As the #Wuhan #summer #heat approaches (it's only 33°C today, so we're not there yet) there's a couple of perfect comfort foods for coping with it. Today's lunch is #凉皮 (#liángpí, lit. "cold skin"), it's originally from #Shǎnxī (often spelled #Shaanxi to distinguish it from #Shānxī without having to use tone diacritics) but has since spread around pretty much the entire northern half of #China to all the provinces neighbouring it, including where I live in #Hubei. You can read about it here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liangpi

Served chilled, it is one of the best ways to combat summer heat, able somehow to cool better than the Wuhan-local #凉面 (#liángmiàn, lit. "cold noodles") despite those being chilled as well.

What you see here is the liangpi before it gets mixed up. Only barely visible in the shot (through the little loop of noodle at the very bottom) is the preserved egg that was added because I love #CenturyEggs.

From Uni of Reading (@UniofReading@):

"In this experiment Dr Rob Thompson of Reading Meteorology shows just how long it takes water to soak into parched ground, illustrating why heavy rainfall after a #drought can be dangerous and might lead to flashfloods."

#ClimateCrisis #ClimateActionNOW #ClimateEmergency #heatwave #summer