I come from Yunnan and have lived in Northeast China for 39 years. Compared with the 18 years when I lived in my hometown, the Northeast has surpassed the concept of a second hometown.
When I first arrived in the northeast, I found that people in the northeast especially like to eat pickles. In addition to beans, celery and leeks, all kinds of garden vegetables can be dipped in sauce, such as green onions, Chinese cabbage, radishes, cucumbers and eggplant. I was curious at the time. As a vegetable that southerners must cook, why do Northeasters eat some sauces with relish? Later, I lived in the Northeast for a long time and often ate with friends in the Northeast, so I tried to eat pickles. It's really "I don't know if I don't eat it, I can't throw it away once I eat it." Since then, the habit of eating pickles has been formed.
Why can the northeast eat pickles, but no one in the south eats pickles? This is not the difference between southerners and northerners, but the difference between southern climate and northern climate, which leads to the question of whether southern vegetables and northern vegetables can be eaten raw. In the northeast, although winter is very cold, the four seasons in the northeast are distinct, the climate is dry and sunny, and vegetables are prone to produce sugar. Vegetables in Northeast China will taste sweet when eaten raw. And the south! Although winter is not as cold as the northeast, it is cold and humid, and the other three seasons are rainy and humid, which leads to heavy moisture in vegetables and difficult accumulation of sugar. Raw food has no sweetness except crispness, and even has a bad taste. So although I got into the habit of eating pickles in the northeast, I never eat pickles when I go back to my hometown to visit relatives.
As the saying goes, soil and water nourish one side, and many southerners who have never been to the northeast can't imagine the living environment in the northeast when they hear that it is MINUS 30 degrees. Hearing that the northeast people were eating lettuce, they opened their eyes in surprise. In fact, no matter where we live, human beings have the wisdom to survive.
Winter in the northeast is very cold, but the buildings in the city have heating, the outside is snowy and the interior is warm as spring. The rural conditions are slightly worse, but there is a fire kang. In winter, the family sleeps, eats and chats on the hot kang, and it doesn't feel cold at all. Eating "pickles" is a habit developed by the people in Northeast China in a unique climate environment, and it is a proof that vegetables produced on black land are sweet. Northeast China is my second hometown. I like northeast China, and I like pickles, too.
Answer it. There is no doubt that pickles are a unique dish in Northeast China, that is, raw vegetables are dipped in soy sauce, soy sauce can be dipped in meat or eggs, and vegetables can be cucumbers, lettuce and so on. And green onions are indispensable. This way of eating raw is unacceptable to southern friends, because southerners generally like cooked food, and green onions are also used as accessories and will not be eaten directly as vegetables.
But, however, this is a honey and arsenic of B. If you ask a northeast person, nine times out of ten they all like pickles. In fact, northeast pickles can have cooked food, not necessarily raw food. Friends in the south can give it a try next time.
We usually eat boiled spinach, eggplant, potatoes and so on. Spinach needs blanching, eggplant and potatoes can be steamed. Eggplant, potato and rice are steamed together, eggplant is steamed for 20 minutes, potato and rice are steamed for 40 minutes. The time for steaming potatoes should be determined according to the size of the potatoes, until the skin of the potatoes is raw. Just stick the potatoes with chopsticks, without hard cores. When eating, pick up eggplant and potatoes with chopsticks, add ingredients and dip, and never eat them directly.
More importantly, you can make your own vegetable rolls and diet food. The method is to shred lettuce, green onions, green peppers, carrots, garlic, cucumbers and dried tofu and blanch them with boiling water. When eating, you can roll up all kinds of ingredients and spread soy sauce or beef sauce, which is very convenient.
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I am from Chongqing and have lived in the Northeast for more than 30 years. I answer this question from another angle.
Before coming to the northeast, I didn't eat lettuce in Chongqing. The reason is that, as we all know, it is unsanitary to kill insects and bacteria without high temperature. As for why it is unsanitary, it is mainly related to the climate and environment. As we all know, we won't go into details.
