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Sweet potato, one of the most common vegetables grown in China, can be made into various delicacies, with roasted sweet potato being particularly popular in the winter.

Freshly-harvest sweet potatoes. [Photo/WeChat account: hafbwx]

It is a common scene in the season to see people with simple baking stoves peddling newly-roasted sweet potatoes on the street.

To fry, stir-fry, steam, stew, and braise sweet potato with different food can produce different dishes.

Dried diced sweet potatoes. [Photo/WeChat account: hafbwx]

Sweet potatoes tend to become rotten when the temperature is below zero. Therefore, Chinese people would air dry sweet potatoes after slicing or dicing them to better preserve the food. They would then use the dried sweet potatoes to cook with rice or grind them up to make sweet potato pudding.

Roasted sweet potatoes. [Photo/WeChat account: hafbwx]

Another way to preserve sweet potatoes is to put them in a deep hole and cover them with a straw-weaved lid and a pot. By doing so, people can enjoy fresh sweet potatoes in the cold winter.

Dishes made from sweet potatoes. [Photo/WeChat account: hafbwx]