Horseshoe Cake: It is one of the famous traditional Han Chinese desserts in Guangdong, Fuzhou and southern Fujian. Steamed with sugar water mixed with water chestnut powder (water chestnut, also known as horseshoe in Cantonese). Horseshoe cake has a sweet taste and melts in your mouth. Its color tea yellow, translucent, can be folded without cracking, pouting and constantly, soft, smooth, crisp, tough both, taste very sweet.

The origin of the horseshoe cake:

According to legend, the Tang ZhenGuan twenty-three years (A.D. 649), Taizong died, Gaozong succeeded to the throne. Lingnan Road Festival Minister, known as Guangzhou Pantang horseshoes, lotus root, mushrooms, wild bamboo shoots, the name of the rhombus, so the artist to make "Pantang five show" map, sent officials to present the map and five things in the court. Emperor Gaozong saw the figure of things like, make for the foundation of the sacrificial objects.

The second year of the tune Lu Xian was convicted of the Empress Wu was abolished as concubine, forced to commit suicide. Xian has three sons, Guangshun, Shouli, Shouyi, Guangshun for Le'an Wang, migrating Yi Feng was executed. Shouyi for Gandhara King, migrated to Guiyang. After the death of Xian and Guangshun, Shouyi got "Pantang five show" picture. Shouyi four years Shougong disease, princeling before passing the map will be the eldest son of Cheng Ao to avoid the execution of the Queen of Wu. Cheng Ao and his descendants uphold the ancestral training, through the He, Wu, Annan out to sea, after the Jin Tianfu first year into Guangzhou, living in Longxi straight street, Jurongli.

Cheng Ao descendant Li finished the search for "Pantang five show", moved to Pantang Village. At that time, coincided with the harvest of horseshoes, Long Kun according to local customary fresh food, feel the fragrance and sweetness, is the storage of a number of fresh horseshoes want to wait for after the sharing of food. No few fresh horseshoes began to rot, Long Kun then use the baking method, speaking of horseshoes peeled and pounded pulp in the kettle, slow fire baked into powder. The powder will be boiled into a paste with the townspeople to serve, are said to be no different from the feeling of freshly eaten hooves. Because of its use of "Pantang horseshoes" production, so Long Kun called "Pantang horseshoe powder". Subsequently, Long Kun on the ground to open "Pantang five show" store, put "Pantang horseshoe powder" and "Pantang five show" products sold in the world.

The "Pantang Horseshoe Powder" is now known as "Horseshoe Cake".