Later, I came to the northeast and didn't eat lettuce for the first few years. I'm afraid of diarrhea. After a long time, I saw the locals eating lettuce dipped in sauce with relish. Curiosity made me try. As long as I wash it, I won't have diarrhea. It doesn't matter if I try it. I just can't stop.
Those southern friends who spit out lettuce in the north, especially in the northeast, when you live here for a long time, you will understand why northerners love lettuce. In short, the environment changes people!
When friends from the south visit the Northeast, I never order Zhanjiang food, which is a special dish in the Northeast. Because I know southerners don't want to eat this lettuce.
Moreover, this kind of lettuce dipped in sauce has no taste, and they think it has no nutrition. But for us in the northeast, we think that every autumn when all kinds of vegetables come down, we will eat a sudden burst of vegetables and rice, which is the same concept as eating lettuce. In autumn, when the cabbage is ripe, the leaves of the cabbage also show the state of Chinese cabbage leaves, and then I won't steam rice with mashed potatoes and green onions. Put them in cabbage leaves, and then put condiments on them. When you eat them, they are really fragrant, especially suitable for our northeast people's appetite, and they are also our northeast people's food.
The food on the table is delicious. In addition, when wild vegetables come down, or when small lettuce, Chinese cabbage and spring flowers all grow, we will fry a pot of sauce. Then use these side dishes. The dipping sauce is really delicious. Although southerners don't like the taste, Northeasters like it very much.
First of all, the first is eating habits.
The traditional northern nationalities are nomadic production methods, and they like to collect fishing, hunting and farming and animal husbandry. In the process of fishing and hunting, raw food has gradually become a habit. Cucumber, radish, pepper, onion, garlic, lettuce and coriander are all eaten raw, and they are very delicious with soybean sauce, which northerners like. The planting industry in the south is more developed and the cooking is more elaborate, so southerners prefer to cook various vegetables and eat them while they are hot.
Second, the growth characteristics of ingredients
Winter in the north is very cold, and many vegetables' eggs are frozen to death in winter. Therefore, there are few pests and pesticides in vegetables in Northeast China. In the past, the northeast was vast and sparsely populated, and many high-quality vegetables tasted very good raw. The climate in the south is hot and humid, and there are many insects. The risk of eating vegetables raw in the south is greater than that in the north.
Third, the problem of sauce.
The soy sauce in the north belongs to deep fermentation sauce. Protein in soybean has a delicious taste during fermentation, but it also produces a special smell, which many southerners are not used to. This kind of sauce is fried, and it is more fragrant with ingredients such as eggs and peppers, but it is unacceptable for southerners to eat it.
In fact, the dishes dipped in soy sauce between the north and the south are still different today. When northerners eat so fragrant, they will feel that the vegetables grown in the northern black land will taste better. For example, the onions and garlic they eat may not be as strong as those in the south, and then they are lucky enough to go to the north for business. The food is still the same, except that the people who eat it are from different regions.
Northerners think that the delicious food in the south may not be acceptable. What southerners like may be that the honey in the north is the second arsenic, or that the different positions in the field have caused the difference in taste between the north and the south. On the one hand, the soil and water are the same, and the north is black soil, with fertile soil, good growth environment for vegetables and rich nutrient solution. Vegetables that can be eaten raw have high vitamin content, and more than half of the vitamins are destroyed after cooking.
Therefore, the edible raw materials of fruits and vegetables are more nutritious than cooked food. Like Guangdong's raw seafood, the northeast can't eat it, the south is sweet and greasy, and Sichuan's spicy food is not popular in the northeast, but now it has spread from north to south on the table. Every place has its own unique things. We all live in China, just like brothers and sisters in a family. Is it necessary to hack each other? Just as a family has different tastes, so do carrots and cabbages.
