A mother shows the poetic breakfast she makes for her daughter. (Photo/Sanqin Daily）
(ECNS) -- A mother has added an unusual ingredient to make breakfast for her daughter more attractive, with ancient Chinese poems arranged on the plate, Xi'an-based newspaper Sanqin Daily reported.
After discovering that her first grader daughter was picky at breakfast, Jiang Yaqin tried all means to ensure her a balanced diet and to stimulate her appetite.
Inspired by online recipes, she arranged the food in ways to represent scenes depicted in Chinese literature.
In a bowl of porridge, the mother put a duck-shaped fried egg, used a carrot to simulate the duck's mouth, and added cucumber slices to form waves. Jiang named the porridge after a poem written by Su Shi during the Northern Song Dynasty (960-1279).
The creation made her 8-year-old daughter look forward to having breakfast every day, which encouraged the mother to try new ideas. She used chocolate cream to draw wild geese and made broccoli into the shape of a lotus flower, scenes inspired by a poem from Li Bai in the Tang Dynasty (618-907).
Jiang said she hopes the creative breakfast can motivate her child to be more imaginative.
