Tianjin's food culture is well-known at home and abroad, and many people who travel to Tianjin are rushing to eat. Tianjin is located in Bohai Bay, and the Haihe River flows through the urban area, mainly with river products and seafood. Tianjin has both elegant Tianjin cuisine and many unique snacks in Tianjin. When traveling to Tianjin, you can't miss all kinds of snacks and delicious food.

Tianjin cuisine

Tianjin people have the legacy of Yanzhao, and their food culture has also been affected. Tianjin cuisine originates from the folk, enjoys a favorable position in the geographical position, has exquisite production methods, and its taste is mainly salty. In addition, it absorbs many elements of the old imperial palace cuisine, and its style is rough and heroic with a touch of luxury. Tianjin is a place to retreat from the sea. In ancient times, there was a saying that nine rivers were at the bottom of the river, which was rich in fish, shrimp and crabs. There was a folk saying that "eat fish and scare people, and Tianjin is home". "Eight bowls", "four big steaks", four treasures in winter, etc. are the necessary dishes for banquets. The dishes are served in large bowls and large plates, and fish and meat are even more delicious. Although they are not as exquisite as southern dishes, they are full of weight and strong flavor, and they have a somewhat hearty and bold atmosphere.

Tianjin restaurant, Tianyifang, Bohai Restaurant and other flavor restaurants are good at Tianjin cuisine.

Tianjin snacks

There are many kinds of snacks in Tianjin, which are unique among the famous snacks in China. The production of Tianjin-style snacks is mainly based on flour, which can be divided into four categories: fried, fried, thin and sticky sweets. Among them, Goubuli Steamed Bun, Guifaxiang Twist and Erduoyan Fried Cake are the most famous, and they are known as the "Three Musts of Jinmen". In addition, there are various snacks such as Tianjin dried cake, pancake fruit, small fish with sticky cakes, fruit-in-the-palm, fruit with wooden sticks, stone doorsill, glutinous rice balls stuffed with fresh fruit, steamed dumplings with Enfade, Maji tea soup, etc. Walking through the streets of Tianjin, you will definitely find your favorite taste.

Tianjin Food Street

There are many street restaurants and restaurants in Tianjin, each with its own specialty. The major hotels in Tianjin have always been a collection of famous chefs, with all kinds of flavors.

The most time-saving and labor-saving way to eat in Tianjin is to go to Nanshi Food Street, which is not only a good place to taste Tianjin cuisine, but also one of the "Ten Scenes of Tianjin". There are hundreds of famous shops in the street, which are all kinds of flavors: authentic Tianjin famous dishes and snacks, as well as special dishes from major cuisines in China; There are not only the prestigious imperial meals in Gongyan, but also the peasant meals with local flavor; There are both halal dishes and vegetarian meals, as well as all kinds of western food and western food.

The characteristic food streets in Tianjin include Heping District Flavor Food Street and October Food Street. In addition, there are some time-honored brands in Tianjin, such as Guishunzhai, Xiangdezhai, Zhengxingde Tea House, Yipin Xiang Cake Shop, Siyuanxiang Cake Shop, Du Chengqi Steamed Food Shop, Enfade Mutton Steamed Bun Shop, and Qishilin Western Restaurant.

food store recommendation:

youth restaurant (Jinwan Plaza Store): RMB 66 per capita.

Address: in Jinwan Square (Binjiang Road Crossing), No.48 Jiefang North Road, Heping District

Recommended dishes: Roast duck, young people mixed vegetables, sweet and sour dishes, our own pots and pans, black pepper, cowboy bone sour soup, bass griddle, bullfrog

Bus information: take No.815, Junjie special line and get off at Bo 'ai Road; Take No.176, No.17, No.28 and get off at the central square ...

Take No.815, Junjie special line and get off at Bo 'ai Road; Take bus No.176, No.17 and No.28 and get off at the central square. Take bus 911, Huaming Convenience 6 and get off at Daguqiao. You can also walk to tianjin railway station, just next to jiefang bridge.

Guiyuan Restaurant: "authentic" Tianjin restaurant, with a per capita price of RMB 51.

Address: No.113, Chengdu Road, Heping District (near Guilin Road

Recommended dishes: black garlic, beef, chrysanthemum, eggplant, eight treasures, tofu, crispy chicken, steamed bass, mustard, cucumber and smoked fish

Tianjin cuisine collection: RMB 167 per capita

Address: Dishang, No.22 Tianwei Road, Hebei District (near Boyuan Mall, commercial street of Great Compassion Hospital)

Goubuli (flagship store on the water) Steamed buns are "classic" and exquisite in workmanship. "It's really 18 fold". The taste is also "good". Per capita ￥124.

