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What are the Dragon Boat Festival cuisines?

Dragon Boat Festival food recommendations include zongzi, dragon boat selection, fragrant zongzi sachet, China Rana lotus seed soup, wine-brewed Baba, Dragon Boat Festival cake and so on.

1 Zongzi

Zongzi is one of the essential delicacies in Dragon Boat Festival. It uses glutinous rice as the main material, fills in various fillings, and ties it to the leaves or zongzi with hemp rope, which has a special flavor after cooking. Traditional zongzi are salty and sweet, among which meat zongzi, bean paste zongzi and egg yolk zongzi are the most classic.

2. Dragon boat selection

Dragon boat selection is a local specialty food, which is specially prepared for watching dragon boat races. Generally speaking, dragon boat selection mainly includes cakes, fruits, snacks and so on. Some places will also prepare some special drinks, such as herbal tea.

3, fragrant jiaozi sachet

This is a dumpling-shaped pastry product with soft skin and many fillings. Generally speaking, the fragrant jiaozi is stuffed in dough and then steamed. The fillings include sugar peanuts, red bean paste and red dates.

4. China Rana Lianzi Soup

This is a kind of food for clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, and it is also a traditional dish of Dragon Boat Festival. China wood frog lotus seed soup is based on clear soup, and it is made by adding China wood frog, lotus seed and sugar water. It tastes smooth and sweet.

5. The wine is ready.

This is a sweet food, which is made of glutinous rice by fermentation and steaming. Baba brewed by wine tastes soft and waxy, sweet but not greasy, and the wine is rich. Generally speaking, it can be enjoyed with other traditional Dragon Boat Festival foods, and it is more delicious with it.

6. Highlight the Dragon Boat Festival

This is a cool food for relieving summer heat, and the preparation method is simple. Add boiled water and salt to glutinous rice flour, stir well, add chopped peanuts, preserved fruit and other ingredients, steam and cut into pieces. Dragon Boat Festival cake tastes delicate, cool and fragrant, which is an ideal choice for cooling off summer heat.