People in Nanjing are very strange and have an unusual hobby for eating ducks. Every year, countless ducks are made into delicious food here, commonly known as "Duck Capital". There are eighteen ways to eat ducks, such as salted duck, roast duck, sauced duck, four pieces of duck, marinated duck sausage, sauced duck head and so on, and duck blood vermicelli soup made of duck blood, duck heart and duck liver. In Nanjing, ducks are treasures, and tourists must have a dish related to ducks. The name "DuDu" is worthy of the name.
Besides eating ducks, Nanjing people also have a soft spot for wild vegetables. Every spring, the wild vegetables in the field are the treasures on the table of every household. I was not used to it at first. The wild vegetables in our hometown were eaten by pigs! What sweet potato vine shepherd's purse is chopped with a knife and mixed with bran to feed pigs. A big fat pig eats wild vegetables every year, and few people eat wild vegetables themselves. In Nanjing, I became a distinguished guest.
Wild vegetables in the field include Malantou, Chrysanthemum Brain and Pea Head, as well as Artemisia selengensis, shepherd's purse and wild celery. Some are sold in the market, and some hardworking old ladies go to the fields to pick them themselves. With a plastic bag in one hand and a small shovel in the other, they went to the wasteland in the suburbs, where there were odds and ends of delicate wild vegetables. They squatted down and shoveled a bag in one morning. Clean it when you get home, stir fry it, or wrap it in jiaozi. It is delicious.
It is also simple to fry wild vegetables. Add more oil and stir fry quickly. You must add some sugar to make it delicious. Add some salt and the pan will be cooked. It will be green on the plate and taste fresh in your mouth. Wild vegetables can also be eaten cold, chopped after water, chopped peanuts, dried incense, vinegar, soy sauce, sugar, salt, and most importantly, sesame oil. This is definitely a delicious dish, because it is a healthy vegetarian dish. Nanjing people like to fry stinky dried mugwort leaves, which is unique. Chrysanthemum brain is soup with duck eggs and flowers. They are delicious and delicious. It's really great to make soup!
For me, who was born in northern Jiangsu, my favorite thing is to wrap jiaozi in wild shepherd's purse, choose fresh minced black pork, mix chopped shepherd's purse with a little broken fungus, put some seasoning and roll the dough myself. The wrapped jiaozi has both meat and wild vegetables, and I can't bear to leave when I brush my mouth. Many wonton shops in Nanjing sell shepherd's purse wonton, which tastes good and there are quite a lot of people eating it.
Now that I have fully integrated into Nanjing's food culture, life in modern society is still good. Eating too much fish and meat is too much for my stomach, which is easy to cause health problems. It is better to eat some wild vegetables and let the wild vegetables bred by the fragrance of the earth nourish our body and mind.