Chengde's special snacks include: Shaomai, crispy cakes, eight-treasure rice, Erxianju Bowl Tuo, Baizi white buckwheat noodles, cake jelly, snowballing, baked cakes, pancake boxes, naked oats noodles snacks, Bagou sesame cakes, mutton soup, flower rose cakes, Nansha cakes, and cortex moutan, which have unique local characteristics.

Fried Bowl Tuo

Chengde is rich in buckwheat; Bowl tuo made of buckwheat noodles is a local traditional snack in Chengde, which has a history of more than 211 years. During the Qianlong period, when the emperor toured the Jehol, the fried bowls were deeply loved by the accompanying empresses. The raw materials of fried bowl tuo are buckwheat noodles, mung bean powder, spiced noodles and pepper noodles. It is characterized by rich nutrition, hot and sour flavor, smooth and tender, and it is an economical and popular food, which has a unique flavor and an increased appetite.

pastry

people in northern China are used to calling many flour products "pastry". The production methods are divided into steaming, baking, baking and boiling. Chengde area has a long history of making all kinds of cakes. It is said that Kangxi, Qianlong and later emperors came to the summer resort every year and almost all of them ate cakes. In recent years, convenience food has become more and more popular with people, and most hotels in the urban area also run cakes. The most popular cake in Chengde area is crispy cake, which is characterized by crisp, soft and multi-layered.

Baked cake baked cake

is a traditional flavor food with strong flavor of fragrant soil, which is ground into flour by Chengde people from local Gu Mi and then baked. It is known as the "four auspicious cakes" together with rice cakes, bean bags and pancakes. Every time in the slack season of the twelfth lunar month, people in Chengde mountain area make cakes for every household. The baked cake is tender and delicious.

Flower Rose Cake

Rose is not only a famous flower beyond the Great Wall, but also the city flower of Chengde City. Making snacks with roses has a history of nearly 311 years in Chengde. According to historical records, whenever Kangxi came to Chengde for the summer or went hunting in the paddock, he used this cake as a special food. Flower rose cake is beautiful in shape, bright in color, soft and crisp, and has an attractive aroma of hungry roses. It is a good gift for relatives and friends.

Chengde cuisine is the representative of the imperial palace cuisine beyond the Great Wall. Different from the imperial palace cuisine in Beijing, Chengde cuisine mainly focuses on delicacies and game, and its methods include dry cooking and fragrant cooking. The famous flavor dishes are: frozen rabbit meat in Pingquan, fish in Qinglong, spiced venison, fried pheasant roll, game hot pot and so on. There are also roasted venison, roe deer, pheasant, etc., which are generally about tens of yuan/large plate (Chengde restaurants are divided into large and small plates, which are about one foot big and seven inches small). Pubang venison and fragrant cooked venison skewers in flavor snacks are delicious, and they only cost four or five yuan a string, so they are worth tasting. There are many specialty restaurants in the street south of the summer resort. The decoration is simple and elegant, and you can taste local specialty dishes.

As a frontier city close to Bashang, Chengde also has a special food, that is, oat noodles. Youmian belongs to coarse grains, and its color is slightly black. In the local Youmian Wozi, Youmian is rolled into skin and then rolled into rolls, steamed in a pot, dipped in halogen when eating, and the entrance is sticky and slippery. Youmian jiaozi also has a unique flavor, especially a kind of jiaozi stuffed with sauerkraut, which has a unique flavor. At night, there is a stall selling roasted old corn on the street of Chengde, which smells fragrant.

Eight Immortals of Game in Steamed Pot, a special dish in Chengde

Based on the characteristics of good sealing and easy cooking, it selects high-quality wild game as raw materials, such as roe deer meat, pheasant breast, rabbit, winter bamboo shoots, Tricholoma, green pepper, etc., and all of them are steamed in the pot. When they are out of the pot, they are original, the soup is fresh and clear, the meat is crisp and rotten, and the taste is mellow.

Chengde Snack Buckwheat Noodles

is one of the three best pasta dishes in the north, which is as famous as Beijing pulled noodles and Shanxi Daoxiao Noodles. Buckwheat noodles are divided into white buckwheat noodles and black buckwheat noodles, which are traditional crops in Chengde, especially in Bashang area. Pasta made from them is smooth and smooth.

Chengde's special dish, Yutian Lotus Leaf Chicken

, originated from "beggar chicken", and its practice is similar to beggar chicken. First, the slaughtered raw chicken is taken out, washed without shedding its hair, wrapped in lotus leaves, pasted with yellow mud, cooked on the fire, and the chicken feathers fall off. Because Chengde's unique Ligong loess, Jehol spring water and lotus leaves in the lake are selected as auxiliary materials, it is named "Royal Lotus Chicken". Lotus leaf chicken tastes delicious, especially the faint fragrance of lotus leaf, which makes your appetite wide open and has a long aftertaste.

References: World Heritage China Tour.