Cantonese-style bacon: sausage, bacon, cured duck, cured fish, etc.

Cantonese-style cakes: chicken cakes, wife cakes, walnut cakes, wedding cakes, fried rice cakes, etc.

Guangzhou’s local products: canned dace, water chestnut products, bee products, tea, ginger milk, turtle paste, Lingnan good fruit dried products, etc.

Cantonese-style mooncakes: lotus seed paste, five kernels, ice skin, egg yolk and other mooncakes.

Cantonese-style condiments: soy sauce, Zhuhou sauce, vinegar, black bean sauce, oyster sauce, fermented bean curd, etc.

Cantonese soup: special soup recipes, etc.

Lingnan medicines: loquat ointment, medicated oil, etc.

Guangzhou herbal tea: herbal tea, plant drinks, herbal tea granules, etc.

Cantonese-style candies: cool fruits, throat lozenges, etc.

Fruits: guava (guava), longan, pineapple, carambola, white olive, black olive, Sanhua plum

Horseshoe cake

Horseshoe cake is A traditional dessert snack in Guangdong Province, Fuzhou, Fujian Province and southern Fujian. According to legend, it originated in the Tang Dynasty and was steamed with water chestnut powder mixed with sugar water. Water chestnut, also known as horseshoe in Cantonese, hence the name. It is dark brown in color, translucent, can be folded without cracking, and can be popped without breaking. It is soft, smooth, refreshing, and tough at the same time, and has a very sweet taste.

Horseshoe cake has a sweet taste and melts in your mouth; there are more mosquitoes in summer, and it is very easy to be bitten by mosquitoes after eating water chestnut cake. It is recommended not to go out after tasting the delicious food to avoid being bitten by mosquitoes, and to prevent mosquitoes indoors. measure.

Xiguan Chicken Cake

According to legend, this cake has a history of more than a hundred years. It is said that the chicken cake was created by a maid named Xiaofeng from a wealthy family named Wu in Xiguan, Guangzhou during the Xianfeng period of the Qing Dynasty. created. In order to have enough food and clothing, Xiaofeng collected the leftover dishes from the banquet, added some flour and plum vegetable juice, pressed them into cakes and dried them to satisfy her hunger and give them to poor sisters. One day, guests came to the host's house. Xiaofeng used this cake to entertain the guests. It was praised by the host and guests, so it spread and was named "Xiaofeng Cake". Because its shape resembles a chick, it is also called "chicken cake" and later became the signature tea snack of Chengzhu Tea House. The chicken cake contains ingredients such as pork, southern milk, minced garlic, pepper, five-spice powder and salt. It tastes sweet and salty, sweet and crispy.

It may be the most well-known among the traditional "old cakes" in Guangzhou. It has been seen in pastry shops in Beijing and Shanghai. There are also many packaged chicken cakes for sale in Guangzhou supermarkets. However, most of the mass-produced chicken cakes are made in molds, which have a relatively uniform shape and taste extra crispy. It is a famous specialty in Guangzhou.

Main ingredients: refined flour, peanuts, pork, etc.

For sale: Guangbai, Guangzhou Wangfujing, Chengzhu Bakery located on Nanhua Middle Road (diagonally opposite the former Chengzhu Building site).

Wife Cake

Wife Cake, also known as winter antler cake, is originally created by Guangzhou Lianxianglou. Legend has it that there used to be a loving couple, and the daughter-in-law was willing to sell herself to treat the family member’s illness. The husband who lost his wife was not discouraged and worked hard to develop a delicious cake. He eventually redeemed his wife by selling cakes and lived a happy life again. This delicacy preparation method is still known as "wife cake". I didn’t expect that this little pastry contained such a touching love story.

Another legend about wife cakes originated from the Lianxiang Teahouse in Guangzhou. Anyone who has been to Guangzhou knows that Lianxiang Tea House is a famous restaurant in Guangzhou, and Chaozhou Wife Cake is its specialty snack. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, Lianxianglou hired a master from Chaozhou. One year when he came home from a visit to relatives, he brought a lot of snacks from Lianxianglou to his family. Unexpectedly, his wife was very dissatisfied after eating the snacks: "Your snacks from Lianxianglou are not as good as the fried winter melon wedges from my parents' family." After hearing what his wife said, the dim sum chef was very unconvinced: "Then make your mother's winter melon wedges and compare them with our dim sum at Lian Xianglou!" The next day, my wife prepared a pot of winter melon puree, mixed with white sugar, Use flour to make the filling, then wrap it into small corners with flour skin and fry it in an oil pan until golden brown. The pastry chef took a bite and praised it repeatedly. After returning to Guangzhou, he brought the winter melon wedges made by his wife to the teahouse chefs to taste. What kinds of dim sum have you not seen from the chefs at Lian Xiang Lou? However, after they ate the winter melon wedges, they were all full of praise. The boss of Lianxianglou knew about it and came to try one. The boss said: "Well, it tastes great! Where is this famous snack? What's its name?" The Chaozhou master couldn't answer for a while, so one of the masters said: "This is made by the Chaozhou master's wife, so let's call it 'Chaozhou Wife Cake' ”

