Water chestnut can be eaten raw, cooked or cooked, especially suitable for making canned food, known as "clear water horseshoe", is one of the main condiments of the restaurant; and can be extracted from the starch, with the lotus root and the diamond powder known as the starch three kui, the nature of the cold and slippery, sweet and cool flavor, can benefit the qi Anzhong.

Water chestnut is one of China's specialty vegetables, usually with underground expanded bulb for consumption, while the tubular leafy stems above ground have the effect of quenching thirst and quenching fever.

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Water chestnut is a specialty of Dangyang, locally known as "Piqiu". When the people of Dangyang tell you to eat "leather ball", can not be mistaken for eating basketball. Dangyang planted water chestnut has a history of thousands of years, all towns and towns have planted, generally planted in the rice paddies, green round stalks, ting ting yu standing, looks very cool.

When the water chestnut is peeled off, the inside is white, sweet and crispy. Shuanglian water chestnut, named after the original Shuanglian Temple in Wangdian Township, Dangyang, is a famous specialty with a long history in Hubei.

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