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Chinese Spring Festival: Cooking Chinese Food In Temple Fair
Chinese Spring Festival Fairs in China are good places to find out about something new, and for the first time, I saw birds, grasshoppers, fishes, snakes and of course the phoenix, being formed out of boiling sugar, put on a stick, and sold as lollipops. I was full of admiration of the skill and talent of the craftsman at this Temple Fair, as he ladled boiling sugar from a pot heated by charcoal at the side of him, and then casually poured the sugar to form his masterpieces, which were much sort after by the children in the Chinese Spring Festival Fair, yet looked too artistic to be eaten, but it would not have been a Temple Fair had there not been plenty of tasty things to be eaten, and almost everywhere you went, the aromas of Chinese food being cooked filled the air.
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Hot Snacks of Chinese Food at Chinese Spring Festival Fair in Beijing.
Besides the sugar lollipops at the Chinese Spring Festival Fair, there were ten small toffee apples on sticks for the children, and then an array of cooked snacks for anyone else who felt hungry, or just wanted to try something new, maybe from a different province.
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Portable drums at the Chinese Spring Festival Fair, burning coal bricks were the cooks' ovens, on which they cheerfully prepared the food, with a certain amount of showmanship, to impress their customers and attract the passers-by.
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What really intrigued me at the Temple Fair were the over-size Dragon
Kettles, with their own in-built heaters, used for making snacks of noodles, which I had previously seen on a visit to Tianjin. I could not help but compare the wide variety of snacks available at the Chinese Spring Festival Fair, with the snacks sold at fairs in the UK; usually Hotdogs and Hamburgers !
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