Tasting the flavor of coffee begins with eating fruit for semester.

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"this fruit is called sweet granadilla. Let's try it." Miss C, the "guide" of this trip, said.

My bazaar is in the northern part of Nicaragua (not related to Niagara Fall in North America) in Central America and Ocotal, the provincial capital of Nueva Segovia, bordering Honduras. February to April every year is the harvest season for high-quality coffee in Central America. The hard work of workers such as farms, processing plants, porters and harvesters over the past year has all been rewarded by these two months. In order to experience the operation of the upstream industry, several Hong Kong people and I visited the Dipilto-Jalapa Mountain Coffee Park for the first time last month.

We take it out and surround it with our hands? The black core and slimy pulp are put into the mouth, and the aroma is immediately sweet to the nose.

Miss C continued, "every time I go to a new place, I go to the fruit stall in the market." When drinking coffee with friends of different nationalities, they will mention some fruit names that I have never tried or even heard of. So knowing the specialties of different places helps me understand what they say. "

Different places have different fruit flavors.

"just like this locally grown sweet granadilla, although the outer belt is yellow and the shell is soft, I always thought it tasted the same as passion fruit. Once communicated with a cup tester from North America, he said that the acidity of a certain coffee was like a warm fruit. As sweet granadilla is mainly sweet, I don't feel sour in that cup of coffee. After trying over and over again, I finally thought that there was something wrong with my tongue. Later, when I had the opportunity to try the passion fruit in person, I realized that the same kind of fruit would taste different if it was planted in different places. "

"in addition, there are differences in the degree of ripeness preferred by people of different nationalities in the same fruit. It is popular in Central America to eat unripe mangoes with black peppers, soy sauce and vinegar. If you use this impression to describe coffee, I believe you will be confused! " Indeed, I believe that not many Hong Kong people have tried to concoct raw mangoes in this way.

She picked out another yellowish banana for us to try. As soon as you bite down, it's like eating molecular cuisine: there is a great gap between the food in front of you and the signal transmitted by the taste nerve! The ball of powder engraved in the mouth is neither fragrant nor sweet, like taro. She smiled and said, "you thought it was banana banana!" It's called plantain, and it's a necessity for locals for every meal. Although it is of the same family as bananas, we will slice and cook or deep-fry before eating. Don't buy it wrong. "

Different "plantains" of the same family

"every time I go to the United States, I try to eat berries that are not often imported in Nicaragua, such as blueberry, cranberry and raspberry, in order to refresh my taste memory." Her eagerness to learn has taught me the shame of a person from a rich area who has easy access to all kinds of fruits.

A few days later, when I tried coffee with her, I came across a cup of maracaturra washed coffee, which smelled very much like citrus. Just when I was distressed to use orange (orange), mandarin (orange), or tangerine (red orange), which best described the taste of coffee, I was surprised that her score paper had already written kumquat (citrus)! "are you curious? I know the pronunciation comes from Cantonese. I have already eaten in Japan before. "

The world is very big, go out to have a look, feel even more small!