Famous snacks in Hangzhou include chicken crisp, soup with minced meat in Song Dynasty, West Lake vinegar fish, fried eel noodles with shrimps, printed cakes, oily Dong Er, scallion and juniper, and so on. Features of Hangzhou snacks: They are fresh and delicious every time during the Spring Festival. For example, during the Spring Festival, various kinds of spring rolls, fresh meat dumplings and assorted eight-treasure rice are supplied, during the Tomb-Sweeping Day, Ai Qing dumplings are supplied, and fine sand or fresh meat brown are listed during the Dragon Boat Festival. Mid-Autumn Festival makes Hangzhou-style, Suzhou-style and Cantonese-style moon cakes, and Chongyang eats millet cakes. In spring and March, there are many fresh fish and shrimp bamboo shoots, shrimp fried eel noodles, Sichuan Daoxiao Noodles, and shrimp dumplings. In hot summer, mint cake, crystal cake, Poria paste, meat and bone porridge, crab fat from Sanqiuhu Lake and crab yellow steamed stuffed bun are on the market.1February also has glutinous rice cake and lard rose rice cake.

Hangzhou-style snacks, with various patterns and different seasons, have three characteristics.

Features 1:

Most of them are taken from the local products of Hangzhou and are often associated with the scenic spots of the West Lake. When you visit the lake in summer, you can taste the lotus root starch of the West Lake. In autumn, you can enjoy osmanthus in Nanshan and eat a bowl of West Lake osmanthus chestnut soup in Osmanthus Hall.

Feature 2:

In the twelfth lunar month, there are crystal cakes, Fuling cakes, meat and bone porridge, Sanqiuhu crab fat, crab meat buns and crab yellow buns, as well as glutinous rice cakes and lard rose rice cakes.

Feature 3:

It has a long history and is often accompanied by legends. Such as Wu Shan shortbread and fried juniper. According to legend, after Yue Fei was killed by Qin Gui and his wife, people in Hangzhou hated Qin Gui. At that time, there was a small shop specializing in fried pasta near Wangxianqiao. When the master saw the treacherous court official Qin Gui sitting in the sedan chair every day, he was very angry. One day, he kneaded the pasta into a human shape and put it in an oil pan. While frying, he shouted, "Fry Qin Gui, fry Qin Gui!" "What does he sell? He said casually, "Fried juniper. "Hence the name.