Recommended dishes for the Lantern Festival are as follows: 1. Yuanxiao and glutinous rice balls.

During the Lantern Festival, northerners eat Yuanxiao and southerners eat glutinous rice balls, both for the beautiful meaning of family reunion.

Yuanxiao and glutinous rice balls are both made based on stuffing, and their main raw materials are glutinous rice.

The general process is to mix the fillings first, mix them well, then spread them into large round slices, let them cool and then cut them into cubes smaller than ping pong balls.

The fillings of glutinous rice balls can be sweet, salty, meat or vegetarian, while the fillings of Yuanxiao are mostly sweet, usually fruit and dried fruits.

2. Waste.

In Taizhou area, every year on the 14th day of the first lunar month, people eat glutinous rice after watching the lanterns.

The dregs are made of shredded pork, shredded winter bamboo shoots, shiitake mushrooms, fungus, fresh dragonfly, dried tofu, soaked in oil, Sichuan bean paste, spinach, etc., then add a little rice flour and cook it into a salty paste.

The glutinous rice soup consumed on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month is sweet, made from sweet potato starch or lotus root starch mixed with lotus seeds, sweet dates, longan, etc.