short essay 1

                                   Healthy Eating

In China, there are more than eight kinds of food which were named by the name of province or the location in China, such as Shandong cuisine, Chongqing cuisine, Northeastern cuisine, Beijing cuisine, Cantonese cuisine, Hunan cuisine, Sichuan cuisine, Northwestern cuisine and so on. The Chongqing Style Boiled Blood Curd is my only favorite food in Chongqing cuisine; we call it Maoxuewang which is very spicy and healthy food in China. The picture as follows,                                   

Personally, I always like the spicy food, and there are several kinds of pepper from different countries in my refrigerator. When I first saw the Maoxuewang in Chongqing province, the appearance attracted my attention and the pepper in it also made me exciting. Although it is too spicy for people who cannot eat spicy food, people usually order it in restaurants.

When I was first come to Chongqing province, my friends took me to the snack street to taste their food; the deep impression is the food in there is all spicy. At the beginning in Chongqing, I could not adapt to the wet weather, and my joints were painful. I told my friends my situation when we met in a luxury hotel at night, my friends just smiled and told me the food in the hotel could remit my pain. It was my first time to saw the brighter and fresh food, when the Maoxuewang was served. You can see the red curd and pepper in the dish first, and then the fragrance also makes you become more appetitive. There are several stuffs in it, the major ingredient is duck blood, soybean sprouts, and the minor ingredient is eel, ham, citron, agaric and lettuce. In the second day after we ate together, I felt good and the pain disappeared. My friends told me people also got arthritis because of the wet weather in Chongqing, after finding the piquancy can dispel the dampness in people’s body, people in the area always ate the spicy food to kept healthy. Now it is become a culture there and the Chongqing food become more and more popular in China.

After the vacation in Chongqing, I searched the origin of Maoxuewang. There was a town near west Shaping dam, it was the most important place for people to trade around the Jialing River. It was so prosperous because most ship was berthed in there. Before 1970, there was a fat woman open a stall to sell the soup, such as pork soup, bone soup with lung lobe, intestines, and several kinds of spice in it. It was occasionally that the woman put the duck blood in the soup and it became more delicious, so it was called Maoxuewang. As time went on, people revised it to more bright and fresh than before.

The stuffs in Maoxuewang are all have their value. First, the soybean sprouts contains vitamin, people eat it can defend the deficiency of vitamin B2, the vitamin E in soybean sprouts can protect the skin and blood capillary, it also can defend the hypertension. What’s more, the citron can provide the microelement that people needed, and some elements can help people defer senility. Moreover, the agaric is a very health food which is warm in nature, nourishing liver and spleen, enriching the blood, fight against senium and agerasia. It contains vitamin K which is fighting against thrombosis and coronary heart disease, the most important function is that the pectin in agaric can remove the dust and impurity, the ability of cleaning is very famous in food. At last, the lettuce contains potassium which can release the pressure of atrium, and it has several benefits for the people who got hypertension and heart disease. Also, it contains iodine which helps people keep regular metabolism, growing and developing.

Generally speaking, there are five reasons why people in Chongqing like spicy food. First, the environment and weather make people change their custom about food. Second, the wet weather also give rise to people to get the arthritis, so people eat the spicy food in order to keep heath. Third, people can always have the appetite if they ate the spicy food. What’s more, the piquancy also has the function about hairdressing and it has positive effect for the breasts. Moreover, the spicy food has the ability to prevent cancer.

     In autumn quarter last year, I found a restaurant named China Jade which has the Maoxuewang. It is a little more different from Maoxuewang Chongqing, and the China Jade made a little reform about it. I can also recall the first feeling and the experience in Chongqing when I eat the Maoxuewang.