Southerners visit the Yunnan rural vegetable market, but the photos they post on their WeChat Moments become popular. Netizens: They don’t recognize any of them.

The author loves traveling and knows many friends who like traveling.

For many friends who love traveling, Yunnan is a very desirable place. Because Yunnan not only has pleasant scenery, but also has countless delicious food.

The author has also been to Yunnan several times. There is a saying from the locals that still impresses me: "Everything green is vegetables, and everything alive is meat." At the time, I thought this was a bit exaggerated, but after going to the local vegetable market, I realized that this was not an exaggeration.

Because the food in Yunnan is so rich. Things that are not eaten in many places and that no one eats can become delicacies in Yunnan. And there are many delicacies here that you can’t find anywhere else.

Not long ago, I had a friend from the south who went to Yunnan again and posted a lot of local delicacies in the circle of friends. Among them, the various local fruits he posted became very popular in the circle of friends. , after seeing it, many netizens said: What a magical country this is, but I don’t know any of the fruits here.

Even my friend said: I can’t believe it, I thought I went abroad!

It is estimated that many people, like me and my friends, have seen this wild fruit for the first time. The locals call it "Ke Di Lao", a very strange name. Its scientific name is "hē" and it is widely distributed in western Yunnan, Myanmar and other places.

This wild fruit may seem inconspicuous, but it is a wild fruit loved by the locals. It can be picked, washed and eaten as a raw fruit. Although it tastes a bit bitter and has a slightly sour taste, it tastes cool and sweet when chewed slowly.

Locally, this wild fruit can also be used in cooking. The common way to eat it is to eat it cold or soak it in wine. Of course, it can also be made into preserved fruit, which is also a favorite snack for children.

Kedi Lao is the fruit of Du Ying from Yunnan. The pulp can be eaten raw. It is bitter and slightly sour in the mouth, and then turns sweet and has a cooling feeling. It can be soaked in wine, served cold, or made into preserved fruit.

Goat milk fruit

This wild fruit is distributed in many places in the south, but people in many places do not eat it because it has little pulp and even when ripe It's also sour and astringent. But it has become a favorite fruit for many people in Yunnan.

The reason is that there are many ethnic minorities in Yunnan, and many people here have a special liking for some bitter and sour foods. Goat milk fruit is a fruit that many people love to eat, especially local people who like to eat it mixed with salt, chili powder, etc. Therefore, in some local vegetable markets, it is also common to see goat milk fruit mixed with spicy water for sale.

Ox heart fruit

A kind of strange-looking fruit, also called ox heart fruit, ox heart pear, reticulated custard apple, reticulated custard apple, etc., it is Soursop fruit.

This fruit is actually related to the sugar apple, the “Internet celebrity fruit” currently on the market. Although it doesn't look like much, it tastes very sweet like sugar apples.

Egg Yolk Fruit

If the author hadn’t been to Yunnan before, I wouldn’t have known this product. It's called egg yolk fruit, and some local vendors prefer to call it "fairy peach". Maybe it sounds more noble!

The fruit of the egg yolk fruit is spherical, indeed somewhat like a peach. It is green at the beginning and turns orange when mature. The peel is smooth and thin, and the flesh inside is orange and looks very light yellow.

Its taste is a bit hard to describe, it tastes like a mixture of sweet potato and durian. And if you eat it in a big mouth, it may even be a bit dry, since its water content is not high after all.

Milk Fruit

The author’s friend told me that he always thought this fruit was passion fruit, but after asking the vendor who sold it, he found out that it just looks like passion fruit. Just, this is a very niche fruit, the locals call it milk fruit.

The vendor also told him that milk fruit is native to the Caribbean and is a tropical fruit. It was introduced from Southeast Asia to Hainan, Guangdong, Taiwan, Yunnan and other places in China for cultivation in the 1960s and 1970s.

Local cherries and local bayberry

Many people know cherries. After all, they have been a valuable "noble fruit" in recent years, especially imported cherries, which are even more expensive. . However, there are many local cherries in Yunnan, which are cherries native to our country. They are much smaller than imported ones. In addition, along with the cherries, there is also the local bayberry, which the locals also call hairy bayberry and wild bayberry.

The strange "little eggplant"

The small eggplant popular among Yunnan locals is not an eggplant eaten as a vegetable. It is a kind of fruit, which can generally be divided into red eggplant, red eggplant, Ashwagandha and tomato. Among them, red eggplant is also called big bitter fruit, which looks like a small pumpkin. Its fruit has obvious ridges and is a very bitter wild fruit.

In addition, you can sometimes see milkshake, which is a yellow wild fruit that looks a bit like an eggplant. However, whether it is red eggplant, water eggplant or milk eggplant, these wild fruits are very bitter and slightly poisonous, so it is generally not advisable to eat too much at one time.

Especially for tomato, you need to be careful. It is recommended that you don’t try it easily. My friends, like the author, can't understand why people still like to eat these fruits even though they know they are poisonous.

This friend of the author likes to travel all over the country. Every time he goes to a place, he likes to visit the local vegetable market and farmer's market. Because these are the places closest to the local atmosphere and are also rich in delicious food.

He told me that Yunnan is an amazing place. There are so many kinds of local food, let alone a foreigner. He asked many local people, and they all said that there were many vegetables and fruits in the vegetable market that they did not recognize.

Because the climate and environment in Yunnan are very different, the local mountains have four seasons and different days. In addition, there are many local ethnic minorities, and different ethnic groups have their own characteristics and ingredients, so even if People who have lived in Yunnan all their lives have a lot of food that they have never eaten or seen.

Precisely because Yunnan has so many specialties and delicacies, the local fruit varieties are really rich, and many fruits are very rare.

When my friend posted the fruit he saw at the rural vegetable market in Yunnan to his circle of friends, many people didn’t know it, but it aroused people’s appetite.