Beijing specialty gift: Beijing crisp candy
Beijing Crispy Sugar is one of the three famous sugars in China (Shanghai Milk Sugar, Guangzhou Fruit Sugar and Beijing Crispy Sugar), among which Red Shrimp Crispy Sugar is the best. Crispy sugar has a long history in China, and crisp sugar in Beijing has always enjoyed a good reputation.
Before liberation, some shops and workshops in Beijing used copper molds engraved with children's shapes to process crisp candy. Therefore, Beijingers often called it children's crisp. After liberation, dozens of private workshops merged and joined Beijing No.1 Food Factory, and children's crisp became a famous product of this factory. 1963, they successfully developed red shrimp crisp candy again, which soon became an export product and sold well in the international market. For decades, the output has been increasing, which still can't meet the needs of merchants. Red Shrimp Crisp was awarded the Silver Medal by the State Council. Foreign businessmen praised: red shrimp crisp, not only America's trump card-golden crisp, but also crisp candy from other countries.
The characteristics of red shrimp crisp can be summarized as crisp, crisp, fragrant and sweet. In the production, the essence of traditional craft is concentrated, and the materials are exquisite. All of them are made of high-quality Liuhua sugar, high-concentration glucose syrup and Erba sesame sauce, which are boiled, pulled and folded for many times. This kind of sugar is thin and crisp, with clear layers of sugar stuffing, sweet and delicious to eat, and does not stick to teeth or greasy mouth, leaving no residue after eating. At present, all major supermarkets in Beijing have sales.
Beijing specialty gift: tuckahoe cake
Poria cocos cake, a specialty of Beijing, was originally a court food in the late Qing Dynasty.
According to legend, once Empress Dowager Cixi got sick and didn't think about food, which was hard to break the imperial kitchen. Chefs racked their brains and selected several kinds of traditional Chinese medicines for invigorating spleen and appetizing, and found that Poria cocos, which is produced in Yunnan-Guizhou area, is sweet and flat, and has the effects of invigorating spleen, calming nerves, promoting diuresis and infiltrating dampness. Therefore, pine nuts, peach kernels, sweet-scented osmanthus and honey are used as the main raw materials, and a proper amount of poria powder is added, and then the crust is baked with fine starch, and the sandwich pancake is made by meticulous work. Cixi was very satisfied after eating. Later, this kind of tuckahoe sandwich cake was introduced to the people and became a popular snack in Beijing. However, before liberation, it was only operated by some small vendors in Dongan market, and the number was very small. After liberation, the government unified management, so that many flavor foods have been restored and developed.
Daoxiangchun, a well-known flavor store with a history of more than 60 years, specializes in Beijing's poria cocos cakes as one of our key self-produced and self-sold varieties. The sandwich cakes produced in this shop are exquisite in material selection and fine in workmanship. The crust baked with high-grade starch is as thin as paper and as white as snow, and the sandwich is made of a variety of nuts, supplemented by osmanthus fragrans, honey, white sugar and pure Yunnan-Guizhou Poria powder, which is sweet and delicious, instant in mouth, refreshing and palatable, and low in price, and can be used as health food for regular consumption. At present, there are many places in Beijing that produce tuckahoe cakes, especially Daoxiangchun products.
Beijing specialty gift: Beijing Aiwowo
Aiwowo is a kind of halal food made of glutinous rice in Beijing. It is spherical in shape, sticky and soft in texture and sweet in taste. Not only Beijingers like this snack, but also foreigners who come to Beijing often want to taste this famous halal snack in China.
It turns out that Aiwowo is closely related to Palace of Gathered Elegance in today's Forbidden City. According to the old Beijingers' legend, a man who worked as a eunuch in the Forbidden City in the Imperial Palace said that the queens and concubines who lived in Palace of Gathered Elegance in the Imperial Palace in the Ming Dynasty felt a little tired of eating delicacies every day. One day, a Hui chef who was cooking in Palace of Gathered Elegance brought some often-eaten Muslim food Aiwowo from home and was eating it in the kitchen when she was seen by a maid-in-waiting. As soon as she tasted delicious food, she brought some to the queen. When the queen tasted it, she felt very delicious, and immediately asked the Hui chef to make a nest for the queen and concubines living in Palace of Gathered Elegance. In particular, the queen likes to eat Aiwowo, which is not only eaten frequently in daily life, but also greatly appreciated, saying that the Aiwowo cooked by the chef is not only white and beautiful, but also tastes sweet.
Since then, Aiwowo has spread from the Forbidden City in the Imperial Palace, and it has suddenly become worth a hundred times, making it famous in Beijing, becoming a famous halal snack in Beijing, and being praised as the Royal Aiwowo. In this regard, "A Brief Introduction to Beijing Traditional Culture" records that Aiwowo is a halal snack in Beijing. The color is white, spherical, sticky and soft, and the taste is sweet and fragrant. Because it was loved by the Empress Dowager in the Ming Dynasty, it was named? Yu ai wo wo? After that, it was introduced to the people and evolved into? Aiwowo? Yes.