Supplement to the difference of grain purchase between North and South

The last article was about buying vegetables, and the difference between north and south is quite obvious. In fact, it may be more vivid to use some photos of the vegetable market.

I'm just saying there are some gaps in my eyes. I'm just roughly divided into north and south. In fact, this range is still relatively wide. Even in the north, there are many differences, and vice versa. So please forgive my inaccuracy.

For the vegetable market, the types of dishes are also different.

In the early days, the traffic was underdeveloped, so the vegetable market was generally not so rich. Autumn and winter in the north are even scarcer.

When I was a child, there were fewer kinds of vegetables. In the north, there are only Chinese cabbage, cabbage (Gan Lan) and celery. ) and so on. Lettuce and things like that seem to have come later.

But in the south, there are many kinds of vegetables. Take Guangdong as an example, there are at least a dozen common vegetables. Cantonese people have a special preference for green vegetables. No matter where they eat, hold banquets or get together with friends, there is always a green vegetable. So let's not talk about things at the party. Let's start with the vegetable market. There are all kinds of vegetables. Common lettuce, Chinese cabbage, sweet potato leaves, soft melons (seedlings), medlar leaves, oil wheat vegetables, Chinese cabbage, baby vegetables, pickles, bean sprouts (this is not common) and so on, and there are more than a dozen forests. Take Chinese cabbage as an example. There are many varieties of Chinese cabbage, such as Ningxia Chinese cabbage, with different tastes. There are different varieties of lettuce, such as lettuce. Celery probably has the classification of celery and celery. There are many foods I usually eat, and I can't explain them clearly. Generally, when the Chinese wolfberry leaf is served, every time the aunt in the dining hall cooks it, people in our company will say it is a leaf.

Of course, I'm talking about what happened before. Now the vegetable market in the north is also very rich, such as lettuce, oily wheat, cabbage and so on. These are not things, and the market is dazzling. Thanks to the development of logistics transportation and transportation network, you can see things all over the country in the market. For example, there are many southern lychees in the northern market in summer, and the price is not expensive. Durian, a southern fruit, is very popular in the north now, which fully proves that people have been "well informed".

And even in winter, there are more dishes sold in the northern market now. Part of it is shipped from other places, and part of it is planted in local plastic greenhouses, which shows that people are extremely rich in non-staple food now.

However, some of them are quite special. Take the vegetables I mentioned as an example, many of them are still not available in the north. For example, melons are soft (melon seedlings), usually pumpkin seedlings or pea seedlings, which are particularly crisp and refreshing to eat. In Guangdong, garlic is usually fried, and I personally like it. But you can hardly see it in the north. Of course, this dish is also a bit troublesome to cook, and it needs to remove the tendons in the dish.

As far as selling fish is concerned, frozen fish was the main fish in the early north. Of course, the famous "Huangyu of Qinghai Lake" in my hometown seemed to be listed as a protected fish that was forbidden to eat, transport and trade in 1992. But even if it was local fish at that time, it was frozen fish to sell, indicating that it was not fresh. Of course, all the live fish, common carp, crucian carp and so on were sold directly in the market later. But even so, fish are sold by the pound. Seafood that is too far away in the northwest is naturally frozen seafood or salted fish.

This one in the south has a unique advantage. There are many kinds of fish in the south, which are easy to raise, so the market sells all fresh fish. The stall owner can help you clean up some of them, such as fish maw, and even mix them with onions or ginger, without buying one at a time. The owner of the fish stall will cut them into pieces for people to choose from. Of course, you only buy one meal when you buy food here, so it is suitable for this.

Speaking of fish, there are some differences between the south and the north.

Not much to say about marine fish, which tastes different. Take the common freshwater fish as an example. Carp and grass carp are common fish in the north, but in the south, taking the Pearl River Delta in Guangdong as an example, carp don't eat much. Most of them are Anhui fish and longevity fish (that is, African crucian carp or tilapia). Cantonese people don't like the taste of carp. Of course, there is no such fish as "Yellow River Carp" here.

Guangzhou used to be the first-tier city with the largest number of food stalls. In Beishangguang (there used to be three first-tier cities, then Shenzhen), it is a cheaper place to eat (there are many food stalls, but the price is not expensive). Seafood was always available at the Pearl River, and the price was good.

About other things.

And some fruits and vegetables. Guangdong's melons include bitter gourd, white gourd, white melon, watermelon, loofah, pumpkin, gourd, cucumber and so on, which are indeed richer than those in the north. There are also some bergamot and the like.

The north is not so vast. But now diet is also affecting each other.

Nowadays, the vegetable market is actually rich in north and south, and people have many choices, so they can choose what they like to eat.