Xuzhou’s specialty snacks include: spicy soup, ground pot chicken, thousand-layer pancakes, vegetable pancakes, bean curds, roasted pork, and steamed buns.

1. Spicy soup.

The spicy soup in Xuzhou is made from chicken and pork bones. The hens are boiled until crispy. When cooking, in addition to green onions, a large amount of ginger is added. The taste of the soup is spicy and the spiciness is very fresh.

2. Ground pot chicken.

Xuzhou Ground Pot Chicken is surrounded by a doughy pot sticker pancake, topped with plenty of chili and Sichuan peppercorns, and filled with grass chicken cubes and other vegetable condiments.

When the weather is cold and the ground is freezing, it is wonderful to drink and have a small meal around this thing. You will feel warm after eating!

The origin of the ground pot is that in the past, people in Xuzhou would use stones to build stoves in their courtyards, put a large iron pot on it, put vegetables on it, put pot stickers on it, sit around the stove and eat on the floor.

Therefore it is called earth pot.

3. Thousand layer cake.

This kind of cake is wrapped with a layer of dough on the outside, and has dozens of layers on the inside. When cooked, it will be yellow on the outside and juicy on the inside, soft and oily, not greasy when eaten hot, not loose when eaten cold, and tastes delicious.

4. Vegetable pancakes are as round as the moon, as big as a copper pin, as thin as the paper of the Yan River, in color like the feathers of a yellow crane, with a crisp and refreshing taste, and a fragrance that spreads far and wide. This is Pu Songling's description of pancakes in "Jianbing Fu"

and praise.

Vegetable pancakes are the sublimation of pancake culture and taste better.

5. Bean Nao’s "Hundred Songs of Food in the Old Capital" states: Tofu is freshly marinated and fertilized, and a bowl of tofu is full of flavor.

It is clear that the tender and tender meat is the same as the brain, but after eating it, the belly becomes old and bloated.

It is also noted that the best thing about tofu brain is that it is as tender as brains, which is worthy of its name.

Its taste should be salty and palatable, tender and delicious, and has the aroma of garlic. It is the famous Ma Market Street breakfast in Xuzhou.

6. Roast meat.

The fire-roasted stuffing is like a dumpling, with thin skin and many hollows, crispy outside and soft inside, with a strong flavor. Take a light bite and the oil and water will overflow.

There are two types of meat roasting: dry roasting and oil roasting.

The method of dry roasting is to knead the dough until it is well kneaded, cut it into about one or two sizes, use a rolling pin to roll it into a thin skin - the skin can be as thin as paper, roll it up with oil, press it upright, wrap it into the meat, and then

Press it into a round cake with a diameter of about 10 cm, and bake it on a spatula specially used for making cakes until the outer skin is browned.

For oil-fired cooking, it is directly wrapped in dough and fried in shallow oil in a pan. When eating, it is dipped in vinegar and garlic sauce, which is fragrant and relieves greasiness and is more refreshing. The filling is mostly made with chopped pork and green onions.

7. Steamed buns Among the many pastas in Xuzhou, there is one that seems very common but is quite unique. It is also a pasta that Xuzhou people never tire of eating, and that is Xuzhou steamed buns.

Pancakes Pancakes have the following characteristics: 1. As thin as paper, they are easy to mature and heat.

Pancakes don't take dozens of minutes to steam like steamed buns; - and after they're cold, they don't take long to heat up.

2. Convenient for human digestion.

Because the raw materials for making pancakes are all shelled, they contain a lot of crude fiber, which is very helpful for digestion.

3. Easy to store and not easy to go rancid.

Because it contains less water, it is also easy to dry.

4. Convenient to eat.

Since it is as thin as paper, various dishes can be rolled up on it and eaten with your hands, giving it a unique flavor.

Similar to a hamburger in Western food.

5. It has the function of enhancing the chewing ability of teeth.

Because the hardness and toughness of pancakes are higher than steamed buns and other staple foods, long-term consumption of pancakes can exercise tooth function.