Japanese-style wagashi, bean paste cake, mung bean cake, mom’s noodle cake, almond-flavored cream cake, stocking cake... The most beautiful cake must be humane or make you feel at a certain moment Relaxing or heart-warming. Mom's noodle fruit

When I was a child, I could only eat it during the Chinese New Year. Now, less and less of it is made in the Northeast. No photographic record. Put oil, sugar and yeast into the white flour and knead it into a smooth and sweet light yellow dough. Roll it into a dough sheet about 5mm thick. Then use a knife to cut it into diamond-shaped pieces. The moment you cut it, the dough will shrink a bit. It is very cute and pops. Taking in the aroma, I took a small piece of it and put it in my mouth when my mother wasn't paying attention. Then my mother saw her curled up lips and said with a smile, "Eat it, eat some of the uncooked ones to taste."

Put a knife in the middle of the small diamond-shaped block, then twist the corner and pull it out through the hole in the middle. It becomes a twisty snack that always screams to help mom. , my hands broke as soon as I picked them out, which drove my mother crazy. Later, when I got older, I kept picking them out, and became my mother's right-hand assistant. It seems that when I was a child, I was very close to my mother and felt that I was a useful person. , with the aroma in the small kitchen and the joy of the New Year, it is a rare good time.

Fried noodles are usually a collaboration between mom and dad. Every time, the oil collapses everywhere. It’s like a war with food. I feel like my parents are heroes at this time, and I look forward to eating them. It’s contradictory, as if you have to burn a few grease spots on your parents’ arms before eating any fried food, and you feel guilty, and it tastes so good when you eat it, so you praise your parents vigorously, as if you are afraid that they will be angry. Hahaha.

It wasn’t until I grew up and cooked for myself that I discovered that the meat wrapped in the fryer and the meat cuts didn’t collapse even if the water was wiped off. How did my parents do it in those years? Yeah, hehe. The fried noodles are plump and plump, golden and crispy on the outside, and a little soft on the inside. It is very delicious when eaten hot, and it is worth burning your mouth. Suzhou style meat mooncakes

I bought them at a time-honored store in Tongli Ancient Town, Suzhou. At that time, I thought I would just buy some and try them. But after I left, I tasted them surprisingly delicious. The sock-soles are crispy, salty and delicious. , the meat-filled mooncakes are fragrant and juicy, both are fragrant but not greasy, not vulgar but not flattering, and there is no need to compromise because of the name and attraction factors. I regretted not buying more, but then I saw meat mooncakes for sale at the high-speed rail station. I bought a few more, but the taste made me want to vomit.

Suzhou’s pan-fried buns also made me want to give up. At that time, the two of us only ordered one portion. It was too little and I felt uncomfortable. And speaking of old-fashioned snacks, when I was a kid, my relatives would buy big and small "fruit boxes" for my grandma during the Chinese New Year. They weren't really delicious, but they were the most luxurious snacks at the time, including beef tongue cakes and jujube flowers. Shortbread, as soon as I write about it, I still remember the taste and texture.

My grandma gave me a move with her little hand, and I ran over like a puppy and stood on tiptoes to look at the box of snacks. I didn’t know which one to eat. The beef tongue cake was covered with a layer of huge sugar granules, and it was crispy. The little red dots on the cake always seem to seduce me. If I don’t finish eating, my parents will say I’m greedy and leave some for grandma. Later, I didn't find it delicious anymore, and I had to pick off the hard edges when eating. When it was out of date, my relatives stopped giving it away.

Mung bean cake

One is the mung bean cake I made when I was a kid, and the other is the mung bean cake I ate at Banyuan Private Kitchen in Suzhou.

When I was a child, on a hot summer day, my grandma gave me a piece of mung bean cake, put it in a small bowl, added cold water, and the mung bean cake was soaked and turned into a moist bright green color. I smashed it with a spoon and stirred it into a uniform and sticky consistency. Paste it, take a spoonful and put it in your mouth. It is sweet and has the fragrance of mung beans. It will instantly relieve the heat. It is delicious in childhood! Today's mung bean cake is not as hard and crumbly as it was in the 1990s, but a bowl of it is still irreplaceable. The most delicious mung bean cake I have ever tasted is from a restaurant in Suzhou. It is soft and waxy, extremely delicate, and has a natural bean flavor.

I think it’s okay. I had a bit of a heatstroke that day and my stomach was full of green onions. There were so many delicious things that he couldn’t eat. Only the mung bean cake made his eyes light up. He was so forgetful about eating that he still talks to me about it to this day. , so I thought the mung bean cake that day was indeed delicious. In fact, the mung bean cake was not particularly outstanding among the many delicacies that day. I helped Green Onion eat a lot of crabs, fish and meat, and I felt very honored, hahaha.