Text/Nancheng Yinanhong

Lotus leaf soup is a dish whose main ingredient is fresh lotus pods. The delicious taste comes from "A Dream of Red Mansions" written by Cao Xueqin.

Chapter 35 of "A Dream of Red Mansions" writes that Jia Mu and others came to visit Baoyu after he was beaten. Mrs. Wang asked: "What do you want to eat?" Baoyu said with a smile: "It's the one I made that time. The soups of the small lotus leaves and the small lotus pods are better. "The following describes four silver molds for making soup, all of which are more than a foot long and an inch square. They are carved with beans the size of, some with chrysanthemums, some with plum blossoms, and some with lotus pods. There are also water chestnuts, and there are thirty or forty kinds of bamboo shoots, which are very delicate. Sister Feng told Aunt Xue: "This is their idea of ??preparing meals for the old year.

I don’t know what noodles to make, and I want to borrow the fragrance of new lotus leaves, all with good soup. It’s boring after all, who eats it all the time! "