In Sichuan, Northern Sichuan jelly is spicy and smooth; in Wushan, Chongqing, there is a green jelly called Cui jelly; in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia area, people like to eat buckwheat jelly; in Shanxi, people love Hunyuan jelly; in Henan

, everyone likes stir-fried jelly, in Qingdao there is sea jelly; in Wenzhou, there is water curd, which is made from the juice of traditional Chinese medicine Xiuli; in Guangdong, there is Cantonese black jelly... among them, ice powder is a special kind of jelly

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Summer in Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan is inseparable from a bowl of ice powder.

Traditional ice powder comes from the ice powder tree, also called false physalis.

Its fruit is stone flower seeds, which can be made into ice powder by rubbing it with a gauze bag, squeezing out the gum, adding lime water and letting it sit for a few hours.

How to make your own ice powder: 1) Brew the purchased ice powder with boiling water (10g ice powder plus 500g boiling water) and stir thoroughly until completely dissolved, cool to room temperature, then refrigerate for 2 hours; 2) Boil brown sugar juice; 3)

Put the glutinous rice dumplings into the pot with boiling water. After they are cooked, take them out and put them in cold water to cool down; 4) Take out the solidified ice powder, use the tip of a knife to make squares, then pour the brown sugar juice on top, and add the fermented glutinous rice, dumplings, and hawthorn pieces.

, raisins, crushed peanuts, and sprinkle with a little dried osmanthus for decoration.

Another delicacy to relieve the heat is cold noodles. In summer, a bowl of hot, sour and refreshing cold noodles is an appetizer to relieve the heat.

There are many types of cold noodles across the country, and each place has different tastes.

Such as old Beijing fried soybean noodles, sesame sauce cold noodles, Tianjin braised cold noodles, Sichuan shredded chicken cold noodles, red oil cold noodles, Guangyuan cold noodles, Guangdong egg cold noodles, Northeast cold noodles, Shanghai cold noodles, etc.