The eight famous foods in Cangzhou are: Hejian donkey meat roasted, Huanghua sesame seed cake, mutton sausage, Hejian noodles, Jiaohe pancake, fried tiger, Renqiu eggplant cake and Cangzhou sheep bone.
1. Hejian donkey meat is on fire
It goes without saying that it is a very famous snack. The traditional famous food in Hejian, Cangzhou City, tastes hot outside and cool inside, refreshing and mellow. Hejian donkey meat fire has a long history, which can be traced back to Luoyang in Tang Dynasty. Among all kinds of eating methods of donkey meat, several donkey meat fires are the most common, and among the donkey meat fires, Hejian donkey meat fires are the top grade.
2. Huanghua sesame seed cake
Huanghua sesame seed cake is a Muslim hanging stove sesame seed cake in Huang Ye, Changzhou. Originally called Qianceng hanging stove sesame seed cake, it is a unique traditional folk pasta of Muslims in Backstreet, which has been passed down in the form of family workshops for nearly 12 years.
3. Sausage
Sausage is a special snack in Cangzhou, which is delicious but not greasy. It tastes delicious after eating. Generally, it can be eaten with sesame seeds or cakes, and cumin, salt, pepper and coriander can be added as appropriate.
4. Hejian noodles
Hele, also known as river leakage, is to soften pea noodles, naked oats noodles, buckwheat noodles or other miscellaneous bean noodles, and use a Hele bed (a wooden or iron tool with many round eyes) to mix them. It is thicker than ordinary noodles, but harder and softer than noodles, and the eating method is similar to noodles.
5. Jiaohe Pancake
Jiaohe Pancake is famous in northern China for its long history, unique flavor and insatiable appetite. According to historical records, as early as the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, there were records of pancake stalls in Jiaohe area. After years of continuous improvement and development, it has become a famous local specialty snack. Jiaohe pancake is soft and flexible like rice paper, with fine entrance, unique flavor and intoxicating fragrance.
6. Fried tiger
Fried tiger is a famous breakfast noodle along the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal. Because it looks like a cloth tiger, it is called fried tiger by Cangzhou people and fried purse by Linqing people. Deep-fried tiger is to fry the dough until it is cooked at 8 or 9 minutes, tear a small opening at one end of the dough, then pour the egg into the dough, then fry it in the oil pan, and take a bite gently, which is crisp outside and tender inside.
7. Renqiu eggplant cake
Renqiu eggplant cake is a traditional snack in Hebei. Delicious and tender, it is a delicious food with table. Shred eggplant, mix with salt and marinate for 15 minutes to soften. Pat garlic into mud, shred pepper, and mix with pepper powder and monosodium glutamate into shredded eggplant; Add the right amount of flour and mix well until it is strong. Heat the vegetable oil in the pot, knead the mixed eggplant into a cake, fry it in the pot for 2 minutes, pick it up and put it on the plate.
8. Cangzhou sheep bone
Cangzhou sheep bone is a traditional snack in Cangzhou, and the famous one in Cangzhou is the sheep bone piece in Xiaoshulin. Because at first, the sheep spine, coccyx and ribs will be put in a plate and served to the guests together. But because many people in ancient times paid great attention to etiquette, they thought it was indecent to chew bones with their mouths open, and there was not much meat on them.