Old Town of Lijiang's special snacks include chicken bean jelly, Naxi barbecue, bean curd paste, Lijiang Baba, Xiaoyao Meide, ribs hot pot, steamed chicken, Lijiang salmon, black goat hot pot, scrambled eggs with azalea, Dongba grilled fish and so on.

Chicken bean jelly, bean jelly snack, is a specialty of Lijiang. The appearance of bean jelly is black, so people also call it "black bean jelly". In Lijiang, Gan Long, this kind of snack was once called "eating black tofu". Chicken bean jelly, a kind of flavor snack, is enduring in Lijiang. Eat cold in summer, eat cold and eat hot, eat cold with sour and vinegar sauce and so on. It can relieve summer heat, stimulate appetite and stop car dizziness. When it is hot, the bean jelly is fried in a pot, and both sides are covered with sesame oil to taste. Although it looks ugly, it is extremely delicate, smooth and palatable, and it is a good accompaniment.