Gutianhuo Qilin

Gutian fire unicorn, a dessert in banquet, has a strange name and novel eating method, which can be described as a must in eastern Fujian. Its preparation method is to peel areca taro, cook it, and grind it into taro paste. Then add lard, sugar and fried black sesame seeds, put the taro paste into a disk and pile it up like a hill. Finally, the red dates soaked in boiling water are peeled, with the meat down and the skin up, and regularly spread on the taro paste. Specialty When this dish of sweets is served to the banquet, it is like a silver-gray hill with azaleas in full bloom and steaming sesame seeds. The host holds a small glass of shochu, and slowly pours a circle on the lower part of the "mountainside". The server strikes a match to burn the shochu. Suddenly, the plate burned into a flaming mountain. The guests raised their chopsticks and ate from the "top of the mountain" by the light of shochu. People who have eaten "Fire Kirin" as a specialty say that this dish of snacks tastes delicious, and the taste is different, and the more you eat it, the more fragrant it becomes. The first few stutter My Sweetie, delicious, soft but not greasy. When you eat at the bottom of the plate, the taro paste baked by soju is crisp and delicious.
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