product origin: Shaoxing

product description: fennel bean is a regular drink in almost all hotels in Shaoxing in four seasons. Soak dried broad beans (local people call them Podocarpus), drain them, put appropriate amount of water in a pot with Shouxiang, Cork, salt and edible camellia, and cook them slowly with slow fire to make the seasoning juice absorb from the skin to the bean meat. After the seasoning juice is basically boiled dry, remove it from the pot and cool it, and then it becomes Miaoxiang bean. This kind of wormwood bean is bluish yellow. The skin is wrinkled, the beans are tough and chewy, and the fragrance is sweet.

product history: because Mr. Lu Xun wrote fennel beans in Kong Yiji, it became famous at home and abroad with the spread of the novel. Now, this traditional food has become a "souvenir" for tourists. After visiting the Lu Xun Memorial Hall, many foreign guests all rushed to the nearby Xianheng Hotel, asking for a bowl of wine, buying a plate of fennel beans and experiencing the life in Kong Yiji. . When he left, he didn't forget to bring a few bags as gifts to relatives and friends, and * * * enjoyed roaming Lu Xun's hometown.

Allusions: When it comes to fennel, people often associate it with the interesting plots about fennel mentioned in Lu Xun's works. In 1981, several Japanese dramatists couldn't wait to taste fennel beans in Shaoxing. One of their Japanese friends, after sitting down at the square table in Xianheng Hotel, ate fennel beans and looked at them as if he were identifying a rare treasure. This small fennel bean has become an important detail for them to understand the customs of Shaoxing.