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What's the taste of bean juice?

Bean juice is a unique food in Beijing. Because of the strong rancid smell, it is difficult for ordinary people to adapt. Mr. Wang Zengqi also said: "This thing is fermented by mung beans and has a sour taste. People who don't like drinking are said to be like swill and sour. The drinker said: nothing else can have this taste-sour! This is just like stinky tofu. Some people love it, and some people don't. "

Bean juice is a unique traditional snack in old Beijing, which has a history of 300 years according to written records. Bean juice is made of mung beans, which is fermented by filtering out starch and making into vermicelli and other foods. It has the effects of nourishing stomach, detoxifying and clearing fire.

Formation of soybean juice:

Beijing bean juice looks gray-green, and tastes smelly and sour. But once you drink it, it will have an endless sigh. Just as foreigners eat smelly "cheese" (that is, smelly cheese), people who are not used to it are difficult to swallow or even vomit. If you don't eat addiction for a day, you will feel that you owe something. Therefore, the reputation of the small shop "Bean Juice" in Dong 'an market is no less than that of the big hotel next door, Donglaishun. Come and drink a bowl of 50 cents bean juice. There are many people in luxury cars and private cars.