What is the difference between ginger and yam?

1, different origins. Ginger potato is a specialty of Chaoyang District, Shantou City, Guangdong Province, China. During the Yongzheng period of the Qing Dynasty, Huilai County Records was recorded as ginger. Ginger potato, a kind of beautiful potato, was only planted in some coastal mountainous areas of Chaoyang County and Huilai County in the past, the most famous of which was planted in Houxi, Mianbei, and Shangkeng ginger potato planted in Hexi Town. Can be made into ginger potato soup, five-fruit mashed potatoes and other desserts. It is auspicious food for Chaoyang people and is also used to entertain guests at ordinary times. China's yam producing areas are mainly Henan, Jiangsu, Guangxi, Hunan and other places. However, Huaiqing, Henan Province has the best quality and is regarded as an authentic medicinal material. Dig out after the first frost, scrape off the rough skin, and dry it in the sun or dry it in the sun, which is called "hairy yam"; Then soak it soft and stuffy, rub it into a cylindrical shape, dry it and polish it, which is called "Guangyam".

2, the taste is different. Ginger potato is as white as snow, crisp in taste and rich in mucus, and has the effects of "warming lung, benefiting milk, benefiting liver, invigorating spleen, regulating stomach, tonifying kidney, moistening intestine, caring skin and promoting blood circulation". Yam can be divided into crisp yam and soft waxy yam. Yam with smooth and crisp skin is suitable for frying. If it is a stew or a dessert dish, it is recommended to choose noodle yam, which will be very sweet and full. Noodles and yam are characterized by many pockmarks, many whiskers and smoothness.

3, the food is different. Chaoyang people are very particular about eating ginger and potatoes. A potato chip soup with slices and boiled in water for a while. The potato chips in the soup are slightly curly and taste smooth. There are pieces of stewed ginger potatoes, with white sugar and lard simmered slowly, which tastes sweet and delicious; There are five kinds of fruits, such as peach, apricot and persimmon, which are cooked and mashed into mud, mixed with sugar and steamed at any time. This kind of five fruits of ginger and potato used in wedding banquets is often a good gift for guests to praise. Yam itself has many ways to eat, for example, it can be mixed with other medicinal materials and ingredients to stew soup. For example, yam ribs soup has a good dietotherapy and health care function. In addition, yam can also cook porridge. Yam porridge also has a good health care and therapeutic effect on human body. Yam can also be fried with other ingredients, such as lily yam fried fungus. In addition, yam can also be made into related desserts.