The food in a place is closely related to the cultural environment.

Tiantai can be said to be a mountain city with sage like style. It is the birthplace of Tiantai Sect of Buddhism and a Taoist resort. In addition, many people in Tiantai are from Henan, so they also brought the skills of making pasta. Coupled with the integration and merger of the day after tomorrow, there is a unique food culture.

Knowing these backgrounds, it should be easy to imagine the flavor of Tiantai, a small town. There are many vegetarian and pasta dishes, and the taste is mainly salty and fragrant. The cooking method is not complicated, so the original taste and taste of the ingredients are more vividly reflected.

I'd like to share with you the "food map" I collected on the rooftop.

On the left, it is similar to the new town, with large-scale restaurants and shopping malls here. The menu in restaurants also covers rooftop snacks, which is suitable for people to have dinner together. By the way, order two special snacks to have a taste.

On the right, similar to the old city, it is a truly authentic special snack concentration camp, including a pedestrian street, which is suitable for three or two friends to stroll around and eat leisurely and dig up the old treasure shops in the corners.

Next, let's go from the new city to the old city. According to the shops, what good things did I eat on the rooftop! Rooftop Xujia snacks?

don't be fooled by the name of this store. When I found the gatehouse of this store with the mentality of going to eat a stall, I was surprised that it was a magnificent restaurant.

Self-service tea is a pot of hot soybean milk, which is the first time for me. It's very good to go to dinner. Almost every table is occupied, but it's not too long to line up. It's wonderful. This menu is super rich, with almost everything. Of course, the special snacks are worth introducing.

battering

The batter is dragged into a cake in a pot, wrapped with various fillings: shredded potatoes, mustard greens, eggs, dried vegetables, tofu, etc., and then stacked. Does it sound simple, plain and nothing new? But when I take a bite, I yell "It smells good".

I ordered the bean curd paste, and the overall flavor is that you can make up the Shandong miscellaneous grain pancake with the onion-flavored bean curd stuffing. The shell is crisp and dry, and the filling is simple, that is, tofu paste with fresh and salty onion fragrance.

I will eat more and more miscellaneous grain cakes, but this paste-pulled tofu stuffing just makes up for this. When I bite it down, the crispy bread shell, the soft tofu paste and the egg fragrance are still there. I really can't help but bite after bite, so remember to eat it while it is hot.

paste boiling

and paste lathing can't be said to be exactly the same, only irrelevant! It is actually a soup made of starch, which can be filled with diced bamboo shoots, mustard greens, peanuts and oil bubbles ... a bowl of the same delicious paste. Perfect for making breakfast.

I feel that this dish has something to do with the designation of Hu spicy soup in Henan, but the taste is simpler and fresher, which makes people never tire of eating. I can't help but use the cliche "mother's smell" to describe it, because it's really like the noodle soup supper my mother made for me when I was hungry.

Since Xu's snack didn't give me an advertising fee, I'd like to recommend its competitors nearby (Master Duan Shui). They are all shops with rich menus and can eat all kinds of special snacks in one stop. Yuqingzhai

Yuqingzhai is said to have been built in 1931. It is a famous time-honored brand and can be said to be a online celebrity-class restaurant. It is located in a pedestrian street in the old city. It is recommended that you have dinner and then you can take a stroll.

A dumpling container

There must be more than a dozen kinds of materials in a dumpling container, such as meat dumplings, chicken cake, pork liver, fat meat and other meat dishes, and vegetarian dishes such as golden needle, fungus, vermicelli, shredded bamboo shoots and vegetable stalks, which are rolled up on the paste-pulled skin in a certain order, and then fried.

I call it a luxury feeding supreme cylinder paste puller. It's delicious! The shell is crisp, the stuffing is rich, and it is very satisfying to eat it in one bite. The taste is always simple, but it is delicious.

