When it comes to Tianjin food, many people will think of doggie buns, 18th Street Sesame Flower, and ear-eye fried cake, but in fact, the locals' favorites are these.

1. Pancake 馃子

Pancake 馃子 is one of the famous snacks in Tianjin. It is simple to make, and all you need is a stove, a brand (an iron pan for spreading pancakes), a small spatula, a grease wiper and a scraper. The main ingredients are the batter for making the crust (made by grinding mung bean flour), eggs, fruit and fruit grates (bì), the fruit, i.e., fritter, is also called 馃子, and the thin crispy ones are called 馃箅'...

The seasoning is sweet flour sauce and chopped green onion, and nowadays soy sauce tofu and chili sauce are also added.

Tianjin's pancake fruits are famous throughout the country. No one can resist a set of pancake fruits in Tianjin.

2. Pot Ba Cai

You can use the pancake 馃zi to turn it into another snack that Tianjin people can't live without - pot ba cai (pronounced gǎ ba cai in Tianjin dialect).

Tianjin pot Ba Cai is also rice, also vegetables, also soup, is a unique local flavor snacks. It is made by grinding green beans and millet into a pulp, spreading it into pancakes, drying it, cutting it into small strips, serving it with marinade, sprinkling it with sesame sauce, soybean curd juice (red curd juice), cilantro, etc. It is savory and spicy.

3. Deep-fried rolls

The deep-fried rolls can be thought of as a fat version of spring rolls, rolled up with a variety of vegetables or meat fillings, deep-fried, and eaten on their own, or sandwiched between large cakes/pancakes. Common fillings for veggie rolls include bean sprouts, dried beans, and red flour skin (the reddish color of the tofu sauce), which is then seasoned with soy sauce tofu and five-spice powder.

4. noodle tea

Tianjin noodle tea is a kind of millet flour or millet flour boiled into a paste, in a circle on the surface of a layer of sesame sauce, sprinkled with sesame salt, love to eat people can not wait to every day, do not love to eat may be a mouthful of paste mouth.

Drinking noodle tea without a spoon, directly holding up the bowl, along the side of the bowl in a circle sucking, is the authentic way to drink.

5. Tianjin cuisine - eight treasures tofu

Tianjin cuisine is born from the Lu Cuisine cuisine, cooking methods are mostly used in the Lu Cuisine "steamed, boiled, baked, slipped, braised." Sweet and sour, spicy, fresh and salty are the flavors of Jin cuisine.

Among them is Bazhen Tofu, a representative of Tianjin's home cooking, in which tender tofu from the south is deep-fried to a crispy skin and then stewed with eight whole-flavored ingredients. There are various versions of eight treasures tofu, and the home-style version is made with squid, shrimp, dried scallops, crab meat, sea cucumber and chicken plus tofu to round out the eight ingredients, cooked together, and the vast majority of restaurants in Tianjin now serve these dishes. Another Tianjin dish, Quan Bao (全爆) is made with squid rolls, shrimp, dried scallops, crab meat, diced chicken, and chicken gizzards thickened with diced cucumber in a stir-fry.

6. Fishnet (zēng) bungee carp

Fishnet bungee carp, a traditional Tianjin dish, used to be a must-have for New Year's Eve dinners or festive feasts in Tianjin.

The fishnet is made by frying live carp with scales, and the most important feature of this dish is that the scales are not removed. After removing the gills and internal organs, the fish is split but not chopped. It is then put into a frying pan, set and then deep-fried over moderate heat. When served, the sweet and sour sauce is poured over the golden fish, which is sweet, sour, salty, spicy and numb, with a mixture of flavors.

7. Old Explosion of three

Old Explosion of three in the Tianjin area and the fish and meat, Kung Pao chicken, wood-bearded meat and known as the four major home cooking. The old explosion of three, there are three ingredients: "liver, waist, tenderloin", will be three kinds of high-fire stir fry, this dish, the old Tianjin insisted on not put side dishes accessories.

There are also stir-fried hetai, sole gluten, four happy balls, pan-fried cooked prawns, vinegar and pepper tofu soup, Luo Han tripe and other specialties.

8. Tianjin twist

Mention of Tianjin specialties, Tianjin's big twist, twist may not be eaten only in the Spring Festival, but the Spring Festival is always less twist. Different from other places, Tianjin twist is thick, thick, not only the outer skin is bright, but also stuffed inside.

9. Tianjin Eight Pieces

If you talk about the traditional cakes of Tianjin, you have to say eight pieces: Fuzzy Cake, Jubilee Cake, Crispy Pepper Salt, Fresh Flower Rose, Luk Cake, Luk Cake, Shou Cake, Hawthorn Helmets, and Jujube Flower Cake. Jin eight pieces are the first choice of Tianjin people for gift-giving.

The "eight pieces" are divided into large and small pieces. The big eight pieces: jujube flower, fortune, fortune, longevity, joy, roll pastry, walnut pastry, wax cake. Small eight pieces of children: jujube square, almond crisp, small persimmon, small peach, small apricot, small pomegranate, small apple, small walnut.

10.cooked pear cake

Cooked pear cake is a Tianjin specialty snack, also known as bowl cake. It uses rice as the main ingredient, which is ground into powder and made into rice flour, which is then steamed and topped with a variety of tasty jams, such as the common bean paste, sugar and red fruits.

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