What's delicious in Hainan? The sweetest Hainan snacks

Hainan folk desserts are rich in variety and unique, which is the most vivid and direct way to show local snacks. Among desserts, sugar water is the most popular, such as Qingbuliang, Jiteng, sweet potato milk and so on. Once you meet, it may be hard to forget each other. Desserts in desserts are full of local flavor, such as Coix seed, thousand-hole cake, coffee cake and so on. It embodies the wisdom and sentiment of local people on life. In Beijing, dessert is a pre-meal snack; In Guangdong, desserts are mostly snacks after meals and can also be used as snacks. Only Hainan is different. Desserts rarely appear in the form of supporting roles, or act as the protagonists of supper, such as Qingbuliang and Jiteng. Most stalls try their best to take care of one of them. Both the protagonist in the coffee shop and Dad's milk tea shop, such as Ke Yan, Qiankonggao or Coffee Cake, eat coffee and Dad's milk tea. Desserts in Hainan will appear in this way, perhaps because only in this way can they show their charm and uniqueness. It is said that as early as the 1920s, Hainan had obvious tonic. At that time, three or five coppers could buy a bowl of fluid. Guangdong, Guangxi and other southern provinces and cities have Qingbuliang, but compared with Hainan Qingbuliang, it is only inferior in raw materials. For example, Nanning Qingbuliang, which takes tremella, lotus seeds and mung beans as the main raw materials, can almost be said to be another name of "Tremella lotus seed soup"; Guilin is cool and refreshing. The raw materials are watermelon, pineapple and mung bean, which is more like the taste of "fruit mixed with ice". In Hainan, there are as few as a dozen raw materials for cooling and relieving summer heat as more than twenty. Common ones are peanuts, red beans, mung beans, macaroni, fresh coconut meat, red dates, watermelon grains, pineapple grains, quail eggs, raisins, bean jelly blocks, pearls, coix seed, taro and so on. Among them, mung bean, nutritious sago, watermelon whitening, fresh coconut meat and pineapple are all characteristic fruits in Hainan. Therefore, only from the raw materials, Hainan's refreshing and cool is incomparable elsewhere. The production is not sloppy. Red dates, mung beans, coix seed, taro, watermelon and quail eggs should be cooked separately. For example, mung beans, coix seed and taro should be boiled with sugar, so that the cooked mung beans, coix seed and taro have their own sweetness. If it is blended with sugar water at the end, it is obviously too late. The stall owner will line up these cooked ingredients in front of the booth. If you can't decide which one to drink, you can also compare which one has more raw materials before making a decision. These raw materials are prepared with different sugar water, that is, different cool and refreshing. The most common thing is that the sugar water is cool. In the past, because Hainan people thought that eating coconut was easy to flatulence, the cool oil at that time was combined with the common sugar water, which was a bowl of cool oil in sugar water. Coconut milk cooling is to blend all kinds of raw materials with coconut milk made of coconut meat. It is a pity that raw materials of various colors are soaked in milky coconut juice. Take a sip of coconut, even those seemingly ordinary raw materials will become unusual. In the slightly longer summer in Hainan Island, cooling is the absolute protagonist in life. I'm afraid it's hard for outsiders to understand this, but as long as you go to several old streets in Haikou to have a look, you can appreciate the charm of cooling off the heat. In front of one snack stall after another, people sitting on the ground drinking snacks were even packed and taken home. It's amazing that a bowl of refreshing food can do this. In Hainan, Qingbuliang stalls are not famous, but delicious Qingbuliang stalls can attract many fans through word-of-mouth communication. Another kind of sugar water that is widely loved by local people is chicken manure. The first acquaintance often thinks he has heard the wrong name, but when he finds the word "chicken manure", his appetite has dropped by half. But if you can get up the courage to taste it, it may be a surprise. Centipede is actually a vine, which likes to grow in warm and humid bushes and has strong vitality. Because the leaves just started to smell like chicken manure after being rubbed by hand, they got such an indecent name, but in fact, after a long time, they will have a refreshing fragrance. In the book, the literati used "Jiyateng" to deodorize Jiyateng, but the people still like this straightforward name. At the beginning of Qing Dynasty, Qu Dajun wrote in "Guangdong Xinyu Cao Yu Teng": "The vines are all cured, spreading among wild trees on the wall, and the leaves are like mud vines. People who suffer from heatstroke eat root, stem and leaf powder, and those who are weak mix pork bellies. "Compendium of Materia Medica" says that people suffering from heatstroke feed on roots and leaves. Deficiency is mixed with pig stomach soup. Treat scrofula, fry wine with roots, those who have not broken will disappear, and those who have collapsed will gather. Wang's Compendium of Materia Medica records: "Treating wind pain, intestinal carbuncle, traumatic injury, injecting wind, fire, insect poison and dispersing depressed qi. Wash the sputum and add perilla soup. Paederia asiatica has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, eliminating dampness and enriching blood, and is called "ginseng" by people. As a Chinese herbal medicine, it can dispel wind, promote diuresis, promote digestion, relieve cough and pain, and can also be used for rheumatism, bone pain, traumatic injury and so on. According to folklore, on the first day of the seventh lunar month, women can also replenish blood by eating chicken manure and rattan soup. According to the custom in some places in Hainan, on the first day of the seventh lunar month, every household should eat "chicken dung vine". The method of "chicken manure vine" is to pound (grind) the fresh chicken manure vine leaves and soaked rice into powder in a stone mortar or rice mill, and then mix them with water to knead them into insect-like seeds the size of a little finger. After the water in the pot is boiled, add diced chicken, shredded ginger and shredded coconut, and then add a proper amount of brown sugar, and the delicious "diced chicken with diced rattan" is ready. Or add coconut milk and ice cubes to the cake, and a bowl of "coconut milk chicken manure rattan cake" similar to a cool cake will be ready. Chicken dung vine glutinous rice balls "Chicken dung vine" is a good tonic. It is said that when the Qiongya column was besieged on the mountain, it was short of food and clothing, medicine and medicine, and the soldiers relied on digging wild vegetables to satisfy their hunger. Later, wild vegetables were also dug up, and many soldiers got malnutrition and edema. After hearing the news, the local people put the "Chicken Dun Tengbazi" in bamboo poles to avoid the enemy's search in the name of firewood, and sent the "Chicken Dun Tengbazi" to the mountains to help the soldiers tide over the difficulties. Little known in the past, Jiteng Bazi, which conforms to the concept of green food, has now become the most famous snack in Qionghai. 1999 was packaged and upgraded by local chefs, and even listed as one of the "famous Chinese snacks". Now look at the slightly indecent name of chicken manure vine, but it has become an alternative snack in the eyes of tourists. In Qionghai, JiTeng is a well-deserved protagonist of supper. In summer, a bowl of iced coconut juice, chicken manure and rattan seeds is cool and pleasant, sweet and soft; In winter, a bowl of hot chicken manure rake, accompanied by the fragrance of brown sugar and shredded ginger, can dispel the fatigue of the day. Many places in the south also have the habit of eating chicken manure. Eating chicken manure on the third day of the third lunar month is a traditional custom of local people in Beihai, Guangxi. Eating is similar to Hainan. Leaves and rice are mixed and ground into powder, and then made into pieces of chicken manure. Chicken dung soup made of this noodle is fragrant and sweet, and it is a special snack that locals like. According to legend, the third day of the third lunar month is the birthday of Xuanyuan Huangdi, the ancestor of Chinese culture, and the people of Beihai commemorate this great man. In Qujing, Yunnan, where Zhuge Liang captured Meng Huo seven times, there are also many people who like to eat chicken shit. But Qujing, unlike Qionghai and Beihai, will eat chicken excrement and rattan on March 3 or the first day of July, which is full of grand ceremonies. There, as long as the chicken manure sprouts, the locals will pick it up and eat it, or use it to stir-fry meat, vegetarian dishes or cold dishes, just like eating ordinary vegetables. Coix seed dessert Hainan's dessert is not as famous as sugar water, but it also has a unique flavor. These desserts are essential for drinking morning tea, coffee and dad's tea. For example, Ke Yan, which is listed as a "famous Chinese snack", is a famous flavor snack in Hainan, commonly known as "Yi", with a long history and extensive folk production. In many rural areas of Hainan, whenever a new house enters the house and a child has a full moon, a basket or a Ke Yan bear will be sent to congratulate him. 1959 * * * When the Premier visited Wenchang, the county government hosted the Premier with Ke Yan, which was greatly appreciated by the Premier after tasting it. After 80s, some food stalls in Haikou took the lead in putting Ke Yan on the table, and then some high-end hotels put Ke Yan on the table as a special snack. Ke Yan is a mixture of rice and glutinous rice, and the fillings are shredded coconut, peanuts, sesame oil and sugar. Because of its rich Hainan local characteristics, many restaurants now take Ke Yan as a dessert before meals. Thousand-hole cake Another thousand-hole cake that has been included in "Chinese famous snacks", each piece has fine and neat holes and is golden. Taste it, it's sweet, smooth and memorable. In fact, Thousand Hole Cake is a snack with Southeast Asian flavor, which was introduced to Xinglong by overseas Chinese who returned to China in 1960s. In the past, Qiankonggao was just an ordinary family snack. In 1990s, with the increasing popularity of Xinglong tourism, Longyuan Hot Spring Hotel took the lead in developing this family snack into Xinglong specialty snack, which was well received by tourists and gradually spread in hotels in Xinglong area, becoming a good product for receiving tourists. Coffee cake is sticky. When eating it, you must use all your strength and even stand up before you can "lift" a piece of coffee cake with a small fork of seven or eight centimeters thick. Bite it down, chew it carefully, and suddenly the fragrance is overflowing. Of course, it is absolutely impossible to eat this way in bars and cafes in the city, but it is unique in cafes full of pastoral taste in Fushan. New year's special!