Top Ten Snacks in Songyang 1. Songyang Pancakes: Eating pancakes during the Dragon Boat Festival is one of the traditional food customs in Songyang.

Songyang's pancakes are famous for their thin skin and fine fillings. During the Dragon Boat Festival, people often shred and cut fungus, mushrooms, daylily, bamboo shoots, bean sprouts, cucumbers, equinox beans, dried tofu, fried eggs, pork, snail heads, etc.

The cubes are stir-fried and cooked to serve as a filling, then baked into a thin round crust with flour and water, filled with various vegetable fillings, and rolled into a bamboo tube shape as food.

Pancakes can now be made all year round and are one of the most local snacks in Songyang.

2. Huang rice cake: Huang rice cake is made by burning a unique shrub in the Songyang Mountains into ashes, draining the juice, and soaking the high-quality stem rice until it turns beige and orange. Rinse and steam it, then pound it into a ball in a stone mortar.

Then cut it into small pieces, and while it's hot, knead it into flat rounds or long strips.

The yellow rice cake is crystal clear in color, has a pleasant fragrance, is soft and delicious.

Stir-fried with shredded pork, green vegetables, winter bamboo shoots, etc., it has the best color and taste. It is a delicacy for traditional folk festivals in Songyang or for entertaining distinguished guests.

3. Qingming fruit: According to Songyang folk custom, eating green fruit during Qingming can drive away evil spirits and avoid poison.

The fruit is pounded into a paste with fresh basil, mixed with rice flour and evenly made into a skin, then stuffed with shredded bamboo shoots, vermicelli, tofu, pickles and other fillings, or sweetened with adzuki beans, sesame seeds and other sweet fillings, and shaped into an oval fruit or dumpling shape, with both sides

Paste Ruo leaves or grapefruit leaves and steam them in a pot.

Its color is emerald green, its taste is fresh and fragrant with artemisia, and it has a unique flavor when eaten.

4. Wheat beans and rice: After the Qingming Festival, local wheat beans in Songyang are on the market one after another.

Farmers will select fresh wheat beans and high-quality glutinous rice, add Songyang bamboo leaf smoked ham hearts or chopped bacon into diced meat, add salt, MSG and other seasonings, stir-fry in a pot until the flavor is strong, then add water and simmer until cooked.

The stewed wheat bean rice has the fragrance of wheat beans and the bacon aroma of ham. It is green, red and white in color and has excellent flavor and mouth-watering taste. It is a delicacy for farmers to entertain guests.

5. Black rice to extend life: On the eighth day of the fourth lunar month, people in Songyang have a local custom of eating black rice.

It is said that Ye Fashan invented a Taoist health food called "Qingjing Rice". Eating it for a long time can prolong your life and make you look radiant.

Black rice is made by taking the leaves of a black rice tree, draining the juice and soaking the rice. After the glutinous rice is dyed black, it is cooked and then mixed with sugar, bacon, red dates, mushrooms and other condiments, and stir-fried in an oil pan.

Black rice is black in color, crystal clear and plump in grains, rich in nutrients and has a unique flavor.

6. Ash juice cake: Folks in Songyang have the custom of making gray juice thousand-layer cake during the Double Ninth Festival.

Make a paste of indica rice flour with ash alkaline water or luffa leaf juice and steam it. Use a steamer to cook it in a thin layer and pour it layer by layer until the cage is full. After the layers are cooked, they can be peeled off.

Take the slogan "Pepsi is auspicious and you will grow taller every year".

Thousand-feuille cake with gray sauce can be paired with other condiments, fried or boiled in soup.

7. Eight-treasure lamp dish: Pour a little of the diluted batter into the predetermined round iron mold spoon, then put the attached eight-treasure dish ingredients such as shredded carrots and pickles, and then add the batter.

Fry in the oil pan until brown, take it out and it will become an eight-treasure lamp dish.

This kind of snack is often seen on the streets of Songyang. Passers-by are so greedy that they can buy it wherever they see it and eat it while it is hot. It has a unique flavor.

In the Jingju area of ??Songyang, there is also the custom of making fresh food to entertain guests.

8. Songyang Shalei: Shalei on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

During the Songyang Folk Lantern Festival, what is eaten during the Songyang Folk Lantern Festival is not Yuanxiao, but Shalei.

Use white glutinous rice, soak it in water for three days and then grind it into a slurry. Put it in a cloth bag and hang it up. Drain it until it is not dry and sticky, then use it to make glutinous rice balls.

After the glutinous rice dumplings without filling are cooked, use a claw to pick them up from the pot, pour them into a tray with beaten sugar and cooked sesame seeds, and roll them three times to coat them with a layer of sesame seeds. It is named Sha Lei.

, soft and glutinous, sweet, smooth but not greasy when eaten, unique.

9. Songyang Sugar Cake: Folks in Songyang have the custom of making sugar cake during the Chinese New Year.

Mix the best glutinous rice flour with brown sugar and water, then sprinkle the brown sugar, osmanthus, sesame seeds, etc. into the rice flour, stir evenly, and steam it in a steamer covered with Ruo leaves.

The finished sugar cake is dark red in color, sweet and delicious. Some people put paste made of fresh mugwort leaves into the rice noodles, and the resulting cake is green in color, also known as green cake.

10. Immortal Grass Tofu: It is said that when Ye Fashan was refining elixirs and cultivating immortality in Maoshan Mountain in Songyang, he often collected a kind of wild grass and cooked it with rice pulp in summer. People named the wild grass that Ye Fashan often consumed "fairy grass".

Use fresh grass jelly in a pot and boil it into a soup. After removing the residue, add it to the rice milk and cook while stirring until it becomes green rice paste. After cooling and solidifying, it becomes jelly grass tofu.

When eating, use a knife to cut it into cubes the size of tofu, add sugar powder, mint and other seasonings. The taste is soft and fragrant. After eating, the whole body will be cool and the heat will disappear. It is a popular refreshing snack in Songyang in summer and autumn.