Wife Cake (3 photos)

What’s interesting is that there is another type of cake called “Husband Cake” that corresponds to “Wife Cake”. There is a slight difference in shape, but the taste is unique. The "wife cake" is small in shape and has a delicate texture. After eating the sesame seeds, you still feel the fragrance on your lips and teeth. It is really as meticulous and thoughtful as a little woman. "Husband cake" is slightly larger in shape, tastes a bit like bread, and looks a bit like a carefree man.

Main ingredients: flour, sesame, coconut mash, winter melon mash.

For sale: Lin Heung House, etc.

Durian Crisp

Durian Crisp is crunchy, delicious and has a fragrant durian flavor. It is a very delicious snack.

The method varies from place to place. Some people directly wrap the fresh durian meat in puff pastry and bake it, while others add a little oil and sugar to stir-fry the durian meat into the stuffing.

Lard cake

Lard cake, also known as fat cake, has been famous as early as the Qing Dynasty. "Yuanhe Weiting Zhi" called it "the best made in Wuzhong".

Onion and lard salty cake has a salty and fresh taste. The main raw and auxiliary ingredients are glutinous rice flour, fine japonica rice flour, lard suet, refined salt, chives, soybean oil, etc. The color is as bright as jade, with white and green contrasting with each other. The entrance is fragrant with onion, salty and glutinous. When the name was first created, the lard cake was named after its soft, smooth and moist meaning, and it does not actually contain any lard.

Main ingredients: glucose, starch, peanuts.

Tips: Available in Guangzhou Wangfujing and Guangbai.

Fragrant rice cake

This cake was already famous in southern Guangdong in the early Qing Dynasty. Main ingredients: fragrant rice flour, fresh eggs, peanuts, etc.

Ginger hits milk

There was a legend about ginger hitting milk. Once upon a time, in Shawan Town, Panyu, Guangdong, an elderly woman suffered from a cough. She later learned that ginger juice can cure coughs, but the ginger juice was too spicy for the old woman to drink. So the daughter-in-law boiled buffalo milk with sugar and poured it into the ginger juice. In the bowl of juice, the strange thing is that after a while, the milk solidified. After drinking it, my mother-in-law felt her mouth full of fragrance. The disease was cured on the second day. Therefore, Jiang Chuang Nai became popular in Shawan Town. People in Shawan called "Condensation" "Buried", so "Jiang Chuang Nai" was also called "Jiang Chuang Nai" in Shawan.

Originated from the traditional folk cuisine of the Pearl River Delta. The taste is mellow and smooth, sweet and slightly spicy, with a unique flavor and a stomach-warming and surface-heating effect.

Ginger is known as a good medicine and food. Research has found that ginger contains a special substance similar to salicylic acid. When diluted, it can be used as a blood thinner, which can lower blood lipids, blood pressure, and prevent... It has special curative effects on thrombosis and myocardial infarction. Regular consumption can maintain health and strengthen the body. The effect of health preservation and longevity is deeply loved by people from all walks of life.

Old Ginger Cake

Using special plum ginger, egg white and other top ingredients, it is baked into a golden, delicious, loose texture, Chinese-style old ginger biscuit, with a slightly unique taste of ginger. The spiciness is different from ordinary Western-style gingerbread.

Marriage Cake

The most common bridal cake at wedding banquets in Guangdong is also called Lingsu. The "Aya cake" in traditional gift cakes is related to the allusions of clothing. In the past, rich weddings showed dignity and style with rich gift cakes. Silk and satin were among the four luxurious clothing materials for the nobles, among which "ling" was the most precious. Therefore, "Lingsu" is the first choice for gift cakes, which means glory.

Lingsu can be divided into four colors: yellow, white, red and orange: yellow Ling is stuffed with bean paste, which symbolizes nobility and royalty; white Ling is filled with sugar or five kernels, which represents The woman's chastity; the red damask is the most exquisite and expensive, and is filled with lotus seed paste, or winter seed paste, which symbolizes the festive atmosphere; the orange damask is stuffed with bean paste or shredded coconut, which symbolizes the golden life of the couple in the future. Egg yolk can also be added to some silk puff pastry to show its nobility. It is understood that the appearance of the four-color damask represents the people's sustenance for the new couple's new life, and also shows their respect for the elderly from another perspective. Therefore, authentic Guangzhou people, especially those with elderly people at home, will definitely act according to tradition to ensure good fortune. When you eat, you must eat culture. A piece of food has a history. Taste Guangzhou, start with "Old Guangzhou Souvenirs".