This pouty-lipped fruit is as sweet as honey, and its price is 6 times that of peaches; very few people have ever tasted it.

Right now is the season when peaches hit the market, and every time I see big, fragrant peaches, they always make my mouth water. For people who love peaches, being able to eat a very sweet peach is enough to make them happy, and that is because you have not tasted this kind of peach. This kind of peach only grows on the mountains of Lingnan, and unlike ordinary peaches it is not high-yielding. Each peach tree does not bear very many fruits, and the picking period lasts less than a month. On top of that, ripe peaches do not keep well, so if you want to eat them, there are only a few days a year when you can, and the rest of the time you can only "quench your thirst by looking at plums."

This kind of peach is called the eagle-beak peach. Every eagle-beak peach is always plump and juicy, and its sweetness is a layered sweetness; after eating one, you cannot stop wanting more. It is basically impossible to find this in the north. I still remember the first time I ate an eagle-beak peach. A colleague whose family was from a rural area in the south brought a few eagle-beak peaches back for each of us. At the time, I thought this peach looked so cute, with a little "pouty mouth" and a very adorable appearance. But aside from having a pointed little beak, at the time I also thought it was no different from an ordinary peach, at most just a little special in appearance.

After tasting it, I discovered that the flavor of the eagle-beak peach really is different from that of ordinary peaches. It is crisper than ordinary peaches, and it also has a lot of juice. Beyond that, it is just sweet, a sweetness with a honey flavor, and its fragrance is rich. Just like that, I fell in love with the eagle-beak peach. Every year in July I ask someone to buy eagle-beak peaches for me, because this peach is only available in the south and cannot be found in our north. Very few people have heard the name eagle-beak peach, and even fewer have eaten one.

Many fruit farmers in Guangdong grow this eagle-beak peach, and the best ones come from the mountainous areas of northern Guangdong. Its price is also impressive, selling for as much as 8-10 yuan per jin, about 6 times that of ordinary peaches. But during the eagle-beak peach season, it still has countless fans, and many people buy it to eat. If you buy eagle-beak peaches at a fruit shop, when choosing them you must pick the kind with three colors: green, white, and red. This kind of peach has the best taste.

This is because when the eagle-beak peach grows, the sunlight it receives is uneven. The red part is the part that often gets sunlight, and the green and white parts are where the peach is still ripening. A naturally grown eagle-beak peach will not be uniform in color all over. Some shopkeepers, in order to make eagle-beak peaches last a few more days, pick them before they are ripe, and that kind tastes a bit worse. After buying them and bringing them home, you should leave them for a few more days and eat them once they are a bit riper; the taste will be better. Very few people know about this kind of eagle-beak peach. Have you heard of it? And have you ever eaten one?