The Thirteen Unique Snacks of Old Beijing include bean flour cake, Aiwowo, candied fruit, shredded ginger, sugar ear, flour tea, prickly heat, toad spit honey, inby, sugar-roasted meat, pea yellow, fried liver and cream fried cake. Adhering to the essence of Beijing court and folk snacks for hundreds of years, it contains the unique cultural heritage of old Beijing and is loved by celebrities and citizens in Beijing. It is a symbol of Beijing's unique food culture. However, with the development of the times, the impact of western culture, and the unique defects in quality, appearance and packaging of products, this unique Beijing culture has quietly faded out of people's lives.

snowballing usury, also known as bean flour cake, is one of the ancient varieties of Beijing snacks. Its raw material is steamed with yellow wheat water, and the dough is slightly softened with more water. In addition, the soybeans are fried and rolled into flour. When making, the steamed yellow rice flour is covered with soybean flour and rolled into pieces, then coated with red bean paste (brown sugar can also be used), rolled up, cut into small pieces of about 1 grams, and sprinkled with white sugar. When making, the stuffing is required to be rolled evenly, with distinct layers and yellow appearance, which is characterized by fragrance, sweetness, stickiness and strong flavor of soybean powder.

aiwowo, a traditional snack in Beijing, is served in snack bars in Beijing around the Lunar New Year every year and sold until late summer and early autumn. Therefore, Aiwowo is also a spring and autumn variety, which is available all year round.

Candied fruit is a famous snack with Beijing flavor, which is favored by Chinese and foreign eaters, especially female diners. The main ingredients of the candied fruit are yam and jujube, with auxiliary materials such as plum, peach kernel and melon kernel. Fresh yam is nutritious and contains protein, refined fiber and vitamins, which is a traditional Chinese medicine. Chinese medicine believes that yam is warm, sweet and non-toxic. It enters the spleen, lung and kidney meridians, and has the functions of invigorating the middle energizer, invigorating the spleen and stomach, growing muscles, stopping diarrhea and strengthening the spleen. Functions of consolidating essence and benefiting lung.

a seasonal delicacy in Beijing in spring and summer. Originally a folk snack, it was introduced into the court. The pea yellow of the Qing Palace is made of fine white peas, and the finished product is light yellow, delicate and pure, which melts in the mouth, tastes sweet, cool and refreshing. Famous for Cixi's love of food. Its preparation method is that peas are ground, peeled, washed, boiled, fried in sugar, coagulated and cut into pieces. Traditionally, it is also embedded with jujube meat. Fangshan restaurant is the most famous one.

also known as honey twist. Honey twist is a famous product in Beijing snacks, also known as sugar ear, because it is named after being shaped like a human ear. There is a poem by predecessors: "Ears can be eaten? Often with his partner honey twist, Lao Sheng asked who was good and pointed to a second bus ahead.

Tanghuoshao is one of the breakfast snacks that Beijingers often eat. It has a history of more than 3 years, and Dashunzhai's Tanghuoshao is the most famous. Sugar fire is fragrant and sweet, soft and non-sticky, suitable for the elderly. Kiln-oven sesame seed cake was originally a snack in Hebei province, and later it was introduced to Beijing and became a snack in Beijing. It is characterized by making a furnace out of a cylinder, and baking the biscuit green body directly on the cylinder wall.

noodle tea is usually sold in the afternoon among Beijing snacks. There is a poem that says: "When you wake up in the afternoon, you must always add dried ginger and sesame sauce." Drinking noodles is very particular about how to eat. When eating, you don't need chopsticks, spoons and other tableware, but you can drink the bowl in circles along the bowl with one hand. I am afraid that non-old Beijingers can't eat this way.

As a famous cultural city with a long history, Beijing has a variety of traditional snacks. Please remember to taste the following delicious foods when you come to Beijing!

Zhajiang Noodles in old Beijing

Zhajiang Noodles in old Beijing has long been a well-known Chinese pasta. Cooking noodles first, then adding fried sauce and vegetable code is a healthy and delicious traditional food in old Beijing, which is suitable for all ages.

