Regarding the food in Wuxi, I have just introduced it. Now I want to introduce to you the pastries in Wuxi. I don’t know which one you like, but for me, as long as it is sweet, it is

It is good.

Green glutinous rice dumplings are green glutinous rice flour dumplings. In ancient times, they were a popular food during the Qingming Festival in Wuxi with sacrificial functions. Now they are especially suitable as snacks for spring outings.

Usually, wheat straw juice or mugwort juice is mixed into glutinous rice flour, and then wrapped into fillings. Most of them are bean paste fillings, but there are also sesame fillings or lotus paste fillings.

After steaming, the green and soft skin is green and oily green, fragrant and soft, sweet and delicate, with a light but long grass aroma.

Nowadays, green dumplings made in stores are also made with other green leafy vegetable juices and glutinous rice flour, and then filled with bean paste.

It is quite popular in Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

Wuxi’s Mu Guiying Xiaoqingtuan: Plum Blossom Cake Plum blossom cake is the most famous traditional snack in Wuxi. It is easy to fall in love with its brightly colored and beautiful appearance at first sight.

Legend has it that when Emperor Qianlong went to the south of the Yangtze River, he saw the cake was shaped like a plum blossom and had an attractive color. He tasted it and found that the cake was sweet but not greasy, moderately soft and crispy, and had an endless aftertaste. He named it plum blossom cake, and it has been passed down to this day.

Plum blossom cake is made of fine flour, baking powder and water, mixed into a slurry, poured into a plum blossom mold, filled with various fillings such as bean paste, fresh meat, vegetable lard, roses, etc., then filled with batter, sprinkled with white sugar, red and green melons

_, cover it with a hot iron plate and bake until cooked. It is soft and delicious, suitable for all ages.

"A Bite of China" recommends that the most delicious shop for making plum blossom cakes is a small couple on Xinsheng Road near Nanzen Temple.

The flavors of plum blossom cakes include meat, bean paste, lard, and sesame. They are affordable and I personally prefer plum blossom cakes stuffed with meat.

Begonia cake is another beautiful traditional snack in Wuxi. It was created in the Qing Dynasty and got its name because the shape of the cake resembles a crabapple flower.

People in Wuxi eat more plum blossom cakes, but crabapple cakes are also a delicacy not to be missed.

Brush a little oil on a special mold, pour batter into the bean paste, fresh meat, vegetable lard filling, then cover with batter, add diced sugar lard and red and green melon seeds, melon seeds, etc.

Cover with an iron plate sprinkled with sugar and place on the stove until cooked.

Begonia cake is sweet and delicious, best eaten while hot.

This delicacy is sold in Canghe North Street, Dangkou Ancient Town.

Magnolia Cake Magnolia Cake was created by Wuxi Sunji Cake Shop in 1850, so it is an authentic traditional Wuxi snack.

Magnolia cake is named after the magnolia flower blooming season.

Yulan pancake is stuffed with vegetable lard, bean paste, fresh meat, rose sesame and other fillings, and is mixed into glutinous rice flour dough and fried in a pan. It is golden brown, crispy on the outside, soft and waxy on the inside, sweet and salty, and fragrant.

Tempting.

It is often eaten with soy milk for breakfast in the Jiangnan area.

The magnolia cakes at Sanfengqiao Living Room and Maohua Store on Qingyang Road are the best in Wuxi! Fresh meat magnolia cakes: The other following are old Wuxi pastries recommended on the Internet. Although they are not completely unique to Wuxi, they are all southern specialties.

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You can find stores in Wuxi, so I won’t introduce them one by one here. You can choose to taste them based on your personal taste.

Peach cake (Xifuyuan): Osmanthus cake: Trifle cake: Coconut cake: Mochi: Crab shell yellow sesame cake: In traditional Chinese cuisine, delicious pastries have always been an important Chinese snack, and they are even considered royal in various costume dramas.

and the dessert patents of the aristocrats. I still remember that the little Guizi in "The Deer and the Cauldron" loved to eat osmanthus cake, and the Chungui people in "The Legend of Zhen_" loved pastries so much. I was so greedy every time that I couldn't help but rummage through the cabinets to find something to eat.

It is a royal enjoyment to turn out a delicious pastry at this time.

With the improvement of living standards, various Western-style pastry shops have flooded into the domestic market. Instead, we have slowly forgotten our own traditional Chinese pastries, and we can’t even name the various colorful pastries.

While answering such questions, I discovered that Chinese pastries actually have more diverse types, and in a sense are healthier than Western-style cream cakes.