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Chiqu steamed rice-powder
A ny time mention Chaozhou nosh, must mention Chiqu steamed rice-powder, that¡¯s because Chiqu steamed rice-powder has longest history and most popular.
Skin of Chiqu is a kind of grass, this grass possess light fragrant, can clear blood, is a common Chinese tradition medicine, its dry grass called ¡°windflower¡±.
Chaozhou people know Chiqu possess special fragrant and medicine effect, can take as original material and made into various nosh, this already record in documents. As famous poet Pi Rixiu of Tang dynasty has a poem ¡¶Pick some wild grass to express thanks¡·, there is a sentence in it ¡°Pick long can smell fragrant of Shuer¡±, Shuer is Chiqu grass; Li Shizhen also motioned in ¡¶Grass and medicine catalogue¡·: ¡°Pick Rongmu grass and take as food in northward¡±, here Rongmu grass also is Chiqu grass. Chiqu grass has a very long history. Modern poet Zhou Zuoren also write an essay ¡¶Hometown Chiqu grass ¡·.
Color of Chiqu grass is deep green, taste soft and fragrant, emanate nature fragrant, is one of the popular food in Chaoshan, and also is sacrifice on holidays.
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