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Mashed pumpkin and dasheen
Chaozhou is teem with pumpkin and dasheen, in Chaozhou nosh that take pumpkin and dasheen as material, most famous and has longest history should be mashed pumpkin and dasheen.
About Chaozhou sweet mash dasheen has a extensive hearsay joke in Chaozhou. It is said at Opium War eve, consul that stationed in Guangzhou of American and England junket Lin Zhexu, there is a western-style food ice-cream on feast, foreigner consider Lin Zhexu don¡¯t know what it is, by all means don¡¯t know how to eat, want Lin Zhexu to make a show of himself, but Lin Zhexu can rise to the occasion. After several days Lin Zhexu invite this foreigner, after several dish put on feast, follow a Chaozhou sweet mashed dasheen. This dish is not smoke seen from outside but boiling hot inside, foreigner consider this is also cool dish, scoop one tbs and put in mouth, burn their mouth to a blood vesicle.
On Chaozhou festival feast, has begin and end sweet custom, in the past, last sweet nosh put on feast in often this famous Chaozhou nosh ¡°Mashed pumpkin and dasheen¡±.
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