What are the specialties of Shijiazhuang? What are the specialties of Shijiazhuang?

1. Snow pear

Snow pear, also known as ivory pear and Zhaozhou pear, is one of the famous local products in Hebei Province and is mainly distributed in the central and southern parts of Hebei Province. Zhao County is a famous concentrated production area, so it is called Zhaozhou Snow Pear. As early as humble times, local products were offered as tribute to the imperial court. It has been cultivated for more than 2,000 years. Sydney is also a traditional bulk export fruit in Hebei Province and has a long-standing reputation at home and abroad.

2. Golden Phoenix Braised Chicken

Golden Phoenix Braised Chicken is a special delicacy in Shijiazhuang with a long history, which first started in 1908. It uses a unique production process, using honey to color and fry the chicken, and cooking it with the secret recipe of traditional Chinese medicine. It has certain pharmacological effects and health care effects.

3. Zanhuang jujube

Produced in Zanhuang, Hebei Province. The fruit is round in shape, with the top slightly recessed into the skin, brown, beautiful in appearance, white, bright, purple, thick flesh, thin skin, and sweet oil. When it dries and breaks, the honey silk, which is more than a foot long, will remain new for a long time. Fresh dates are sweet and crispy, while dried dates are sweet and delicious, with a sugar content of 62%-70%. Each hundred grams of fresh dates contains 300-600 mg of vitamins, which is 140 times more than pears of the same weight and 69 times more than apples.

4. Longxing tribute rice

Longxing tribute rice is named after a kind of millet produced in Longxingzhuang, Beihe Township, Tang Dynasty, which was personally sealed by Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty. Longxing tribute rice porridge is sweet and delicious, with good color, aroma and taste. The five kilometers surrounding Longzhuang Village are hilly areas, and the red soil rich in various organic fertilizers provides unique natural conditions for growing millet. Longxing tribute rice contains 18 kinds of amino acids, among which glutamic acid, alanine, leucine, and vitamin B are rich in content and reasonably distributed, which are very beneficial to human health.

5. Xinji wolfberry

Ji wolfberry is native to Zhongwei County, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. It has a history of more than 40 years and is one of the concentrated wolfberry production areas in the country. It is characterized by large grains, thick flesh, few seeds, sweet and soft taste, and red as blood, so it is called "blood energy". It has been identified that wolfberry fruit contains alkaloids, betaine, choline, physostigmine, carotene and other ingredients. It is a valuable nourishing and strengthening drug, which can nourish the liver and kidneys, strengthen muscles and bones, nourish the liver and nourish yin. It has the function of promoting Qi, producing essence and aphrodisiac. Lycium barbarum root bark, known as wolfberry bark in traditional Chinese medicine, also has the effect of astringing yin and antiperspirant.

6. Yali

Yali, also known as Yali, is an excellent pear variety in ancient China. Jinzhou, Hebei Province, is known as the first hometown of Yali in China and has a cultivation history of more than 2,000 years. The fruit is inverted oval shape, with a duck-head-shaped protrusion near the fruit stem, which resembles a duck's head, hence the name Yali. Because it is mainly exported at Tianjin Port, it is also called Tianjin Yali.

7. Majia Braised Chicken

Homestyle chicken, a specialty of Majia Laoji Restaurant in Zhengding County, Hebei Province, is a provincial intangible cultural heritage of Hebei Province. Majia Braised Chicken was founded in the early Qing Dynasty. In 1981, it was rated as one of the 33 high-quality products in the country together with Zhejiang Jinhua ham, Beijing Su-style barbecued pork, Nanjing salted duck and other poultry meat products.

8. Hebei black jujube

Hebei jujube produced in Xingtang, Hebei Province can be divided into milk jujube, goat milk jujube, old crow mouth jujube and candied jujube according to different scions. Milk dates, also known as seedless black dates and knotted dates, are rectangular in shape, medium in size, with thick flesh, sweet taste and few seeds. When mature, it changes from yellow to blue-black, with white powder on the outside, and is of the best quality. It has little juice and is suitable for eating raw. It can also be processed into jujube noodles, black jujube wine, black jujube vinegar, etc. The fruit is used as medicine and has the effects of quenching thirst, relieving annoyance, and clearing away heat. The kernels can be squeezed to make soap.