Specialties: Jiashan rice wine, steamed pork with rice flour, Bazhen cake, Gorgon cake, "June red" river crab, malt pancake, smoked green beans, kohlrabi, old duck pot with wontons.

Snacks: Gorgon cake, maltose, mung bean soup, tofu cakes, large and small wontons, smoked green beans, pork chops, rice dumplings, orange cake, stinky tofu, fresh meat shaomai, molded dried vegetable roasted pork, salt and pepper pumpkin, wonton duck stew

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1. Malt pancake is a characteristic seasonal snack that has been customary for thousands of years in Xitang.

Malt pancake is made from glutinous rice flour, black sesame, adzuki beans, walnut kernels, white sugar, Chinese herbal medicine Pleurotus sibirica and malt, and is refined using traditional techniques.

The taste is soft, non-sticky and non-mushy, and the rich fragrance of Buddha's ear can tempt the appetite. It can digest food, reduce fat and prolong life. It is a good gift for friends and respecting the elderly.

2. Gorgon fruit cake Gorgon fruit cake: It is an aquatic waterlily plant that has the effect of strengthening the spleen and stomach. The specialty of Xitang Gorgon fruit cake is to crush the Gorgon fruit and add glutinous rice flour to make a cake. Xitang Pingantang Cake Shop makes Gorgon fruit cake into various flavors, and the taste

It is unique, with the addition of walnuts, sesame, and mint. What is different from others is that pollen and honey are added to the gorgon cake to make the gorgon cake taste softer and waxier. The sweet-scented osmanthus flavor and pollen-honey flavor are the glutinous and tastiest.

Most of Xitang Gorgon Cake can be tasted before buying. Gorgon Cake has the effect of strengthening the spleen, stomach and kidneys. It has the same source of medicine and food, and is suitable for all ages.

3. Orange red cake: Orange juice and glutinous rice flour are made into small pieces, like small glutinous rice balls with a little orange in the middle.

4. Steamed pork with lotus leaves and rice flour is a traditional dish of the ancient town, with five flavors and a hundred flavors.

It is made from appropriate pork ribs, fried five-spice rice noodles, tofu raisins and fresh lotus leaves, and seasoned with cloves, star anise, soy sauce, sweet noodle sauce and other seasonings. This dish has a unique flavor, the meat is crispy and glutinous, the fragrance is not greasy, and it can be eaten

Wine can also be used as a snack, and the pharmacological effects of lotus leaves in relieving summer heat, clearing away heat, dispersing blood stasis and stopping bleeding are fully exerted.

5. Xitang's No. 1 Noodles are a snack that can be used to change the taste. Therefore, when making noodles, special attention is paid to the matching of auxiliary ingredients. Many things are often added, such as tripe slices, shredded eel, beef, etc. There are many fabrics to prepare.

Full of flavor and rich in nutrients.

Xitang people are famous for being particular about making noodles.

To make noodles, two pots are used to cook the noodles at the same time. One pot is used to cook the noodles, and the other is used to stir-fry the auxiliary ingredients. The auxiliary ingredients commonly used by Xitang people are tripe slices, eel shreds, homemade fried fish, etc.

Put the cooked noodles into another pot, add water to the tripe slices, eel shreds, etc. and cook for 2-3 minutes.

After the noodles come out of the pot, the soup is fresh, thick and delicious, and the noodles have somersaults.

6. Jiashan Yellow Wine Xitang people have always loved drinking some rice wine. Therefore, there have been many large and small rice wine workshops in Xitang history.

Today, the largest single rice wine production enterprise in the country, Jiashan Winery, is located in the north of Xitang Town. The factory strictly controls quality and produces more than 20 varieties of Fenhu series such as Huadiao, Shanniang, and rice wine, which are mild in nature.

, mellow wine flavor and unique taste.

7. Bazhen Cake Bazhen Cake is made from eight kinds of herbs such as yam, poria, gorgon seeds, rice kernels, wheat teeth, lentils, lotus meat, hawthorn, etc., with high-quality glutinous rice flour and white sugar.

This cake is green, black and crispy. It first became popular because it can eliminate malnutrition in children. Later, it became a famous snack in Jiangnan due to its exquisite selection of ingredients, fine processing, sweet taste and benefit to the spleen and stomach.

8. "June Red" river crab "June Red" refers to the river crab produced in the summer of June on the lunar calendar.

The "June Red" crab body is only as big as an egg. The crab meat is fresh and tender, the crab fat is dripping with oil, and the shell is thin. It turns crimson when steamed in water, hence the name.

There is also a popular saying in Hangzhou, Jiaxing and Huzhou that "no matter how poor you are, never forget the red in June", which is a compliment to the "red in June" river crab.

9. Wonton and Duck Stew is a local dish from Xitang. It is said that it was invented by the kiln workers here. Due to the long working hours and high labor intensity, the kiln workers solved it on the spot and stewed it in the kiln.

But the old duck was not full of duck meat alone, so some kiln workers added wontons to the pot, which not only satisfied their hunger, but also supplemented their nutrition. Killing two birds with one stone, the wonton old duck pot spread among the kiln workers.

Later, this dish also appeared on the dining tables of people in Xitang.

10. Steamed White Silk Fish Xitang, the "Land of Fish and Rice", is particularly rich in aquatic resources. Fish ponds are dotted among the streets, and the most famous one is Fen Lake.

The white silk fish grown in it has delicious meat and rich nutrition, and it occupies a place in Xitang's delicious recipes.