Huangyan brown sugar [Photo provided to ezhejiang.gov.cn]

Sugar master keeps stirring the syrup. After evaporation cooling, the syrup will become solid. With repetitive pressing, the solid sugar will be sandlike. Like the old saying goes,' Coagulate as solid as stone and break as dense as sand.'

With a simple dip of brown sugar, the dedicate sweetness can cover all over your mouth and satisfy each of your taste bud. To obtain original Huangyan Brown Sugar, several procedures are required, breeding, seeding, harvest, decoction, etc. Without sugarcane farmers' efforts through the whole year, we would never have the chance to taste a bit of this extraordinary sugar. The sweetness mixed with the aroma of a little burning dried sugarcane top is the best celebration through the whole year.

Till now, Huangyan people still stick to the most original and traditional method to decoct brown sugar, which not only shows the strength of inheritance but also the hope of persistence. On September 28th, 2016, Huangyan Brown Sugar has registered Agro-product Geographical Indication recognized by Ministry of Agriculture of P.R.C. This is the first registered protection agricultural product in Huangyan.

In Huangyan, almost in everyone's mind stores a piece of sweet memory related to brown sugar: a mug of brown sugar water at the reunion dinner, soft steamed sticky rice cake and rice balls covered with powdered brown sugar at the special solar terms in each year…The dash of sweetness can recall the memory of the taste of hometown burying at the bottom of one's heart. No matter how far you’re away from home, the taste can render you a sense of belonging.

As long as sugarcanes can be ripe, brown sugar are handmade, the sweet aroma in the air can always remind you what happiness is like, what flavour happiness might taste like and how satisfied you're towards life.

The lingering sweetness guides the lost ones the way home, while to those who're far away from home, it helps to alleviate nostalgia. Are you homesick right now? Savor a little Huangyan brown sugar and you can feel home