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Is Peony Bird's Nest Chinese food?

Peony Bird's Nest is Chinese food.

Peony Bird's Nest is generally referred to as Luoyang Bird's Nest, a traditional dish from Luoyang, Henan Province, whose ingredients include white radish, sea cucumber, and chicken, and whose finished product has a peony flower floating on the surface of the broth, hence its name. Peony Yan Cai is listed as the first dish in Luoyang's water feasts, which began in the period of Wu Zetian. It is sour and spicy in taste, and the soup is rich and fresh.

Peony Swallow Vegetable Legend:

Legend has it that Empress Wu Zetian went to Longmen to inspect the project of Buddha sculpture once, and when the radish was on the market in the season, some people offered her a dozens of kilograms of watery radish, and she made the imperial chef to make the dish, and the imperial chef cut it into julienne, and mixed it with powder and steamed it for nine times, and served it with flavorful broth, which was highly praised by Empress Wu Zetian after she ate it. And look at it like a bird's nest, bright and shiny, that is, the name "Swallow dishes", which has been handed down to this day.