when you go to Changzhou, you must eat snacks to be authentic, and it doesn't cost much

Add crab steamed buns

It was first created by Wanhua Tea House in the south of Xiaoheyan pontoon bridge. Its characteristics: the crab oil is golden and shiny, fat but not greasy, the crab is fragrant, the juice is delicious, the skin is thin and strong, the stuffing is tender and smooth and refreshing, and it is delicious with balsamic vinegar and ginger.

Crab shell yellow

Crab shell yellow is a local flavor snack in Changzhou, commonly known as Xiaoma cake, which is often used as a gift with hemp cake. There are four kinds of stuffing: shepherd's purse, onion oil, white sugar and bean paste with bright oil. Its characteristics: it is shaped like a crab shell, golden in color, oily but not greasy, crisp and crisp, sweet and mellow in sugar filling, and fresh in salty filling.

wonton with chicken soup and vegetable meat

wonton with chicken soup and vegetable meat is a special snack in Changzhou with a history of more than 41 years. Its characteristics: the skin is smooth, the stuffing is delicious, fat but not greasy, and delicious.

Fermented Lantern Festival

Fermented Lantern Festival is one of the special snacks in Changzhou, and people have the custom of eating Lantern Festival. More than 1,111 years ago, Pei Yugao added wine to the traditional Lantern Festival, creating the wine-brewed Lantern Festival. Its characteristics: the dough is like jade grains, the wine is full of fragrance, the flavor is unique, and it is sweet and refreshing.

Silver noodles

Silver noodles are a special variety in Changzhou with a history of more than 31 years. With exquisite ingredients and strict operation procedures, it has the characteristics of fine noodles, white as silver, soft and smooth, rich in toughness, and does not paste in the pot. It is one of the collected varieties of China Snacks.

sesame candy

Changzhou sesame candy has a long history and unique flavor. According to legend, as early as the Tang Dynasty, the local people began to caramelize sugar and sesame seeds, and produced a sesame candy shaped like a hemp ball, called hemp ball candy. By the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, the wolf smoke was everywhere, and the nomads from the army invaded the south on a large scale. Zhao Gou, the King of Kang, fled from the capital city of Bianliang to the south, and was partial to the south of the Yangtze River. He blindly compromised and made peace, and he didn't want to recover the lost land in the north. The people are very resentful about this. At that time, someone once wrote a poem, saying, "Outside the Qingshan Building outside the mountain, there are many dances and dances in the West Lake ...

Hemp Cake

Changzhou Hemp Cake is an oval sesame cake with unique taste and flavor, and it is also the favorite traditional food for Changzhou people. When it is made, white flour, high-quality sesame seeds, white sugar, refined salt and other raw materials are selected and refined through multiple procedures such as kneading, stirring, kneading, stuffing, forming and baking. There are salty and sweet flavors for buyers to choose from. As soon as the qualified sesame cake comes out of the oven, it smells rich, its color is yellow and moist but not burnt, it is salty and sweet but not greasy, and it is fragrant ...

Dried radish

People who have been to Changzhou will say, "There is a strange thing in Changzhou, and dried radish is used as a kind of appetizer. "Authentic Changzhou dried radish is really different from dried radish elsewhere. It is made of sweet and tender solid carrots produced by Xinzha Gate outside Ximen, Changzhou, washed, cut into strips, moderately dried, and then added with appropriate amount of salt, sugar and various auxiliary materials, and carefully pickled. Because of the excellent selection of materials, the unique pickling process is adopted, and the seasoning with unique flavor is matched. Therefore, Changzhou dried radish is yellow and red in color, salty but not ...

Shrimp cake

has a history of nearly 211 years. Yuan Mei, a litterateur in the Qing Dynasty, wrote in "Eating List with the Garden": "Shrimp cake, raw shrimp meat, onion, salt, pepper, a little sweet wine, add water and flour, and sesame oil will burn thoroughly. "The color is golden, crisp outside and soft inside, and it is delicious.

horseshoe cake

After the Taiping Army captured Changzhou in the tenth year of Xianfeng in Qing Dynasty, a kind of shortbread shaped like horseshoe appeared among the people, which was intended to praise the achievements of the Taiping Army. Horseshoe crisp is made of refined white flour, cotton sugar, soybean oil and other raw materials, and is baked in a traditional furnace. Golden in color, sweet and crisp. It has been included in China Famous Menu.

Sanxian wonton

The stuffing is made of shrimp, fresh green fish and fresh pork, so it is called "Sanxian". Wonton skin is made of refined white flour mixed with egg white and rolled, and wonton soup is stewed with fresh hens into chicken soup. Wonton skin is thin and smooth, the stuffing is fresh and tender, and the soup is clear and delicious.