In fact, bird pears are also called sugar pears and bean pears. Its fruit is very small, only the size of table tennis. But when the fruit is ripe, many birds will come to eat it, so at this time, the locals will compete with the birds to eat it, but in the local area, pears will not be eaten directly, because it has no taste, is a little astringent and has no sweetness, and tastes like "chewing wax".

Therefore, for Chaoshan people who are picky about the tip of their tongue, the most direct way to make birds and pears delicious is to pickle them. Under normal circumstances, the picked mature birds and pears will be washed and boiled in a pot, and then taken out and soaked in licorice water, so that the taste of licorice can make birds and pears sour and sweet, have a unique fruity fragrance, and are very appetizing and greasy, and birds and pears can also produce fluid to relieve summer heat and moisten the intestines to relieve constipation. Therefore, birds and pears are also made into favorite snacks for local men, women and children.