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Spicy and colorful Chinese Miao food
The Miao are an ethnic minority, and admiring the glistening silver jewelry the women wear from head to toe, you may think they are rich. But their life is quite hard and simple because of the tough living conditions in mountainous areas of southern and southwestern China. Even during holidays and weddings, food displayed on a table doesn't look very sumptuous. But in the Miao area there is some special and delicious food unlike that in any other places of China.
Colorful glutinous rice
Glutinous rice is the staple food of Miao culture. They cook a unique and colorful rice to feed their friends during holidays. The rice has five distinct colors: black, white, yellow, blue, and red. The colors are from juices of varied plants. It looks alluring, and tastes sweet and delicious.
The single girls send their lovers the sweet, colorful glutinous rice as a gift. They can place a few different things in the rice basket to tell how they feel about the men. A bamboo hook means the man should buy an umbrella for the girl as a gift. The branch of a tree indicates they will break up. A toon sprout implies they can get married in the coming future. A glutinous rice paste with the design of baby, dragon, and phoenix will be served for the bride and groom on their wedding day.
Oil-tea
A very common Miao beverage is “oil-tea.” Some people drink it every day. The tea leaves are mixed together with oil, salt, and ginger, then cooked in a wok. Then water is added and the whole brew is brought to a boil. With a wooden mallet, the tea leaves are beaten into particles and then everything is boiled for one more moment. After the tea is filtered and blended together with peanuts, beans, corn, or glutinous rice, some garlic and peppers can be put.
It's all worth it, because you can take a big sip of freshly brewed oil-tea.
A chopstick is always served with oil-tea. If you don't want any more tea, just put the chopstick onto your bowl. If not, you will be continually given tea!
Sour soup
A special sour soup is served all year round. It's made of fermented rice, steamed radishes, and cabbage. To cook chicken, fish or meat, the Miao like to use this sour soup to give their dishes a unique sour flavor.
Spicy flavoring
In ancient times, it was very difficult for the Miao to get salt, so they used hot peppers to add flavor to their dishes and developed a taste for very spicy food. Today, chopped and fried chili peppers are the main flavoring put into Miao food.
There are many ways to cook chili peppers. You can fry or bake them, and then mix them together with wine, ginger, or garlic to get varied tastes. You can store the flavoring in a jar for quite a long time.
Chicken and duck
The Miao like chicken and duck meat, and especially chicken or duck's heart. The inside of chicken or duck are always kept for the elder and guests to express respect.
Wine
Wine has a long history among the Miao. Almost all Miao families can manufacture wine at home.
People use glutinous rice and a unique fruit to make a sweet wine which tastes delicious and aids digestion. If you go to a Miao village, the hospitable local people may welcome you with a whole wine service. From the road to their village gate, there are twelve different sites used for this service. You will be named as a hero if you can drink up all 12 bowls of wine! Don't feel uneasy if you can't. You just need to touch the bowl with your lips softly, and say "Dou She Mo," which is " Thank you" in the Miao language!” then you can go.
Visit the Miao villages during their holidays, and you can enjoy their exciting singing and dancing performances, along with their fascinating embroidery and silver ornaments like the unique silver earrings. And sure, lots of wine is served too!
My poor sad bamboo plant?
I went on vacation for a week and left my bamboo plant on the table with plenty of fresh water. When we returned home there was plenty of water still remaining in the holder but one stalk turned yellow up to the lower leaves. There is still about four inches of green remaining at the top. The other two stalks are fine. Was this caused by the heat and humidity? Will it be okay now that we are keeping the house cool again? Or should I give up on it and just count it among my many failings as a plant mommy?
Thanks, cscl. So, there is no hope for the yellow stalk. I'm such a bad plant person and I thought there was nothing I could do to a bamboo but I was wrong. Next time I go on vacation I'll give it to my neighbor with the green thumb to babysit it.
Aww, that's to bad. Well i heard a floweriest talking to my mum when we went shopping for plants.. and she said that if the water heats up, then the plant doesn't get all the nutrients that it gets from cold/pure water. Maybe that could be it. But I'm pretty sure it loved the sunlight, after all it makes its food like that.
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