Nursery Rhymes and Poems about Food

Su Dongpo was relegated to Zhan County on Hainan Island. There was a local crone who sold

ring cakes, her craftsmanship was good, the quality of ring cakes was high,

but because the store was secluded and unknown, the business had been

bad. The old woman learned that Su Dongpo was a famous writer, so she

asked him to compose a poem for the store. Su Dongpo felt pity for her poor life

bitterness, ring cake craft and really good, so he penned a

some of the first seven:

The delicate hand rubbed to the jade color uniform,

Blue oil frying out of the tender yellow depths.

Night to spring sleep to know the weight,

Pressing the flattening of good people wrapped arm gold.