The following snow-like beautiful shaved ice, with delicious Taiwan fruit pickled, wonderful flowers and hair Kaki iced tea

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Just as Peter Pan will never grow old on the island of Neverland, Miao, the owner of Kaki, who eats iced tea, is a 28-year-old girl forever in his dream shaved ice shop. "if you use Taiwan fruit to make a bowl of shaved ice delicious and beautiful, you will be in a good mood." She said happily, her hands holding a glass bowl turned under the ice planer, and the small house was filled with the fruits of the season and her hand-made stains, just like a beautiful painting.

Xiao Miaoyi, the founder of Hua Maomao Yun Ice Tea, used to be a designer and likes beautiful things, especially shaved ice. Two years ago, she began to add fruit from small farmers to shaved ice (photography _ Lin Yijun), a 28-year-old girl boss who left the design industry. just for a dream of shaved ice.

When I came to Liming New Village in Nantun District, Taichung, Hua Maomao ate tea gracefully beside the alley and park, and opened the door. The world inside the door was very different from the world outside the door. The world inside the door was as beautiful as a dream, and to make the dream come true was the wonderful boss standing at the counter and smiling.

Her real name is Xiao Miaoyi. She has a bright smile. Originally a designer, she loved beautiful things when she was a child. When she worked in a coffee shop, she saw a meal in the shop to make shaved ice. "when shaved ice is formed, it is as beautiful as it is snowing. From then on, I fell in love with shaved ice."

Since then, she buried an ice dream in the bottom of her heart, and two years ago, she decided to realize this dream, hoping that there would be no regrets in her life. When she asked Fang Ling, she smiled mysteriously, "I am 28 years old forever." For Miao Miao, 28 is a girl with youthful vitality and a little experienced beauty at the same time. She hopes that her ice shaving shop is the same. "Huamao is named because the flowers are beautiful, and Mao has a lot of tentacles to extend."

The shop's signature shaved ice: salted lemon ice, topped with home-grown butterfly bean flowers (photo _ Lin Yijun) fall in love with fermentation and pickling: "Taiwan fruit can never be used up, and it's hard to forget after eating it."

Every bowl of shaved ice in the shop has something to do with Taiwanese fruit. There are all kinds of fruits lying in colorful glass jars near the wall. These are all wonderful masterpieces. She pickles the fruits from all over Taiwan by herself, and puts these fermentation bottles in the store. Wait for time to brew a good flavor.

Wonderful memories, when I opened the shop two years ago, I was still groping for direction. "I've been thinking about what shaved ice should go with. I prefer fruit to common seasonings." Later, I went to the cabbage experimental kitchen to learn fermentation and pickling from teacher Lisa, and then officially entered the world of fermentation.

When asked why imported fruits, such as kiwi fruits and blueberries, were not used for fermentation, she smiled and said, "there are so many kinds of fruits in Taiwan that they cannot be used up at all, and the flavor is so good that they are hard to forget." Miao Miao details the fruits in the store, from Tainan pineapple, Pingtung fire dragon fruit, and Qishan banana, many of which are the result of a visit to the producing area and treasure hunt by her fermentation teacher Lisa.

Speaking of visiting the place of origin, Miao Miao said that at first, she went out for a walk every week with the fermentation teacher. "usually I chose a destination, then I drove there, and I would look around on the road to see if there were any special shopkeepers or people." Now, during the weekly rest time in the store, Miaomiao still goes to various producing areas, "often bumping into special ingredients or employees."

On the day of the interview, Miao Miao is preparing to stain a batch of red meat plum (photo _ Lin Yijun) to follow the season of planed ice, which is limited every month: Yuetao and red meat plum can be eaten.

There are large and small glass jars near the walls of the store, which contain all kinds of fruit fermentation. Miaomiao said that each month's shaved ice follows the fruit season. "every bowl is a limited edition, and when the season is over, it's gone." She smiled, sprinkled butterfly bean juice on the shaved ice, took out a homemade salted lemon and added it to the shaved ice.

On the day of the visit, Miaomiao was making moon peach sauce. "my friend brought it back from the place of origin, and I found that I didn't seem to have seen it." She removed the petals of the peach blossoms one by one and boiled them with brown sugar. during the cooking process, she asked how to make sure that the taste of these stains and sauces could enter the dish. "there is no certain time or formula," she said. Always try the current taste. "

On the day of the interview, Miaomiao boiled fresh peach paste with fresh peach blossoms (photo _ Lin Yijun)

Miao Miao picked up the fruit on the shelf and explained, "the taste of the fruit will not be the same every year. It will change due to the climate, temperature or rain of the year, so the pickling method and waiting time will be different." And wash, add sugar and salt, etc., and then put into the tank to wait for the fermentation process, need to observe the changes in color and taste every week to make detailed adjustments.

She will cook the moon peach sauce, and red meat plum, matcha together to add shaved ice, the lower layer is bright green, the upper layer is ruddy, a bowl of shaved ice looks pleasing to the eye, before the entrance mood is colorful, can not wait to taste it, the tip of the tongue can taste the unique aroma of Yuetao, the sweet and sour taste of red meat, and the fragrance of matcha tea, while the fine ice is cool through the heart, and a bowl of summer is relieving the heat!

The new shaved ice in the store this month: Yuetao red meat plum matcha ice (photo _ Lin Yijun) A stroke: handmade tofu with red beans, there is a market at the door of the holiday

In addition to shaved ice, Miao Miao also makes non-ice snacks. Recently, she learned to make red bean curd. She put red bean curd into the dish and paired it with a friend's handmade purple rice bagel. She brought out a dish of red bean curd bagel. A novel combination took a bite. You can eat fluffy and chewy bread, slightly sweet and dense Wandan red beans, and bean curd milk is sandwiched in it. Its salty taste and bean flavor are the finishing touch, raising the level of the overall taste. And let the whole