Street food: roses in batter

A relatively new dish is gaining popularity in China: fried roses. They are fried in batter and sold as a delicacy.

Yes, these guys eat that too now. The flowers for the snack are grown using special fertilizers, then washed well and fried at a strictly controlled temperature so that the roses do not burn and retain their texture.

The recipe is roughly as follows: for the batter, mix flour, water and white sea salt. Then the flowers are dipped in this liquid. Then oil, and lots of it. And fried.