There are many Wenzhou snacks, including dwarf sponge cake, Changren wonton, Baziqiao sponge cake, rice noodles, dried fried noodles, horseshoe birch, Doumen head lamp cake, lard cake, horseshoe pine, white snake sesame cake, five-flavor cake, hawthorn cake

, sesame root candy, lotus cake, Fushou cake, Shuangqian cake, moqiao, Wenzhou pine sugar, elephant raw snow pear, pizza, jelly, Wenzhou beef slices, Wenzhou sorghum meat, county front glutinous rice balls, Qiangneng fish balls, etc.

There are about forty or fifty varieties. Li Datong's Double-Cooked Cake. Ruian has many famous snacks and pastries, and Li Datong's Double-Cooked Cake, which has a history of hundreds of years, is even more famous.

Under the leadership of Pan Jinxian, Secretary-General of the Wenzhou Culinary Association, we made a special trip to visit Mr. Li Guancheng, the third generation successor of Li Datong (Laowu Fang).

"The characteristics of Shuangcuo cake are: thin, soft, tough, fragrant and sweet." Mr. Li broke the Shuangcuo cake with his fingers and introduced us to its technology and history. He put a piece of Shuangcuo cake in his mouth and chewed it carefully.

Sweet and fragrant, the glutinous rice is delicate and soft.

Don't underestimate it, this small piece of pastry requires more than a dozen processes to complete.

"One of the processes requires frying glutinous rice and iron sand together, so that the double-cooked cake will be more fragrant." Mr. Li said that the reason why it is called "sugar double-cooked cake" is because it requires the use of glutinous rice flour and white sugar.

, made after two rounds of cooking.

Li Datong Tea Food Store was founded in the 14th year of the reign of Emperor Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty. The founder, Li Ruiqing, was a famous pastry chef in southern Zhejiang in the late Qing Dynasty.

Today, it operates tea and snack cakes such as Shuangcui Cake, Noodle Tea Cake, Hibiscus Candy, Kongxinyue, Sesame Qiao, etc. It has successively won the honorary titles of Chinese Time-honored Brand, Chinese Famous Snacks, and Wenzhou Famous Trademark.

Mr. Li Guancheng, the third generation successor, carries forward the "Spirit of Datong" and constantly innovates in taste and packaging.

For many years, tourists who come to Wenzhou and Ruian to visit relatives and friends, as well as tourists, have come to Li Datong to buy pastries and give them to relatives and friends.

Changren Wontons Around 1930, Chen Libiao, a native of Yueqing, operated wontons at Tiejinglankou in the urban area. He paid attention to quality. The wonton skins were thin, the alkali was properly used, the fillings were fresh, and the fillings were exquisite, including seaweed, egg shreds, meat floss, and wine-soaked shrimps.

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The cooked wontons have a clear soup with a flower-like shape and are delicious and refreshing.

Because he is very tall, he is called Changren Wonton.

Moreover, a few decades ago, there were still people who braved the severe cold at night to sell wontons. People passing by were hungry and wanted to warm themselves up (wontons were also very cheap), so they sat down and had a taste.

In this way, it was passed down from generation to generation, and Changren Wonton became famous.

Time flies and now there are almost no people hawking on the streets.

Only in Ruian and other places there is such a custom.