The maids quickly brought up a large food box, inside which was an assortment box containing twelve kinds of sweet treats and fruits.
One was osmanthus cake with white sugar and arrowroot powder, one was bird's nest ginseng powder eight-treasure Western cheesecake, one was almond bean powder Qi Qiao pastry, one was pigeon egg rock sugar thin roll, one was pigeon powder chicken oil fragrant leg fried roll, and one was iced taro water chestnut crystal cake, these were six kinds of tea snacks.
The sweets were Guangdong mint fragrance lotus seed candy, lemon sour fried banana candy, and Buddha's hand slice. The fruits were fresh snow lotus root, apple pineapple fruit, and milk crystal grapes.
Underneath the food box lay a few bottles of Dutch water, some with ginger juice, some with lemon, some with mint, and some with salt water. Dutch water was the earliest type of soda water, and the result of Great Chu's prosperous maritime trade, only recently introduced.
