Chapter 47 Section 47 Spicy Sichuan and Hunan Food Secrets

One pepper is hot all over the north and south. Is there a unique reason for Sichuan and Hunan to be the top? Among the domestic spicy-eating tribes, the Sichuan Army and the Hunan Army are very eye-catching. Compared with the Northwest and Southwest tribes who keep a low profile, they may be better at eating chili. . The spiciness of Sichuan cuisine and Chongqing hot pot seems to be an unattainable height, and the Hunan Army has a team that is particularly capable of fighting.In comparison, the spicy-eating tribes in the northwest and southwest should keep a low profile. The oily spicy peppers of the people in northern Shaanxi are not very low in capsaicin.The spicy food in the Northwest is a kind of dry and hard spicy. It doesn't turn at all, but the people in the Northwest don't speak, and they eat as soon as they eat. They use the function of language to sing. The kind of Xintianyou, eating chili is a Northwesterner's deep breath, take a breath, so that you can sing a beautiful song to your sister.

Southwest also sang, but the songs were all put into the hot pot.People in Chengdu say, "Where the hot pot is red at sunset, put the cups on the chopsticks and the warm wind blows", which makes Chengdu's winter hot in one pot.Chili has no winter, and all Chengdu people have a chili in their hearts, and the world is full of chili. I really want to solve the mystery of Sichuan and Hunan hot peppers.Are they traditional?Is it genetic?Are they more fearless?I formally devoted myself to the research. Thinking about it, 500 years ago, no one had seen or eaten chili peppers. They didn’t know what chili peppers were. How did Sichuan people suddenly become famous all over the world for being able to eat chili peppers?Sichuan people make magical spicy hot pot, which is so spicy that the sky is dark and black is turned upside down.There is a saying that there is no difficult road in the world, as long as you are willing to climb the slope.First of all, I searched for it based on geographical factors. Humidity... so to speak, because eating chili does have the effect of dispelling dampness, but coastal cities are also damp, and Shanghai and Jiangsu are also damp.There is another geographical factor, that is, there was no salt to eat in history, and chili was eaten instead of salt.This one is also not true. Sichuan has the earliest salt well in China, and it is an artesian salt well, which means that it does not use a machine to pump it and automatically rush out salt water. It is in Zigong.China only caused local salt shortage in a certain historical period, and China is rich in salt resources.

Putting aside the influence of the general environment, let's examine it from the way of eating.I found that Sichuanese eat spicy food differently from other people. They all have to pay attention to spicy...spicy, both spicy and spicy.Eating hemp itself is also an act of bravery. The hemp of peppercorns is like tens of thousands of small ants biting the taste buds on their tongues together, biting the tongue like numbness, disturbed like numbness, sweaty like numbness, and dizzy like numbness... no numbness. Sichuan's spicy man, who can't be a dish, can't have a meal without spicy food, is outstanding in hemp!

Suddenly, I had an epiphany, and I understood that Sichuan people can become the star of chili eating because of this word.Zanthoxylum bungeanum is oily, and it is a kind of volatile oily. The ingredients are very light, and they often float on the surface of the soup. The first chopsticks or spoonful of Sichuan people are all hempy things, and the mouth immediately spreads in the mouth. A layer of numbness paralyzes the nerve endings of the entire mouth, like giving the surgeon a shot of pethidine before the operation... If you eat chili, nothing will happen, even if you eat Chilean red finger pepper.

It is certain that Sichuanese eat chili and must be spicy. If Sichuan people take away the spicy food before eating spicy food, it is equivalent to abolishing half of the Sichuan people's martial arts for eating spicy food.In order to confirm this discovery, I specially found a Chaotian pepper. I chewed five peppercorns first, took a bite of the pepper, and it was spicy; The spiciness is reduced... It is said that if you chew ten freshly picked fresh peppers, no matter how spicy you eat them, they will not have a spicy taste. Hunan people also eat peppercorns. In fact, spicy and spicy go hand in hand. Everyone who eats peppers eats peppercorns at the same time.I don’t know the reason, but I know that pepper oil in southern Jiangxi is also very numb. I especially like three kinds of roasted loach with pepper oil, chili pepper and mint.However, Hunan people are not as spicy as those made by Sichuan people, they are just spicy.What is the secret of Xiang people?I also made a discovery. Hunan people like to eat spicy pork because they like braised pork. Hunan people’s braised pork is not spicy at all, but fat and sweet... There is a mystery here. When you eat braised fatty pork, you can digest it in your mouth. Daojie is smeared with a layer of "anti-spicy oil", so that the peppers are hard to be spicy.

It is true that not all precautions are effective, so Hunan people have another method, which is to chew tea and fried beans.The eating method of Hunan people is very unique. They drink tea first, then chew tea leaves, and then chew fried soybeans. The spiciness can be removed.