How to eat pineapple buns on the immigration ship

Chapter 273 A Bite of China (Part Two)
Before the audience could even process the delicious food they had just witnessed, the huge difference between the purchase price and the selling price of matsutake mushrooms at the place of origin gave them another huge shock.

[Bought for 80 yuan, sold for 700 yuan. This is just...]

Is this what the ancients' market economy was like?

[This is astonishing. We now have escort ships, so we don't have to worry about running out of food. But the ancients...]

……

Kagawa glanced at the comments on the screen and shrugged.

That's right. Let alone high-end ingredients like matsutake mushrooms, even rice noodles from her hometown in Guangxi province cost several times more when they go to other provinces. Sometimes she can't even afford a bowl of noodles after working all day.

From this perspective, modern production escort ships are actually a better choice for modern people.

At least modern people don't have to worry about price differences from place of origin, and the agricultural bureau only needs to think about how to provide residents with higher quality and more abundant ingredients.

As Kagawa watched the busy ethnic minority mother and daughter on the screen, he recalled the lively and abundant dining table and kitchen in his home when he was in school, thanks to the "vegetable basket".
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As soon as the footage of matsutake mushroom harvesting sites appeared, the rural scenery of Yunnan Province and the dense forests after the rain once again drew a barrage of "Wow!" comments on the screen.

Watching the countless bacteria being wiped off the screen by the ethnic minority mother and daughter and the commentator, the audience and the agricultural bureau employees hidden among them were all getting more and more anxious.

What kind of bacteria are these? Are they edible? Do they taste good? Did their agricultural bureau keep genetic samples?

Urgent! Urgent!
Xiangxue and Lin Ming didn't even have time to read the comments. They stared at the scene of the mother and daughter burying the mycelium pits after digging up the matsutake mushrooms, and couldn't help but exclaim "Wow!"

"Sister Kagawa, is this how people in ancient times cultivated edible fungi? Was it always this hard work?"

During the scene change, Xiangxue took the opportunity to ask a question.

"Of course not. At that time, there should have been large-scale cultivation of edible fungi. However, people at that time believed in the belief that 'wild is the best,' so they preferred the delicacies that grew in the mountains and forests."

Kagawa answered casually, then stuffed a potato wedge into his mouth.

Wild? Xiangxue frowned in confusion, and just as she was about to ask something else, the next scene on the screen drew her attention.
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"what is this?"

Xiang Weiguo stared wide-eyed at the cone-shaped plant on the screen.

The answer was quickly revealed by the commentator: winter bamboo shoots.

Winter bamboo shoots? Bamboo shoots? Is this some new ingredient I've never seen before?
Xiang Weiguo stroked his chin, wondering to himself.

Then the scene changed, and a dense array of bamboo came into view.

Huh? This thing has something to do with bamboo?
All the viewers off-screen were stunned.

Bamboo is a familiar plant to most modern people. Because of its slender and upright stems, this plant is considered a good ornamental plant by many property management companies in residential areas, and it is planted near many communities.

The area where Kagawa and Aino live is an exception, since wealthy people all have their own ideas.

Some viewers who often observe the surrounding plants carefully will naturally recall occasionally seeing these pointed little things under bamboo.

So... this is edible?
Viewers in front of their screens, especially those living on the third floor or lower of their apartment buildings, were getting excited. After all, these days they watch live streams on their personal screens, which doesn't stop them from taking their screens out to dig for bamboo shoots. If they manage to dig one up, before the Agricultural Bureau and the Information Disorder Management Office issue their bans, they can try cooking it themselves using the documentary style... hehe.

Everyone had the same thought. Some impatient ones had even put on their shoes and were ready to rush out the door. Just then, the Xiang sisters' discussion could be heard on the screen.

"Sister, can we only eat winter bamboo shoots in winter?"

The stir-fried bamboo shoots with vegetables and stir-fried bamboo shoots with meat in the picture made Xiangxue keep swallowing her saliva. She had no choice but to pick up a bucket of fries and potato wedges and start eating them.

“Spring bamboo shoots and winter bamboo shoots are quite famous… Oh dear, they’re past their season.” Kagawa glanced at the Geegle search page and clicked his tongue. “The season for spring bamboo shoots ends in June, what a pity. Bamboo shoots from winter and spring are said to taste the best.”

"Can't we eat it now?"

"Not really. June to October is the peak season for bamboo shoot production. If you don't care about the texture, it's edible."

As he spoke, Kagawa stuffed a few more fries into his mouth.

Xiangxue figured it out: whenever her sister put fries in her mouth, it meant she wouldn't continue. Perhaps it was too complicated to explain? Or maybe her sister didn't quite understand either?
She turned her gaze back to the screen in front of her.

Meanwhile, the people who rushed out of their homes were all driven back home by the patrol robots in their own communities.

The reason given is that the bamboo and bamboo shoots in the green belt have been requisitioned by the Agricultural Bureau and cannot be harvested without permission.

Upon hearing this notice, the crowd rushing out of their homes was dumbfounded: Did those damn agricultural bureau bastards issue such a notice so quickly? Don't they ever get any sleep?
Agriculture Bureau's Cattle and Horses: Thanks for the invitation, I'm currently working overtime at my own headquarters watching the live stream on my own pay.

The comment section is now discussing this too. Viewers have figured out what the Agriculture Bureau is thinking, so they're just going to stay home and relax... Yeah, right! They're starving!

The people in the third fleet all touched their bellies in front of the screen.

I just finished dinner, how come I'm so hungry!
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Kagawa in the live broadcast room isn't doing much better right now.

Because the footage was shown in Guangxi Province.

Looking at the bright red snail rice noodles and pickled bamboo shoots on the screen, Xiangchuan suddenly felt that the fries, potato wedges, and steamed buns in his hand didn't taste so good anymore.

She recalled the night she traveled to the modern world. She was planning to enjoy the two boxes of packaged snail rice noodles that her family had given her to take to her rented apartment the next day. She had even prepared water spinach and eggs. But when she opened her eyes, she found herself 30,000 years in the future, a place even more of a culinary wasteland than Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province.

Looking at the snail rice noodles in the picture, which contained pickled bamboo shoots, wood ear fungus, dried bean curd, peanuts, green beans, and vegetables, Xiangchuan felt envious, jealous, and his eyes glazed over.

What can I make from this bowl of food?

Pickled bamboo shoots... Judging from the comments, it seems that modern people regard bamboo as an ornamental plant, at least there's still a chance to cultivate it, right?
Vegetables...we haven't found water spinach yet, but if all else fails, she wouldn't mind using rapeseed flowers instead.

Rice flour... with rice paste, everything is fine.

But what about the others?

Both dried bean curd sticks and pickled cowpeas are bean-based products. The beans have only just been planted; where is she going to find enough beans to use?
The peanuts are probably still lying somewhere in the botanical garden, waiting to be discovered. Commercialization? We'll have to wait!

Wood ear mushrooms? The shiitake and button mushrooms haven't been finalized yet!
Most importantly, the snail soup.

Kagawa stared at the image of pickled bamboo shoots and pork belly on the screen, reluctantly biting her straw. Most of the spices needed for the broth of snail rice noodles could be found in botanical gardens and pharmacies, but what about the snails? She hadn't caught any snails from the river during her previous field training. If the snails grew in other waters of the nature reserve, that would be fine, but what if they weren't there…?
Kagawa clenched the cup in his hand as he pondered this hypothesis.