I have always thought that Ecuador is a brown country, but seeing that the ambassadors and chefs are all white, I found out that Ecuador is in South America. It was a Spanish colony in the early years and has a population of 15 million. The capital Quito is located in Pichincha.

The volcanic foothills reach an altitude of 2,850 meters, making the city the second highest capital in the world (after La Paz, the capital of Bolivia).

Bananas are abundant here, and this authentic Ecuadorian delicacy is made with bananas. Mr. Rosnan, Commercial Counselor of the Embassy of Ecuador, said that the preparation was made of plantains. When I asked if these were bananas flown in from Ecuador, because there are many delicacies at the event.

Activities, officials always like to flaunt that their raw materials are airlifted from the place of origin.

Counselor Luo was very strict. He said that this was made from local bananas. Although Ecuador is a "banana kingdom", bananas are not easy to preserve and transport.

The taste of this delicacy is good, similar to Chinese squeezed banana chips.

This shrimp comes from Ecuador. Counselor Luo said that the shrimps in Ecuador are better. A simple explanation is that in Ecuador, only two shrimps are placed in one square meter of water, while in China, one or two hundred shrimps are placed in one square meter of water.

, Chinese shrimps compete too seriously for food. Ecuadorian shrimps obviously have sufficient food and high protein content.

I don’t know if this explanation has any scientific basis. Some people who work on food culture theory in my country that I have come across sometimes say that fish or shrimp grown in a competitive environment taste better because the fittest survive. It is conceivable that competitors train in order to survive. The "muscle" is also very strong, so it will be very strong after eating, and the psychological satisfaction is also very strong - you have eaten an excellent shrimp.

This one is a bit like our country’s vegetarian meatballs. In fact, the ingredients used are not vegetarian, including quinoa, tuna, etc.

tasty.

This dipping sauce is a little spicy, not too spicy, but pretty good.

This salad also uses quinoa and is gorgeous.

Quinoa is a specialty product of Ecuador. It looks like millet and is an annual cereal plant endemic to the highlands of South America.

Most grains belong to the family Poaceae, but quinoa belongs to the subfamily Chenopodiaceae, so it is called a "pseudocereal".

Quinoa is native to the Andes Mountains, including present-day Ecuador, Bolivia, Colombia and Peru.

The taste is similar to our country's oats, with a richer taste, a bit crispy and chewy.

Nowadays, quinoa is regarded as a super food and is popular all over the world due to its nutritional value and commercial hype.

Its seeds contain essential amino acids like ionized amino acids and large amounts of calcium, phosphorus, iron, etc.

Nowadays, the large-scale export of quinoa has caused the price to rise. Its price can even reach four times that of rice and twice that of chicken. The poor in the origin cannot afford quinoa.

In theory, this is what my friend from my country's crayfish production area in Hubei told me angrily, "When we were children, we loved eating crayfish very much. It was very cheap. It's all you northerners who like to eat it. The price is too high, and we are all eating it now." I can’t afford to eat crayfish.”

Ecuador also has a world-renowned achievement - the Torqueira straw hat, which is known to the world as the "Panama straw hat" and is called "the best straw hat in the world." This kind of toquilla straw hat, which can be called a work of art, is mainly produced in Ecuador.

It is produced in two provinces, namely Manawi and Azuai.

On display at this exhibition are straw hats produced in Azuay Province, which is located in southern Ecuador and is the most economically developed region in southern Ecuador.

The "Panama Hat" is world-famous and popular.

One of the reasons why it is called "Panama straw hat" is that in the past, most Toqueira hats were sold to their destinations through the Panama Canal, including North America, Europe and Asia; another theory is that in the Panama Canal

Thousands of workers wore the straw hats during construction.