How do Taiwanese eat betel nuts?

The betel nut was added into the dish, and the betel nut chicken soup was annealed.

Fried betel nut flowers.

Cold Betel Nuts: Spring is the season of wild vegetables, fresh and crisp betel nut flowers, cold sesame oil, black vinegar and parsley, refreshing and distinctive.

Betel nut, eat together with "marble"

The eating of betel nuts in the Taiwan region is not the same as eating dried fruits in the southeast Asia as candied fruits. Taiwanese people like to use fresh fruit, with red ash, white ash, cilantro, and vine. As people in different regions like it differently, there are five types of betel nut, betel nut, betel nut, betel nut and betel nut.

What is white ash? The owner of the betel nut stalls said that the betel nuts are strong acids and the white ash is a strong alkali. Therefore, the betel nuts must be added with white ash to neutralize the acid and alkali. The so-called white ash is lime. Of course, the lime is not a kind of cement wall. The lime is to pass through. A processing program can be imported. The raw materials for lime in Taiwan must be purchased with Formosa Plastics. The raw material for lime is marble! The white-gray processing industry first bought marble from Formosa Plastics and burned it to a high temperature of over 2,000 degrees Celsius. After a continuous washing process, it eventually became the “white ash” that was eaten with betel nuts.

Liao Wencong, the owner of the betel nut stall for several decades, said that after the gray ash is bought, it must be left standing for a period of time to allow lime alkali to oxidize. They call it “white hair”. The practice is to put limestone into the large cylinder. Soaked in sorghum wine, after two or three days, the cylinder will be covered with glass-like debris. At this time, the debris should be picked up. After such actions are repeated several times, the white ash will not be able to “cut mouth”!

What is red ash? Liao Wencong said that the standard red ash must meet four conditions: “gum, dry, Q, and sticky,” and the so-called red ash is a mixture of white ash and various Chinese medicines. Some high-end goods also claim to add Ganoderma lucidum powder and ginseng. powder. Purely a gimmick, red ash is a new product invented by Taiwanese. Since the betel nut with reddish-grey taste is lighter and slightly sweeter, the alkalinity is not as strong as white lime. The “junkie” who just started to eat betel nut was mainly reddish gray. “It’s kind of like The same thing holds true for those who start smoking and smoke is light,” Liao Wencon added.

In addition to the white ash and red ash, betel nut is also an indispensable supporting role. It is the pods that are wrapped outside the betel nut and the pods that are sandwiched between them. Amaranth flowers are the spikes of females, and the leaves of the males are the leaves of the male vines. They are pepper plants and are grown on flat ground. The most common betelnuts in Taiwan are eaten in two ways: one is to split the betel nut, and the other is to add a piece of silk flower and some lime and other condiments, the so-called “red betel nut”; the other is on the loquat leaf. , Lime and then pack betel nut without silk flowers, this is the "white betel nut" or "leaf betel nut."

Among the betel nuts, the most expensive are the eucalyptus leaves and silk flowers. When the prices are good, the price per kilogram of the glutinous rice husk rises to NT$700. It is very common that the pods are as high as 2,000 yuan, so it is particularly easy. Caused the thieves. In order not to waste money, the farmers who planted the loquat leaves had to surround the curtain and add the warning language to guard against theft.

Five ways to eat betel nut:

Red Ash Betel Nuts:

After the betel nut (King Choi) is cut open, apply a suitable amount of red ash to the middle and then add the squid.

White Betel Nuts:

After the betel nut (Kenjing) is cut open, apply a proper amount of white ash to the middle and then add the pod.

Betel Nuts:

Betel Nuts (King) are wrapped directly in loquat leaves, usually with some white ash on the loquat leaves.

Cut betel nut:

Cut the large betel nut (King Choi) side to side, apply white ash, and wrap the loquat leaves.

Gemini betel nut:

The two smaller Betel Nuts (King Alice) are wrapped in loquat leaves and wrapped in loquat leaves.