Changzhou snacks

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steamed buns with crabs

It was first created by Wanhua Tea House in the south of Xiaoheyan pontoon bridge during the light-year period. Its characteristics: the crab oil is golden and shiny, fat but not greasy, the crab is fragrant, the juice is delicious, the skin is thin and strong, the stuffing is tender and smooth and refreshing, and it is delicious with balsamic vinegar and ginger.

Hemp Cake

Changzhou Hemp Cake is an oval sesame cake with unique taste and flavor, and it is also the favorite traditional food for Changzhou people. When it is made, white flour, high-quality sesame seeds, white sugar, refined salt and other raw materials are selected and refined through multiple procedures such as kneading, stirring, kneading, stuffing, forming and baking. There are salty and sweet flavors for buyers to choose from. As soon as the qualified sesame cake is baked, it has a strong fragrance, yellow and moist color but not burnt, moderate salty and sweet but not greasy, crisp and delicious but not crisp, and good color, fragrance and taste. In the past, Changzhou hemp cake was mostly eaten by local people for breakfast. Nowadays, after reform and innovation, careful packaging, beautiful appearance, and easy to carry, it has become a necessary gift for people to visit relatives and friends.

Crab shell yellow

Crab shell yellow is a local flavor snack in Changzhou, commonly known as Xiaoma cake, which is often used as a gift with hemp cake. There are four kinds of stuffing: shepherd's purse, onion oil, white sugar and bean paste with bright oil. Its characteristics: it is shaped like a crab shell, golden in color, oily but not greasy, crisp and crisp, sweet and mellow in sugar filling, and fresh in salty filling.

wonton with chicken soup and vegetable meat

wonton with chicken soup and vegetable meat is a special snack in Changzhou with a history of more than 4 years. Its characteristics: the skin is smooth, the stuffing is delicious, fat but not greasy, and delicious.

Fermented Lantern Festival

Fermented Lantern Festival is one of the special snacks in Changzhou, and people have the custom of eating Lantern Festival. More than 1 years ago, Pei Yugao added distiller's grains to the traditional Lantern Festival, creating the distiller's grains Lantern Festival. Its characteristics: the dough is like jade grains, the wine is full of fragrance, the flavor is unique, and it is sweet and refreshing.

Silver noodles

Silver noodles are a special variety in Changzhou with a history of more than 3 years. With exquisite ingredients and strict operation procedures, it has the characteristics of fine noodles, white as silver, soft and smooth, rich in toughness, and does not paste in the pot. It is one of the collected varieties of China Snacks.

sesame candy

Changzhou sesame candy has a long history and unique flavor. According to legend, as early as the Tang Dynasty, the local people began to caramelize sugar and sesame seeds, and produced a sesame candy shaped like a hemp ball, called hemp ball candy. By the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, the wolf smoke was everywhere, and the nomads from the army invaded the south on a large scale. Zhao Gou, the King of Kang, fled from the capital city of Bianliang to the south, and was partial to the south of the Yangtze River. He blindly compromised and made peace, and he didn't want to recover the lost land in the north. The people are very resentful about this. At that time, someone once wrote a poem saying, "When will the West Lake stop singing and dancing?" The warm wind makes tourists drunk and makes Hangzhou a Bianzhou! " To vent their dissatisfaction. The common people in Changwu area use another form to express their desire to resist gold and recover lost land. They changed the spherical hemp candy into a cylindrical shape like a ware, and gave it to Kang Wang to inspire its courage to resist the rejuvenation of the country. It is not known whether Zhao Gou, the King of Kang, was inspired and courageous. However, Changzhou Sesame Sugar was made into a cylindrical shape from then on and continues to this day.

Changzhou sesame candy has fine selection of materials and exquisite production. Sesame is required to be covered with no skin, and both ends are sealed without stuffing. The hole in the sugar layer is not stiff, the taste is sweet and crisp, and it does not stick to teeth. The color is white and bright, and the thickness is generally uniform, with just 2 sticks per catty. It is indeed a good gift for family travel and friends.

