Shrimp paste is the seaside people usually eat with food, but what causes a lot of outsiders eat not accustomed to?

Shrimp paste is a kind of China's southern China, Hong Kong, China, coastal areas are common seasoning. It is mainly made from small shrimp with salt, fermented and ground into a thick consistency, then exposed to sunlight to evaporate the water.

The production of delicious shrimp paste smells fresh and fragrant, without any fishy taste, and the texture of the sauce is delicate, change will not be mixed with other substances, salinity tastes moderate. And shrimp sauce with the fermentation of time, will be inside the shrimp protein decomposition into amino acids, so there will be a unique fragrance, taste delicious.

In coastal areas, shrimp paste is often used as a hot pot seasoning or cooking food spices. Both for the food to add a fresh flavor, but also for the human body to supplement the nutrition, because the shrimp contained in the calcium will be broken down into easy to absorb calcium, fat will be converted into fatty acids, coupled with the shrimp itself has a high-quality protein, so popular with people.

However, in addition to the coastal areas of people especially favorite general acceptance of people in other areas will be relatively low, this may be because the shrimp sauce is not made well, then it will produce shrimp fishy taste, plus some unscrupulous vendors in order to save costs, in the shrimp inside will also be mixed with other substances, thus destroying the shrimp sauce the original flavor. Secondly, shrimp itself belongs to the higher purine food, gout crowd is to try to eat less or not eat. Shrimp sauce is rich in shrimp, natural purine content is not low. So some gout or fear of their own purine is too high people, naturally, he stayed away.

Moreover, shrimp paste does not look particularly beautiful, it is a sticky food, color, texture sometimes not as beautiful as other foods. So people who aren't too familiar with it don't get to appreciate it from that. On top of that, people outside of coastal areas rarely eat shrimp in large quantities, so naturally they don't get to experience the deliciousness of shrimp paste. Many people have a non-accepting attitude towards food that they have not eaten before. Moreover, there may be some people who may be more resistant to the odor that shrimp paste produces. That's next to some people who like fish sauce, some people like stinky tofu, and some people like cilantro. But there are also people who do not like them.

The world is a big place, and there are a lot of food real repair, worth exploring. For the food we can accept, we certainly want to praise him, so that more people know, and for the food we can not accept, we do not begrudge it a positive description, after all, turnip greens, each has its own favorites, we have to respect other people's eating habits, do not go to disparage any kind of food.