Last Sunday, I went to the big vegetable market and bought meat and vegetables, ready to go back and find a person who sells green onions. I removed the onion leaves and left the white ones. When I asked about 2.5 yuan, I bought some. The elder sister said, you don't like this, and the kind with green onion leaves is also 2.5. I said it doesn't matter. Anyway, I eat dipping sauce and then fry jiaozi in the pan. Elder sister is too happy to speak. I asked, are you from the south? She replied, well, Sichuanese. However, I emphasize that she has been in Dalian for more than nine years. I asked her if she was used to it. She said she was not used to eating. She always brings peppers, peppers and bacon from her hometown in Sichuan, but she especially likes the climate in Dalian, which is neither too hot nor too cold. I bought a house in Dalian.
It is said that people here are not used to eating lettuce, cucumber, tomato, pepper, radish, green onion, coriander and Chinese cabbage. . . . All can be eaten raw, and some are eaten with soy sauce. Why not fire them? I can only say: I ate like this when I was a child. It was delicious, crispy, fragrant and delicious. When it comes to cooking, she is full of praise for the rice in the northeast. She said that the rice in her hometown is oily and the water is delicious. It turns out that I ate wonton in my hometown for the New Year, not jiaozi. When I came to Dalian, she ate in jiaozi for three days. On the contrary, I think sauerkraut stuffing is the best, and I accepted garlic sauce.
In fact, the difference between the north and the south is not so great now. Nowadays, young people prefer to try. North and south are transparent, and all sides can eat. Come whenever you want, unlike us, who remember the old flavor after the 1970s.
When I was in college, my northeast buddy in the dormitory next door brought a bag of dipping sauce, then bought some lettuce, radish, tofu, tofu skin and cucumber, and invited us to the dormitory to eat pickles. At that time, several dorms went and everyone had a good time. Some of them are from the south, some from Jiangsu and some from Guangdong.
Of course, I think the popularity of pickles may be related to his appearance. To tell the truth, it does look a little rough to pile up a pile of vegetables and eat them with this dip. Moreover, pickles are also good at eating. If it is more elegant, it may not be acceptable. For example, in many places, we were taught from an early age that we should not eat with our hands when serving food. So naturally there may be some contradictions.
The other is the taste of dipping sauce, which is the taste of soybean sauce, salty and fresh. If you are a southerner like Sichuan or Chongqing, you may find it tasteless, spicy and spicy, and naturally you won't have much interest. Just like Zhajiang Noodles, which Beijing people love to eat, I still can't accept the taste of sweet noodle sauce, but many of my local friends in Beijing like it very much. It is normal that tastes vary from place to place.
Of course, personally, I still like pickles very much, especially when I go to the northeast restaurant, or when I talk to my friends, I can make a dish of pickles and dip it while eating, which can not only relieve boredom, but also serve wine. Maybe it's because we like soybean sauce here, so we can accept the taste of dipping sauce.
If there is an opportunity, I should also recommend it to my friends around me.
Let me analyze it for a while. In this part of northeast China, you don't actually need feces to grow vegetables. If you grow vegetables, you don't need to go to the garden every year. Generally, it is a vegetable garden at home. Black soil can't grow without it, or you need to apply some decomposed fertilizer on it. You never need to water any manure. My mother has been growing vegetables for most of her life. She is good at growing vegetables. There are many kinds of vegetables that can be dipped in the sauce. The common ones are: lettuce, Artemisia, Chinese cabbage, radish, radish, Mao Cong, cucumber, dried bean curd, pepper, various wild vegetables, stinky vegetables, radish, frozen cabbage and cooked spinach. Wait a minute. Dip sauce is the kind of soybean brewed by northeast people. We call it soybean fermented sauce, which is really delicious. The water in the northeast is not hard. In the past, rural areas in northeast China used to drink water from wells. This way, the dishes can be eaten after washing! I heard that the south will have diarrhea like this. It is that sentence that is right, one side of the soil and water raises one side!