Chapter 1378: Snow City Buddha Beads
When you travel to Syracuse, you may usually be attracted by the sacredness of Syracuse, but forget to pay attention to what Syracuse has to offer, which is really a big loss for everyone. However, Zhang Tianyuan had deliberately read the travel guide here before coming here, and he naturally knew some of the delicious food, but he was not so familiar with it.
For example, this cold salad consumed beef, he knew that this is a very famous delicacy in Syracuse, using fresh and tender consuming beef, and then marinating the meat with salt, then cutting it into thin slices, and then mixing it with chili peppers, it is a very good appetizer, and the cold salad with barley wine is definitely very delicious. This kind of consumable beef has a very strong aroma and an endless aftertaste.
Another example is this fermented cheese porridge.
Maybe the name doesn't sound great, but after eating it, you have to admit that rotten cheese can make a difference. It's a unique blend of bone broth, flour, fermented cheese, and beef and mutton, which feels a little weird, but the taste is unstoppable.
Gao Xi felt that he might not like this thing, but Liu Mengxun definitely liked it, by the way, and yogurt rice, for Liu Mengxun, who likes to eat sour now, it was really too much.
Cordyceps fish meatballs are even more interesting.
Probably many people know Cordyceps, right?
That's right, that's exactly what Cordyceps is referring to. Cordyceps is steamed, boneless, peeled, minced, stirred with egg whites and soybean flour, fried in ghee, and then poured with ghee simmered with many ingredients. Needless to say, the degree of nutrition depends on the complexity of its production method. You can imagine how delicious it is!
It's just that this dish is still a little expensive, and many people don't dare to let go of it after coming. Zhang Tianyuan is naturally not afraid. He has always had a soft spot for fish balls, but he doesn't know what it will taste like with cordyceps. But it shouldn't hurt to try.
So he said to the waiter: "Two points for each of these things, by the way, the trouble is to get two catties of fresh yak meat." ”
Zhang Tianyuan tasted the food by himself, and naturally he would not forget the hundred miles of night crying. Baili Night Cry is very picky about meat, if it is not fresh, it is not very delicious, and only eats raw meat, especially like beef and mutton, but because of its relatively small size. So it's not a lot of food. But even so, it's not something that ordinary people can afford, just the money that this little guy spends to eat meat every month, it's thousands of dollars, and ordinary people's monthly wages are only a few thousand, it is estimated that this little guy will be killed in stew.
"Sir, it stands to reason that we don't provide raw beef here, but for the sake of this condor, our boss promised to provide it to you. The waiter went back and reported to the boss. Then he came over to say hello to Zhang Tianyuan, after all, other restaurants have their own rules, not that you have to give it to you if you want raw beef, these people are good.
Wait until the waiter leaves. Zhang Tianyuan chatted with Zhan Fei, the matter of the Divine Eagle Ancient Kingdom in the past two days has made him a little annoyed, but fortunately after listening to that scripture. Now he's in a much better mood, so he doesn't want to talk about that kind of thing while eating. chatted with Zhanfei about some trivial matters in life and waited for the restaurant to be served.
"Dream dreams. Over here......"
The two chatted for a while, and the people in the restaurant poured Syracuse sweet tea, and Gao Xi saw the figures of Liu Mengxun and Blue Phoenix at the door, and he shouted and greeted him.
Originally, he came to Balang Street this time to accompany Liu Mengxun for a stroll, but it happened that Liu Mengxun was also a little hungry at this time, so the two of them felt that Zhang Tianyuan should order a meal first, and then he would wait here.
"Husband, I heard you were in trouble last night......
After Liu Mengxun said hello to Zhanfei, he asked a little worriedly, and then sat next to Zhang Tianyuan, his face full of concern.
"Yes, Brother Tianyuan, if someone hadn't called us anonymously, we wouldn't have known that you had actually encountered the legendary poisonous skeleton. ”
Although Blue Phoenix said that she had long since lost the luxury of wanting to be with Zhang Tianyuan, she is now fighting with Zhanfei. But after all, she is still Zhang Tianyuan's friend, and she can even be said to be a good sister, how can she not care about her brother.
After Zhang Tianyuan heard the words of the two, he frowned and asked, "Anonymous phone, is it a man or a woman?"
"I don't know, the other party used a voice changer, so it sounds weird. We don't have a professional analyzer here, so we can't tell whether the other party is a man or a woman. Blue Phoenix shook his head and said helplessly.
