The most important thing for my college roommate to take me to Wenzhou this time is to eat the delicious food here. So I also asked my college roommate to take me to eat snacks that he thought were the most distinctive. I ate glutinous rice flour, fish balls, fried ribs, pork soup and so on. One of the snacks is highly recommended by him. This snack is called Dengzhan Gao, which is not spoken in Wenzhou and I don't know how to translate it. I think it's called "oil cake" He said the Lantern Festival was a memory of his childhood. He has had this kind of snack since he was a child, and children like it very much.
Dengzhan cake has a long history and is one of the top ten snacks in Wenzhou. It's usually a street aunt's cart for resale. This snack is fried, tender outside and fragrant inside, and rich in ingredients. The main ingredients are batter and shredded radish. It's delicious, but you can only eat one at a time. If you eat too much, you will be a little tired. I still want to eat after eating one, so I'd better save it for next time.
There are many street snacks in Wenzhou, and they all taste the same. My college roommate took me to buy it at the gate of his primary school. According to him, this aunt has been selling this here since primary school. At that time, primary school students walked home by themselves. But now all the pupils are picked up by their parents, so they are all former pupils.
In the past, this Lantern Festival cost 50 cents, with shredded radish and a little shredded pork in it. Eggs can be added later. At present, this lantern cake is not enough for fifty cents. It costs 5 yuan for one, and six or seven yuan for many things. I ate a more luxurious one, shredded pork, egg yolk and white shrimp. This model is ten yuan. Although it is expensive, it is worth it.