2. Lamp cakes. It is said that during the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty, two brothers surnamed Chen in Wenzhou made and sold a dim sum shaped like a lamp at Doumentou Road Pavilion at the east gate of the city. Shaped like a lamp, it was famous for a while, so it was called "lamp cake".
3, Longren wonton, 1930 or so, Yueqing local Chen Libiao manages wonton, paying attention to quality, with thin skin, fresh stuffing and appropriate amount of alkali, and exquisite packaging materials. There are laver, egg flower, meat floss, shrimp soaked in wine and so on. The boiled wonton is crystal clear and delicious. Because Chen Libiao is very tall, people call him Dragon Wonton.
4. Short muffins, a famous specialty in Wenzhou, are named after short founder Gu Jinfang. This kind of cake is made of pure glutinous rice, ground into fine powder with water, mixed with diced pork buttocks marinated for several days, then mixed with the above osmanthus fragrans and white sugar, cooked, put on a plate and diced.
Wenzhou has a long history, and there are many kinds of special foods. Others, such as lard cake, double sesame cake, nanxi river wheat cake, fish balls, beef offal, Qingming cake, duck tongue, pig dirty powder and glutinous rice, also have local characteristics.