Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Poetry 2017 | Page 12

Taste of Old Shanghai
Victoria Shanghai Academy, Chan, Anne – 6
White is flour,
Flour turns into dough,
Dough is pulled and kneaded long,
And long are the slurpy Yang Chun noodles.
Mysteriously wrapped,
Wrapped into a swirly mini bun,
Bun is packed with bursting flavour,
And flavour soup drips from the legendary Xiao Long Bao.
Hairy but small,
Small but jammed with scrumptious roes,
Roes and meat tastes like heaven,
And heaven is the mouth-watering hairy crab.
Juicy and tender,
Tenderly baked inside the mud crust,
Crust cracks open and steam flies out,
And out is the moist Beggar’s chicken.