When I was a child, my father often went on business trips and brought back a lot of food and fun every time. I'm about ten years old, and it's my first time to eat cloud cakes. I have been deeply impressed since then, and I still think of it from time to time.
It is a big bag, and the colorful packaging shows the diversity of tastes. Roses, sweet-scented osmanthus, sesame seeds, walnuts ... a rectangular piece, very thin and tough, will not break when bent into a circle. The taste is delicate and continuous, not very sweet and greasy.
In terms of taste, it is not the best I have ever eaten, nor is it the most exquisite I have ever seen. I still remember such a clever eating, which is really a very accidental situation.
Soon after my father came back, there were guests at home. After dinner, my mother made tea and asked me to get some cloud cakes for tea. Look, I've been waiting for a while, thinking I don't remember, just tell me, it's that rectangle. It is hidden in many professions. Although I ate it, I didn't pay attention to its name until that day.
At that age when words were scarce, I had an indescribable feeling about this name and could only sigh. It's really great. The cloud cakes placed in porcelain plates look beautiful and taste even better. Now that I think about it, a good name can add charm to things.
Later, I checked the information, and it turned out that the name "cloud cake" came from a clerical error of Qianlong! It was originally called "snowflake cake" because it is very thin, like snowflakes. I think this slip of the pen is good. Although it looks different, it makes people feel more elegant.
Later, for a long time, I missed cloud cakes very much. Unfortunately, supermarkets in the north didn't sell them, and online shopping didn't appear. This love and yearning gradually turned into an unclear obsession.
Now you can buy all kinds of brands and flavors of cloud cakes online, but I have never bought them once. In my heart, I have always kept the taste of childhood. I will check the videos made online and look at many pictures, so I am not sure. I miss the cake itself or the feeling of childhood!
I think I can go to Xuzhou, Jiangsu this year to see if the cloud cakes I miss are as beautiful as I remember.