About eating jackfruit salad

Back in the countryside, in shorts, bareheaded, barefoot, every child knew jackfruit salad by heart. Growing up and working hard in a foreign land, sometimes when I feel a longing in my heart, the image of jackfruit salad comes back like a dish from afar and I find it again. Of course it is just an aftertaste, but it is a scent that evokes nostalgia. The more I miss it, the more I look forward to the day I can return to eat the soul of my hometown. No wonder as soon as I put down my backpack, after a few questions from my mother about work, the child immediately got to the point: Mom, work is fine; as for food, I want to eat jackfruit salad.

Jackfruit salad

Jackfruit is a popular tree grown in the Central countryside. Of course, there are a lot of jackfruit gardens. Jackfruit in the yard, next to the well, and the straw trees are also green and full of fruit. I remember when I was little and wanted to eat jackfruit salad, my mother told me to eat it, I had to... roll on the tree. My sister and I went to the back garden and just pressed on the jackfruit balls to pick them. My mother laughed and explained that this was useless because it was created from the male pistil, it was bitter and astringent, and it would fall off after a short time on the tree. From then on, I learned that young jackfruit is pollinated from the female pistil, the fruit is small but rough, the thorns are sparse and even, making it delicious when mixed. In addition to mixed dishes, young jackfruit is also used to braise fish and cook soup. Furthermore, young jackfruit "goes" with vermicelli and fish sauce, making it very slippery.

Now, even though the whole neighborhood makes jackfruit mixed with shrimp, pork belly, pig ears, etc., my mother is still "faithful" to the original: young jackfruit boiled, sliced, mixed with a mixture of fish sauce, lemon, sugar, chili, garlic, and a little peanuts and coriander. My mother said that the shrimp and meat overpower the smell of the young jackfruit, what a waste. At my family's meals, no matter what the dish, the simple jackfruit mixed dish is still the main character, chopsticks from all directions always come looking for it. When I'm tired of rice, just scoop up the jackfruit mixed with crispy rice paper and make a delicious meal.

I have been addicted to jackfruit salad since I was a child. It can be said that all of this gluttonous boy’s childhood was spent on jackfruit salad. A rustic dish is inseparable from the memories of the countryside. The old jackfruit tree with its lush branches and leaves is a whole poetic world…

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