1. Daejeon’s classic snacks: Nine-layer Cake Nine-layer Cake is a classic local snack made of nine layers of rice milk of different colors.

It is made from rice and glutinous rice, ground into rice pulp and divided into nine equal parts.

Add an appropriate amount of white sugar and food coloring to each equal amount (the first layer is red, the second layer is light yellow, and the third layer is original white, until it reaches the ninth layer).

Therefore, the cake has nine layers, hence the name nine-layer cake.

The method is to put gauze on the bottom of the steamer, put the first layer of material on it, and after it is half cooked, add the second layer until the ninth layer.

After steaming, cool it and cut it into diamond shapes. It not only has a unique and elegant appearance, but also has a moist and delicate taste. It tastes crunchy and slightly sweet. It is suitable for children and the elderly. It is a unique snack of Daejeon.

According to local custom, this nine-layer cake is specially made for the Double Ninth Festival.

The Double Ninth Festival is an important festival in our country since the Han Dynasty.

There are two main connotations of this festival: first, it is the custom of taking refuge; second, it is the custom of ascending to heaven and becoming an immortal.

The so-called avoidance means that there will be a disaster on September 9th, and people must go up the mountain to avoid it.

This story can be found in the book "Xu Qixie Ji" of the Southern Dynasty: "Huan Jing of Runan has been traveling with Fei Changfang for many years. The chief room said to him: 'On September 9th, there will be a disaster in your family. It is best to go quickly to send your family home.

Each made a scarlet bag, filled it with dogwood and tied it to his arm, and climbed up to drink chrysanthemum wine. This disaster could be eliminated. Jing Ruyan went to the mountain with his family and returned home in the evening. He saw the chickens, dogs, cattle and sheep suddenly died suddenly.

'Replace it. '" 2. The specialty staple food of southern Fujian: sweet potato rice cake. Why is it said to be the specialty staple food of southern Fujian? Because the southern Fujian region is rich in sweet potatoes, that is, sweet potatoes.

Sweet potato powder cake, as the name suggests, is made of sweet potato powder, so it has a darker color.

The word "粿" vividly reveals the fact that it contains rice milk.

In addition to the wonderful taste of sweet potato rice cake, there is also a beautiful legend - a delicious meal to send off a child.

According to legend, in the spring of the year when Hong Chaoxuan (a famous historical figure in Xiamen and a native of Xiang'an) passed the Jinshi examination, he was ordered to take office.

It happened that his hometown was preparing to celebrate the March Festival (the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar), and his mother kept him after the festival before leaving.

But he was afraid of delaying the deadline, so he hurriedly grabbed a few handfuls of sweet potato powder from his own grain tank, mixed it with rice porridge and water to make a paste, fried it into thin sweet potato powder skin, cut it into strips, and cooked it into a bowl of fragrant sweet potato powder.

Kueh.

Hong Chaoxuan felt particularly warm when he went out to eat the sweet potato rice cake made by his mother.

Later, Hong Chao was elected as a high official and returned to his hometown.

The villagers set up a banquet to congratulate, but Hong Chaoxuan did not find any sweet potato rice cake.

When asked, the villagers were all dumbfounded because they had not prepared this dish at all.

They thought that after Hong Chao was elected as a high official, why would he still want to eat coarse grains from his hometown?

So everyone hurriedly prepared.

Not long after, the steaming sweet potato rice cakes were served. Hong Chaoxian said while eating: "The sweet potato rice cakes from my hometown are still delicious!" From then on, the first dish served to guests in Hongcuo, Xiang'an, Xiamen was sweet potatoes.

Rice cake.

This ancestral custom has not only become a custom for the local people, but also some overseas Chinese have passed down the customs of their hometown.

How to make sweet potato flour cake - use rice to cook porridge, mix in sweet potato powder, pound it in a stone mortar, knead the rice and sweet potato powder together, then add water to adjust to a suitable consistency, and then fry it in an iron pot into sheets.

Cut the thin pancake skin into two-centimeter-wide vermicelli.

When cooking, add enough oil, add oysters, razor clams, shrimps and other seafood, and sprinkle some chopped green onion or celery on top.

3. A group of culturally flavored mochi rice cakes. Mochi rice cakes are a traditional snack in Wuyi Mountain, but they contain a historical and cultural flavor.

Ma Ci Kueh was called "flax rice" in the early days.

On the north side of Tianyou Peak in Wuyi Mountain, there is a stream called Huma Stream.

Legend has it that in the pre-Qin Dynasty, thirteen immortals, including Lord Wuyi, Emperor Taimu, and Prince Qian of Wei, held a Manting Banquet on Manting Peak to entertain the people of Wuyi Mountain who were exploring the mountains and exploring the mountains and rivers.

In addition to delicacies from the mountains and seas, there was another delicacy at the banquet that was a gift from the people in the village, which was sesame rice.

At that time, the people in the villages of Wuyi Mountain knew how to use stone tools to process food based on rice.

People in the villages of Wuyi Mountain offer sacrifices to the shrine twice a year. The spring shrine is a "prayer" for good weather, while the autumn shrine is a "repayment" for a good harvest.

Autumn Society is the time for the autumn harvest, and people in the village celebrate the harvest with mochi rice cakes.

They steamed the glutinous rice, put it in a stone mortar, and beat it with a wooden pestle.

Mash the rice completely into sticky rice.

Then fry and crush the sesame seeds, mash the mashed sticky rice into small balls, and roll them in sesame powder. This is how the fragrant sesame rice is made.

It is said that during a banquet in the manting pavilion, the thirteen immortals of Wuyi ate sesame rice and were amazed.

So they opened up mountain land to grow sesame seeds in the area of ??Humaxian and Tianyou Beifeng, and opened paddy fields to grow seedlings in the valley of Beifeng.

And every year after the autumn harvest, we invite our friends and company to make sesame rice.

The tradition of making sesame rice has been passed down from generation to generation, and now it is called Ma Ci Kueh among the people.