Shanxi over-mature vinegar is a specialty of Shanxi Province and a symbolic product of chinese national geography. Shanxi mature vinegar has a history of more than 3000 years, and is known as "the first vinegar in the world", which is famous for its five characteristics: color, fragrance, alcohol, consistency and acidity.
2. Pea cake
Pea cake is also called bean paste cake and sand cake. Traditional pastry snacks in Taiyuan, Shanxi are sweets, which should be eaten in summer. It is made by peeling and grinding first-class peas and adding sugar, persimmon and persimmon cream.
3. Taigu cake
Taigu cake, a traditional famous food in Shanxi Province, is named after it is produced in Taigu County. Taigu cake, which began in Qing Dynasty, is sweet but not greasy, crisp but not broken, and delicious. It is famous all over the country for its fragrance, crispness, softness but not greasy, and enjoys the reputation of "king of cakes".
4. Guo mooncake
Guo's mooncakes are safe in material selection, exquisite in ingredients, unique in technology, rigorous in process, fine in production, and good in taste and shape, which is an outstanding representative of Shanxi's traditional mooncake skills. The double cakes represented by Guo's Jin-style moon cakes have long enjoyed a good reputation among Taiyuan citizens.
5. Qingxu grapes
Qingxu grape, a specialty of Qingxu County, Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province, is a geographical indication of national agricultural products. On April 2013 15, the former People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Ministry of Agriculture officially approved "Qingxu Grape" for the registration and protection of geographical indications of agricultural products.