Crab steamed buns
During the light year of the Qing Dynasty, it was initiated by Wanhua Teahouse in the south of Xiaoheyan pontoon bridge. Its characteristics: crab oil is golden and shiny, fat but not greasy, crab-scented, juicy and delicious, with thin skin and strong tendons, tender, smooth and refreshing stuffing, and delicious with balsamic vinegar and ginger.
Hemp cake
Changzhou sesame cake is an oval sesame cake with unique taste and flavor, and it is also the favorite traditional food of 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 kneading, stirring, kneading, stuffing, molding, baking and other processes. There are two flavors of salty and sweet for buyers to choose from. As soon as the qualified biscuits are baked, they are rich in flavor, yellow and moist in color but not burnt, moderate in salty and sweet but not greasy, crisp and delicious but not crisp, and good in color, smell and taste. In the past, Changzhou sesame cakes were mostly eaten by local people for breakfast. Nowadays, after reform and innovation, carefully packaged, elegant and easy to carry, it has become a necessary gift for people to visit relatives and friends.
Sesame seed 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 mix sugar and sesame seeds in caramelization to make a kind of hemp candy, called hemp candy. By the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, there was a huge spread of smoke, 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 always compromised and made peace, not wanting to recover the lost land in the north. The people are very dissatisfied with this. At that time, someone wrote a poem saying, "When will the West Lake stop singing and dancing?" "Warm wind makes tourists drunk, and Hangzhou becomes Bianzhou" to vent their dissatisfaction. The people in Changwu area expressed their desire to resist gold and recover lost land in another form. They changed the spherical sesame candy into a cylindrical shape like a vessel and gave it to Kang Wang to inspire his courage to resist and rejuvenate the country. Changzhou sesame sugar has been made into a cylindrical shape since then and has continued to this day. Changzhou sesame sugar is finely selected and beautifully made. Sesame requires no skin cover and no stuffing at both ends. The hole in the sugar layer is not hard, the taste is sweet and crisp, and it does not stick to teeth. The color is white and bright, and the thickness is generally uniform, just 20 pieces per catty. It is really a good gift for a family trip and a friend.
dried turnip
People who have been to Changzhou will say, "There is a strange thing in Changzhou. Dried radish is an appetizer. " Authentic Changzhou dried radish is really different from dried radish in other places. It is made of sweet and tender solid carrots produced by the new gate outside the west gate of Changzhou, washed and cut into strips, moderately dried, and then added with appropriate amount of salt, sugar and various auxiliary materials, and carefully pickled. Due to the excellent selection of materials, a unique pickling process and a unique flavor seasoning are adopted. Therefore, Changzhou dried radish is yellow and red in color, salty but not salty, slightly sweet in salty, crisp but not spicy, and very delicious. Besides, it is cheap and easy to carry. It is not only a side dish for people to eat, but also a pastime food after drinking and eating. If you buy authentic Changzhou products, customers will be satisfied.
Shrimp cake
It has a history of nearly 200 years. Yuan Mei, a litterateur in the Qing Dynasty, wrote in "Suiyuan Food List": "Shrimp cakes, raw shrimps, onions, salt, pepper, a little sweet wine, add water and flour, and sesame oil will burn thoroughly." Golden color, crisp outside and soft inside, fragrant and delicious.
Horseshoe Crisp
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 to celebrate the victory of Taiping Army. Horseshoe crisp is made of refined white flour, cotton candy, soybean oil and other raw materials, baked in a traditional stove. Golden color, sweet and crisp. It has been listed as a famous dish in China.
Tianmuhu casserole fish
Head Tianmu Lake Casserole Fish Head: Founded in Tianmu Lake Hotel, Jiangsu Province, it has been carefully cooked by Zhu Shuncai, senior chef, Jiangsu Province for nearly 30 years. Now it has been hailed as the best traditional dish in Jiangsu, and it has become a wonderful flower in China cuisine. Cooking fish head in Tianmu Lake casserole is made of silver carp head naturally raised in Tianmu Lake as raw material, natural Tianmu Lake as soup base and special cooking technology. Because the beautiful Tianmu Lake not only filters the lake with the green vegetation around the mountain, but also has sand instead of mud at the bottom, this unique natural environment makes Tianmu Lake clear, sweet and spotless, so the fish growing in it have no earthy smell. Therefore, the fish head of Tianmu Lake casserole is highly praised by the vast number of food lovers for its excellent quality of "fresh but not fishy, fat but not greasy".