"That's because candied fruits and dried fruits have gone up in price." Guo Mingzhu stood at the kitchen door, speaking up for the mixed fruit filling, "To make glutinous rice balls with mixed fruit filling, you need quality candied fruits and dried fruits, and you need to render lard. If you start cutting corners and use subpar ingredients, cheap lard and cheap candied fruits, mix them together and boil them, they'll dissolve to become overly sweet and greasy, just like eating fat with artificial sweetener. Can that taste good?"
"The mixed fruit filling glutinous rice balls from that place you loved as a child weren't that great; they were overly sweet. You just loved sweet things as a kid and couldn't tell; you clamored for them after school every day and insisted on having two."
