Special dishes such as sea cucumber braised elbow, sauced fish with tiles, braised skirt, etc. are delicious and fresh; snacks such as honey sesame candy, chess piece sesame cake, Wanli aroma smoked chicken and other snacks will make you full of praise.

The characteristics of Tangshan snacks are not as distinct as the snacks in Sichuan, Xi'an, Shanghai, Chongqing and other places. Because it is located in the Central Plains and adjacent to the capital, Tangshan's snacks can be said to integrate the tastes of snacks from all over the country, plus many after the fall of the Qing Dynasty.

The arrival of the royal chef in the palace to the Jidong area gave Tangshan's snacks a bit of a royal color.

Among the many Tangshan snacks, my favorite ones are roasted chestnuts with sugar, honey sesame candy, chess piece sesame cakes and "cane". These snacks can be said to be the "outstanding representatives" of Tangshan snacks. I will also make some general

introduction.

Tangshan’s Jingdong chestnut is a well-known local specialty at home and abroad. It is famous for its sweet taste and firm grains. It is called chestnut because of its flat shape.

The best Jingdong chestnuts are fried with brown sugar. The chestnuts are bright red and exude a sweet flavor into the air.

I have also eaten sugar-roasted chestnuts from other places. From the appearance, they don’t seem to be much different from the chestnuts from Tangshan. However, when you eat them, you can’t help but feel that the chestnuts are loose and taste bad.

After Jingdong chestnuts are fried, the skin will separate from the kernels. It is very easy to peel. It tastes sweet in the mouth and has an endless aftertaste.

With the development of science and technology, some other methods of Jingdong chestnut have emerged in recent years, such as chestnut juice and chestnut kernels, which are also loved by people.

In the Zunhua and Qian'an areas of Tangshan City, the hometown of chestnuts, you can also eat Jingdong chestnuts made in other ways, and the taste is equally amazing.

Like roasted chestnuts, honey sesame candy is also a sweet Tangshan snack.

During the Spring Festival, you can see honey sesame candy in various packages when walking in major shopping malls in Tangshan.

Under the illumination of the light, the honey sesame candy looks even brighter in color. The honey inside gives people a squishy feeling. Plus, the black sesame seeds on the sesame candy are embellished with color, flavor and flavor.

The preparation of honey sesame candy is not simple. It requires ingredients, dough mixing, rolling into slices, clearing the dough and placing slices, chopping, frying, and slurrying.

Under the careful production of skilled craftsmen, the sesame candy is fresh and light yellow in color, as thin as paper, shaped like a flower, crisp and sweet.

Sesame candy makes Tangshan people an indispensable food for daily consumption and visiting relatives and friends during the Spring Festival. People use honey sesame candy to convey the joy of the festival and the sweetness of life.

Compared with sugar-fried chestnuts and honey sesame candy, the flavors of chess biscuits can be described as diverse. Chess biscuits are also a type of biscuits, so named because they are shaped like a small drum and shaped like a chess piece.

The dough of Qizi Shaobing is very particular. After the dough is mixed, it is fried with oil and sesame oil, so that the baked biscuits can be golden in color and crispy in texture.

Qizi Shaobing can be filled with meat, sugar, assorted ingredients, sausage, ham and other fillings, each with different flavors.

Chess biscuits are baked to a crisp inside and out, the meat filling is fresh and fragrant, crispy, not greasy, and easy to store, making them a snack very popular among Tangshan people.

It can be said that "Glue Cane" is a Tangshan specialty snack that is well-known to everyone in Tangshan, but is unknown to outsiders.

There is a rather interesting story about the origin of the name "Grocane".

At the end of the Qing Dynasty, when the Empress Dowager Cixi was in power, various places had to pay tribute to Cixi.

At that time, the Tangshan area was under Zhili Province, and because it was adjacent to the capital, local officials were troubled by the tribute issue, so they had no choice but to send the "cane" to the imperial kitchen.

Although the meals prepared by the imperial kitchen for the Empress Dowager Cixi every day were very luxurious at that time, Cixi faced a large table of delicacies and could only take a bite of each dish at most. There were many dishes that she would not touch at all.

One day when Cixi was having a meal, someone from the imperial kitchen brought a plate of sugarcane to Cixi.

Cixi took a bite, and as usual, Lafayette took a bite of the dish and took it away.

Unexpectedly that day, Cixi took one bite and then took another, and said to the people in the imperial kitchen, "What is the name of this?" The people in the imperial kitchen could not answer, and hurriedly apologized to Lafayette.

Fortunately, the Empress Dowager Cixi was not angry that day and said to the people in the imperial kitchen, "Okay, let's put it here for now." This is where the name "Ke Zhi" came from.

"Groupe" is a kind of pancake made from bean flour.

The technical requirements for the chefs are very strict.

The soybean flour used to spread the "cane" needs to be very thin, so it is difficult to master.

At the same time, the heat of the "cane" is also a top priority. If the heat is low, it will easily peel, but if the heat is high, it will burn.

The high-quality "cane" is as thin as a piece of paper, golden in color, and smells of bean aroma.

There are many ways to make "kesu", each with its own characteristics: frying, stir-frying, and deep-frying.

In Tangshan's large and small restaurants, you can eat "glucane" in various ways such as vinegar, dry frying, and water.