The sweet name despised by a president
Roughly 150km south of Shanghai, the ancient city of Ningbo is among China’s oldest and most important trading ports. Believed to be one of the starting points of the Maritime Silk Road and the birthplace of Chinese landscape painting and poetry, Ningbo is also the home of one of the country’s most beloved comfort foods: tangyuan, a sweet dumpling whose name is synonymous with harmony and union.
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