Shaxian snack actually belongs to a branch of the ancient Central Plains food culture tradition with a long history. Many snacks in Shaxian still retain the features of ancient traditional consciousness and culture, and some even retain the original features, which can be called "living fossils" of China's ancient traditional food culture.
Shaxian snack is not only popular in counties (cities, districts) of Sanming City, but also in Nanping, Fuzhou, Xiamen and other places, you can often find snack bars with the signboard of "Shaxian snack", even as far north as Beijing, as far south as Shenzhen, and in Saipan, a Pacific tourist resort in Singapore, Malaysia and the United States. It shows that Shaxian snacks have great influence and spread widely.
According to incomplete statistics, there are hundreds of snacks in Shaxian county, and there are dozens of them that are supplied all the year round. There are steaming, boiling, frying, roasting and pickling, and the processing methods are diverse. The raw materials of rice, noodles, taro and tofu have unique local characteristics and rich sources. Every household will make several kinds. Snacks are available in the streets and alleys of the city 24 hours a day, which is very convenient.
Conventional snacks include: flat meat, noodles in clear soup, mixed noodles, instant noodles, gingko, oil cake, torch, pig's ear, hemp ball, rice frozen cake, cake, sugar bag, small dragon bag, meat bag, pancake, cake, large intestine cake, rice cake, dried duck soup, pot paste, fried dough sticks, pepper sesame cake, shortcake and scallion cake.