Shanwei's Specialty Snacks - Vegetable Tea Essay

Weekend stroll in the Erma Road market, rows of snack stalls a wide range of food, especially vegetable tea in other cities is unique, with its long history of culinary culture hidden, about the rank of vegetable tea is not little known!

Legend has it that on the fifth day of the first month of a certain year during the Song Dynasty, an old monk went down the mountain to make money. It was late in the day, the old monk's stomach was hungry, walked to the door of a rich man's house, hoping to be able to make some fasting rice. Opened the door is a forty-year-old middle-aged woman, well-dressed generous, elegant and virtuous face. The old monk explains the intention, the rich man's wife heart feel pity perplexed, hastily invited the old monk into the hall to treat as a guest of honor, personally chopped up seven kinds of vegetables with the broth boiled, made a soup surface floating with green leaves pan green dishes, the old monk felt that this is the most delicious things on earth, asked the rich woman this is what the dish? The rich woman could not think of how to call it, the main ingredients are a variety of vegetables, let's call it vegetable tea!

The rich man's wife is kind-hearted, usually charitable, relief of the poor around, ten miles around all have a reputation. The old monk blessed the wealthy lady good fortune, a lifetime of peace! But Mrs. Wealthy sighed, life regrets: so far there is still no half a man and a woman in the knee.

The old monk recited under his breath: "Namo it Buddha, this time next year, the wishes of the owner will be realized!" After saying this, he disappeared into the night without looking back.

The next year, the rich man's wife was born a white fat son, the rich man's family in order to express their gratitude to the old monk, every year during the first month of the new year, to do vegetable tea to entertain friends and relatives, also known as the "Wanting Tea", to express the people of the family's wealth to the prosperity of the good hope. Nowadays, vegetable tea is diversified in terms of ingredients, the soup base is made of pork bone, and a variety of vegetables are served with dried squid, diced meat, shrimp, etc. The taste and nutritional value are higher, and the low cost of the tea makes it more nutritious. Taste and nutritional value is higher, low energy, low fat, beneficial to the stomach and body.