Jade is broken at the bottom of the plate, snow is sold at the edge of the mouth refers to which kind of food

Jade is broken at the bottom of the plate and snow is sold by the side of the mouth, referring to the snow cheese.

Snowflake cheese is one of China's oldest traditional iced treats, also known as local ice cream, and is rumored to have a history of more than 3,000 years. During the Song Dynasty, people mixed fruit juice, milk, medicinal chrysanthemums and ice to make a frozen drink called ice cheese, which is similar to today's shaved ice. The Southern Song poet Yang Wanli appreciated this: like mushy also become cool, only condensed and want to float, jade to the bottom of the plate broken, snow to the mouth side of the elimination. Zhengzhou delicious snowflake cheese is increasingly popular, loved by everyone, known as Zhengzhou Yongan Street, the fourth best.

The old-fashioned snow cheese, taro snow cheese, sweet potato snow cheese three flavors have their own characteristics. Fine sand like ice is put into a plastic cup by spoonfuls, when it is placed in two-thirds, start to add a variety of condiments: red beans, crushed peanuts, raisins, crushed hawthorn, chocolate, crushed Oreos, mango puree and other seven kinds of small ingredients, add straws and small spoons, a cup of colorful and flavorful snowflake cheese, gently sent to the mouth with a small spoon, cool, sweet, smooth, and the heat suddenly disappeared.

Snowflake cheese origin

Snowflake cheese is rumored to be the secret of the Ming Dynasty palace refrigeration food, and then spread to the people, is the old society, poor children can afford to eat on the snacks, is often a child's painstakingly begging adults to earn but, to buy a bowl of snowflake cheese, the family of 7, 8 children to share and eat. Winter chiseled out the Yongding River on the large floating ice, wrapped in straw mats into the cellar to save, to the next summer to take out part of the ice broken into powder, and honey, sour plum juice, dried fruit to eat. Before the emergence of ice cream, China has a similar cold food, is the snowflake cheese.

Ming and Qing dynasties, Beijing appeared the prototype of snow cheese, is the use of shaving bed will be natural ice shavings, and then fruit cheese (dried fruit), red fruit cheese and thick sour plum soup poured into the wooden barrel or porcelain basin with a stick, and then served in a cup, half drink and half chew. The name of the legend varies, some say called ice fruit cheese, some say called snow tea. Said the snow tea people say, the palace taboo snow word and blood word homophonic, the middle of the word added a flower, into a snowflake tea.