It is said that there are no vegetables in winter in Northeast China, so people there like to stew cabbage and potatoes. When I went there, I found that some people really like stew. They are all elderly people. In the building where I live, some people have piled more than a dozen cabbages at home.
It's really not necessary. There is a Wal-Mart nearby, which has all kinds of vegetables. The food in the home market is also very rich. I go shopping and eat fresh food from time to time. I watched that family's cabbage rot day by day and finally turned black. Perhaps the old people can't change their previous living habits, and young people seldom cook vegetables. I still buy food and cook according to my own taste. The types of dishes are similar to those in Jiangsu, but the names are different.
For example, hairtail is called swordfish, and our swordfish is three delicacies in the Yangtze River, which costs several thousand yuan a catty. Cabbage is called lotus white, and persimmon refers to tomato. Here, jiaozi refers to persimmons, eating pumpkin and egg stuffing. It understands that pumpkin is what we call zucchini, and eggs are called eggs in dumpling stuffing. Once fried, they are called mushu, and lettuce is called green bamboo shoots. Anyway, it's interesting. There are surprises every day. I like to eat big steamed buns in northeast China. Every time I go to Wal-Mart, I pick some rice. First, I will buy a rice ball, sit down and finish it, and then I will push the trolley to start shopping and help me digest.
Barbecue, jiaozi and hotpot in Northeast China are cheap and plentiful. The best Sichuan food I have ever eaten is actually in the northeast, and my favorite rice noodle is also in the northeast. Although there are rice noodle shops all over the street now, I always feel that the taste is not like this. Now, I often buy sauerkraut from the Internet to stew big bones and make jiaozi with sauerkraut stuffing.
The only thing that doesn't suit me is that I have been used to eating balsamic vinegar since I was a child. I used to eat old vinegar in the northeast, and the counters were all Shanxi old vinegar. Later, when I saw a seller of balsamic vinegar in our hometown in a big supermarket, I often went to buy several bags.
To tell the truth, I don't know if it's because of the soil and water in the northeast. I lived in the northeast for a year, eating normally every day, never starving, tasting the food around me, keeping my figure at 90 kilograms, and my weight didn't increase at all. I gained more than ten kilograms as soon as I came back. I really miss the days when I didn't eat meat.
I come from Guangdong. I went to Dalian for a year and I'm not used to it. I can't find many dishes I have eaten for 30 years, and some local dishes are not used to it, so I don't know what to eat when I buy food every day.
But a few dishes surprised me very much. It's called cherry radish, and it's round and sold in bundles with radish. The carrot with green leaves is so beautiful! When I first saw it, I felt my heart was going to sprout, but I didn't buy it.
Blood sausage is also delicious.
The mutton offal soup cooked in the market food stall is delicious. You can't make it taste if you buy it yourself. Let's add pepper. The soup is first-rate, great!
Shuttlecock 10 yuan weighs 4 kg. Seafood is very expensive in my hometown, but shells at this price are rare, so it is very enjoyable to buy 10 yuan to eat.
Scallop, my God, it's actually 10 yuan a kilo. Buy a catty and cook it directly in dipping sauce. It's original. Think about it. My mouth is watering.
The meat of cod is a bit like garlic cloves. The meat smells good. Unlike other fish, fish itself is tasteless and delicious.
I miss the local seafood.
Unable to adapt, I fled back to the south and went to Xi after the New Year this year. Thinking about being in the same place with my husband, just one month later, my husband found out that I was going to be depressed. I soon returned to Chengdu. I'm afraid I'll have problems. I'm not used to eating. Many vegetables I want to eat can't be bought in many vegetable markets, and neither can fresh chicken. They were frozen for a long time. You can't buy the fruit you want to eat, because you are pregnant, and you may feel wronged because you can't eat it, so you are in a bad mood. I have been depressed all day. The air is also very dry, and I have nosebleeds every day. I don't have so many flowers and plants, so I feel depressed and often cry, so I finally have to send me back to the south. I finally understand why my husband always wants to come back. No matter how much money you can find in two years, let him come back. After he has experienced it, he will understand his pain.
