What are the special snacks in Songjiang, Shanghai?

Shanghai is a municipality directly under the central government of China, and also the central city and economic center of China. Shanghai has its own unique Shanghai culture, and its food is also quite unique. It is located in Songjiang District, the "root of Shanghai" in the southwest of Shanghai, and its food flavor is more intense. If you want to know more about the food in Songjiang District, take a look at it with this food culture.

Manongkou dried tofu

Manongkou dried bean curd is a traditional local product of Songjiang, the ancient city. It has a history of 100 years. It is tough and elastic, fragrant and delicious when chewed, and has a fresh aftertaste. When mixed with cold malan and celery, it is diced, sliced and shredded, with a unique flavor. It is a good product for traveling abroad. Ingredients: high-quality soybeans, sugar, special soybean paste, yellow wine, refined salt and spices.

Jiuting pickles

Songjiang Jiuting time-honored pickles are produced in Songjiang, the root of Shanghai, and its "refreshing and memorable" is well-known in Shencheng. Together with "Songjiang Orchid" and "Songjiang Orchid Eggplant", it is called the "three treasures" in Songjiang local cuisine.

Kimchi adopts traditional production technology and scientific formula concept, and highlights the characteristics of "fragrance" and "crispness" on the original basis. A new series of packaging products integrating environmental protection and leisure. No additives, reflecting its natural taste. It is an ideal product for tourists to commemorate and give gifts to relatives and friends.

Peasant-style mud cake

Songjiang has been a famous land of fish and rice in the south of the Yangtze River since ancient times. The climate here is pleasant and the rainfall is abundant, which is very suitable for the growth of various crops. Therefore, high-quality rice is famous all over the world. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Songjiang Cang Qiao became the center of official grain storage and transportation and grain trading, and became a veritable "granary under the world" at that time.

Every Spring Festival, farmers living in Songjiang have a custom, that is, using high-quality glutinous rice, a local specialty, to grind it into a unique earth cake to eat, which becomes an auspicious thing to give to relatives and friends, implying that "cake" will make them rich, hoping to bring good luck to everyone in the new year.

The farmer's earth cake is made of high-quality glutinous rice by hand through many ancient processes such as digging, grinding, drying, kneading and steaming. Its cake color is white and transparent, the entrance is smooth and waxy, sweet and elastic, and it contains many trace elements needed by human body. It is extremely rich in nutrition and unique in taste, so it has been widely circulated for thousands of years. Its strong local flavor has created a unique local product, which has become a good gift today.