Heshunji's traditional dessert on offer
(chinadaily.com.cn)
Babaofan – rice with eight delicacies – is a traditional dessert served on New Year's Eve in southern China, where people enjoy its sweet, honey-like taste and the suggestion to a happy life.
The Heshunji restaurant specializes in cooking traditional food, including babaofan, which is made of red glutinous rice, jujube, lotus seed, kumquat, raisin, walnut kernel, melon seed, and red bean paste.
The ingredients stick together because of the glutinous rice and offer a soft, supple mouthfeel and pleasant colors.
The 300 gram rice is sold for 10 yuan; the 500 gram rice costs 18 yuan ($2.7).
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The Heshunji restaurant in Bacheng offers babaofan – a dessert traditionally served at the New Year's Eve dinner in southern China. [Photo from WeChat account bachengly] |
Heshunji
Address: 1 Henan Road, Bacheng, Kunshan
Contact: 0512 5785 3177
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