"Forget it, it's okay if you don't know. Actually, the poisonous skeletons are not aimed at us, they are aimed at another person. And even if it's a poisonous skeleton, this is China's territory, they have now been targeted by the people of the Syracuse Military Region, the police can't cure them, I don't believe that the army can't cure them, I think they can only nest in the hole like rats these days. Zhang Tianyuan waved his hand and said: "Mengmeng, Phoenix, don't talk about those unhappy things, this Snow City sweet tea tastes very good, you can drink it first, and when the food comes, we will move the chopsticks." ”
Of course, I also know this, Syracuse sweet tea can be said to be a very traditional drink in Syracuse, which has a history of hundreds of years and is still very popular with people. Syracuse's sweet tea is made from black tea, and then mixed with milk or sugar, the taste is very delicious, and the nutrition is also very rich, very popular with local residents and tourists. ”
Liu Mengxun smiled, picked up the cup and drank it, she liked this dairy product very much, so she drank it very happily.
She was happy, and Zhang Tianyuan was naturally happy.
A few people drank tea for a while, and the food was served, and when Blue Phoenix saw this table full of food, he was dumbfounded, and asked in surprise: "Brother Tianyuan, you don't plan to let a few of us destroy all of these, is it too difficult?"
"Don't worry, you're done. "Don't look at Zhang Tianyuan is not very burly, but he has a lot of food, probably because the use of the six-character mantra requires physical energy, he is very easy to get hungry, plus this morning I patronized and listened to other people's lectures, I didn't eat, I was hungry until now, and my stomach was flattened.
Zhang Tianyuan put the raw beef of Baili Night Cry on the table, and let Baili Night Cry eat it by himself, in fact, this raw beef has been processed, and there is no bloody feeling, plus the small bite of Baili Night Cry, it doesn't look terrifying, so even if it is put on the table, it will be fine, if it is eaten by a large carnivore, it will definitely be unappetizing.
Everyone was eating and chatting, Zhang Tianyuan felt that his stomach was a little more comfortable, so he paused slightly, put down his chopsticks and asked, "Mengmeng, you have been to Balang Street for so long, have you bought anything?"
"I bought it, it's all in this bag, but I didn't dare to buy it if it was too expensive, I don't have the ability to do it as well as you, I'm afraid of buying a fake, and it's not good for those scammers to be cheap." When Liu Mengxun heard Zhang Tianyuan ask, he also wiped his mouth with a napkin, and stopped to say.
"Sister Mengmeng, you can show that Buddha bead to Brother Tianyuan, didn't that person just now say that thing was used by the Living Buddha Luosang Gyaltsen during his lifetime? Blue Phoenix reminded.
"That should be fake, even if I can't tell the real or fake, I can still feel it, if it's something that a person has been using for a long time, it definitely won't be like that. Although he said so, Liu Mengxun still took out the string of Buddhist beads from the leather bag next to him and put it in front of Zhang Tianyuan.
Zhang Tianyuan took the Buddha beads and looked at them, and asked with a smile: "Mengmeng, Phoenix, it is unlikely that the things of the Living Buddha of Luosang Gyaltsen will be sold on the market, how much did you spend when you bought them?"
"Two hundred. ”
"You can believe two hundred yuan. You have to learn from your sister Mengmeng, otherwise one day someone will take a string of Buddhist beads and say that it is Zhou Qing's thing, and you will believe it?"
"Who is Zhou Qing?"
"I know this, the protagonist of "Buddha is the Tao", and later it was said that he was sanctified?" Zhanfei hurriedly replied.
The blue phoenix stuck out her tongue, and it seemed that she was told by Zhang Tianyuan.
Now Buddha beads are no stranger to most of us, and we will see some kinds of Buddha beads in our lives, most of which are simple strings of 108 styles or 18 bracelets or other numbers. Most of them have 3 simple beads, a three-way Buddha head, a beautiful knot or something hanging at the end, and then there are a number of small beads below. This is our initial impression of the Buddha beads, as if the beads used by each master are similar in style.
Relatively more familiar with our living environment may be more commonly known as "Han Buddhism", the above-mentioned Buddha beads wearing and matching methods almost cover most of the "Han Buddhism" Buddha beads style, and "Tibetan Buddhism" used Buddha beads are far from our impression of the Buddha beads style, the color is much brighter, and the accessories are more colorful, as if the Buddha beads are worn with a personal personality, preference is more intense, we are almost difficult to see the exact same Syracuse old Buddha beads.
Tibetan Buddha beads, generally by the Buddha beads themselves, the beads are more commonly known as beads, Buddha heads, cloud beads/back clouds, counters, clips, hanging rings and other categories, the existence of these large categories of accessories is also accompanied by the existence of a variety of meaningful small accessories. The collection of these things forms a string of beautiful Tibetan Buddhist beads.
All kinds of bead accessories color interaction, ethnic customs are extremely strong, not only a string of counting tools that can hold a spell, but also a rosary artwork full of religious significance, a token amulet that can be passed down from generation to generation, and a love object full of private emotions. Sometimes there are even some practical tools on the beads, such as the key to the door, the small tweezers to pluck the beard, the ear pick, the toothpick, and so on.
For them, life and religion are so closely related. Tight enough to be integrated. So it's no surprise that these everyday practical utensils appear on Tibetan Buddhist beads. (To be continued......)