Bamboo Shoots Hongzhu Some people say that bamboo shoots are not only a delicacy, but also an elegant delicacy.

It is very in line with the mood and taste of literati.

Pine, bamboo and plum are called the three friends of Suihan, and bamboo naturally becomes a symbol of nobility.

China has a bamboo culture, and bamboo shoots are a popular "part" of the bamboo culture.

It brings the charm of bamboo culture into the field of food.

In other words, it constitutes a small secular reading book of bamboo culture.

Su Dongpo wrote a poem: "It is better to eat without meat than to live without bamboo. No meat makes people thin, and no bamboo makes people vulgar." A modest gentleman can always find various excuses for his greed.

Bamboo shoots and meat can satisfy your craving without losing your taste too much.

It is similar to the saying of "the great hidden in the city".

In this way, you can have your cake and eat it too.

The self-comfort of the hermits is indeed more sophisticated than the spiritual victory method of Ah Q and his ilk.

People often compare bamboo shoots with meat because they are the best meat and vegetable partners.

Li Yu said about bamboo shoots: "If you use them to accompany meat, cattle, sheep, chickens, ducks, etc. are not suitable. They are only suitable for pigs, and they are only suitable for fat. Fat is not greasy. Fatty meat can be sweet, and the sweet taste can enter the body."

The bamboo shoots are not sweet but are very fresh.” In this combination, the bamboo shoots play the leading role, and the meat is purely used as wedding clothes.

"Compared with the first vegetable food, fat sheep and tender pigs are not comparable." But "cook the bamboo shoots and meat together, and put it in a box. If people stop eating the bamboo shoots and leave the meat, then the meat is fish and the bamboo shoots are bear paws."

Su Dongpo's brother-in-law, Huang Tingjian, also wrote a poem: "The bitter bamboo shoots in Nanyuan taste better than meat." If he were asked to choose between the two, the result would be self-evident. As early as the Tang Dynasty, Bai Juyi's poem "Eating Bamboo Shoots" expressed his attitude:

“Every day when I have a snack, I don’t think about meat.

"Bamboo shoots can make those who are fond of meat forget about meat, or they may not know the taste of meat. In the absence of meat, you can also taste the true taste of bamboo shoots by boiling them alone (slightly dipping them in soy sauce and eating them), or frying them plain."

The most beautiful things have always been beneficial to living alone, and this is the case.

"(Li Yu said) It seems that the relationship between bamboo shoots and meat can be divided or combined. Just like a good novel, there may or may not be "sexual descriptions". The clean bamboo shoot dish is still intriguing. Li Yu believes that the reason why bamboo shoots are "

"Ranking above meat", its most beautiful thing is just the word "fresh". Experienced chefs are reluctant to throw away the soup for blanching bamboo shoots. Every time they cook other dishes, they add a little bit of it, which is equivalent to MSG.

Li: “Eats only know that other things are fresh, but they don’t know that there is something that makes them fresh.

"The seasoning of bamboo shoots has almost reached a magical level. Even the remaining juice of the soup can be the finishing touch, "vitalizing" a new dish. As for the extraction method of this wonderful bamboo shoot soup (also called bamboo shoot oil), Yuan Mei is here

"Suiyuan Food List" records in detail: "Ten pounds of bamboo shoots, steam them for a day and a night, pierce their joints, lay them out on a board, like making tofu, add one on top and squeeze them to let the juice flow out, add one or two fried salt

, which is bamboo shoot oil.

The bamboo shoots can be dried and can still be used as preserved meat.

"Lin Hong's "Shan Jia Qing Gong" gave the fresh bamboo shoots a nickname, "Bang Lin Xian": "When the bamboo shoots are in full bloom in early summer, the leaves are swept and simmered on the edge of the bamboo. The taste is very fresh, so it is called Bang Lin Xian.

fresh.

"According to his teaching, it is best to pick fresh bamboo shoots and eat them now. Don't waste a minute. Just beside the bamboo forest, use fragrant bamboo leaves as fuel and roast them on the spot; it can be seen that the environment or atmosphere can also activate and add to the freshness of the new bamboo shoots.

Natural and delicious. This is definitely the most authentic "green food". Not only is the dining environment a green forest, but the cooking method is also a return to nature. I wonder if ancient hermits like the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Forest used local materials.

How to eat it "chicken" style? Fresh bamboo shoots are so delicious that they can be called "vegetable chicken" (the bamboo shoot soup mentioned earlier can also be called "vegetable chicken soup"). Another book, "Four Seasons of Youchang Lu", is also very popular.

Added praise: "Every time in the spring when the bamboo shoots are fattened, I go under the bamboo, sweep the leaves and simmer the bamboo shoots until they are cooked, then poke them with a knife and eat them."

The bamboo forest is refreshing and extremely delicious.

How can such true taste be tolerated by human beings and worldly things.

"I think only extraordinary people, such as those who live in the mountains and forests, can appreciate the true taste of bamboo shoots. And the so-called "true taste" is actually magical in the ordinary. Only with an indifferent heart can we encounter this latent taste.

Miraculous. The seemingly gentle bamboo actually has sharp and sensitive edges, but they are hidden deep enough and hidden enough. Compared with the unpolluted brightness of bamboo shoots, many foods in our lives can be called numb and ignorant.

, or even rotten. Bamboo shoots can be divided into spring bamboo shoots and winter bamboo shoots depending on the production season. The taste of winter bamboo shoots is better than that of spring bamboo shoots. Zheng Banqiao is obsessed with bamboo.

He also wrote a poem about bamboo shoots: “I accidentally painted Jiangnan bamboo, and I thought that there are many bamboo shoots in the spring breeze.

When Mr. Fu introduces local food to Westerners, he often encounters a difficulty: the translators cannot translate the word bamboo shoots, so they have to reluctantly translate it into "bamboo shoots" or "very tender bamboos", so that foreigners often say

"Can bamboo be eaten?" It turns out that Westerners not only don't eat bamboo shoots, but there is no word for bamboo shoots in English. In China, bamboo shoots became food in the "Book of Songs" era: "Qiweihe, Weisun and Pu."

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"From the treatment of bamboo shoots, we can see the huge difference between Eastern and Western food cultures. China has bamboo culture, or to put it more mysteriously: bamboo totem (it is better to eat without meat than live without bamboo). Reflected on the dining table, eating bamboo shoots

It's also addictive. In Europe and America, "meat totems" (female writer Yun Xiao's words) are popular, such as steak, which form their spiritual shield; the French don't even spare small snails.