Chengde's local food has a long history. After the Qing government established a summer resort in Chengde, the cooking skills of imperial meals from all over the country and the court flowed into Chengde one after another, which promoted the prosperity and development of Chengde's food culture. In addition, Chengde is rich in delicacies and game, which makes Chengde's local food unique.

1. Buckwheat noodle leaks

Buckwheat noodle is a traditional crop in Chengde area, especially in Bashang, and the pasta made from it has a special flavor, which is smooth and chewy. Buckwheat noodles are divided into white buckwheat noodles and black buckwheat noodles, each with its own characteristics.

2: Bowl Tuo

Bowl Tuo is made by kneading buckwheat flour with pig blood, heating to make porridge paste, and cooling. When eating, cut it into thin triangular pieces, fry it thoroughly in the oil pan, put it into a bowl, pour sesame sauce, garlic juice, aged vinegar, salt, monosodium glutamate and other ingredients, and eat it with bamboo sticks. This is very similar to the enema in Beijing, but the raw materials are different.

3: snowballing

Chengde area is rich in millet, and Chengde is called yellow rice, which is sticky. "Rolling on a donkey" is a popular snack made of millet, which has a history of more than 2 years in Chengde. "Rolling on a donkey" is a long roll made of yellow rice stuffing. Because the roll is spread under yellow bean, the long roll is rolled on bean flour when eating, which looks like a donkey rolling, hence the name.

4: Eight Immortals of Game in Steam Pot

High-quality delicacies and game are selected as raw materials, such as roe deer meat, pheasant breast, hare, winter bamboo shoots, dried mushrooms, green peppers, etc., and all of them are put into the pot for steaming. When they are out of the pot, they are original, the soup is fresh and clear, the meat is crisp and rotten, and the taste is mellow.

5: Royal Lotus Chicken

Royal Lotus Chicken, formerly known as Jiaohua Chicken, is a special snack of Han nationality. After it was introduced to Chengde, it was named "Royal Lotus Chicken" because it was refined from the unique Ligong loess, Jehol spring water and lotus leaves in the lake.

6: Nansha cake

also known as bagou sugar cake. It is made of white sugar, green shredded pork, melon seeds, walnut kernels and seasonings, flour, buckwheat flour and flour, which are wrapped, shaped and baked. Crisp, sweet and refreshing, Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty hunted in Pingquan and praised it for eating, so it was a tribute. It has a production history of more than 5 years.

7: Flower Rose Cake

Flower Rose Cake is a famous product in Chengde City, which is made of local specialty fresh roses as the main raw material and refined by traditional techniques. This product has a long history and is one of the imperial foods in the Qing Dynasty. It has historical records. Whenever Kangxi came to Chengde for the summer or went hunting in the paddock, he used this cake as a special food.

8: Chengde tiger dish

Cut green pepper, green onion, coriander, etc. into fine powder, put it into a bowl, and add soy sauce, monosodium glutamate and vinegar to make a dipping sauce. Because this dipping sauce tastes spicy, it is called tiger dish. In fact, tiger dishes can not only be used as dipping sauce, but also be used as a side dish for people to enjoy.

9: Jiangmi Lianggao

Jiangmi Lianggao is a flavor snack that has been circulated in Chengde for nearly 3 years. In the forty-four years of Qianlong (1779), it can be seen that Emperor Qianlong often ate Jiangmi Lianggao.