Huguosi snack is one of the representatives of local snacks, which is famous for its rich varieties, outstanding features and profound historical and cultural heritage. Huguo Temple Muslim Beijing snacks are mainly the classic varieties of temple fairs. There are all kinds of fine stuffing dumplings, Muslim dumplings, Aiwowo, bean flour cakes, sesame rice cakes, fruit rice cakes, pea yellow, etc. The fried goods are honey twist, Kaixiao, crispy, inby, and the liquid foods are bean juice, noodles tea, adzuki bean porridge, chop suey soup, fresh soybean milk, almond tofu, lotus seed porridge, etc. Snacks are cooked in various ways, such as steaming, frying, frying, branding, exploding, roasting, rinsing, punching, frying, stewing and boiling. The production of Muslim Beijing snacks in Huguo Temple is mainly by hand.

Speaking of Huguosi snack bar, we have to start with Huguosi Temple Fair in old Beijing. According to some data, the Huguo Temple in Xicheng District was built in the Yuan Dynasty. It was originally called Chongguo Temple. The earliest was the old home of Tuoketuo, the prime minister of Yuan Dynasty, called Chongkuo Temple, which was built between Yuan Dynasty and the first year (1264-1295). It was renamed Dalongshan Temple in the fourth year of Xuande in Ming Dynasty (1429) and was given the name Dalongshan Temple to protect the country in the eighth year of Chenghua in Ming Dynasty (1472). It is the old residence of the Prime Minister of the Yuan Dynasty, Togtoh. Because the temple is located in the west city, the old Beijingers also call it the "West Temple".

The Survey of Temple Fairs in Beiping records that temple fairs in the old days were opened in combination with religious festivals of Buddhism and Taoism. There were many temples in early Beijing, and it is said that there were more than 8 temples both inside and outside the city. In the past, some temple fairs offered incense to worship the gods, some borrowed Buddha for spring outing, and some held market transactions. Among them, the temple fair in the center of the market is the most lively. Longfu Temple in Dongcheng and Huguo Temple in Xicheng are also called "east temple" and "West Temple".

Huguo Temple is a temple fair every July and August. There are many kinds of stalls at the temple fair, such as silks and satins, clothing, porcelain, antique calligraphy and painting, fans, cookers, medicines, food, flowers and trees, divination, busking, juggling and so on. There are many stalls, and there are naturally many goods. Because there was a saying in Beijing in the Qing Dynasty that "the east is rich and the west is expensive", most of the flag-bearer houses were in Xicheng. And "noble people" "daily needs are given to temple fairs". According to the memories of the older generation, the most attractive thing about the temple fair of Huguo Temple is the snack floating stall around the world. People who visit temple fairs, burn incense, shop and play are tired and hungry. Naturally, they will look for shouts, stand around or squat, and "make up for it" on the inner and outer floors. In those days, these temple fair snacks were exquisite and varied, adding a lot of color to the temple fair.

in 1956, the government organized more than a dozen vendors who were famous in the temple fair of Huguo Temple, and opened the Muslim snack bar of Huguo Temple at No.93, which is adjacent to Huguo Temple. Only then did Huguo Temple snacks begin to develop on a real scale. Huguo Temple is located in the north of Xisipailou in Xicheng, north of the west exit of Huguo Temple Street, and it starts from Deshengmennei Street in the east and reaches Xinjiekou South Street in the west, with a total length of more than 58 meters. It was one of the busiest neighborhoods in Beijing. Huguo Temple Muslim snacks are named after the snacks of the Western Temple Fair. The temple fair of Huguo Temple was very lively in 193s. All kinds of Beijing-style snack foods compete here and show their charm.

Face tea is one of the special varieties of Muslim snacks in Huguo Temple. It used to be sold in the afternoon. 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. Why do you want to eat this way? This is related to the taste of noodles tea. Zanzi Twist is a fine halal snack in Huguo Temple. The technological process is complicated. First, put alum, alkali, brown sugar and sweet osmanthus in a pot and melt it with warm water, then pour the flour into it and mix it evenly. After mixing, roll it up in long strips for a while, and then pull it into a small dose of 4 grams. Mix the hemp seeds with boiling water, stick the small dose on the mixed hemp seeds, and crush them into small bar codes with a length of 1 cm in a plate, with 3-4 layers of yards before baking. After cooking, pick up two small strips and crush them into two even long rope strips by hand, fold them back and forth into eight, and knead the two ends together to form a jujube pit or fan shape with two sharp ends and medium size, and fry them until cooked. When frying, the peanut oil in the pan is 5% hot. Take the dough twist, put the blank into the oil pan and swing it back and forth to shape it. When the blank is slightly stiff, fry it in the oil and fry it brown. The quality characteristics of prickly heat twist are brownish yellow in color, crisp in texture, sweet and delicious.

