Jiangxi cuisine
DennisHarris
As long as you spend some time in Nanchang, you will find a very special place in Nanchang. Nanchang has many small streets and alleys, even the most prosperous Zhongshan Road. The road can be crowded with traffic, but as long as you turn around and enter an alley or side street, you will find that it is very quiet and narrow. Such an alley was only big enough for two people to walk across from each other. The old bluestone slabs and the surrounding short shantyhouses told about their history. However, on these narrow streets, you can always see small merchants carrying wooden barrels waiting for customers along the street. Inside the barrels are actually the "blessing" soup that Nanchang people could only eat during the New Year. Because they are hawked along the street, no seats and benches will be provided. The eater will just hold a disposable plastic bowl and spoon in his hand and eat. So often in the period before going to work every day, you can see a wooden barrel surrounded by office workers holding "blessing" soup. I think this is definitely a big folk scene in Nanchang! <br />In fact, I imagined this name myself. In Nanchang dialect, it is called fu soup, and the word fu has the third sound. I asked many people how to express this word in words, but few people said it clearly. Later, I finally asked a person in the suburbs of Nanchang. He said that the word fu actually means "paste". When I thought about it, it was right. This soup contained various materials, and finally sweet potato flour was used to thicken and prepare it into a paste. It should indeed be called "paste" soup. However, today is Mother's Day, and I remember that both my mother and my mother like to eat this "paste" soup. I think since it is a Chinese New Year meal, I will take its homophonic "blessing"!
