Let's first look at the main producing areas of bird's nest:

Natural bird's nest is mainly produced in caves in the southeast coastal islands, generally in Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand and the Philippines, and there are also some bird's nests in the South China Sea Islands of China.

At present, the purest and best bird's nest on the market mostly comes from Indonesia and Malaysia, which account for 80% of bird's nest exports.

There is a strange phenomenon that there is a tradition of eating bird's nest all over the world: Southeast Asia is more popular than Europe and America, and China is the most popular in East Asia.

Why only China people have a soft spot for bird's nest?

1 More than 600 years ago, Zheng He brought back a large number of bird's nests when he went to the Western Ocean in the Ming Dynasty. After identification, the court physician designated bird's nest as a daily health supplement for the Ming court. Emperor Kangxi and Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty drank bird's nest every day. So China has a tradition of eating bird's nest since the feudal dynasty.

2. Selling A Dream of Red Mansions has many descriptions of eating bird's nest. The fourteenth time Qin Keqing ate bird's nest because of physical weakness, the 45th time Lin Daiyu ate rock candy bird's nest porridge because of coughing, and the 87th time Jia Baoyu stayed up all night because of Qingwen's mourning, and xiren asked the kitchen to make bird's nest soup to make up for Baoyu.

3. The custom of eating bird's nest in China in modern times first arose in Hong Kong and Macao, and later spread to the whole country.

Probably because of Hong Kong's proximity to Southeast Asia and the relatively prosperous economy in modern Hong Kong, bird's nest, a superior health care product, first flowed into Hong Kong and quickly became popular among the rich in Hong Kong and Macao. With the development and revitalization of the mainland economy, the trend of eating bird's nest has gradually developed to the mainland. Therefore, bird's nest has become a healthy and nourishing product that people in China like.

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