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- Specification
- Prepared to the house recipe; sweetness, thickness and pot size vary.
Ingredients
Pear and water, often with rock sugar and snow fungus. Recipes may add red dates, goji berries, dried plum, hawthorn or dried tangerine peel. Ask about the actual ingredients.
Origin & regional roots
Beijing
Associated with Beijing.
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Story & history
What “Xiaodiao” means in Beijing pear soup
This account describes a tradition or story, rather than an established historical fact.
One circulating tale links “Xiaodiao” (“small diao”) to a copper kettle used to measure pear soup: one diao was said to equal one kettle. Another account says the warm drink was sold outside Beijing opera theaters, where audiences bought it after a performance.
