Lovely Chilli
October 13th 2008 02:02 am
Lovely Chilli
Monday ,october 6
What is the most unforgettable part about your hometown in your memory? Of course, it must be the local delicious food. For food is a major part of a culture, different nations, communities, and societies may has very different kinds of food. Some like hot food, others prefer to mild food. However, there is a food, or specifically, a kind of vegetable favorited by people all around the world.
It is chilli. Perhaps you may feel hot when you comes to the word or the lovely vegetable. Sure, it’s red, red color and hot, hot taste might defeat many people who are less courage to have a try. Yet, just for such a sexy appearance and hot taste, it has become the role or minor role of the household dishes
People like to eat it for it can open their stomatch . For example, there is a delicious food in my hometown, called luo si fen(cooked by snail with green vegetables and noodle). The mian material of the food is chilli. The food is very popular in the city, for its hot taste, red color and good smell. Before the food being put in front of you, the good smell of snail and sour bamboon have spreaded into your nose, and make your mouth water. Until a bowl of luosi fen finally put in fore of you, the red color of chilli may arouse your appetite very much. Then you could swallow your food in just few minute. And then, your eyes and nose will shed water for the very hot chilli.
In fact, i could not eat the food in such a way when i lived in the city many years ago. The main reason was not for the hot taste, but the concern about my behavior. I would not like to be a water woman in public, though it would be very satisfied to eat like that way. However, it did not mean i would be more graceful at my own home.
I was grew up in a village where the poeple lived a poor life many years ago. The houshold dishes they ate were humble vegetables and rice. Yet they needed much more energy to work hard at their farmings. So, in order to open their stomach , hot chilli became the role of their daily dishes. The hot taste also made them more tough and unrestrained. My family also cooked chilli nearly everyday in my memory. I recalled i would become more happy and appetited when a bowl of chilli put on the table. In order to make it more delicious, my mother may cook it in various ways. So we would not be bored with the humble food everyday .
Even today, a red chilli makes rouse my appetite. I would cook it with other vegetables sometimes, but it could no longer have the taste made by my mother indeed. Oh, lovely chilli, you are always the main role in my heart.
