The foods in Wenjiang District include Wenling embedded cakes, Wenling mountain flour paste, pickled shrimps, boiled dumplings, Songmen silver carp and so on.
1. Wenling embedded cake: Wenling embedded cake, also called sandwiched cake, is a unique traditional cake snack in Wenling. Press a small piece of rice cake flat on both sides by hand, and then add favorite dishes according to personal preference, usually fried noodles, shredded radish, shredded potatoes, pork and so on.
2. Wenling mountain flour paste: a kind of delicious food made of sweet potato flour in Wenling, Yuhuan and other places. The freshly boiled mountain flour paste is hot and delicious, and the iced mountain flour paste is like a liquid jelly, which can retain a sweet but not greasy taste.
3. Pickled shrimp: Pickled shrimp, also known as oil drum, is one of the special snacks in Wenling, and its popularity is no less than that of embedded cakes in Wenling. Pickled shrimp is not "shrimp", its raw material is wheat flour. Stir wheat flour and water into a thick paste, take an appropriate amount with utensils, add seasoned minced meat as stuffing, still wrap it with utensils, throw it into boiling oil, fry the dough until it is golden brown, scoop it up with a colander and eat it. You can also put other things such as shrimp and dried plum vegetables according to your own preferences, and it has no flavor. Soaked shrimp skin is crispy and fragrant, delicious, and it is a kind of food that Wenling locals like very much.
4. Cooking dumplings: Cooking dumplings is a distinctive local food in Taizhou. Cooking a round is to use glutinous rice flour as the crust, add cold water to the glutinous rice flour to make dough, divide it into various doses, knead each dose into the shape of a bowl, and put stuffing in the middle. There are two kinds of fillings, one is the meat stuffed with onion, ginger and wine, which is similar to the stuffing of buns; The other is to add water bamboo, shrimp skin, dried bean curd, shredded radish, etc. with different seasons and tastes, and then steam it and eat it. The taste is quite good.
5. Songmen baiji: Songmen baiji is a specialty of Songmen Town, Wenling City, Taizhou City, Zhejiang Province. Pine owl meat is firm, white and delicious, rich in nutrition, high in protein, and contains fat, calcium, phosphorus, iron, vitamins and other substances, which have the functions of appetizing, clearing away fire, promoting fluid production and nourishing blood.