Guangzhou's famous delicious snacks include common shrimp dumplings, steamed dumplings, foie gras, horseshoe cakes, barbecued pork buns with jade liquid, glutinous rice chicken, sugar and Lunjiao cakes. There are cakes, the most famous of which are Cantonese moon cakes, as well as old lady cakes and Zhu Chenglou Xiaofeng cakes.

Cantonese moon cakes are the best choice for Mid-Autumn Festival.

Its characteristics are: thin and soft skin, luster, golden color, beautiful shape, exquisite pattern, clear pattern, not easy to break and easy to carry. Mooncakes are divided into salty and sweet. The fillings are lotus seeds, almonds, plums, peach kernels, mung beans, sesame seeds, salted eggs, barbecued pork, roasted goose, mushrooms, frozen meat, candied white gourd, shrimp skin, orange cake, dried tangerine peel, lemon leaves and scallops.

There are also taro cake, bean paste, jiaozi cake, Cantonese coconut chrysanthemum cake, crispy skin, pure lotus seed paste moon cake (Cantonese style), Lunjiao cake, Chaozhou lard, peanut sugar coconut hard candy, stewed double-skin milk, sugar lotus seeds (Cantonese style candied fruit), Cantonese style sugar white gourd, Cantonese style Moro crisp, Cantonese style coconut frozen meat and so on.