Old Cantonese New Year Cakes 3 types of New Year cakes that Guangzhou people must eat during the Chinese New Year Carrot cakes are a snack commonly found in Cantonese teahouses. They are also one of the must-have New Year cakes for Cantonese people during the Chinese New Year. It means "high rise".

Carrot cake is a steamed cake with rice flour and shredded radish as the main ingredients.

Dip the sticky rice, grind it and flatten it, grate and cook the radish, mix the above two raw materials into a paste, add shrimp, bacon, lard, pepper, soy sauce, MSG, refined salt, etc., mix well and steam until cooked.

Families mostly make it during the Spring Festival, and teahouses supply it all year round.

Carrot cake is generally fried in a pan for a few minutes to make it sweet and delicious; while Wanzi carrot cake can be eaten hot without frying.

The so-called rice cake "rice cake, rice cake, high every year", Guangzhou people eat rice cake during the New Year, just like eating rice dumplings during the Dragon Boat Festival.

Cantonese-style rice cake is white and fat. It is made of glutinous rice, sugar and lard. It is usually sliced ??and fried or used in soup. It is soft and chewy in the mouth, with a sweet taste and rich rice aroma. It is a must-eat during the Chinese New Year.

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If you find it troublesome and don’t want to steam rice cakes at home, you can buy them from some time-honored restaurants in Guangzhou.

Horseshoe Cake Cantonese people often prepare cakes to entertain guests during the Chinese New Year. Because "cake" and "gao" have the same pronunciation, it means "step by step and rise higher".

Among various pastries, water chestnut cake is made by steaming water chestnuts mixed with water chestnuts.

In the past, the water chestnut cake of Guangzhou Panxi Restaurant was the most famous because Pantang, where it is located, is a place rich in water chestnuts.