The drug is collected in summer and autumn when the fruit turns greenish-yellow, boiled in water until the exocarp becomes grayish-white in colour, halved longitudinally, and dried in the sunn.
Using the churned fishpaste, shape them to the meatball by the globate spoon, cook in the boiling water with some vegetable, it can be another famous Ningbo food “bree fish meatball”。