Chapter 15 Other Staple Foods
Different from Shen Yinian and Gou Xuefang's complaining state, Chen Er seemed much calmer when he ate Injera.
"Actually, it's not bad to eat too much."
Chen Er finished the second piece of Injera in his hand very calmly, then wiped his hands and said, "If you eat too much, you will feel that the sourness in Injera is more pure, and it can even be slightly sweet." ”
"Really?" Gou Xuefang said that he didn't believe it, so he reached out to grab the last piece of Injla on the table, and taste it again, to see if he could eat the feeling that Chen Er said.
I didn't expect to reach over but grab a void.
The last piece of Injila was taken by a paw that suddenly appeared.
Gou Xuefang looked up along that arm, and that face was actually Guo Dalong, who had been clamoring for never eating this food just now.
"Hey, hey." Gou Xuefang clasped his hands in front of his chest, and couldn't help but raise his eyebrows at Guo Dalong.
"Didn't you say you wouldn't eat it?"
Guo Dalong didn't feel embarrassed at all, but was straightforward, "I just want to see if this food is as unpalatable as I imagined." ”
He pouted in disgust as he ate, "It's really hard to eat." ”
Then he finished the Injla in his hand.
Gou Xuefang rolled his eyes and complained, "You have the ability to spit it out!" ”
Guo Dalong pursed his lips again, "Hey, you're too disgusting......"
Gou Xuefang was completely speechless.
Chen Er said to the live camera, "Injera is a more traditional food, but not every Ethiopian can eat it. ”
"In some of the more remote rural areas, Injera is not available to everyone."
"Because I said before that the main ingredient for making Injera is moss, and the yield of moss is very low, it is difficult to eat Injera for a long time in Ethiopia, some remote places."
So, in the rural areas of Ethiopia, the staple food of the local Ethiopian people has changed from Injla to another pasta.
Fans are talking about it.
"So what Chen Laoshi means is that the kind of food just now can only be eaten by relatively wealthy people?"
"It's said that Injera is the national dish, so it shouldn't be ......"
Chen Laoshi said that because the yield is too low, some rural areas cannot guarantee that they can eat Injla often, so their staple food is another food."
Chen Er stood up and walked outside the house with the camera, and there was a large area of green plants planted outside the guide's house, which looked like plantains.
Chen Er communicated with the guide for a long time and didn't figure out what kind of tree this was, but since it looks like a plantain, it probably belongs to the same family or genus as the plantain. It should be almost the same type.
So Chen Er called it the banana tree.
Chen Er chose a tall and stout banana tree and patted the trunk of the plantain tree, "This is the staple food in rural Ethiopia." ”
Because this plantain tree is very common in the Ethiopian countryside and is easy to feed, it is no surprise that it has become one of the staple foods of the locals.
Of course, the Ethiopians eat the roots of the plantain tree in addition to the fruit of this plantain during the banana ripening season.
The Ethiopians dig out the roots of this plantain tree, grind it into minced pieces, wrap it up, bury it in the ground and ferment it for a period of time, then dig it out, and then roast it directly over the fire to eat.
It is a staple food for most rural Ethiopians.
Chen Er rolled up his sleeves, "Let's eat this banana cake today." ”
Chen Er picked up the tools he had borrowed from the guide's house, polished them with a slightly sharp shovel, and began to dig into the roots of the plantain tree.
After a while, a large piece of plantain root was dug out.
After digging out the plantain root, Chen Er asked the guide what to do with the cake.
The guide, who was not fluent in English, babbled at Chen Er, and even made random gestures with dancing and dancing, and the two broke for a long time before Chen Er finally figured out how to make this food.
He broke off two large plantain leaves from the plantain tree and spread them on the ground.
Then the excavated plantain root is placed on top of one of the plantain leaves, and the plantain root is peeled with a knife.
After peeling the skin, the white roots inside are revealed.
Chen Er then used the knife in his hand to directly chop the plantain roots, and threw them all into a big stone mash, and in three or two strokes, they were all smashed into pieces.
Then put the pounded plantain root in a clean plantain leaf, wrap it and bury it in the ground. Wait for fermentation.
Guo Dalong was too lazy to watch Chen Er do things on the side, and he didn't have the slightest urge to enjoy the surrounding scenery.
So he took out a handful of change from his pocket, showed it to the guide, and asked him for some beef, which he wanted to roast and eat himself.
The guide glanced at the change in his hand and immediately began to shake his head, speaking English with a strange accent.
Guo Dalong didn't understand at all, and he didn't bother to guess, so he directly started to cut the meat.
The guide hurriedly rushed over to stop Guo Dalong.
The two of them were tugging and tugging, and Chen Er spoke slowly.
"The guide said that your change is not enough to buy beef."
Guo Dalong narrowed his eyes, "Then you tell him, sell me the meat first, and I'll exchange some money for him later." ”
Chen Er laughed, "They won't care about this, if you want to eat it now, you have to pay now, otherwise, you won't be able to get the beef." ”
Guo Dalong's eyes widened wider and rounder.
In fact, he really didn't exchange that much local currency.
When he first got off the plane, he exchanged some local currency at the airport, but because the local currency denomination was too large, Guo Dalong did not pay attention to the exchange rate, so the money he exchanged was not enough for him to squander.
Along the way, he spent money in a coin style, and before he reached his destination, he had already spent almost all the money he had exchanged.
Guo Dalong was dumbfounded at this time, he actually had no money to spend!
But looking at the tall and tall guide on the other side, Guo Dalong really didn't dare to make any small moves.
After a while, Guo Dalong's stomach was so hungry that he couldn't stop and had already begun to growl.
He watched as his guide sold the rest of the beef to a passing convoy of foreign tourists.
Guo Dalong almost stared out his eyes.
He stood by and hesitated for a long time, and finally walked over to Chen Er and them.
At this time, Chen Er had already dug up the fermented plantain root from the ground.
Guo Dalong swallowed his saliva and suddenly interjected, "Hey, can this be eaten directly?" ”
Gou Xuefang's face was very ugly, "Do you know how to be polite, hey, who are you talking to!" ”
Guo Dalong pushed back very unconvinced, "It's just a few of us here, I don't talk to you, do you still talk to ghosts!" ”