It was originally created by vendor Lv Shun in the 1920s. It takes thick and compact coconut meat as raw material, and processes it into fresh shredded coconut and squeezes it into coconut juice, and then adds fresh buffalo milk, eggs and sugar. The unique production technology makes the ice cream soft, smooth and delicious, with rich coconut fragrance and unique flavor. In the fifties and sixties of last century, some foreign heads of state and distinguished guests, such as Prince Sihanouk of Cambodia, came here and enjoyed it. Guangzhou snacks can be roughly divided into seven categories: oil pan, porridge, noodles, cakes, desserts, zongzi and assorted foods. These snacks are cheap and good, all over the city.
Oily snacks include fried dough sticks (fried noodles), sweet cake (salty pancakes), dates, crispy beef and crispy dough twists. Some are salty, some are sweet, some are salty and sweet, some are crisp and sweet, and some are crisp and sweet.
There are many kinds of porridge. Generally, oil pan and porridge are operated at the same time.
Flour varieties include noodles, wonton, Shahe rice noodles, pig rice rolls, Guilin rice noodles and so on. Wonton noodles and Shahe rice noodles are the most popular among the masses, while pork rolls are served in the morning and are very popular. Noodles and Shahe noodles can be made into beef brisket noodles, pork hand noodles, fish egg noodles, beef brisket river noodles, shredded pork river noodles, fish fillet river noodles and so on. You can make soup or fry it.
There are muffins, cotton cakes, radish cakes, taro cakes, water chestnut cakes, Lunjiao cakes and so on. All these foods are steamed.
Desserts account for a small proportion of snacks, but they have their own characteristics. Among them, double-skin milk, shelled mung bean paste, red bean paste, sesame lake, almond paste, Ma Rong soup pill, stewed papaya with rock sugar, stewed eggs with iced flowers and parasitic egg tea are deeply loved by the masses. These are not only nutritious, cheap and good, but also have certain medical functions. For example, sesame paste can remove intestinal dryness, and stewed papaya can clear the heart and moisten the lungs.
Zongzi can be roughly divided into sweet zongzi and salty zongzi. Sweet zongzi is based on Longshui Zongzi, which is characterized by simple production. Huang Chengcheng has the flavor of dragon water, which is smooth, delicious and storable. There are varieties of red bean paste brown and lotus seed dumplings. In recent years, Lianxianglou has innovated the egg yolk lotus seed paste zongzi. Salty zongzi is complicated to make, including bacon zongzi, steamed dumplings, ham zongzi and Zhaoqing steamed dumplings. Zongzi in Guangzhou is one of the favorite snacks of the masses, and it is sold in the streets all year round.
Omnivores are mostly operated by mobile individual stalls. There are stewed beef offal, fried snail, pork red soup, beef bone soup, hot and sour vegetables and so on. These varieties have their own flavor characteristics. Although the sales volume is not large, there are also many operators operating. Some operators cook beef offal with radish, boiled cabbage gall and various sauces, and there are many diners.