Address: No.16, Jinlong Apartment, Shuishang North Road, Nankai District (near the main entrance of Shuishang Park)

Recommended dishes: Three Fresh Pork Bags, Traditional Pork Bags, Crab Yellow Bags, Goubuli Buns, Wild Vegetables Bags, Sauced Meat Bags, Luohan Belly and Braised Beans

Wei Dingxuan: Tianjin's "Top" Restaurant. Per capita ￥182.

Address: No.36, Gulou North Street, Chengxiang Middle Road, Nankai District (west of the north gate of Gulou)

Recommended dishes: Guanyin Tea Shrimp Siyitai Box, Lotus Leaf Crispy Bone Fish Sixi Bowl, Chilled Papaya, Black Rice Juice, Lemon Papaya, chinese forest frog

Must-eat dish

JD.COM Pie:

JD.COM Pie is a halal food. The stuffing is fresh and tender mutton, with various seasonings, and the stuffing is wrapped with mixed noodles. The surface of the finished product is golden yellow, the taste is fat but not greasy, and the fragrance is palatable.

Stone doorsill vegetarian bag:

Stone doorsill vegetarian bag is a traditional snack in Tianjin, which was invented by Zhensuyuan restaurant next to Tianhou Palace in the late Qing Dynasty. The stuffing is exquisite and meticulous, with fungus, cauliflower, bean skin, dried mushrooms, gluten, bean curd, fermented bean curd, sesame sauce and sesame oil as fillings. Each steamed bun is kneaded into 21 folds and steamed over high fire for ten times. It is characterized by large stuffing, thin skin and rich flavor.

Tangyuan with fresh fruit stuffing:

Tangyuan with fresh fruit stuffing is a Tianjin-style snack. The production method is to use fresh fruit, chop it, pickle it with sugar, make stuffing according to the formula, grind the best glutinous rice into powder and roll it into shape. It is characterized by refreshing fragrance, soft and smooth flour and strong fruit flavor. The Bailou snack bar and Jiangnanchun restaurant in Xiaobailou area are the most famous.

Du said that Qi Huo Shao:

Du said that Qi Huo Shao is a special flavor snack in Jinmen, named after the name of its founder, which has a history of more than 61 years. Du claimed that there was a unique trick in the production of Qihuo, that is, refining the oil with scallion and anise first, and then crisping it, so that the burnt taste was particularly pure and fragrant. The finished product has crispy outer layer, soft inner layer, delicate stuffing and mellow taste. At present, there is a branch in Nanshi Food Street, and there are varieties with different stuffing, such as assorted, bean stuffing, sweet and salty, red fruit, rose and so on.

Shixiangzhai Twist:

Shixiangzhai Twist is a special snack in Tianjin, which is the exclusive variety of Tianjin Shixiangzhai Famous Food Head Office. The dough for making this twist is made of eggs and milk powder, so it is also called egg milk twist. The product oil, egg, milk and hemp are integrated, and the taste is fragrant, sweet, crisp and crisp, with a long aftertaste. Now it has been recognized as "a famous Chinese snack".

Lama Cake:

Lama Cake is a traditional snack in Tianjin. Characterized by golden color, sweet and palatable, soft and nutritious. The Beijing-Tianjin restaurant on Liaoning Road is famous for its operation.

Ear-Eye Fried Cake:

Ear-Eye Fried Cake is one of the "three wonders" of Jinmen food, which has a history of nearly a hundred years. It was named after the store was close to Ear-Eye Hutong in the old days. Ear-eye fried cake is made of fine ingredients, and the finished product is a golden spherical crown fried in boiling oil, with golden color and "prickly", a crispy but not hard taste, a fresh and tender filling, a fine, sweet and refreshing taste and a fragrant smell. In 1997, it was named as a famous Chinese snack by China Cuisine Association.

Cudgel fruit:

"Cudgel fruit", that is, fried dough sticks, is a traditional breakfast food in Tianjin, so it is named because the finished product is cudgel-shaped. The fruit of wooden mallet is well made. According to different seasons, the dough is mixed with water with different proportions of alkali, alum and salt, and the dough is opened into long strips, which can be eaten after being fried thoroughly in hot oil. The taste is salty, fragrant, crisp and full of flavor. Generally, there are stalls selling wooden sticks on the street in the morning.

