幽幽菊花清香，浓浓中山美味

冼泺茵

花动菊城，风起香山。以菊花入馔，品饕餮盛宴！

Located in Zhongshan， Xiaolan Town is known as “the City of Chrysanthemum”（菊城）. People in this town have been planting chrysanthemums and cooking food with it for hundreds of years.

The history of growing chrysanthemums is long in Xiaolan Town. Making full use of the natural conditions， such as the climate and the soil， people here successfully cultivated a kind of yellow chrysanthemum， which was eatable. With the present from nature， industrious and intelligent people created a variety of tasty foods， which are now known as Chrysanthemum Banquet. There are many traditional foods in Chrysanthemum Banquet， among which Chrysanthemum Fish Ball， Chrysanthemum Pork， Chrysanthemum Wine and Chrysanthemum Eight Treasure Rice are the most famous. Each dish is a mixture of the flavor of meat and the fragrance of chrysanthemums.

The methods of cooking foods with chrysanthemums are varied. For instance， Chrysanthemum Bran（菊花糠） is made of chrysanthemums and sugar. People gather the fresh chrysanthemum petals （花瓣） and dry them in the open air， following which they heat dried petals， sugar and little water together into a paste， then cool it and smash it into pieces. Chrysanthemum Bran is a traditional snack popular with people of all ages， which will leave a lingering fragrance in your mouth once you have a bite of it. It is also a basic ingredient in other chrysanthemum foods.

Chrysanthemum Banquet is not only the enjoyment of taste buds， but also a visual feast. So it has become popular among Chinese and foreign tourists， who can enjoy the rare Chrysanthemum Banquet while admiring varieties of chrysanthemums during the golden autumn.

指導老师 王 思