The Spring Festival has gradually begun, and people all over the world have begun to prepare for the Spring Festival. The busy scene before the Spring Festival seems to have already felt the flavor of the new year. Let’s take a look at the unique flavor of Huai’an Spring Festival!
Recommendations for traditional Spring Festival delicacies in Huai'an
New Year's steaming
Huai'an people must eat steamed buns, steamed buns, dumplings and other steamed foods during the New Year. Every household will prepare these in advance, and the whole family will eat dumplings and make glutinous rice balls, which will become a lingering memory of the New Year. Eating steamed food means a prosperous new year. Old people would put a coin in their dumplings and after eating the coin they would become rich in the new year!
Traditional tea food
Huaian people must drink tea during the New Year. When visiting relatives and friends, tea will be prepared on every coffee table to entertain the guests.
Beijing fruits, peach cakes, peanut candies, sesame cakes, teapots and a wide variety of traditional Huai'an tea foods are delicious in your mouth and sweet in your heart.
Huaian teapots are as thin as threads, Huangliang teapots are golden, and the texture is crispy. It is not only a dish but also a snack. It is a nutritional supplement suitable for all ages.
Salty Food
Huaian people’s love for salty food is deep in their bones. From the sausages and pork hanging at the door of every house, we can see that salty food is a taste that Huai'an people will never forget.
Roasted seeds and nuts
Melon seeds and peanuts are essential snacks during the New Year every year. People in Huai'an must eat melon seeds during the Chinese New Year. Melon seeds represent hope and a family full of children and grandchildren.
Melon seeds have also become the flavor of the Spring Festival, and every household must have melon seeds in their New Year’s goods. On the first day of the new year, I put a plate of melon seeds on the table and chatted with relatives and friends of my seventh and eighth aunts whom I hadn’t seen for a long time. It felt like celebrating the New Year. If you keep the melon seeds, you will have no soul during the New Year.
Must-have New Year’s Eve dinner
Speaking of New Year’s Eve dinner, hoof and Qin Gong meatballs are indispensable on the Huai’an people’s dining table. In Lianshui County, Huai'an City, there is a folk song circulating: "The Mid-Autumn Festival is getting colder and colder, and the high-gou hooves are competing for the taste. Customers are rushing to buy goods, but it is a pity that the production and supply are not available." Hooves are also one of the necessities for Huai'an people's New Year's Eve dinner. .
The most famous thing in Huai'an is "Qin Palace Meatballs". Qin Gong Meat Balls is a famous traditional dish. According to legend, it was created by the imperial envoy who supervised flood control during the Kangxi period. It has been passed down for more than 300 years and is famous far and wide. It is one of the top ten famous dishes in Jiangsu Province. When Nixon visited China, Zhou Enlai specially served Aqin Palace meatballs at the banquet. A local folk song praised: "Qin Gong's meatballs have been falling over the wall, but they are round and smooth when picked up. They fall to the ground and jump a few times, and they are tender and fragrant in the mouth."
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