The beautiful Qianshan Mountain has a long history and culture, rich natural resources and profound cultural heritage, which makes people forget to leave. Qianshan's delicious snacks are also famous far and wide, attracting many people.
Dried eggplant: made from eggplant, glutinous rice, koji, sugar, salt, monosodium glutamate, dried chili, garlic, etc., which are steamed and then dried. It combines fragrant, spicy, sweet and salty flavors into one. The taste is both tough and soft, and it has a feeling that you will never forget after eating it.
Meatball Cake: It is a snack made from the finest sweet potato flour and lean meat, taro, water chestnuts, mushrooms, diced lotus root, cuttlefish and other ingredients. You can eat it as soon as it is steamed. The meatballs just out of the cage are soft, tender and have a good taste. After spreading out and cooling, it can be stored for a longer period of time. In the past, meatballs were considered a relatively expensive food in Qianshan. People only made and eaten them at the end of the year to receive guests in the first month. Nowadays, it is no longer subject to seasonal restrictions and can be made at home at any time. It is also often sold in the market and is convenient to eat. Meatball fruit means "round reunion".
Candied haws on a stick: I believe that when you see this photo, you will all know the candied haws in the photo. It can be said that he has been selling it for a long time. The candied haws are usually made of hawthorn, and the sugar is frozen and hard to eat. Sour and sweet, full of deliciousness.
Consommé is our common name for chaos. The clear soup in Hekou is also unique. For those who are particular about it, they put an egg in it and it is called "egg bag clear soup", which is often missed by many Qianshan people in a foreign land. It was once a beautiful scenery in the ancient town.
Every year after the tenth day of the tenth lunar month, people in Qianshan have the custom of brewing water wine. Drain the water from the glutinous rice, steam it, pour it repeatedly with cold boiled water, then mix it with distiller's yeast in proportion, and put it in a vessel to ferment. Lead Mountain Water Wine and Rice Wine can be stored for a long time and will not go bad. It is soft and refreshing, has a sweet aftertaste and promotes body fluids, and has full stamina.
Jianbao: Filled with chives and bean sprouts, fried in a pan. It is also one of the snacks often found in the streets and alleys of Qianshan.
Leek cake: It is very thin flour mixed with half-cooked radish and bean sprouts, etc., placed in the black mold in the picture above, and dipped in deep frying. The taste is lingering, but the fire is intense. It is also one of the unique snacks of Qianshan.
Cake is generally second only to rice dumplings during the Dragon Boat Festival. It is called "thousand-layer cake" in Qianshan. It is divided into sweet cake and salty cake, and the taste is very good. There are also vendors selling cakes on weekdays.
Buckwheat noodles are also called buckwheat clips. The preparation is similar to dumplings, except that buckwheat flour is used. Buckwheat is quite enjoyable when boiled.
The sesame cakes in Qianshan are different from those in other places. They taste very, very good. Daijialong's sesame cakes were once popular throughout the county, attracting people from surrounding urban and rural areas to come and taste them.
Mochi steamed glutinous rice: Put the steamed glutinous rice in a large stone mortar and pound it repeatedly with a special mallet into a shape, then squeeze it with your hands, knead it into small balls, and dip it in sesame seeds, sugar, and other ingredients. Made from minced beans, it is fragrant, glutinous and delicious, and is very popular among the public. In the past, breakfast was only served during festivals or major weddings. The more luxurious way to eat it is to wrap it in the fried dough sticks. The more enjoyable way to eat it is to eat a few mochi buns and then take a nice sip of hot tea like the person in the picture.
Dengzhanqian: the most unique snack loved by Qianshan people. The rice milk is heated and stirred into a dough, and Qingpeng juice (a kind of field vegetable) is added to the rice milk to dye the dough green, which is called Qingpengtan. Then shape it into a lamp shape (an instrument used to light oil lamps in the old days) with your hands, add bean sprouts, shredded radish, water bamboo shoots, cuttlefish, fresh mushrooms, etc. as fillings, steam them, and then pour hot oil on them.
Qianshan Hot Noodles: the most representative Qianshan snack. Everyone who has been to Qianshan has eaten it, and they will never forget it after eating it. In fact, there is nothing special about Qianshan Hot Noodles, that is, the vermicelli tastes better. The noodle soup is a bone soup that has been simmered on low heat the night before. Together with some side dishes, Qianshan Hot Noodles is indeed famous in Jiangxi. Nowadays, pork liver powder, small intestine powder and so on are derived.
Fried cake: It is a kind of fried snack. Flour is used as the skin, and minced meat and pickled vegetables are used as the filling. Crispy and delicious.
Dongtang: Sesame seeds and white sugar are crushed and pressed into small pieces, wrapped in red or green paper. Because it is rich in fat, oil stains are often visible on the wrapping paper. In that era of material poverty, this was a high-end pastry that ordinary people could not afford.
Frozen rice: divided into two types: rice and glutinous rice. It is a must-have pastry for every family during the Spring Festival. Add sugar syrup made from white sugar and glutinous rice sugar to the popcorn, stir well to combine, place in a mold and press into large cubes, then cut into thin slices. People who pay attention to it will make frozen rice balls fried from glutinous rice, add sesame seeds, peanuts, orange peels, osmanthus, etc., and then decorate them with red and green glutinous rice noodles to make them taste better.
Sweet potato chips: Steam the sweet potatoes, cut them into thin slices and dry them in the sun. Either fried in sand or deep-fried. It is the most common and affordable food during the Spring Festival in the old days.
Hibiscus cake: The method is similar to frozen rice, but without popcorn. Sweet, waxy and oily.
馃片: The outer layer of the rice cake is dyed red, cut into thin slices, sun-dried, stir-fried with sand, or deep-fried, crispy!
Huisu: Qianshan special Mid-Autumn Festival cake. Combine flour, sugar, sesame and sweet-scented osmanthus into cake filling, then combine flour, sugar and sesame oil into cake crust. Wrap the filling into the pie crust, press it into shape, and bake it in the oven.
Liumayue: It is also Qianshan’s specialty Mid-Autumn mooncake. Shaped like Shaobing. It is baked with white sugar and flour as the skin and white sugar and sesame seeds as the filling.
Glutinous rice candy: made from glutinous rice and malt.
The practice is similar to the sugar pulling seen in tourist attractions such as Wuzhen and Xitang. A must-have during the Spring Festival. The only drawback is that it sticks to your teeth!
Pai Pancake: The most economical and affordable pastry, and it also lasts for a long time.
Setan: Also called Tanzi. Flour is fried into shape and dipped in crushed sugar. Crispy and a little chewy.
Sesame cake: commonly known as sesame cake. The method is similar to frozen rice candy, but uses sesame as the main ingredient. Before the 1990s, it was high-end food.