Legend has it that Guo Jing took his bloody BMW and Huang Rong to travel around the world. When passing through Guangxi, Huang Rong ate a sour pear. I called it delicious and ate one sour pear after another. It can really be said: "The hero is sad about the beauty pass, and the beauty is sad about the sauerkraut stand."

There are many famous snacks in Guangxi, among which the sour fruits in Guangxi are also called sour materials and sour fruits. This is a special snack. As the saying goes, a girl who has never eaten sour Guangxi is not a Guangxi girl. In Guangxi, streets and many markets, you can see stalls selling sour apples everywhere. So, what is this sour fruit? Sour fruits refer to pickled fruits and vegetables. Guangxi is vast in territory and abundant in natural resources, with rich products, among which there are many kinds of fruits. There are many ways to eat fruit. Smart Guangxi people find that pickled fruits have better flavor. So it has become a special snack with a long history.

I remember when I was a child, I went to the market with my parents. Our dialect in Guangxi is called "taking advantage of the market". In the ancient street, there is an old shop that specializes in selling sour peaches. There are many glass jars in a booth in front of the shop. The jar is full of sour pears, carambola, croissants, papaya, Sanhua pears, peaches, pineapples, radishes, mangoes and so on. Sometimes my mother will buy me a carambola to eat, while my mother will buy a cup of water soaked in carambola to drink. The water soaked in carambola tastes like dark plum juice, which is sour, sweet and thirst-quenching. After so many years, I don't know how many stores have changed, but which one is still there, still selling acid. However, the variety has increased a lot. Business is as good as ever.

Guangxi people love sour food for two reasons. The first reason is the hot weather in the south. Especially in summer, when it is going to rain. There is not a breath of wind. Just one word "hot" is not enough to describe it, so I came up with another word "Ai". When people in Guangxi talk about the weather, they usually say, "The weather today is really bad." . I still remember some time ago, there was a news report that students from the north returned to schools in the south and found mushrooms in their shoes. This is really nothing new in the south, and fungus on wooden shoes is also common.

It's so hot that I usually have a bad appetite. Eat a sour fruit before meals to stimulate appetite and relieve boredom after meals. It's easy to get angry when the weather is hot, with pimples on my face, a little sore throat and swollen gums. Nine times out of ten, old Chinese medicine practitioners will say, "Liver fire is flourishing." Neijing says: "Heaven eats people with five flavors, and the earth eats people with five flavors", which means "food is the sky for people". There are many meridians in the human body, and the sour taste just enters the liver meridian. Eating some acid properly can reduce the fire.

The second reason why many people in Guangxi like to eat sauerkraut is related to the geographical environment of Guangxi, which is a hilly and karst area. There are many mountains, the most typical of which is Guilin landscape. And the mountains are mostly limestone, and the chemical composition of limestone is calcium carbonate. In many places, there is a layer of white on drinking tap water and boiling kettle. In such an environment, it is easy to cause excessive calcium precipitation in the human body through diet and form stones. Smart working people have found through life practice that eating more acidic food is conducive to reducing the occurrence of stones. Over time, they formed the habit of eating sour.

The pickling method of sour fruit is also very simple. The most commonly used ingredients are rice vinegar, pepper or pepper, rock sugar, brown sugar, salt or pepper, licorice powder and so on. There are two ways to pickle, one is to pickle for a long time, such as sour pears, sour beans, carambola, etc., and it is delicious to pickle for more than one month. The second method is to make it in a short time on site. For example, Sanhua plum is cleaned, squashed, sprinkled with white sugar, and can be eaten in about an hour. The same is true of pickled radish. Slice the white radish, add some salt, wrap it in plastic wrap, and put it in the refrigerator for one night. The next day, take out the radish water, add rice vinegar, pepper and sugar and stir, and you can eat it. The taste is crisp, slightly spicy and slightly sour. The aftertaste is endless.

Guangxi sour material has a characteristic, which is sour and brittle. The acidity is moderate and the teeth are not soft. Crispy, that is, fresh fruit will have a crunchy feeling. The colors are pleasant, including the green of mango, the light yellow of papaya and the bright red of pepper. It is not only full of eyes, but also full of food.

On a busy street, a woman was holding a little doll in the crowd. The little doll on her back pointed to the sauerkraut stall on the street and cried childishly, "Mom, I want to eat crispy buns, I want to eat crispy buns."