Dessert in Memory

        In my hometown, Changhua, all kinds of sweet soup stalls and file ice shops still retain the traditional appearance, along with the hot weather in the central part, these stalls and shops can be seen everywhere in life.

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        In the early years, file ice stores mostly sold whatever was popular, regardless of decoration or market tone. Pay attention to a little, will ask someone to make a acrylic card, detailed menu; casually, handwritten menu on the wall, so there are always many different styles of price lists in the shop, fortunately acquaintances do not care.
        
         If you enter the shop as soon as the door opens, you will see that there are only a few ingredients in the glass cabinet for no other reason, such as: pink dough (although its reputation goes up to heaven and sounds overseas, I am still not used to calling it "pearl"), small dumplings, etc., which can not be put overnight desserts, must be cooked after opening the shop, so the old steaks know that they usually have to wait until later. After noon, the store will gradually complete the sweeteners, in other words, although the ingredients provided by these stores are not many, but can hardly see canned materials, dry candies, most of them are the same day honey, the same day cooking sweeteners, this kind of material at first eat like file ice, the latter half of the taste will be mixed with melted ice, into a cold sweet soup, so that the file ice shows a unique flavor. 。

        "Four Fruit Ice" is my favorite from childhood to adulthood. Although it is called "Four Fruits", it is not really four kinds of fruits. Instead, customers can choose four kinds of sweeteners. It is different from the ice shop that uses scales or the owner himself picks up seven or eight kinds of materials. Four Fruit Ice is cheap, but it can change thousands of flavors, each time it is matched with a different flavor. Take out the empty dish, select four kinds of sweeteners, by the old file ice machine to dig out a small but tasty file ice, and then pour on the sugar water cooked by Grandma herself. In the hot summer, only the word "refreshing" can be described!
        
         Honey taro is always the best choice for sweetener. Every time you order honey taro, Grandma will generously pour sweet taro soup on the file ice. Of course, when you order honey earth pineapple, you will also give a slightly sour honey earth pineapple juice. The taste of pink round and QQ is similar. The nature of Aiyu, Xiancao and potato jelly is the same, while Tangyuan and taro yuan will have a full feeling... Because there are many favorite items, you can always eat different ice products every time!
        
         Some people say that the food in my memory contains nostalgia, and the nostalgia of "sweet soup" always reminds me for a long time. Although a portion costs only NT$tens, it is much more attractive to me than those famous ice shops that jump up and down hundreds of yuan.