LITERARY TASTES
By Li Yingxue | China Daily | Updated: 2018-05-11 08:20
A chef from Chengdu has turned a dozen dishes from Cao Xueqin's epic novel The Dream of the Red Chamber into a selection of daring new desserts. Li Yingxue reports.
In chapter 35 of The Dream of the Red Chamber, when protagonist Jia Baoyu is asked what he would like to eat after being beaten by his father, he asks for lotus leaf soup.
It's one of the many dishes described in Cao Xueqin's epic novel, but it's unlikely anyone has ever tried to re-create these delicacies from scratch, let alone reinterpret them.
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