Old things in the south

Chapter 47

In the long summer of Taiwan, cold food shops and cold food stalls have become active very early.Ice cube sorbet is certainly the "forward" in cold drinks, but there are also many cold foods with Taiwanese local flavor.The working class in Taiwan is still interested in local cold food, because they think that only this kind of cold drink can really make people feel refreshed after drinking it.And cheap price is also one of the main reasons.

Among the many local cold drinks, the most popular one should be "Aiyu Bing", which is a kind of jelly, which can be drunk with sweet juice and only costs [-] cents per bowl.Ai Yubing is the "angel of the road" in hot weather, but it is difficult to be elegant.

The raw material of Aiyubing is a plant called Aiyuzi, but it also has many aliases, such as "Yuzhi", "Caozhizi", most of Taipei calls it "Aoyao", but "Aiyubing" three This word seems to arouse people's aesthetic feeling more.It is a wild vine that does not need to be planted in the mountains. It grows up from the roots of big trees or rock corners, and bears a fig-like fruit, which is Aiyuzi.Peel off the outer skin of the fruit, and there is a kind of powder-like particles attached to the skin. This kind of thing is wrapped in cloth, kneaded in water, and it is squeezed out from the cloth. It is a slippery mucus, which will form half an hour after half an hour. Transparent yellow jelly.

Its ripening season is from August to November every year.Picking and loving jade is also the occupation of the villagers. This kind of work is not very simple, but difficult and dangerous.Because Aiyuzi is epiphytic in mountains above 8 meters, entangled on trees or rock corners, it is of course not easy to harvest it.

There is also a folk story about Aiyuzi:
A person passing through the mountains wanted to drink some water from a stream beside the road because he was thirsty, but the strange thing was that the stream became frozen for some reason. The fruit of a plant that splits and falls into the water.So he invented this cold drink and started a business.He has a beautiful daughter named Aiyuzi who helps him with his business. Everyone always likes to say: "Go to Aiyuzi's place to eat."

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