ninhao

Daily Tidbit: 糖炒栗子 (táng chǎo lì zi) Sugar Roasted Chestnut
With winter arriving, the air is filled with the aroma of sugar roasted chestnuts 糖炒栗子 (táng chǎo lì zi) throughout streets and lanes in China. It’s time to eat chestnuts 栗子 (lì zi)! Put sand in an iron cauldron and fry it with a special kind of sugar over a fire. Then put chestnuts into the cauldron and stir-fry them. The husk of thoroughly cooked chestnuts turns reddish brown. After the husk is discarded, the fruit is soft, sweet and delicious, thus making chestnuts roasted with sugar a special snack. Have you tasted sugar roasted chestnuts? Do you like to eat chestnuts? Do you know any other foods that are cooked with chestnuts? Let us know at ninhao