What to eat in the North Double Ninth Festival?

Eat at the Double Ninth Festival in the north: flower cakes, crabs, mutton noodles, chestnut cakes, chrysanthemum cakes, pomegranates, etc. Details are as follows:

1. Flower cake.

This is the most traditional food of the Double Ninth Festival, which has been handed down since the Song Dynasty. Because it is homophonic with "Gao", it means "step by step", which is similar to the meaning of climbing a mountain on the Double Ninth Festival. Many places will make flower cakes on this day.

2. crabs.

Autumn wind, crab feet itch, old wine is mellow, osmanthus fragrance. Autumn is the most fertile season for crabs. Crab is also a seasonal food in autumn and one of the favorite seafood in the Double Ninth Festival.

3. Mutton noodles.

Eating mutton noodles on the Double Ninth Festival is because the weather is getting colder and colder in autumn, so it is good for your health to eat mutton noodles, and it has gradually formed a way to eat mutton noodles. Pasta is the favorite of northerners.

4. chestnut cake.

It is a cake made of chestnut paste as the main material. In Beijing, there are two kinds of cakes on the Double Ninth Festival, one is flower cake and the other is chestnut cake.

5. Chrysanthemum cake.

In fact, it originated in Chaoshan, and eating chrysanthemum cake on the Double Ninth Festival has a long history, mainly because it is soft and glutinous, melts in the mouth and looks more beautiful than other cakes.

6. pomegranate.

The Double Ninth Festival is also a good time to eat pomegranate. Pomegranate meat has seeds, which means that many children are blessed. Rich in vitamins, the content in fruits is many times higher than that in apples.