Beijing Roast Duck

The old Beijing Roast Duck has long been a world-famous Beijing delicacy. Because of its exquisite materials, it is roasted with high-quality Beijing Duck and fruit charcoal, so its color is attractive, its meat is plump and tender, so it is world-famous and has become a must-eat food for friends who come to Beijing. It was once a palace food.

tripe tripe

tripe tripe tripe is a famous traditional food with Beijing flavor, which can be divided into two types: beef tripe tripe and sheep tripe tripe tripe. It's easy to eat. Cut the clean tripe or tripe into strips, fry it with boiling water, and dip it in the prepared small ingredients. It's tender and juicy, and its lips and teeth are fragrant. In Beijing, there is also a saying that "if you want to eat autumn, you will have an upset stomach".

snowballing usury

The raw materials of snowballing usury are relatively complicated, and the production is divided into three processes. The finished product is made of yellow, white and red, with distinct colors. The cakes made are soft and full of flavor, which is a traditional Beijing-style food suitable for all ages.

Braised pork

Braised pork originated from Nanheng Street in the south of Beijing. It is cooked with stewed pork intestines and lungs, and then fried tofu, secret gravy and various accessories are added. At first, the materials were relatively expensive, which ordinary families could not afford. After improvement and the spread of folk cooking experts, the traditional food with old Beijing characteristics was cooked and burned.

fried liver in Beijing

fried liver is a famous traditional food in old Beijing, which is based on the "white soup chop suey" and has become a must-have meal for old Beijingers in the morning.

fried enema

fried enema is a Beijing-flavored delicacy unique to old Beijing. At first, starch and meat were poured into the pig's large intestine. Later, for health reasons, the production process was changed and starch sausage was made directly from starch. When frying, cut the enema into pieces first, then fry until both sides are crisp, take it out and pour it with salted garlic juice, and eat it while it is hot and full of happiness.

inby, a snack in Beijing, is loved by men, women and children. Its crispy and oily taste really makes people unable to eat enough. Beijingers eat baked wheat cakes, often like to eat inby, and they must eat inby when drinking bean juice. Inby is an ancient food, and it is troublesome to make it. Because of the low labor efficiency, general restaurants are unwilling to make it, so it is often blocked for a while.

prickly heat twist is a fine product in Beijing Muslim snacks, which is very popular with the people, and its production is more troublesome.

Cream fried cake is a nutritious snack variety in Beijing snacks. It uses good flour as raw material, first burns a proper amount of boiling water, then turns to low fire, pours the flour into the pot, and quickly stirs it until the dough turns from white to gray, and when it doesn't stick to hands, takes it out and dries it into instant noodles. Dissolve the white sugar and vanilla powder with water, stir the appropriate amount of egg liquid in a bowl, add it into the instant noodle several times, and add the cream, sugar water and vanilla powder for the last time, and knead evenly.

Toad-stuffed sesame seed cake, also known as bean paste, is a common variety in Beijing snacks. It is named because it is filled with bean paste. In the baking process, because there is a natural opening on the side of the sesame seed cake, the bean paste is spit out and hung on the side of the sesame seed cake, so people vividly call this kind of sesame seed cake Toad-spit honey.

The shredded ginger chops, as the name suggests, are made of fresh ginger, so they have obvious fresh ginger flavor when eaten.

As an important part of traditional breakfast in Beijing, fried liver has been around for more than a hundred years. Fried liver was invented by Huixianju, which was opened in the first year of Tongzhi in Qing Dynasty (AD 1862). On the basis of the original "white soup chop suey", the heart and lungs were removed and thickened, thus forming fried liver that has been passed down to this day. In 193, another old fried liver shop, Tianxingju, opened opposite Huixianju. Because the materials were more refined and the original mushroom soup was replaced by monosodium glutamate and soy sauce, the business gradually overshadowed Huixianju. In 1956, the two stores merged, leaving only Tianxingju's signboard. cite