In China people don’t eat fresh vegetables. Everything is cooked, steamed or fried. For a Westerner used to eating salads for every dinner it’s something hard to cope with. You can probably imagine how excited you’d be if a waiter unexpectedly brings you a plate of fresh sliced tomato. Unable to believe your happiness you reach for your long desired source of vitamins. You take a bite and… your excitement immediately goes down the drain.
What happened?! However unbelievable it may sound - it was sprinkled with sugar. You didn’t see that coming. It took you some time of further investigation to understand what just happened.
Apparently in China people don’t treat tomato as a vegetable but as a fruit (which actually is, from biological point of view). If you want to buy tomatoes you should go to a fruit shop. As a form of dessert you can find them in a bakery, decorating cakes (so don’t take them for strawberries by mistake). They are also sold by street vendors covered in caramelized sugar. In other words, sweet tomatoes wherever you go.
How does it taste? Peculiar. Neither bad nor good. Just odd. If you wish to experiment you don’t have to go to China for that. You can easily do this at home sprinkling tomato slice with sugar.
Have a nice fun!
Apparently in China people don’t treat tomato as a vegetable but as a fruit (which actually is, from biological point of view). If you want to buy tomatoes you should go to a fruit shop. As a form of dessert you can find them in a bakery, decorating cakes (so don’t take them for strawberries by mistake). They are also sold by street vendors covered in caramelized sugar. In other words, sweet tomatoes wherever you go.
How does it taste? Peculiar. Neither bad nor good. Just odd. If you wish to experiment you don’t have to go to China for that. You can easily do this at home sprinkling tomato slice with sugar.
Have a nice fun!
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