Many foods can evoke childhood memories. Soda candy, I don't know if there are any partners who remember it, is just a sugar like a drop of water with a little liquid smell of soda. Spring rolls firstly, this is a symbolic food for Chinese New Year in our region. Secondly, when I was a child, my family could gather together to make spring rolls, which made me feel happy. Besides, I was deeply impressed by enjoying fresh spring rolls. There are also Huafeng Hualong instant noodles. I don't know if there are many friends who still remember them after the 198s. There is also a kind of sugar called Scorch.
The red hair cake (meaning to get rich) that will be made during the Chinese New Year holiday is booming, like a smiling face, and tastes the softest, waxy and sweet when it is just out of the pot. When I was a child, adults would burn incense and worship Buddha and put a plate on it. After worshipping the ancestors of the gods, they would steam it for the children to eat. It is said that the children would grow better. The food that can remind me of my childhood Spring Festival memories is also a must-eat food here. We call it "vermicelli soup", which is similar to braised dishes in the northeast, and it is eaten as a staple food here.
Hunchun's tofu skewers are crispy with barbecues, chicken soup skewers (sold by a 7-8-year-old grandmother at the entrance of Erwan Small School and sprinkled with some coriander), and a large stuffy jar filled with palm-sized dried tofu dipped in secret ingredients for 5 cents is very popular. When I was a child, my favorite food was brown sugar sesame dumplings made by my mother on the first day of New Year's Day. The stuffing was made by myself. The old yellow sugar was paired with sesame seeds and peanuts with a pair of nests, and the stuffing was wrapped in glutinous rice flour and kneaded into dumplings. It was sweet and delicious, sweet but not greasy.
"Eight-treasure dish", grandma used to cook it every Chinese New Year when I was a child. We kids all loved it, and the dish was swept away as soon as it was served! Grandma is old, and her legs and feet are inconvenient, so she hasn't eaten since. Jujube cake, also called BBK, is high every year, and it is only made during the Chinese New Year. At the moment when the lid is lifted, the thick jujube fragrance permeates the whole kitchen hall. I especially like the smell of my mother at home. Now I am working hard in a foreign land, and I can't give it up in my heart.