Kunshan "four famous food"

Xi Ya rice flour baklava

Color, aroma and nutrition, the four are good

Xi Ya rice flour is one of the famous specialties of Kunshan, has a history of many years. It is characterized by excellent color, aroma, taste and nutrition, and has the reputation of "a high soup, full of street fragrance".

Did you know? Xi Ya rice flour adhering to the concept of integrity management new service Selected top quality rice flour in the ingredients using a variety of valuable Chinese herbs, with authentic chicken, first-class quality hoof bones, selected beef tendon meat for multi-channel process simmering. In Kunshan, there is a folk song "Since ancient times, birds gather in the wilderness, and hunt for Xi Ya for rice noodles".

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Cheng Yi Green Dumplings

Seasonal Gifts for Friends and Relatives

Green Dumplings, a popular confectionery in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Shanghai, were originally used as tribute for ancestor worship during the Ching Ming Festival.

In the Zhejiang area with mugwort leaves to do green juice, mugwort leaves with incense, but the stronger taste of medicine; in the Songshu area with vegetable leaves to do green juice, vegetable leaves taste light, do the color of the dumplings light green and yellow. And only in Kunshan is a unique green dumplings, green juice is different, raw materials selected carefully, color and flavor, so it is famous in all directions.

According to the old people, in the late Qing Dynasty, there was a middle-aged man named Zhao Hui on the street of Zhengyi, who used a kind of weed called "Jiangmai Grass" to wash and soak it in a basin containing lime. After soaking for a certain period of time, the "Chiang Mai Grass" fishing out and pounding, wringing out the juice, and dry with the water milled pure glutinous rice flour mixing, soft, so that you can do the dumplings.

After the victory in the war, the Kuomintang sent Qian Dajun to be the mayor of Shanghai. He was born in Zhengyi, and one year he went back to Zhengyi to visit his ancestor's grave during the Ching Ming Festival, and when he returned to Shanghai, he brought a lot of green dumplings with him, and gave them to Chen Cheng and other colleagues as a hometown specialties, so that the fame of Zhengyi green dumplings spread farther and wider.

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Jinxi sock pastry

Crisp, sweet and salty

Sock pastry this name, sounds neither elegant, and very vulgar, but in the Jiangnan water town is quite famous. A small cake, a layer as thin as a cicada wing, bite the crisp, sweet and salty in the mouth, has always been a traditional food that people are eager to buy.

How many years of production history of the socks bottom pastry, there is no way to find out, it is said to have been hundreds of years. Legend has it that in the late Southern Song Dynasty, Emperor Xiaozong fought against the Jin soldiers and stationed his navy and army in the area of Pingjiang. The soldiers made a common cause and defeated the Jin soldiers' aggression. Emperor Xiaozong held a banquet to celebrate his success and rewarded the three armies.

The accompanying Princess Chen wanted to eat pastries, the chef could not make the pastries that Princess Chen was satisfied with, so he enlisted in the folk. Jinxi there is an old lady to do the pastry in the local a bit famous on the tribute to the Chen Fei, who knows the Chen Fei ate very much like, we have to follow the trend, so in the folk spread. Because of the shape of the ancient socks, so it is called "sock bottom pastry".

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Lujiabang Sugar Jujubes

Bestselling snack

Sugar Jujubes, the size of jujubes, mixed with glutinous rice flour and malt sugar into the frying pan, and then sugar dipped in cinnamon and mixed into. This refined sugar dates, with three characteristics: sweet but not greasy, loose but not sticky, crispy aftertaste. Men and women, young and old, gently chewing that is full of cinnamon flavor, tantalizing appetite, but also the ideal gift for friends and relatives.

Lujiabang sugar dates have a history of nearly 100 years. In the Qing dynasty in the Guangxu period, there is a young man called Chen Youwen, his family is poor, in the town of Lujiabang set up a stall, store in front of the workshop, making cakes and tea. One year, the weather is extraordinarily hot, small Chen because of the morning cold sleep, so that soaked rice for too long and heat and acid, in order to make the acidic flavor removed, no loss of raw materials, the product does not deteriorate, he thought of a number of ways.

Later he rubbed the rice flour into strips, pinched into small segments, put in a frying pan frying, fish out mixed with sugar, a taste, not only no sour taste, but also sweet and crunchy, very tasty, by the customer's welcome, and one day even sold nearly a thousand pounds. Customers asked the owner of the store, what is the name, the owner saw like a big red date, then casually answered, called sugar dates. From then on, the fame of sugar dates began to spread in all directions.