Gorgonians are mainly eaten with white foods such as lotus seeds, bird's nests, ginkgo nuts, yams, white lentils, and lilies, and are categorized into two types: fried gorgonians and raw gorgonians.

Fried gorgonzola is generally available in pharmacies, home cooking, it is advisable to use raw gorgonzola stewed slowly until rotten. For its ability to eat raw, it seems that people often do dishes or make cinnamon chicken head rice soup and other drinks is the most common, raw food is also possible, but need to be fresh-based, and mature shelling is not easy, and more hard, so generally cook and eat the most.

Chicken head rice is a kind of water lily lotus seed:

Because of its growth of the lotus seed head, shelling of the rice, so there is the name of chicken head rice, generally seen in Suzhou and other regions, especially after the autumn began to market, people often used to do all kinds of dishes.