Every summer, the business of Qiao Zhou Night Market in Bianliang, Tokyo is booming all night, and the following desserts can be seen everywhere: rice with water, crystal soap, raw and submerged papaya, medicinal papaya, sugar brewed with chicken head, iced Zi Yuan, mung bean and licorice ice water, apricot slices, plum ginger, fragrant sugar, litchi, plum blossom, dripping crisp, perilla paste and litchi paste.

I have listed so many food names that many of them have been lost. In order to let everyone know what they are, let me explain them separately.

Shuifan is semi-fermented rice soup, and crystal soap is sugar soaked Sophora beans. There was no Sophora japonica in Song Dynasty, only Sophora japonica could bear long acacia, and the acacia was wrapped with big and round Sophora japonica beans. Sophora bean is an alkaline substance, which can be processed into soap, washed or cooked. Zhuang Chuo's Stewed Chicken Ribs in the Northern Song Dynasty said: "Shi Jing took the seeds of Gleditsia sinensis and boiled them in sugar water, which is called crystal soap." As you can see, crystal soap is Sophora japonica beans soaked in sugar water after cooking.

Raw and submerged papaya is candied papaya block, medicinal papaya is dried papaya with Amomum villosum, Jiang Mo, Glycyrrhiza uralensis Fisch, Amomum cardamom and salt, the sugar brewed by chicken head is candied chicken head rice, the iced dumplings are iced dumplings, the iced mung bean and licorice soup is iced mung bean and licorice soup, apricot slices are candied slices with semi-cooked apricot sugar, and plum ginger is shredded ginger mixed with plums. In Song Dynasty, fruit was usually not fruit, but wrapped candy, such as honey cake, sugar corner, happy ball and so on. , packed in a small box, with colorful labels, collectively known as fragrant sugar.

Litchi is a kind of variegated litchi preserves. Infernal Affairs is the vernacular of Song and Yuan Dynasties, which refers to patterns composed of different colors. It is recorded in the Pharmacopoeia of the Song Dynasty, Volume 23, The Spare Materia Medica for Rebuilding Political and Historical Evidence: "Most market buyers use mottled lychees and salted plums, which is a sudden success." Vendors in the Song Dynasty like to make dried lychees with different colors, which look colorful and sell well.

Yuemei is a waxberry produced in Shaoxing. According to the local chronicles of the Southern Song Dynasty, Shaoxing waxberry meat is large and small, with deep purple skin and good color, fragrance and taste, so it is called the first in the country.

Dish crisp is a strange snack made of cream. In the Song Dynasty, people separated cream from milk and mixed it with honey and sucrose. After solidification, they squeezed it into a plate. When squeezed, they rotate and a snack appears. The bottom is round, the top is pointed and the line is round. This is the drip cake, also known as "drip crisp abalone snail".

Perilla sauce and litchi sauce are jams made by adding maltose or honey to fruit juice.