Chapter 29 Section 29 Cuisine in Beijing

I always thought that the vegetable vendors standing in the farmer’s market were all vegetable farmers, but it turned out that they were not.It's just my habitual thinking. I asked the vegetable vendor for advice, and I asked whether the green beans on the stall were from greenhouses or from Hainan, and he said he didn't know.I thought, strange, I don’t know where the vegetables come from when I sell vegetables, and I think about it again, I’m relieved, when I sell vegetables, I’m in charge of selling vegetables, and where do the vegetables come from? The farmers’ market in Beijing looks bustling and prosperous, but in fact the dishes are the same. Vegetable vendors go to the big farmers’ market in the morning when the sky is dim and light to sell the vegetables wholesale, and then sell them at the stalls rented by their own families. The dishes served on the day are the same. , and those who are slightly different, there are leftover vegetables sold yesterday, otherwise, the vegetable vendor has a second channel for food intake, which is not often the case.I used to live in Fengtai, and once met a seller of wild amaranth, which was said to be picked on the way into the city from where I lived. The wild amaranth was thick but had a vegetable flavor.

Speaking of the taste of the dishes is really sad. Most of the dishes in Beijing come from the industrial production of greenhouses. They are out of season, without wind and rain, and also lack sunlight. They are tender and sweet. Always eating this kind of food makes people confused: I eat this dish Is it lentils or green peppers?So I used my brain to buy some vegetables that are not produced in vegetable bases, such as kidney beans, which are dark in color, look extremely hard to grow and have some scars, so I will buy them.This kind of kidney beans mostly grows in open vegetable fields, and it has a vegetable flavor.Potatoes depend on their skins. You can buy small yellow, tender and moist potatoes. Newly unearthed, braised beef or garlic mashed potatoes taste very rich in potato flavor.You should buy smaller radishes. It is best if you can see some green skin around the upper raw leaves. This radish has the pungent taste of radish. It is good for roasting meat or cooking fish soup.People in the north don't like bamboo shoots very much. The very good winter bamboo shoots sell for three yuan and five kilograms, but no one buys them. I negotiated the price to two yuan a kilogram and bought them too.Stir-fried bacon with winter bamboo shoots is delicious. It is generally believed that bamboo shoots are born in the mountains, and chemical fertilizers and pesticides will not be applied. Green food cannot escape, so I will buy bamboo shoots if I have them.There are several dishes that I dare not buy. One is fresh shiitake mushrooms. I feel that the pesticides have been used heavily. After eating, I feel drowsy and my eyelids are plumb.The same goes for leeks, as well as garlic moss, cabbage, etc. If you want to eat them, you should always soak them in water.

It is said that Beijing's big farmer's markets have generally implemented a pesticide residue random inspection system this year, which should be welcomed.However, how to deal with the vegetables with excessive pesticide residues?Are you fined?Or detain vegetables that exceed the standard for destruction and restrict the vegetable merchants from entering the Beijing market in the future?Neither said.The most worrying thing is that after the fines for excessive pesticides on vegetables, the vegetables will still flow into the market, and the people who buy vegetables will pay the fines and go back to eat pesticides.