Tiebobo boiled fish:

Tiebobo boiled fish is a local snack of Tianjin people and a home-cooked meal. People in the north call cooking cooking cooking. After cleaning the fish, they put it in a big pot, add various seasonings and clear water to cook the fish soup. The so-called stick-on-the-cake cooking fish is to save time. Around the upper end of the pot where the fish is cooked, a circle of stick-on-the-cake (corn noodles) is stuck, and the cake is taken out after the pot is cooked, which is not only fresh, but also delicious after the fish soup is absorbed in the cake. The finished cake is golden in color, crisp in bottom, fresh and thick in soup with small fish flavor, and soft in fish bones. There are some stalls in the city that specialize in "sticking to the cake and cooking fish", among which Nanshi "Grandma Yang cooking fish" is more famous.

Mingshunzhai sesame seed cake:

Mingshunzhai sesame seed cake, a traditional snack in Tianjin, was founded in the 21th century. It has the characteristics of golden crispy skin and soft and palatable inner layer. Now, on the basis of the original sesame seed cake with big meat and white sugar, assorted sesame seed cakes with different fillings, such as bean paste, pea yellow, sausage, jujube paste, red fruit, curry beef and shredded radish, have been added.

Boiled Bean Zhang:

Boiled Bean Zhang is the most famous time-honored brand in Tianjin, which specializes in all kinds of dry bean snacks. It was founded in the Qing Dynasty, and was originally designed as a snack for dignitaries to grind their teeth for digestion in the imperial dining room of the Qing Dynasty. At present, the main products are crispy bean paste, peeled sandwich bean, sweet-scented osmanthus crisp bean, pea yellow, three bean cakes, crystal sugar cream beans, crystal sugar strange beans, children's pearl beans, peeled spicy beans and so on. Characterized by crisp but not cotton, not hard, cholesterol-free, chewed into pulp for a long time, full of fragrance. The head office of "Bengdouzhang" is located in Nanshi Food Street, with branches in Guwen Street.

Goubuli steamed stuffed bun:

Goubuli steamed stuffed bun is a representative of Tianjin-style snacks, and it is one of the "three musts" of Jinmen food, with a history of more than 151 years. Goubuli steamed stuffed bun has fine selection of flour and stuffing, strict production technology and beautiful appearance. Each steamed stuffed bun has no less than 1.5 pleats. The meat stuffing is loose, fresh but not greasy, and the fragrance is palatable. Now, in addition to the traditional flavor, new varieties such as pearl bag, dragon and phoenix bag and seafood bag have been added. In addition to Tianjin, Goubuli has branches in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen and other cities, as well as the United States, Japan, South Korea and other places.

The origin of Goubuli: The original name of Goubuli steamed bun shop is Deju Hao, the owner is Guiguiyou, and the baby name is Dog Zi. His buns are very popular with customers, and his business is getting more and more popular. "Dog" is too busy selling buns to talk to customers. People make fun of him: "Dog sells buns and ignores them." After a long time, it was called "Goubuli" when you shouted smoothly. The steamed stuffed bun became famous, but his name was forgotten.

18th Street Twist:

18th Street Twist is one of the "three wonders" of Jinmen food. It was created by Fan Guicai and Fan Guilin, whose real name was Guifaxiang. Because both of them opened a twist shop in 18th Street, Dagu South Road, Tianjin, they made and sold exquisite twists, so they were named 18th Street Twist. Each 18th Street twist is characterized by a assorted crisp strip composed of more than a dozen ingredients, such as peach kernel, green plum and osmanthus. After the dough twists are fried and cooked, add rock sugar and green red silk. The finished product tastes crisp and sweet, and it is not spongy for a long time, so it is easy to carry.

Lohan's belly:

Lohan's belly is a kind of sauce-made food made by Tianjin Goubuli Steamed Bun Head Office by traditional sauce-making method. It is named because the meat belly is layered and looks like Lohan's belly. Lohan belly is made by pouring pork skin and lean meat sauce into pig belly. The finished product is firm, shiny and transparent, salty and fresh in taste, palatable and not greasy, and the sauce is mellow and slightly sweet.

Luji instant noodle fried cake:

Luji instant noodle fried cake was founded in 1918, which is a traditional halal food with a long history and has its own advantages compared with Erduoyan fried cake. The biggest difference between Luji instant noodle fried cake and other fried cakes is that instant noodles should be cooked with boiling water, and then the noodles should be kneaded, dosed and fried with stuffing. The finished product is brownish red, oblate, crisp outside and tender inside, soft but not sticky, soft and crisp to eat, and sweet with fine sand. At present, there are three kinds of stuffing: bean stuffing, red fruit and sugar. Because it is instant noodles, it is easy to chew and digest, and it is most suitable for the elderly and children.