High temperature and rainy season are coming at the same time, and the sultry mode is turned on again, and a bowl of mung bean soup that clears heat and reduces fire has become the standard for understanding the summer heat. Looking around the country, many places have the habit of drinking mung bean soup in summer. Eating habits in different regions have developed mung bean soup with different ingredients.
We have compiled three most distinctive mung bean soups in the country: Su-style mint water mung bean soup, Cantonese kelp mung bean soup, and old Shanghai lily lotus seed mung bean soup to relieve the heat in front of the screen.
When it comes to the exquisiteness of a cup of mung bean soup, Suzhou people recognize second place, but no one can recognize first place.
Suzhou people make their own unique drinking mung bean soup. The soup base is clear mint water, which contains mung bean , glutinous rice ball , winter melon candy , candied dates, green and red silk , and raisins. The rich ingredients gather into a colorful and wonderful picture.
According to the old Suzhou people, the earliest Su-style mung bean soup had only lilies and mung beans, and red and green silk and glutinous rice balls were added. That was how rich people eat it.
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But there are also records that the initial addition of glutinous rice was because in the planned economy era, mung beans were counted as miscellaneous grains. To make a bowl of mung bean soup, half a liang of grain coupons was required. The amount of mung beans was insufficient, so I could only add some glutinous rice to make up the number.
is also exquisite. The mung beans must have a shiny skin and the color must be green. The glutinous rice must be round glutinous rice , and it must be steamed rather than cooked, and it cannot be steamed too much. You need to keep some chewing heads. Knead it while it is hot and make it into small glutinous rice balls. Remember to keep it dry and not sticky. The most controversial thing about Su-style mung bean soup is the mint fragrance. When we first drank it, we felt like we were drinking fume oil. A cool feeling rushed straight to our foreheads, and in an instant, the whole body became 10℃.
The quality of a portion of Su-style mung bean soup depends on the brightness and transparency of the mint water.
is more magical than mint fragrance, and it is blue and red silk. From five-nut mooncake to the ingredients in Su-style mung bean soup, it is not accepted by friends from other places. But Suzhou people ignored it and still loved the green and red silk deeply. In addition to mung bean soup, eight treasure rice and traditional pastries, they would embellish them with green and red silk, which not only adds sweetness, but also gives you a festive color.
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Su style mung bean soup
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Nowadays, there are many mung bean soup stores on the streets and alleys of Suzhou. Every April, Suzhou people arrange their first cup of mung bean soup, and it is not until September that Su-style mung bean soup slowly leaves everyone's sight. Local gourmets recommended these 2 Su-style mung bean soups for us, and if you are interested, you will immediately cook them!
1 Dongwu Su Jinji mung bean soup
Address: Next stop in Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province·Tianhou Hotel
Business hours: 10:00-21:00
Recommended: Signature Ice mung bean soup 10 yuan, iced mint water 5 yuan
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Every time we come to Suzhou, we will definitely check in with the Dongwu Su Jinji mung bean soup, which has a traditional and authentic Su-style taste. It has also been shortlisted for this year's Suzhou food must-eat list, which is also a rare store in Suzhou that sells mung bean soup all year round.
His signature iced mung bean soup is filled with beer cups, an oversized transparent glass filled with ingredients, and one cup is enough to fill your stomach. First take a deep breath of mint water, cool it down and then slowly eat the ingredients with a spoon, which is very comfortable.
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If you take it out, the store will pack the mint water and ingredients separately to avoid affecting the taste.
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Our habit is to order a single cup of pure iced mint water, use the cooling of mint to comfort the hot heart, and then pair it with the special braised chicken feet , a perfect set of Su-style afternoon tea.
Wait until the end of summer, Suzhou's unique chicken head rice will be launched. The osmanthus chicken head rice in his house is also a must-try. It has a clean and innocent color combination and adds the aroma of osmanthus to the rock sugar water. The chicken head rice has a very tough taste and is sweet and delicious.
2 Banxia Drink
Address: No. 53, Dinghuisi Lane, Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province
Business hours: 10:00-20:30
Recommended: 12 yuan for black mung bean soup, 12 yuan for double-pin mung bean soup
A mung bean soup restaurant recommended by locals. It was formerly Zijinxiao Beverage Shop, and later renamed Banxia Drink. Next to Shuangta Market, you can also stroll around after eating.
Old diners recommend us to try the black rice mung bean soup, using black rice instead of glutinous rice, which is softer, glutinous and palatable, and adds a fresh and pleasant portion. The mung beans are crispy, soft and sweet, with clear grains, and every bite is very content. I heard that there is a new product this year, barley mung bean soup, and I am curious about the difference between it and glutinous rice.
Although many mung bean soup shops nowadays are like milk tea shops, they provide a variety of ingredients: pearls, boba, coconut fruit , fairy grass, taro balls , oats, etc., so that everyone can combine and match them by themselves. It can also remove glutinous rice balls, green and red silk, or replace them with sour plum soup base. But in the eyes of old Suzhou people, the most traditional combination is the most classic and delicious.
The first time I tried Cantonese mung bean soup, it is likely to subvert the three views. Adding kelp as ingredients makes the taste even sweet and rustling. Only veterans who know how to eat can think of this combination.
Guangdong people who know how to nourish food initially considered it from the perspective of health preservation. Adding cool kelp to mung bean paste doubled the effect of reducing swelling and removing dampness and heat. In order to harmonize the coldness, tangerine peel will be added to cook together, which can also increase the flavor.
Teacher Aike shared her Cantonese Sugar Water recipe with us. The secret is to add stinky grass , that is, rut . Just boil the stinky grass and mung beans, and when the mung beans are blooming, you can drink it. The smell of stinky grass is strong and special, and it feels spicy and cold when eaten. Some people think it smells bad, but it actually matches mung bean soup and has the effect of helping dampness and relieving asthma.
