Among many Tianjin-style cakes, white flour pastry is the most popular.
A piece of white skin tastes the memory.
In the 1970s, materials were still scarce, so we couldn't eat snacks on weekdays. On holidays, we had to change food stamps to buy some dim sum dregs.
Most of the dim sum residue is the "skin" of white-skinned dim sum, which is made into a bowl of "dim sum paste" with boiling water, or just a cup of strong hot tea. Even so, our grandparents can be beautiful for a few days with a bite!
Time has passed, and today's dim sum residue is not worth mentioning at all, but it contains unforgettable memories of the older generation.
After the reform and opening up, the economy has developed rapidly. At that time, white leather has become a necessary gift that people often give and get when visiting relatives and friends. During the Spring Festival, snack boxes are hung on the handlebars of bicycles all over the street, which is very cool.
Especially the old example of Tianjin, Children's Day. Two boxes of decent white cakes, one with eight pieces and one with a cake. Take a bundle of red nylon rope, and the child will definitely have face when he takes out his hand in front of his father-in-law!
Tianjin children in the 1990s all grew up eating white skins when they were young. Thick sesame oil flavor, crisp to slag, soft and sweet.
At that time, whenever I was hungry, my grandparents would always give us a few pieces of white skin to eat, two or three mouthfuls at a time, and even the dregs of my mouth would have to be licked clean to satisfy.
Those delicious dim sum shops
Siyuanxiang cake
You may think there are not many branches of Siyuanxiang, but it is also a century-old shop-founded on the east side of Beimenwai Street 1883, which has been mainly engaged in traditional cakes, and the white moon cakes are delicious.
To say that Siyuanxiang is the most famous, it is still to make a birthday peach. Full peaches with stuffing are soft and delicious, which are most suitable for the elderly to celebrate their birthdays.
Siyuanxiang Cake (Changjiang Road Store): No.36 Changjiang Road (50 meters west of Huashan Hospital)
Da Qiao avenue food shop
Although it is not a hundred years old, the cakes on Da Qiao Road also have enough weight in Tianjin people's hearts. On holidays, many people come here to buy cakes. White skin, moon cakes, zongzi and glutinous rice balls are all popular.
In addition to selling traditional cakes, as a local native food store, there are also snacks such as drinks, ice cream, canned food, snacks and dried fruits. Residents living nearby come home from work to buy snacks, and many of them are frequent visitors here.
Da Qiao Road Food Store (Xihu Road Store): No.4 Xihu Road, Xingyeli.
Guishunzhai
The "top match" of traditional cakes, then Tianjin people still want to give this title to Gui Shunzhai. On holidays, carrying a box of Gui Shunzhai snacks is different from others.
How good Guishunzhai is, in fact, from snacks to big "friendship", it is probably the taste memory rooted in the tip of the tongue-when the snow-white skin and the fragrance of sesame oil are intertwined, this is the ultimate impression of Tianjin people on snacks.
Gui Shunzhai (Huaning Beili Branch): a merchant on the ground floor of Building Huaning Beili 17, at the intersection of Nanchengjiang Road and Huaning Road in Tiantuo.