Gorgon cakes from Jiangnan, pancakes from Shandong, twists from Tianjin, and Poria cakes from Beijing.

If you have been to Xitang, you will easily find this kind of pastry. Southerners seem to like these soft pastries, such as osmanthus cake, Gorgon cake, crispy candy and so on. They all fall apart with one bite and are very delicious.

Gorgon cake is a pastry made with Gorgon fruit and glutinous rice flour as the main raw materials. It can not only satisfy hunger, but also regulate the spleen and stomach and treat indigestion.

By the way, let’s popularize glutinous rice cake: Everyone knows about glutinous rice.

Gorgon fruit is the dried and mature seeds of Nymphaeaceae plant Gorgon, similar to lotus seeds.