The broad bean, also known as huotou, fudou, and wuandou, is called luohan beans in Shaoxing. In Shaoxing, there is also the name "fava bean," but that refers to peas with pods much smaller than those of luohan beans.

Luohan beans, winter crops in rural Shaoxing accounted for a huge proportion, in addition to wheat, oilseed rape, the most is Luohan beans, whole acres of whole acres of planting, but also with other crops set of planting. Because of the popularity of planting, so harvesting and eating luohan beans, in shaoxing farming life has become an important content. Before and after the summer of the lunar calendar, the winter Luo Han beans ripe and fruitful, this time with dew picked, peeled off the pods, take out the emerald beans, and water down pot, cooked slightly sprinkled with salt flower, eat the sweet and beautiful, which is called to eat fresh Luo Han beans. Because of the sweetness of the fresh Luo Han beans, so farmers often used to gift to relatives living in the city.

Luohan beans are called old Luohan beans if they are aged on the branch and then picked. The old Luo Han beans to pods dry, can be stored in cans, at any time to take. Have been eating until the next year fresh Luo Han beans listed. Old Luohan beans in the countryside often fried into "fried Luohan beans" to eat. In the city, especially in small hotels such as Xianheng Hotel, it is commonly used to make "vegetable beans", "fennel beans", "orchid beans" and so on, as a year-round preparation for the "over wine blanks" (under the wine).