Dried turnips

People who have been to Changzhou will say, "There is a strange thing in Changzhou. Dried turnips are a kind of appetizer." Authentic Changzhou dried radish is really different from dried radish elsewhere. It is made of sweet and tender solid carrots produced by Xinzha Gate outside the west gate of Changzhou, washed and cut into strips, moderately dried, and then added with appropriate amount of salt, sugar and various auxiliary materials, and carefully pickled. Because of the excellent selection of materials, the unique pickling process is adopted, and the seasoning with unique flavor is matched. Therefore, Changzhou dried radish is yellow in color and red in color, salty but not salty, slightly sweet in salty, crispy and not spicy, and very delicious. Besides, it's cheap and easy to carry. It is not only a side dish for people to eat, but also a pastime food after drinking and having a meal. If you buy authentic Changzhou products, customers will be satisfied.

shrimp cake

has a history of nearly 2 years. Yuan Mei, a litterateur in Qing Dynasty, wrote in "Suiyuan Food List": "Shrimp cake, raw shrimp meat, onion, salt, pepper, a little sweet wine, add water and flour, and sesame oil will burn thoroughly." Golden in color, crisp outside and soft inside, fragrant and delicious.

horseshoe cake

After the Taiping Army captured Changzhou in the tenth year of Xianfeng in Qing Dynasty, a kind of shortbread shaped like horseshoe appeared among the people, which was intended to praise the achievements of the Taiping Army. Horseshoe crisp is made of refined white flour, cotton sugar, soybean oil and other raw materials, and is baked in a traditional furnace. Golden in color, sweet and crisp. It has been included in China Famous Menu.

Sanxian wonton

The stuffing is made of shrimp, fresh green fish and fresh pork, so it is called "Sanxian". Wonton skin is made of refined white flour mixed with egg white and rolled, and wonton soup is stewed with fresh hens into chicken soup. Wonton skin is thin and smooth, the stuffing is fresh and tender, and the soup is clear and delicious.

yilongsu ham

yilongsu ham was founded in 1932 and is famous for making vegetarian snacks. Yilongsu ham is a traditional special food in Changzhou Yilongsu restaurant. This product is made of excellent materials, advanced formula, scientific production process, supplemented by a variety of natural precious spices and natural pigments. This product is fragrant, dry and fresh, tough and soft, delicious and refreshing. It is sliced and sprinkled with sesame oil, which looks like ham meat. It is a delicacy to accompany meals, drink wine and travel, and also a good gift for relatives and friends. In 1989, it won the "Jinding" award of high-quality food from the Ministry of Commerce, and it is one of the top ten famous spots in Changzhou.

Tianmu Lake Casserole Fish Head

Tianmu Lake Casserole Fish Head: Founded in Tianmu Lake Hotel, Jiangsu Province, it has been well-cooked by Zhu Shuncai, a super chef in Jiangsu Province for nearly 3 years, and now it has been hailed as the best traditional dish in Jiangsu and has become a wonderful flower in China's food world. Cooking the fish head of Tianmu Lake casserole is made from the head of silver carp naturally raised in Tianmu Lake, the pure natural Tianmu Lake as the soup base, and the unique cooking technology. Because the green vegetation around Tianmu Lake not only filters the lake, but also the bottom of the lake is sandy rather than muddy, this unique natural environment makes Tianmu Lake clear, sweet and spotless, so the fish growing in it has no earthy smell. Therefore, the fish head of Tianmu Lake casserole is highly praised by the vast number of food lovers for its excellent quality of "fresh but not fishy, fat but not greasy".

Changzhou snack bars

There are many snack bars in Changzhou, but now they are scattered in every corner because of demolition, and it is hard to find strangers. It is concentrated near the New Century Mall in the city center, with Detaiheng (now moved to Chengdong, Chuanliang Food City, Changzhou Pastry Group Store, Qingxiangyuan Branch, Jinsanxian, etc.) and Jindali (also a specialty of Changzhou, which is not available in May-July) and leisure stations nearby. Of course, there are Sanxian Wonton Restaurant, Yilongsu Restaurant, Yinsi Noodle Restaurant, Yinggui Steamed Bread Restaurant, etc. These century-old shops are not concentrated, and the temporary facade after the demolition and relocation is not very conspicuous. If you are interested and have time, you might as well look for them.