When the south supported the northwest, my parents came to Xi from Hunan. It can be said that they have never adapted to the eating habits in the north. But there is no way to make a living because the north mainly eats pasta, while the south mainly eats rice. During the Cultural Revolution, my father often used white flour to secretly go to farmers' homes to exchange rice. At that time, this kind of behavior was called speculation. When he found that he had to prepare for it, he had to go at night. The most unbearable thing is the dry climate and cold in the north. Do you have bacon and smoked fish? This is the most unforgettable food for southerners. Although the logistics conditions are good now, there are all kinds of southern foods, but the taste is still different from that of Hunan, and the Hunan cuisine in the restaurant is not authentic, because I grew up in Hunan for seven or eight years when I was a child. I have a deep understanding of this myself. I married a northern husband and have been cooking two pots of rice all my life. No matter how good Lao Lai is, my husband has to eat a bowl of noodles. I want to eat a bowl of rice even if I eat pickles. Alas, speaking of which, I really have two lines of tears. Therefore, it is suggested that southerners live in the south as much as possible.
I was married to Shanxi in Jiangxi 12, and went to Beijing to drift north in 2004. It took me nearly a year to adapt to life in the north, mainly in several aspects. The first and most important eating habit is that I can eat noodles and steamed bread, and I can also stew in a big pot. The second is the climate. In the second month of coming to Beijing, the dryness in the north made me get angry and have a nosebleed, and then I had a bad cold and a fever. Later, I learned that drinking water and using a humidifier are good. The third is the personality difference between the north and the south. Personally, I think northerners are more enthusiastic and generally simpler, but I think southerners speak more directly, distinguish between public and private, and everything else is fine. Now, for me, both ends are my home. I like winter and summer in the north, because there is heating in winter, not so hot in summer, and there are few mosquitoes. I like spring and autumn in my parents' house. The scenery in spring is better and autumn is more delicious.
There is a huge difference in eating habits between the north and the south, and some people may never get used to it. It is especially difficult for the elderly to change their habits. Generally speaking, the differences are as follows: 1. Staple food: northerners mainly eat wheat flour, corn and miscellaneous grains, while southerners mainly eat rice. Many northerners can eat rice occasionally. If you ask him to eat rice every day, he will feel hungry and full. On the contrary, it is difficult for southerners to eat flour, corn and miscellaneous grains. 2. Other ingredients: bacon, preserved fish, sour beans and other products that southerners like to eat are difficult for northerners to accept. Northerners should eat fresh meat, fresh meat and fresh vegetables. Even the sauerkraut eaten in the northeast tastes very different from that in the south. 3. Cooking and seasoning: Southerners like to cook with sugar, and the staple food should also be sweetened, which is unacceptable to northerners. Many northerners feel sick when they eat pasta and stir-fry in the south, while southerners taste sweet. In addition, the south is willing to cook chickens and ducks lightly. On the other hand, northerners like heavy calories, so they have to take off their bones to eat. As for the southwestern provinces, they like to eat peppers, and the northern provinces like to eat onions and garlic. Therefore, regardless of the climate difference, northerners and southerners who go to the south should first be psychologically prepared to adapt to the diet. Even if the population moves, these differences between the north and the south do not seem to be easy to change.
It's nothing. I'm used to it. The food in the south and the north is delicious.
As a native of Henan, I adapted to the local life the first day I came to Hangzhou! But as a native of Henan, I really don't like noodles, but I like cold rice noodles and all kinds of noodles in Shaanxi! Now that I have been in Hangzhou for a long time, I feel the air is particularly dry when I return to my hometown. I may be a fake Henan native.
God, can you eat rice in the south? Rice vomited at the sight. ...
I guess I, a Sichuanese, will never get used to the northern diet. I guess I will go back to Sichuan to support my old age when I am old.