Sweet water shops in Guangzhou are everywhere, we recommend you to drink mung bean paste in these two stores.
1 Sweet Milk (Changleyuan) Sugar Water
Address: No. 101, Building 23, Changleyuan, Yuancun, Guangzhou
Business hours: 10:00-20:00
Recommended orders: kelp mung bean paste 7 yuan, red bean paste 6 yuan, coconut juice Taro sago 8 yuan
Almost every Guangzhou person has a sugar water shop in the old street in the growing memory. This restaurant is open in the community. The boss’s family has been operating this stall since 1999, and the business is in line with the familiarity between neighbors and neighbors unique to the old store. The old customers visit 3 times a week on average, and some specialists come to eat across regions.
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Kelp mung bean paste 7 yuan
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2 Chen Tea House
Address: No. 41, Shiqiaoda South Road, Panyu District, Guangzhou
Business hours: 13:30-17:30 (Saturday store closed)
Recommended orders: mung bean paste 8 yuan, almond paste 11 yuan, sesame paste 10 yuan, peanut paste 9 yuan
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Chen Tea House is located under an 84-year-old old arcade building. A family of five runs together, and relies on three or five desserts to support a small shop. It only opens for four hours every afternoon every day. Diners are busy with business. The boss greets him with a smile. Thank you often talks about this kind of human feelings. No matter how long you queue up, it will be like a spring breeze.
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mung bean paste 8 yuan
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mung bean paste 8 pieces a bowl, add tangerine peel and kelp, fresh and slightly sweet. Uncle can cook all the desserts in a dense and delicate way, and it takes a lot of effort to make a bowl of mung bean paste, but it is only available on Wednesdays and Fridays, so don’t be idle!
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Almond paste, peanut paste, sesame paste are all unique. If you want to taste different flavors, you can buy "double-pin". Many people come here to make this mouthful delicate and soft. More than 400 bowls are sold out every day, and they are often "snatched" when they are put on the shelves.
In Shanghai, mung bean soup is cooked at home. When summer comes, the elders will cook a large pot at home. After a long period of stewing, mung beans will be boiled into thick mung bean smooth . Lily lotus seeds are standard for mung bean soup. After putting them in the refrigerator for a few hours, they will be slightly bitter and sweet, and will be refreshing and pleasant.
When I was a child, I was sweating heavily when I came back from school. I drank a bowl of cold mung bean soup in front of the hustle fan. It was so cool.
Every household has a secret recipe for cooking mung bean soup at home. Some people like to boil mung beans, lilies, lotus seeds together, boil them into sand and add honey to ice, some like to add only mung beans and rock sugar, and some like to boil only mung beans and flowering, and each bowl is the taste of childhood.
Every summer, it is not difficult to get a portion of mung bean soup when you walk into the noodle restaurant on the streets of Shanghai. What is more refreshing and lovable than mung bean soup is the old Shanghai mung bean shaved ice.
Authentic mung bean shaved ice must be placed in a plastic cup or a big belly beer cup . The bottom of the cup is refreshing and blooming mung bean soup. The shaved ice is "shaved" into a large flat head and stuffed into the bottle. When eating, poke it with a small spoon and stir it. It is the most sweet and comfortable!
1 Long March Shaved Ice
Address: Road 283, Guanjiang Road, Changbai Xincun Street, Yangpu District, Shanghai
Business hours: 11:30-22:30
Recommended: mung bean shaved ice, red bean shaved ice
Price: mung bean shaved ice 12 yuan, red bean shaved ice 12 yuan
Speaking of Shanghai's shaved ice, the "Long March" that has been open for 30 years, firmly sitting in the first place in Shanghai shaved ice. Mung bean shaved ice is the ace product of the Long March. How many large pots of cold and sweet mung bean soup should be sold in a day.
mung bean soup is cold and slightly sweet. The aroma of mung beans is very strong. Just smelling the heat has dissipated most of it. The mung beans were cooked until they bloomed, and they were gently crushed with the tongue. They were eaten in their mouths and before they could chew them, they were eaten with the broken ice. The process of making
is also very heroic. The aunt neatly put half a cup of raw materials in the cup, and then covered the shaved ice that was 8cm high on the mouth of the cup, which was cool enough to the naked eye.
After you get the mung bean shaved ice, be sure to poke it hard with a spoon first, so that the crushed ice and mung bean soup perfectly blend, and bring the refreshing taste of mung bean shaved ice to the extreme. Take a deep breath of sweet mung bean soup mixed with cold little crumbs of ice, and the heat of summer instantly disappears.
2 Yixinzhai
Address: No. 1503 Pingliang Road, Yangpu District, Shanghai
Business hours: 10:00-14:30; 16:30-21:00
Recommended: mung bean shaved ice, beef fried bread, beef pot stickers
Price: mung bean shaved ice 10 yuan
Yangpu District seems to be able to retain old shaved ice. Yixinzhai, famous for beef fried bread and beef pot stickers, is always full of people when it comes to summer. It is said that 1,000 cups of old shaved ice can be sold a day.
paid the order at the window, and the service staff inside started to shaved ice on the ice maker , and then put it on the mung bean soup boldly, and the old Shanghai-style mung bean shaved ice was born!
The mung beans in his house are very densely boiled, and each of them is blooming. His family has enough ingredients, and there are a lot of mung beans. When the smoothie melts a little, it feels like drinking iced mung bean soup. Don’t be too happy if you have a bowl of it in the summer!
A bowl of simple mung bean soup once accompanied us in growing up. It is not only a cool sugar water, but also a beautiful childhood memory.
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