Lao Jie Tang Tuan

After crossing the bridge, we rushed to this "Lao Jie Tang Tuan" shop, which has long been famous, and is located at No.26 South Street in the middle of the old street. Two cauldrons are steaming with round dumplings floating on the surface of the water, and with an endless stream of diners coming in and out, it looks like a famous shop.

The dumplings here have four flavors: fresh meat, red bean paste, sesame and jujube paste, and each dumpling has six cents. Diners regularly line up in front of the cauldron, and the dumplings have been cooked in the pot for a long time. This kind of passenger flow does not have to worry about the dumplings being cooked until they can't be sold.

The master skillfully takes the spoons one by one, and the dumplings roll, so you can identify what the stuffing is, and you can be sure when you scoop them!

Take a bite of fresh meat dumplings, and a packet of soup drips out. While shouting hot, you quickly sip your mouth to pick it up, for fear of losing the most delicious soup. Soft glutinous rice skin, teeth don't have to work hard, and the meat is delicate and tender. After biting, it will be loose into fine granules, obviously without traces of starch. When you sip the dumplings with jujube paste, you can feel the special jujube fragrance. Only the traces of jujube paste in the middle line are seen in the upper and lower glutinous rice balls. The dough is really not ordinary glutinous! The stuffing of jujube paste is made of dried jujube, chopped and steamed with sugar. It tastes smooth and delicate, and after passing the tip of the tongue, the jujube fragrance still exists.

Looking out through the window on the second floor of the store, the cornice of the building seems within reach.

Braised meat

Braised meat is also a feature of the ancient town. The meat wrapped in lotus leaves is cooked in homemade gravy for a long time, and I quit a lot of fatness. Although it looks dark and rustic, it tastes fragrant and delicious, which is typical of farm flavor.

Duck neck, duck breast, duck gizzard and all kinds of bean products have been cooked in a big pot and a small pot, each with a vivid soy sauce luster. Although at first glance, we should take a closer look at its raw materials, but the variety is so rich that picky people can't help but pay for one or two strings. The cheapest one is one yuan, which is sold in many shops in the old street.

Snail stuffed with snails and clam stuffed with meat are also attractive delicacies spread together, and the preparation method is not difficult. Snail and clam are boiled in boiling water first, then the meat is mashed with pork, and then they are cooked with seasonings. When they are eaten, they are mixed with the dual delicacies of seafood and meat, and they are sold in a restaurant next to the old street dumplings, at 13.8 yuan each.

Attractive

Qibao Square Cake

Walking through the old street, you can see the square cake here, which is also a famous local snack. The traditional square cake is made of glutinous rice crust and bean paste stuffing, the size of two palms together, and one piece of 6 yuan. It's soft and waxy when it's just steamed out, and it will harden if it's left for a long time. It is said that the square cake is best when it is not hard, with moderate sweetness and delicate taste. Now there are jujube paste stuffing, mung bean paste, pine nuts and cinnamon stuffing, and the price is 7-12 yuan.

Crabapple Cake

The freshly baked Crabapple Cake is watered with sugar water, which is unattractive and brown, but its fragrance is absolutely appetizing. 1 yuan, one of them, although waiting in line to buy, still needs to "grab" it, so he took a hot paper bag and took a bite while it was hot. First, it was crispy caramel, then it was soft bread, which didn't stick to his teeth. Bite down again, it is delicate bean paste, fresh and purple. When it is hot, the bean paste has a liquid feeling, and it is swallowed unconsciously. Although it is said that the calories are quite high, it will be regrettable to miss such delicious snacks for a lifetime. Shops that specialize in Begonia Cake are No.1 and No.25 South Street.

Duck feet treasure

Friends who like salty taste might as well try this duck feet treasure again. The duck feet are covered with a layer of rope, which tastes a bit like rotten skin. Some people tell me that it is thin duck intestines. There is nothing special about duck feet. The novelty lies in that there are still some pieces of preserved duck meat wrapped in them, which are quite chewy, and the umami taste has been absorbed by the bean products on the outer layer. It is a natural delicacy.

exotic food

white-cut mutton

mutton with proper fat, tough skin and crisp meat needs to be accompanied by excellent sauces. The mutton in Tianxianglou is highly praised by many people. The braised mutton there is stewed with red dates, American ginseng, rock sugar and other soy sauce, which is sweet and soft. 28 yuan is about/kg.

stinky tofu with a thousand fragrance

On a corner of the old street, there is a small shop with a banner that says "stinky tofu". Buy one, pour it with sweet noodle sauce and hot sauce, and eat it in the street. 4 yuan/yuan.

seven treasures and bad meat

there is bad meat in a wine shop, which seems to be a little close to the water. This bad meat is said to be made with a secret recipe, which is moderately sweet and salty and full of wine and meat. The bad meat in the small jar, take it back and steam it for 21 minutes, and you can eat it.

The specialty of Shenglulu Candy

Store is all kinds of maltose, peanut crisp, orange cake and so on made by hand. The slogan on the package is quite interesting: "My favorite candy when I was a child". Peanut crisp is not sweet, fragrant and crisp, while maltose makes girls who love sweets less worried.

In addition, dried sweet potatoes, rice cake balls and soybean crisp stalls in the old street are also quite popular. There are also Fu Liji roast chicken with thin skin and tender meat, and steamed pork with lotus leaf powder is fragrant for 111 meters; The Qibao old restaurant at one end of the town has a special fish head soup, and it is raised and cooked by itself, and fish is raised at the door and fished on the spot, which is quite interesting.

after eating around, the appetite is completely satisfied. Counting the money in your arms is really useless. In Qibao ancient town, you can eat and drink enough food on the street, which only costs ten yuan! Bring some special snacks back to honor the elders. Less than 111 yuan is enough. The transportation is also very convenient. It takes almost an hour to come from downtown.