Flat food

It's a bit like wonton, but the skin is thinner, and it's a vegetarian stuffing of radish, peanuts and diced water bamboo. You know, I'm a carnivore who always wants to have meat when going out to eat! But the flat food conquered me.

it's very refreshing, and it feels particularly healthy and healthy. I don't feel guilty if I eat a lot. It can be steamed, boiled or fried. I like the way of dipping in soy sauce vinegar after frying. At the moment I tasted it, the position of steamed buns in my heart was in jeopardy. And this can also have meat, see your choice.

the steamed cake with trimmed edges

is another seemingly unremarkable food, but it is actually the "intangible cultural heritage" of Tiantai!

It is made of glutinous rice. It is said that it tastes soft and delicate. It was once used to entertain distinguished guests. But I didn't try it. This one looks very top-notch, and it can't be stuffed. Friends who have eaten it can show up and say something. Old urchin dried vegetable cake and cow blood soup

A well-known local old shop can be seen from the fading degree of the signboard. There was no place to sit in the shop, so I bought a prune cake. When I bought it, I wanted to say, where is the prune cake? How delicious can it be?

But it turned out to be really delicious, not that the taste was so special, but that the filling was sufficient, and the bread was crisp outside and tough inside, fresh out of the oven, giving people the feeling that it was really made with heart, an extreme dried plum cake!

8 yuan each, half for me and my friends. I'm not greedy. After eating it, I'm really wanting more.

Cow blood soup is also a special food in Tiantai. The old urchin has it in this house, but there is no place to sit and eat, so I can't try it (actually, I dare not). Stew soup with large chunks of cow blood and white radish, which is super big. I'll get you a bowl. Tell your boss if you like radish or cow blood. Full of flavor, you can try it if you like to eat in the water. The old authentic wheat cake shop

is also an irreplaceable time-honored brand in the hearts of local people. Wheat cakes are packaged and made now, and fillings are optional. It's time to eat with three chopsticks, just like eating western food. One chopstick is held against the other, and the other two chopsticks are picked up, which is also called "rooftop pizza".

Mix your favorite dip, vinegar, soy sauce and pepper. It's really delicious!

Although it sounds similar to paste-broaching, it tastes different. This cake is soft, with a thick crust and a little crispy after frying. The stuffing is recommended to be shredded pumpkin with salty and sweet mouth, and the shepherd's purse meat stuffing with the same style in jiaozi. Hou Bing

After talking about a lot of rooftop specialties, I'm going to finish with an ice shop. It's the last store I ate on the rooftop, and I hope it will be chained to the whole country as soon as possible!

I noticed this "thick ice" dessert shop, which was always mentioned, when I was doing the rooftop food raiders on Little Red book. I'm curious, mango ice, strawberry ice, isn't this everywhere? Is it better than online celebrity because of the beautiful decoration? I didn't know that thick ice was really different until I went in person.

The fruit ice I eat in most dessert shops is the feeling of sand ice, such as water+milk frozen and broken, which makes my heart cool and my brain ache.

The ice with thick ice is amazing, and it feels like it's made by directly using milk or thin cream. The color is beige, and the shape of ice is like filiform. Because they are slender ice filaments, they are gathered in a bowl. They are in a fluffy and together state, and they have an "air feeling" when eaten, that's right! It's the air!

it's fluffy and soft like cotton, and it's cold and refreshing when the temperature in your mouth melts it a little.

The ice melts more slowly, and the melted liquid is only at the bottom of the bowl. Unlike other sand ice, it is basically a pool of water, and thick ice hardly melts. The types of tastes are almost the same, so you can choose what you like. This unique ice is really worth trying. Summary

In Tiantai, a small county town, prices are low and taxis are cheap. The personality of Taizhou local cuisine is "unpretentious but hidden surprises". Although it looks unremarkable, the ingredients themselves and its practices seem ordinary, but it tastes really good. Each meal is less than 5 yuan per person, and the cakes are basically a few dollars. I really love it! Be sure to go again when you have the chance!