Pea yellow is a seasonal food in Beijing in spring and summer. The finished product is light yellow in color, delicate and pure, instant in mouth, sweet in taste, cool and refreshing. Peas are beneficial to diuresis, quenching thirst, regulating middle qi, relieving sore toxin, diminishing inflammation, relieving summer heat, lowering blood pressure, reducing fat and losing weight. Originally a Hui folk snack, it was introduced into the court. The pea yellow in Qing Palace is made of fine white peas. The finished product is light yellow, delicate and pure, which melts in the mouth, tastes sweet, cool and refreshing. Famous for Cixi's love of food. Its preparation method comprises grinding peas, peeling, cleaning, cooking, frying in sugar, solidifying and cutting into pieces. Traditionally, it is also embedded with jujube meat. Fangshan Hotel is the most famous.

Pea yellow is a traditional snack in Beijing. According to Beijing custom, you should eat pea yellow on the third day of the third lunar month. Therefore, whenever pea yellow is listed in spring, it will be supplied until the end of spring.

There are two kinds of pea yellow in Beijing, one is the so-called palace snack made by imitation food in Beihai Park. The other is the rough pea yellow sold on the street. These two kinds of snacks are called pea yellow, but the materials, technology and price are very different.

Let's start with the court snack pea yellow. Select the best white peas, remove impurities and shriveled beans, wash and stew them, make them too thin, precipitate them, add white sugar and osmanthus, let them cool, cut them into pieces and put them into beautiful gift boxes, and attach a few golden cakes to each corner of pea yellow, which are in harmony with red and yellow. Very suitable for gifts to friends and relatives. Especially this one.

Pea yellow is a court snack, which is said to be the favorite of the western empress dowager. With such publicity, its value is even more arrogant. However, the color of pea yellow is not completely natural, and the cooked peas are not so yellow. The price of this pea yellow is staggering. Who could afford it then? Pea yellow sold along the street is a snack for ordinary children.

Vendors use a sand drum (a thick flat-bottomed circular casserole) to cook peas, add cooked dates, solidify and cool them, knock them out of the pot and cut them into pieces for sale. The peddler pushed a cart with several pots of boiled pea yellow on it. Shouting "pea yellow-big!" This kind of pea is yellow and thick, and its skin can be seen all over the pots in Huang Er. Thanks to the sweetness of jujube, it is delicious. For the children of ordinary families at that time, there was usually a lack of snacks. It would be interesting to eat a piece of pea yellow like this. It is also this practice that makes peas yellow and maintains the true color and original flavor of peas.