The most popular Beijing specialties for tourists are: Liubiju pickles, cloisonne, Beijing roast duck, Ruifuxiang cloth products, Erguotou, crisp sugar, Beijing preserved fruit, carved lacquer, snacks, etc. These are all things that ordinary tourists must buy when they come.
1. Liubiju pickles: Liubiju pickles garden started in the 9th year of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty (AD 153) and has a history of 483 years. It is one of the oldest and most prestigious time-honored brands in Beijing, mainly engaged in pickles. Liubiju has twelve kinds of traditional products, which are: thin yellow sauce, spread soy sauce, sweet pickled radish, sweet pickled cucumber, sweet pickled snail, sweet pickled black vegetable, sweet pickled melon, sweet pickled ginger bud, sweet pickled eight treasures, sweet pickled assorted parsley, sweet pickled melon, white sugar garlic and so on. These products are bright in color, rich in sauce flavor, crisp, tender and fragrant, and moderately salty and sweet.
2. Pastry in Daoxiang Village: Daoxiang Village in Beijing was founded in 1895 (the 21st year of Guangxu reign of Qing Dynasty), with a history of 118 years, and it is the first one in Beijing to produce and operate Nanwei food. Food in Daoxiang Village in Beijing pays attention to "four seasons and three festivals", selling zongzi in Dragon Boat Festival, moon cakes in Mid-Autumn Festival, rice cakes in Spring Festival and Yuanxiao in Shangyuan. During the Spring Festival, in addition to rice cakes, Beijingers usually bring eight boxes of cakes when visiting relatives to celebrate the New Year.
3. Old Beijing Pea Yellow: Huang Chengcheng Pea Yellow is an ideal food for mixing tea, which always has the power to calm you down and feel the charm of old Beijing specialties. When the peas are cooked into sand, the bean fragrance is fresh and delicate, and the plasticity is rich. When the cakes are freshly baked, they will give off a natural fragrance. When eaten in the mouth, they will be conquered by the freshness and delicacy of pea yellow, and the rustling taste and tongue will meet to produce wonderful food music.