When traveling to Nantong, buy these unique specialties of Nantong, Jiangsu, including Xiting shortbread, Nantong specialty gift boxes, Rugao Dongtang, Linzi Chao Cake, Zhengchang Smoked Cake, Inlaid Peach Seed Cake, Shigang Cake, Rugao Sausage, and Baipu Tea

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1. Xiting shortbread Xiting shortbread is an intangible cultural heritage of Jiangsu Province.

Xiting shortbread is still a childhood memory of many old Nantong people. The cake bottom is crispy and the sesame is sweet.

There is also a folk song like this: "Xiting shortbread has eighteen layers. The layers are clear and can shine on people. When you eat it from the top, you will smell it from the wind. It is sweet, crispy and disgusting."

2. Nantong specialty gift box. The Nantong pastry gift box contains wheat puff pastry, shortbread, peach sesame cake, sesame balls, etc. It is a very popular Nantong specialty snack gift box.

Suitable for yourself or as a gift.

3. Rugao Dongtang Dongtang was made by Dong Xiaowan, the concubine of a celebrity from Rugao who came to Pijiang in the late Ming Dynasty.

According to the "Chongchuan Gui Wen Lu" written in the Gengyin year of Emperor Daoguang of the Qing Dynasty, "Dongtang was made by Dong Xiaowan, the concubine of the people in Maochao. Before returning to the people of Chao, this candy was sent from Qinhuai to the people of Chao, so it is still known as Qinyou Dongtang."

"Rugao Dongtang is a specialty candy from Rugao City, Jiangsu Province. It uses fresh flowers from the Yellow River as raw materials and adopts traditional hand-made techniques. It has a sweet and soft taste that melts in your mouth.

The finished product is a flat cuboid, white and slightly yellow in color, with distinct layers, a rotatable cross-section and a phoenix eye-shaped center; it melts easily in the mouth, is crispy and sweet, and has a long aftertaste.

4. Linzi Chao Cake Linzi Chao Cake is a famous traditional pastry in Rugao, Jiangsu Province. It has a history of nearly three hundred years and has a soft, waxy and sweet taste.

Made using traditional handcrafts, with unique formula and sophisticated materials.

Fragrant but not turbid, sweet but not greasy.

5. Zhengchang smoked cake Zhengchang smoked cake is a famous traditional pastry product of the Han nationality in Nantong City, Jiangsu Province. It is produced in Zhengchang Town, Tongzhou District and has a history of nearly 500 years.

Zhengchang smoked cake uses exquisite ingredients and is carefully made. It uses high-quality glutinous rice and sesame as the main raw materials, adds an appropriate amount of sugar, vegetable oil, osmanthus, salt and pepper and other ingredients. It goes through more than 20 processes and is finally smoked with low fire.

It is light yellow in color, crisp but not burnt, brittle but not falling apart. The cake is in the shape of a rectangular sheet with uniform thickness. A single piece is transparent under natural light and has a tangy aroma that makes people salivate.

Smoked cake is shaped like sesame cake, crispy and sweet, sweet and salty, has a unique flavor, and has a delicate taste that is far superior to sesame cake.

Zhengchang Smoked Cake uses high-quality glutinous rice and sesame as the main raw materials. It is shaped like a sesame cake, crispy and sweet, sweet and salty, with a unique flavor and delicate taste.

6. Inlaid peach and sesame cake Inlaid peach and sesame cake is a special snack in Nantong, Jiangsu. It tastes sweet and crispy. There are two pieces per catty, about fifty pieces each, and it is crispy and delicious.

The color is golden, the taste is fragrant, sweet, loose and crispy, with the fragrance of sesame.

Shortbread and sesame cake are two specialties of Nantong.

7. Shigang Sweet Cake Shigang Sweet Cake is a specialty of Shigang Town, Rudong County, Nantong. It is also a seasonal tea and snack. It is only available for two short months every year, usually starting from the Waking of Insects and ending before the Beginning of Summer.

The original name of Xiang cake is printed cake, which is named after the printing on each piece of cake.

The taste is delicious, soft and glutinous.

Each pastry has a purple print (the raw material is purple potato starch), which is unique.

Printed good wishes on the cake.

8. Rugao Sausage Rugao sausage is a specialty delicacy in Rugao, Jiangsu Province. It has a unique production process and is comparable to "Cantonese-style" sausage, so it is called "Rugao-style" sausage.

Rugao sausage is deeply loved by the masses because of its refined meat that is chewy but not old, and its fatty meat that is oily but not greasy.

9. Dried Baipu Tea Dried Baipu Tea is a specialty snack in Yancheng City, Jiangsu Province, also known as Baipu "Sanxiangzhai" dried tea. It is actually a kind of dried tofu, made of high-quality soybeans and refined with a variety of spices.

Beautiful and fragrant, rich in toughness, beautiful in color, square and thin in shape, unique.