But don't think that there are so many snacks in Guangdong that you can accept every ingredient. Cantonese people who have a light taste on weekdays also have their own different ideas when tasting vinegar. Because Cantonese people like to drink vinegar, it tastes very unusual. It is a kind of vinegar that ordinary people can't drink. It has a formidable nickname "liquid durian fruit" and a "smelly fart vinegar" that makes people frown.
Smelly fart vinegar, a well-known food feature in Guangdong, is a kind of food culture with local cultural customs, although its name doesn't sound so refreshing. In Guangdong, stinky fart vinegar has a history of more than two thousand years. Because of the long-term cold and humid temperature in Guangdong, it is easy to have the problem of "moisture in the body", especially in summer, when the humid weather puts great pressure on people's health, stinky fart vinegar has become a good thing to reduce moisture in the body.
Legend has it that the source of smelly fart vinegar is an accident. More than 2000 years ago, when Guangdong was in a panic or panic, there was a young man named "vinegar" in Conghua, Guangzhou. The young man fried the raw rice at home, stored it in a clay pot, and then poured it into the clay pot to seal it, lest rats or insects spoil the rice. After a few months, there was no food at home. The young man thought of his stored rice and opened the earthen pot.
However, when she opened the clay pot, the stench in it startled him. The smell is unbearable, and everyone thinks that the rice has gone moldy. But there was nothing to eat at home, so the young people cooked rice into millet soup and enjoyed it with their mothers. The vinegar mother couldn't bear to make her daughter sad, so she drank the strong-smelling millet soup. Vinegar mother drank for several hours, farted a lot, and ate for a while without thinking. Her skin is fair and her body is getting healthier and healthier.
The young man thought about it and thought that it must be the sour millet soup that made his mother well. At one time, the news came out, and the surrounding villagers rushed to follow suit and found that Xiaomi soup did have an exciting effect. So this stinking fart vinegar came out and passed down from generation to generation. Now, stinky fart vinegar has become a unique local food in Guangdong.
In Cantonese, stinky fart vinegar is a good thing for nourishing and keeping in good health, and there are women in confinement at home. Better food supplements are pig's foot ginger and smelly fart vinegar, which can not only nourish women's weak body, but also remove moisture and increase appetite. Because vinegar in stinky fart vinegar and ginger in pig's foot ginger can inhibit bacterial infection, these ingredients are made by every household, and most people in Xian Yi, regardless of age, have them from specialty snacks to big ones.
How is stinky fart vinegar made? When designing stinky fart vinegar, Cantonese people will put glutinous rice and fermented rice into pottery according to a certain proportion, add clean cold water, seal it and store it for 100 days. During this period, rice and water reflect alcohol each other, and the fermented taste becomes "off-flavor". When we opened the bottle cap, a sour smell immediately filled the whole room, because this stinky fart vinegar "stinks for thousands of years".
If you still have a chance to visit Guangdong and meet stinky fart vinegar, don't be scared by its "beautiful and moving" taste. This kind of vinegar doesn't rot and deteriorate for a long time, but it has an odor. Cantonese people say this vinegar smells bad and tastes delicious. Let's get up the courage to taste it and see if it really smells good.