Celebrate La Ba with porridge and garlic
Chinaculture.org | Updated: 2015-01-27 05:38
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La Ba porridge. [File photo] |
Chinese people celebrate La Ba Festival with La Ba porridge, often made with rice, peanuts, green beans, red beans and lotus seeds. La Ba-picked garlic is often eaten in Northern China on this day as well.
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Pickled La Ba Garlic. [File photo] |
Cloves of garlic are pickled in vinegar and left to rest in a cool place. It is said that only garlic pickled during the La Ba Festival will turn out green.
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