old jar. I don't think much of pickled peppers in other places. There are many bad peppers in Yunnan and Guizhou, but they use mostly red peppers. We use local pepper there, which is small, blue-gray, and moderately spicy. We pick it when it is not fully ripe. The old jar is scalded (sterilized) with boiling water, with a layer of pepper and a layer of salt, packed and sealed for about half a month. Salt must also be rough as gravel edible sea salt, plus a little high-alcohol liquor, so as to achieve that unique hot and sour taste.

Every family in hometown must have an old jar of sour and vinegar. As long as the sealing is done well, the old jar can be used all the time. Some of them have been used for more than ten years, and the sour vinegar can sour the teeth. When the old jar is made of rotten peppers, you can always add different ingredients into it, such as ginger, bamboo shoots, green vegetables, Chinese onion, celery, lettuce, all kinds of almost edible vegetarian dishes, which have complex flavors and can be changed at any time throughout the year.

grab a handful from the old jar when cooking. Chop it up and put it in the oil pan. Hot and sour fish, hot and sour chicken, hot and sour pork intestines, hot and sour rice noodles, hot and sour mushrooms. Why are hometown people so persistent about this hot and sour taste? It must be humid in Lingnan Mountain. And in the past, there was a habit of replacing salt with vinegar in remote small places, because old salt and fresh ingredients were scarce. And this hot and sour taste is so fierce that it shapes the taste system of people on one side and soil on the other.

so people in my hometown can't live without this taste.

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Wang Zengqi also talked about mushroom soup with pickles. As soon as it snows, their family drinks pickles soup. Slices of arrowhead mushrooms are added to the pickle soup, which is the pickle arrowhead soup.

Wang Lao admits that when he was a child, he didn't like the pickle mushroom soup. Because it has a bitter taste, children must not like it very much. However, after drifting for 3 or 4 years, it was because I hadn't seen him for a long time that I had feelings for the mushroom.

So, Wang Lao said that he really wanted to drink a bowl of pickled mushrooms soup.

I miss the snow in my hometown.

so, food is not that simple. Food connects not only the sense of taste, but also the seasons, seasons and the past.

Our generation is doomed to drift away from our hometown. The place where we grew up as children is changing and updating at a rapid speed. The sounds and sounds of my hometown are gradually blurred.

Only those memories about food are very stubborn. We thought we forgot. Actually, I remember everything. Just like Proust tasted a little Madeleine cake, memories of the past surged out of his mind, and things that he thought had dissipated reappeared in an instant.

if you meet a person at the dinner table who talks endlessly about the food in his hometown, you won't know what he has tasted.

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