Pancake master makes flowers bloom

Pancakes are the signature snack locally, and yellow peaches grow in abundance. Virtually every family has peach trees, so Xu tried to make peach-flavored pancakes.

"At the beginning, I used big crunchy peaches, but those pancakes didn't taste good," she said.

Then she added more peaches,only to find that the pancakes were hard to flip. At last, she tried squishy, ripe fruit and the peachy pancakes came to life.

"So far, I have made more than 50 flavors of pancakes using fruits and vegetables," she said.

Her pancake products come in several natural colors, depending on the ingredient, such as dragon fruit, red jujube, pumpkin, black sesame seed, celery and, of course, peaches.