Four snacks:

1. Confucius Temple snacks

Confucius Temple snacks: Nanjing Confucius Temple snack group is located on the bank of the bustling Qinhuai River, ranking among the four largest snacks in China Top snacks. Jinling snacks have a long history and a wide variety of snacks. There are more than 80 varieties that have been passed down since the Six Dynasties period.

Among them, the world-famous Eight Qinhuai Specialties are:

The first: Huangqiao Shaobing and Kaiyang Dried Silk in Yonghe Garden.

The second best: Jiang Youji’s beef soup and beef pot stickers.

The third best: Liufengju’s tofu and scallion pancakes.

The fourth highlight: Qifangge’s duck pancakes and assorted vegetable buns.

Fifth wonder: Qifangge’s sesame oil dried shreds and chicken shreds topped with noodles.

The sixth highlight: Lianhu Cake Shop’s sweet-scented osmanthus-filled Lantern Festival and five-color cakes.

The seventh highlight: Zhanyuan Noodle House’s smoked fish silver noodles and thin-skin dumplings.

The eighth wonder: Kuiguang Pavilion’s spiced beans and spiced eggs.

2. Xuanmiaoguan Snacks

Xuanmiaoguan Snacks: Xuanmiaoguan Snacks are located on Guanqian Street in downtown Suzhou. They integrate Suzhou dim sum and snacks into one city. The famous one is Wufang Zhai’s five-spice pork ribs, Shengmeizhai’s chicken and duck blood soup, Xiao Youtian’s lotus root rice dumplings, fried soybean sugar porridge, etc. In addition, there are Qianzhang steamed buns, various Soviet-style noodles from Guan Zhenxing Noodle House, vegetarian vegetable steamed buns, etc.

In addition, there are also varieties for people to eat after tea and wine: salted cauliflower, pickled Coptis chinensis, peeled oil-boiled fruit jade, oil-boiled soybeans, soy sauce snails, oil-boiled stinky tofu, oil-boiled snails Rice cakes, baked potato, fried rice dumplings, etc. are all cheap, high-quality snacks with a strong Jiangnan flavor.

3. City God’s Temple snacks

City God’s Temple snacks are an important part of Shanghai’s snacks. It was formed in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China and is located in the commercial center of Shanghai's old city. Its famous snacks include Nanxiang Xiaolong from Nanxiang Steamed Bread Shop, Baiguo Wine Rice Balls, Eight-Treasure Rice, and Sweet Rice Rice from Manyuanchun, heavy oil shortcakes from Hubin Dim Sum Shop, jujube paste shortcakes and Sansi Eyebrow Shortcakes from Green Wave Restaurant. In addition, there are many special snacks such as: gluten louvers, fermented snails, boiled squid, etc.

4. Fire Palace Snacks

Changsha Fire Palace Snack Group was founded in 1747 and rebuilt in 1941. It concentrates snacks from all over Hunan in the city, with strong local flavor and its characteristics. Snacks include Jiang Erdie’s stinky tofu, Zhang Guisheng’s steamed dumplings, Li Ziquan’s fairy bowl rice, Hu Guiying’s pig blood, Deng Chunxiang’s braised hoof flowers, Luo San’s rice noodles, triangular tofu, horn steamed dumplings, etc., ***300 remaining varieties.

Extended information:

The "Qing Yu Lei Chao" compiled by Xu Ke recorded the first four snack groups in China, Nanjing Confucius Temple Qinhuai Snacks (beginning in Hongwu of Ming Dynasty) years), Shanghai City God's Temple snacks (started in the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty), Suzhou Xuanmiaoguan snacks (started in the Hongzhi period of the Ming Dynasty), and Hunan Changsha Fire Palace snacks (started in the sixth year of Qianlong's reign in the Qing Dynasty, 1741), are known as the four major snacks in China . These snack groups bring together snacks from all over the country, and each snack group has its own characteristics.

After several years of development, specialty snacks have become an indispensable part of food culture, and specialty snacks in various places have also developed local characteristics. However, in the later stages of snack development, it has taken on another meaning. Although the same emphasis is placed on using fresh local ingredients, the production methods are complicated and the workmanship is exquisite. It is more cumbersome than the main meal that pays attention to filling the stomach. It is already a food culture in various places, and it is by no means just a filling meal between three meals. Full belly levels.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Four Snacks

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