Bean juice is also one of the most popular varieties of Muslim snacks in Huguosi. Beijingers began to drink bean juice in the 18th year of Qing Qianlong (AD 1753). There is a saying that "Beijing bean juice is the lifeblood of the flag bearer" is not unreasonable. Bean juice was originally a drink for imperial meals in Qing Dynasty. Although it tastes different, it has the effect of health care. It can quench thirst and relieve summer heat in summer, clear heat and warm yang in winter, and drink it in four seasons, which is beneficial to appetizing, strengthening the spleen, removing toxin and removing dryness. Drinking bean juice is exquisite, and it should be accompanied by inby and shredded pickles. People say that bean juice is a special snack with "taste outside food". In order to maintain its characteristics, Huguosi snack bar has been operating continuously since 195s. Some overseas Chinese and compatriots from Hong Kong and Macao came to Huguosi snack bar to taste bean juice and feel the rich local customs of Beijing. In August, 1997, at the first "Chinese Famous Snacks" recognition activity organized by the former Ministry of Internal Trade and China Cuisine Association, the bean juice of Huguosi snacks was recognized as "Chinese Famous Snacks".

in the past 5 years, Huguosi snack bar has retained the traditional varieties of Beijing flavor of the old shop, but the appearance of the store has changed with the transformation of Beijing city, and the dining environment has changed. Moreover, the snacks sold not only maintain the flavor of old Beijing, but also need to be adjusted to meet the changing needs of modern people's tastes. Specially hired an old technician, Yang Boru, to enter the store to teach skills and change the original big, black, coarse and bad food into small and exquisite snacks. Although the environment has changed, the purpose of serving the people economically has not changed. Due to the change of dining environment, snacks are of high quality and varied, attracting a large number of Chinese and foreign diners.

in 21, Huguosi snack bar was further renovated, which not only highlighted the characteristics of old Beijing style, but also allowed customers to enjoy the old Beijing style while tasting old Beijing snacks. The roof of the store was decorated with green tile eaves, the walls were hung with picture frames of the temple fair of Huguo Temple, and the four pillars of the house were hung with snacks and famous figures, and a plastic exhibition frame of the old Beijing noodle Zhang was specially set up.

Huatian Catering Group has also given special policies to its snack bars, including paying for the unified decoration and logo of the snack bar frontispiece and environment, and constantly excavating and improving the traditional varieties: pea yellow is over-weighed and finely added, snowballing and adding layers, screw turning, Grace horse and toad spitting honey, and the standard procedures are accurate and accurate. Snacks pay attention to seasonality, so the yellow peas and aiwowo in spring, the "ice bowl" in summer to pick cakes and leak fish, the beef tendon and crispy dough twists in autumn, and the pot cakes, bowl cakes, fruit rice cakes and Yuanxiao in winter should all enter the market in season. At the same time, according to the change of customers' tastes, snacks are also in fashion. There are all kinds of dry, thin, sweet and salty meat and vegetables such as glutinous rice cakes with butter mouth, assorted fried bumps, shredded spicy chicken noodles, ox-eye buns, cream fried cakes, pork chops with ginger sauce, mandarin duck cakes, butterfly rolls, beef biscuits and orchid lamps. After excavation, introduction and innovation, the variety of snacks in Huguo Temple has reached 1, which can be described as dazzling and colorful.

In the 13th Spring Festival to Riverside Beijing Folk Exhibition held in Singapore in 1999, more than a dozen kinds of classic snacks from Huguosi were displayed, and the eyes of Singaporeans were "lit up". The top news of the day's radio and TV stations: Beijing snacks are wonderful! Exquisite snacks were not only praised by Singaporeans, but also Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong of Singapore immediately ordered 1 snowballs to be sent to the state banquet after attending the event, and exquisite snacks have been on the "elegant hall". In November, 24, the snack department of Huguosi sent chefs to Macao to participate in the "Macao Fourth Food Festival". The exquisite snack skills and delicious Beijing snacks were widely loved and praised by Macao citizens. In the following years, Huguosi snacks gradually became famous. Whenever Beijing holds large international and political activities, Huatian Huguo Temple is specially invited to serve snacks.

In order to further display the snack culture, so that Chinese and foreign guests can taste the flavor characteristics of snacks and appreciate the old Beijing style, Huguosi Snack Bar, a time-honored Chinese snack shop, has been carefully developed and innovated on the basis of inheriting the traditional Beijing snacks, and created a "snack banquet" with its exquisite snack making skills and meticulous banquet design ideas. "Snack Banquet" is famous for its rich variety and unique banquet style. During the dinner, snacks such as Aiwowo, snowballing, pea yellow, elephant nose cake, etc., with fine materials, beautiful shapes and diverse techniques, are all steamed, fried, boiled and branded, or soft or crisp, or salty or sweet, and have inherited the essence of Beijing court and folk snacks for hundreds of years. At the same time, the "Snack Banquet" pays attention to the collocation of meat and vegetables and reasonable nutrition, and selects banquet dishes with muslim food characteristics, such as "Fried Dan", "Braised oxtail" and "Tasty Honey". The whole set of banquets is full of Beijing local flavor and rich cultural heritage. It was awarded the title of "Beijing Fine Banquet", loved by celebrities and citizens in Beijing, and became a wonderful flower in the catering industry in Beijing.