There is a brand that you may not have eaten before, but you may have heard of it. It has a good background. It is said to be a Chinese intangible cultural heritage protection technique and has been passed down for hundreds of years. It is a selected pastry in "A Bite of China III" , "God of Food" Cai Lam visited the store and liked it. It is - Xianghe? Intangible cultural heritage? China on the tip of the tongue? Imperial dining room? Chinese dim sum? Pastry shop~

Note: Pastry is the general name for pastries after the Manchus entered the customs. There was an imperial pastry room in the Qing palace, and those who operated palace pastries among the people were called pastry shops.

In order to publish this review, Chong Gao bought all its dim sum and selected some popular items to share its true feelings. It is said that this old shop has been passed down for 4 generations from ancestors to grandchildren, and has always used the selection and production standards of "imperial" pastries. It is said that it has been for many years, but I only heard about it in 2020. , I have never heard of this store before. I am obviously a native of Tianjin, but I have never heard of this Tianjin brand. Well, I reflect on myself. Although I have known about this brand 2 years ago, I have never wanted to try it. The reason is that I have been controlling sugar and losing weight for a while, and I have almost stopped using snack products. Now that I have successfully lost weight, I still want to try this famous brand. What exactly are internet celebrity snacks like?

When I scanned it, I felt that the product looked like this~ I didn’t expect that after this review, I was really surprised~

The first dim sum I tried It's a pine nut soufflé, which seems to be a product that other brands don't have. I fell in love with it as soon as I entered it. It has a very rich but not sweet milky taste, crispy and delicious, and at the same time it has the nutty taste of dry pine nuts, which is a very comfortable snack taste. It tastes a bit like butter cookies, but with a Chinese feel. The ingredient list of this pine nut soufflé is clean, only: wheat flour, sugar, butter, sunflower oil, New Zealand milk powder, Huashan pine nuts, eggs, and cooking oil. No preservatives, artificial flavors, colors, etc. are added, so it is delicious for babies over 3 years old! The praise rating is also very high, and it certainly lives up to its reputation. It seems simple but it tests your skills. If you can only choose one dim sum from Xianghe Cake Shop, then I recommend this one the most!

When it comes to Chinese dim sum, we have to mention date paste, which is the best choice for white-skinned dim sum. Cangzhou golden jujubes are used. The reddish-brown jujube paste filling is very delicate and shining with crystal clear light. In fact, Chong Gao doesn't really like jujube paste food, but this one is not bad. It tastes sweet and sandy, with a hint of jujube sourness, and makes the mouth fluid. Unlike the flavored jujube paste on the market, where the sweetness covers up the jujube flavor, you can taste that it is made with care.

As for the lower score, I think the puff pastry tastes very crumbly and is inconvenient to carry around, but this is also a characteristic of white pastry. The inheritor also said that he had been arguing with his family for two years when selling this product online. It was indeed easy to lose scum, and customers would feel bad after receiving it. It is indeed a brand that makes dim sum with care and really considers its customers. The packaging is also very special. It adopts the traditional way of wrapping snacks, stacking them one by one, wrapping them in snack paper into a bundle, and then tying them with straw rope, which is very retro.

There is a little story that inspired this. It is said that when the old shopkeeper was walking outside the Forbidden City, he accidentally discovered a row of bamboos under the city wall. Under the afterglow of the setting sun, the whole body was copper-gold and shining. , I watched it for a long time, and when I came back, I turned the golden bamboo into delicious snacks.

The main raw material is mochi powder, and it is made with eggs, cheese, and cheese seasoning powder. It is salty and crispy, and the cheese taste is not too rich and greasy. It tastes crunchy, and I think it is more suitable for children. If you are a person who particularly likes the taste of cheese, you will find this cheese taste too bland. It’s the kind of snack you can try but not likely to repurchase.

Lizi Ma is a specialty snack in Tianjin. I have eaten it when I was very young. However, when I was a child, I thought Lizi Ma was related to chestnuts. After eating it, I realized that Lizi Ma is not made of chestnuts at all. The round surface of this pastry has a layer of maroon luster, and is like a sweet chestnut shell wrapped with soft and glutinous fillings, so it is called Lizi Ma. The normal Lizi Ma is red bean filling. In addition to Xianghe Cake Shop, other brands are also available, such as Guishunzhai. But it has launched a chestnut-flavored Lizima, perhaps to better suit the name. It has a mellow chestnut flavor and a soft and delicate taste. Some chestnuts harden easily when left alone, but this is not the case. They always have a soft texture and the filling is not too sweet.

This is also called Heguozi, but the name Heguozi is Japanese, so I still like to call it hawthorn soft cake. The filling is stir-fried with rock sugar and hawthorn, which neutralizes the sourness of the hawthorn very well. It is not astringent at all and has just the right taste. When I first got it, I thought it had an egg yolk-like crust. When I opened it and ate it, I realized that the crust was soft and completely different from other snacks. It's refreshing and sweet, soft and glutinous, and the cake body is not dry at all. If you don't like traditional white pastries, you must try this one. I eat two or three pieces every time. It's suitable for breakfast or in the afternoon. Tea!

The above 5 products are the ones I most recommend trying. I don’t think they will be a surprise. The other products are not unpalatable, but overall they are not as good as these 5 products. The Forbidden City, "Bite of the Tongue", "Intangible Cultural Heritage", gourmet shop exploration...these labels are not so much a halo as they are the entrance to the world's understanding of Xianghe.