The top ten specialties of Beijing:

1. Peking Roast Duck

Beijing Roast Duck is a famous dish of Quanjude Roast Duck Restaurant in Beijing. It is famous for its red color. , the meat is tender, the taste is mellow, fat but not greasy, and it is known as "the world's delicacy" and is famous at home and abroad. There are two methods for roasting Peking duck: oven (i.e. hanging oven) and braising oven.

The specialty of Quanjude Roast Duck Restaurant is the hanging oven roasting method, which was transplanted from the special hanging oven method of roasting suckling pigs in the imperial dining room of the Qing Dynasty. The roasted duck is golden and shiny on the outside, crispy on the outside and tender on the inside. It has a special and delicious taste.

The way to eat roast duck is to first cut it into thin slices with a sharp knife, apply the sweet noodle sauce with the baked lotus leaf cake, and then roll it up with chives, minced garlic, roast duck slices, etc. It's extremely fragrant and beautiful.

2. Beijing crispy candy

Beijing crispy candy is one of the three famous candies in China. As one of the traditional snacks in Beijing, it has always enjoyed a high reputation, especially red shrimp crispy candy. It is the best product.

Beijing crispy candy has a long history of production. It originated in the Tang Dynasty. It enjoys the reputation of "taking a piece of candy after tea, and you will feel refreshed after swallowing it. Chew it carefully, the sweetness and sweetness leave a numbing aroma". Praised by celebrities of all ages. The maltose bones are evenly distributed in the crispy sugar clouds. When you eat it, the crispy sugar clouds are sweet, the osmanthus has a rich numbing aroma, and the bones are crunchy and melt in your mouth.

Three and Liubiju pickles

Liubiju is the oldest and most reputable pickle garden in Beijing. The Liubiju pickles it produces are carefully selected and made. Strict, exquisite processing skills, bright color, crisp, tender and fragrant, rich sauce flavor, moderate salty and sweet. The raw materials of Liubiju pickles have fixed origins, which ensures the quality of Liubiju pickles. Liubiju Sauce Garden started in the ninth year of Jiajing reign of Ming Dynasty and has a history of nearly 500 years.

4. Donkey Rolling

Yushiyuan Old Beijing Donkey Rolling is a very good pastry. Traditional hand-beating has gone through thousands of tempers, and then hand-cut. Skilled craftsmanship makes every piece of "Donkey Roll" a fine product. Take a small taste and you will fully feel the deliciousness of the collision of ingredients. It is rich in layers, full of bean aroma, fragrant in the mouth, and memorable.

5. Beijing Preserved Fruit

Beijing Preserved Fruit is a kind of candied fruit, also known as Beijing-style candied fruit. Its production originated from the royal dining room of the imperial palace. In order to ensure that the emperor could eat fresh fruits all year round, the chefs sorted the fruits produced in each season and soaked them in honey so that the emperor could eat them at any time.

Later, this production method spread from the palace, and there was a company specializing in the production of preserved fruit in Beijing. Beijing preserved fruit is made from fresh fruits using the traditional secret recipe of the palace. It has a moderately sweet and sour taste, refreshing and smooth. , sweet but not greasy, rich in fruity flavor, mainly including preserved apricots, preserved pears, begonias and other products in thousands of varieties and hundreds of specifications.

6. Jingba cakes

Jingba cakes are divided into three types: large pastries with puff pastry, small cakes with milk skin, and eight cakes with fine wine skin. They are all filled snacks, and the main difference lies in the skin: Su Ba Pie is a pastry type snack, which is kneaded twice, and the layers are crispy; Wine Skin and Naipi Ba Pie are hard-crust snacks, and the dough is kneaded once, respectively. Add an appropriate amount of rice wine, brandy or fresh milk to give it a winey and milky aroma.

7. Aiwowo

Aiwowo is a Beijing-style snack with a long history and is very popular among the public. The main ingredients include glutinous rice flour (jiangmi) and a coating made of flour.

The fillings inside are varied, including walnut kernels, sesame seeds, melon seeds, yam paste and other nutritious natural ingredients. The texture is soft, the taste is sweet, and the color is snow-white. It is often decorated with red hawthorn pastries. Beautiful and festive. Because its skin is thin and powdery with a concave surface, it is named Aiwowo.

8. Sauced elbows

Old Beijing sauced elbows are a special snack in Beijing. The main ingredient of the sauced elbows is of course pig elbows, which have thick skin and strong tendons. It has a lot of glue, heavy gelatin, and a lot of lean meat. It is often cooked with the skin on, making it fat but not greasy. The old Beijing sauce pork elbow is a delicious recipe made from pork elbow sauce.

9. Candied haws on a stick

Beijing’s candied haws on a stick was most popular during the Republic of China. In the old days of Beijing, the thickness, thickness, and sales methods of candied haws differed in different regions. There were several types of candied haws, which were sold in food stores, refreshments in parks, or in movie theaters.

The candied haws are often sold in white porcelain plates with glass covers. They are exquisitely made and come in many varieties, including mountain red, white crabapple, water chestnut, yam, orange and various kinds with bean paste, melon seeds and sesame fillings. Plant candied haws. The sugar is thin and frozen, and tastes sour, sweet, and very cold.

10. Poria Cake

Poria Cake, a specialty of Beijing, was originally a palace food in the late Qing Dynasty. Later, this kind of Poria Sandwich Cake was introduced to the people and became a popular Beijing-style snack. However, before liberation, they were only operated by some small vendors in Dong'an Market, and the number was very small. After liberation, the government unified management and restored and developed many flavor foods.

Daoxiangchun, a famous southern food store with a history of more than 60 years, specializes in Beijing's Poria Cake as one of its key self-produced and self-sold varieties. The biscuits produced in this store are carefully selected and made with exquisite workmanship.

The outer shell is baked with high-grade starch, it is as thin as paper and as white as snow, and the filling is made of a variety of nuts, supplemented by osmanthus, honey, white sugar and pure Yunnan-Guizhou Poria powder, which is sweet and delicious. , melts in your mouth, refreshing and delicious.