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What traditional dishes to eat in mid-autumn

Mid-Autumn eating duck, lotus root, fish, three fresh soups, snails and so on.

1, duck: different regions eat different duck. For example, Nantong people like to eat eight treasures duck, Changzhou people like to eat duck casserole, Chengdu people like to eat duck in sauce, as well as western Sichuan region like to eat smoked duck.

2, lotus root: lotus root can be eaten in many ways, you can stir-fry, can be stuffed with glutinous rice cooked into sugar lotus root, but also can be made into lotus root folder.

3, fish: fish has a "yearly surplus" resonance, in China, any major festivals on the table must have a fish, so the Mid-Autumn Festival, almost every family will prepare a fish to eat. But the fish eaten in different regions will be different, for example, Sichuan region will do boiled fish, boiling fish, pickled fish, Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions like steamed gui fish, steamed yellow fish, etc., and some other regions will use the local abundance of fish to make into a delicious dish.

4, three fresh soup: the southerners in the Mid-Autumn Festival, will cook a pot of three fresh soup, which has quail eggs, meatballs, fish balls, and meat skin. The shape of these ingredients are mainly round, in fact, is a symbol of reunion.

5, snails: in many places in Guangdong, the Mid-Autumn Festival will also have the habit of eating snails. Before and after the Mid-Autumn Festival, it is the time when the snail is empty, no small snails in the abdomen.