59 years after its opening, people are still in Nanluoguxiang.

What is bird’s nest?

When she heard about food, Chen Li suddenly became interested and didn't want to sleep anymore.

He turned over and lay on the edge of the bed, looking at Chen Feng like a kitten.

"The best bird's nest with rock sugar and wolfberry is perfect for nourishing my mother."

"Is it that simple?" Chen Jianjun said in surprise.

There’s no way around it, bird’s nest is expensive!

Nanyang is the largest producing area of ​​wild bird’s nests. The current bird’s nests in China mainly come from Fujian and Guangdong, and the output is very low!

Ever since Zheng He brought back a large amount of bird's nests from his voyages to the West, the indigenous people of Southeast Asia have begun to collect bird's nests in dangerous caves.

This kind of commercial trade lasted for more than five hundred years and can be traced back to the Tang Dynasty.

At that time, this kind of small dessert was the exclusive privilege of the emperor and royal nobles. The production of bird's nests in the coastal areas of China was too small to be compared with that in Southeast Asia.

There are a large number of limestone erosion caves here, which have become the best habitats for swiftlets, so the yield is very high.

In later generations, 70% of the world's bird's nests came from Indonesia, and the domestic market accounted for about 10%. This is still an artificially cultivated product after technological development.

It is far from comparable to the wild population in Indonesia.

"Dad, bird's nest is naturally slightly sweet and doesn't need too many seasonings. We have rock sugar and wolfberries at home. If you want to cook bird's nest for my mother, just ask grandma to cook it."

Chen Li's eyes rolled around.

What is bird’s nest? I’ve never heard of it before, but it sounds delicious!

"Dad, I want to eat bird's nest too."

Chen Jianjun glanced at his daughter and smiled, "Okay, don't fall asleep. I'll make you a bowl later."

When Chen Jianjun went to find the old lady, Chen Li immediately got up, ran to Chen Feng's bed and sat against the wall to avoid falling asleep.

"Big pot, what is bird's nest?"

"It's a swallow's nest." Chen Feng said casually.

"Ah, swallow's nest can be eaten?" Chen Li was shocked.

There are also swallows in Sijiucheng, and they are swifts, but unfortunately their nests cannot be eaten.

Only the swiftlet and some South Sea swifts use saliva to build nests on cliffs. They can complete the nest in a month without losing the life of the swallow.

Therefore, Indonesia can produce an endless supply of wild bird's nests, which is the best in the world.

"Only special swallow's nests can be eaten. The bird's nests in our city are not acceptable." Chen Feng said quickly, lest the little creatures run to the swifts' nests that they had finally flown back to and poke them up in order to eat the bird's nests.

This kind of thing can definitely be done by a few foodies.

"Big pot, Dad's bird's nest is edible, why can't ours be eaten?"

Chen Li asked when she didn't understand.

Chen Feng introduced the differences of bird's nests to her in detail.

"So the bird's nest from the seaside is edible, but the bird's nest here is not edible." Chen Li said in her own words.

"That's about it."

“Is bird’s nest delicious?”

"Well, you won't know until you try it."

He doesn't like eating bird's nest very much, but it seems that girls like to eat this kind of dessert.

It is said to beautify the skin.

Chen Jianjun came in after a while and said awkwardly: "Don't wait, we can't eat tonight."

"Why?"

Chen Li puffed her lips and said angrily, "Dad, you don't keep your word."

Chen Jianjun whispered, "Dad didn't know that bird's nests need to be soaked in water for several hours. We can't make it tonight. Your grandma will make it tomorrow afternoon and give it to you tonight."

"Dad, is bird's nest delicious?" Chen Li asked again.

Chen Jianjun nodded and said, "It's delicious and sweet!"

Chen Li's eyes lit up instantly.

"Then I'll have two bowls tomorrow!"

"Ahem, there's only a little bit. You can only eat one bowl. Your eldest and second brothers haven't had any yet."

The amount of dried bird's nests that Chen Jianguo sent back was limited. He now only wanted to nourish his wife's body and make up for the loss of childbirth. He gave a bowl to his little girl because she was the only daughter in the family.

"One and a half bowls!"

"Uh, okay!"

Faced with his daughter's bargaining, Chen Jianjun finally agreed, and the little foodie was so happy that he smiled from ear to ear.

What my father says is what he means.

The next afternoon, the old lady made four cups of swiftlet's bird's nest.

This stuff is now as valuable as fifty-year-old ginseng, and it is rare in the market. That means Chen Jianguo can buy it directly from Indonesia in Hong Kong Island, and then send it to Lou Xiao'e through Zhang Qishan's 749 Bureau logistics channels.

Chen Li didn't go out to play today, so she squatted in the kitchen, looking at the softened bird's nest.

"Sister, bird's nest is so delicious. Is it sweet?"

Zhang Haixing was also sitting in the kitchen, watching the old lady cooking. When she heard what the little foodie said, she answered casually.

Of course she had eaten it, and she had eaten a lot.

The Zhang family is low-key overseas, but that doesn't mean their living standards are poor. On the contrary, the Zhang family's life is incomparable to other families.

They have all kinds of rare and good things.

But even so, the old lady still brewed one more lamp, one for each of the four women in the family.

After a while, Chen Hao and the others also came back from the park.

"Lily, look, what is this?"

"Duck!"

Chen Li said in surprise: "Er Guo, did you catch a duck?"

"Hey, Bayi came up with an idea. We can use the rice at home to lure them in. Once they get close, we can pull the rope and these stupid ducks won't be able to escape."

Fatty Wang said proudly, "We asked you to go duck hunting with us, but you didn't go. You're going to regret it now!"

"No, I want to look at the bird's nest. This is a swallow's nest. It's sweet and delicious. You haven't eaten it before, right?"

“Can swallow’s nests be eaten?”

Fatty Wang was born and raised in the northwest, so naturally he had never heard of bird's nest.

His grandfather was eligible to receive some high-end nourishing products such as bird's nest, but if he really got such good things, he would definitely give them secretly to his daughter-in-law and female comrades.

It would be a complete waste to give bird's nest, a precious blood-replenishing product, to the two male children in the family who love to eat it.

"This is bird's nest from the seaside, not the bird's nest from land. Bird's nest from the seaside can be cooked and eaten."

Hu Bayi came back with bird-catching tools: a piece of rope, a dustpan, and a small stick. These were very simple hunting tools, but with the rice that Chen Feng brought out as bait, they caught more than a dozen wild ducks and other migratory birds in one afternoon.

If it were last year or the year before, their behavior would definitely be praised by people in the alley.

He will also become an idol in the hearts of all children.

However, Chen Feng took them to the mountains to hunt, and even brought back wild boars one by one, so a dozen birds were nothing.

"Why can we eat bird's nests from the seaside?" Fatty Wang asked inquiringly.

Hu Bayi couldn't explain it either, so he could only say, "It's said that it was discovered by Zheng He during the Ming Dynasty. While sailing, Zheng He encountered a strong wind and anchored on a deserted island in the Gulf of Siam (now the Gulf of Thailand). With no food, they stumbled upon bird's nests hidden on the cliffs. They washed them and stewed them in clear water. After a few days, all the crew members had rosy complexions and were full of energy. When he returned to China, Zheng He brought some bird's nests to present to the emperor. From then on, bird's nests became a precious and expensive tonic, and Zheng He became the first person recorded in history to eat bird's nests."