Beijing snacks, commonly known as "meeting food" or "vegetable tea", are a fusion of Han, Hui, Mongolian, Manchu and other ethnic snacks as well as Ming and Qing palace snacks. They have many varieties and unique flavors.
There are about two to three hundred kinds of snacks in Beijing.
Including side dishes to accompany the meal (such as white water sheep head, fried tripe, Baikui roasted sheep head, mustard dumplings, etc.), noodles used at the banquet (such as steamed buns, minced meat pancakes, sheep eye buns, Wufushou peaches, sesame buns, etc.
) as well as a variety of small foods for snacks, breakfast, and late night snacks (such as Aiwowo, Donkey Roll, etc.).
Among them, the most characteristic Beijing dishes include bean juice, enema, fried liver, sesame tofu, fried noodles, etc.
Some time-honored brands specialize in their specialty varieties, such as Xiaowowo, minced meat pancakes, pea yellow, and kidney bean rolls from Fangshan Restaurant, silver silk rolls from Fengzeyuan Restaurant, butter fried cakes from Donglaishun Restaurant, and large enema from Heyi Zhai Restaurant.
, Tongheju's grilled steamed buns, Beijing Restaurant's sesame buns, Dashun Zhai Dian Factory's sugar-fired buns, etc., and other types of snacks are sold in various snack bars and night markets in Beijing. Xinjiang delicacies: delicacies include: roasted whole
Sheep, grilled mutton skewers, grilled fish, naan, large plate chicken, pepper chicken, pilaf meat, spicy lamb trotters, horse intestines, noodles, thin-skinned buns, milk tea, etc.
Local famous wines include Turpan fruit wine, Shanshan wine, Kuitun Tequ, etc.
Famous melons and fruits include: Shanshan cantaloupe, Hami watermelon, Turpan seedless white grapes, Yining apples, Korla fragrant pears, large-seeded pomegranates, Aksu thin-skinned walnuts, Atush figs, Kuche white apricots, and Kashgar badan apricots.
Local agricultural and animal husbandry products include Korla hops, Kuqa, Ruoqiang lamb skins, and fine wool cashmere, skins, casings, long-staple cotton, mulberry silk, licorice, snow lotus, etc. produced in the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains.