Chaoshan people, especially Chaoyang people, like to eat ginger and potatoes. On New Year's Eve, one of several dishes is often sweet ginger and potato. On the first day of New Year's Day, when relatives and friends come to visit the New Year, the host will cook a bowl of ginger and potato chips soup to entertain them. According to Chaoyang folk custom, guests can give up other hospitality, except this bowl of ginger and potato Tang Fei. Because it shows the host's respect for visitors. In the past, the bride used to eat a bowl of sweet potato soup specially made for her by her grandmother or sister-in-law the next morning. Ginger and potato soup, in the eyes of Chaoshan people, is not just a general food, it symbolizes sweetness and happiness, but also symbolizes auspiciousness and happiness. Chaoshan people are very particular about eating ginger and potatoes. Slice ginger potatoes and cook them in boiling water for a while to make potato chip soup. The potato chips in the soup are slightly curled and taste fragrant and smooth. Cut the ginger potato into pieces, add sugar and lard and cook it slowly with slow fire. It tastes sweet and delicious. Cook the ginger and potatoes, mash them into mud, mix with sugar and water chestnut, and make them into the shapes of five kinds of fruits, such as peaches, apricots and persimmons, which can be steamed and eaten at any time. This kind of five fruits of ginger and potato, used in wedding banquets, is often a vegetarian dish praised by guests. In addition, cut the ginger potato into small pieces as meat ingredients, and add salt and other ingredients to make the potato pieces fragrant and loose, which has a unique [1] taste. Then, the ginger potato is ground into mashed potato in a special grinding bowl. Because the ginger potato is crisp and still has granules after grinding, it is suitable for cooking ginger potato pills, while steaming ginger potato yeast makes it rough, and the ginger potato pills are crispy and smooth. Another method is to infiltrate white sugar and grind it into mud. The mashed potato is very sticky, and the uninformed thought that it would stick to the teeth and plug the throat after steaming. Strangely, the mashed potatoes were steamed in a vessel without yeast, which made ginger and potato ferment. It was loose but not sticky, and it was more refreshing than the cake. Shape, color, fragrance and taste are all available, and the shape is like condensed fat. What does coagulate fat look like? The Book of Songs says that a beautiful woman's skin is like coagulated fat, and the ginger and potato leaven is as attractive as a beautiful woman's skin. In fact, the fermented color of ginger and potato is whiter, and the fragrance is sweet, which makes people drool. Although ginger potato belongs to potato, its value is not low. Some overseas Chinese and compatriots from Hong Kong and Macao who have come to visit relatives have returned to their places of residence, and they have to take some ginger potatoes with them for overseas folks to taste. Some overseas Chinese who have been away from home for many years are eager to eat a bowl of ginger and potato soup as soon as they return to their ancestral home. The family also understood their wishes. As soon as they entered the door, a bowl of sweet ginger and potato soup was served.
Pueraria lobata (Willd.) Ohwi, another name of Pueraria lobata, is the root tuber of Pueraria lobata (Willd.) Ohwi, a perennial vine of Leguminosae. It is named because it contains a lot of starch (the content of fresh Pueraria lobata is 19~20%). Pueraria lobata is a high-yield and widely used variety. Pueraria lobata is mainly cultivated artificially, which has the functions of invigorating yang, relieving muscle, penetrating rash and relieving diarrhea, relieving annoyance and quenching thirst. It is used as medicine to treat hypertension, angina pectoris, gastric ulcer, stomach spasm and gastritis pain. It is not only a common Chinese herbal medicine, but also a good food. Pueraria lobata can be processed into Ge Fen and Pueraria lobata slices, refined granular instant Ge Fen, and Puerarin can also be extracted from Pueraria lobata tea.