Changzhou hemp cake is an oval sesame cake with unique taste and flavor, and it is also the favorite traditional food for Changzhou people. There are salty and sweet flavors for buyers to choose from. As soon as the qualified sesame cake is baked, it has a strong fragrance, yellow and moist color but not burnt, moderate salty and sweet but not greasy, crisp and delicious but not crisp, and good color, fragrance and taste. ?

2. Crab shell yellow

Crab shell yellow is a local flavor snack in Changzhou, commonly known as Xiaoma cake, which is often used as a gift with hemp cake. There are four kinds of stuffing: shepherd's purse, onion oil, white sugar and bean paste with bright oil. Its characteristics: it is shaped like a crab shell, golden in color, oily but not greasy, crisp and crisp, sweet and mellow in sugar filling, and fresh in salty filling.

3. Dried radish

People who have been to Changzhou will say, "There is a strange thing in Changzhou. Dried radish is a kind of appetizer." The difference between authentic Changzhou dried radish and other dried radish lies in that it selects the sweet and tender solid carrots produced by Xinzha Gate outside the west gate of Changzhou as raw materials, and the pickled dried radish is yellow and red in color, slightly sweet in salty, crispy and delicious.

4. Sesame candy

Sesame sugar is a traditional famous spot in Changzhou, which has a long history and unique flavor, including strip, flat and cylindrical shapes. According to legend, as early as the Tang Dynasty, local people began to caramelize sugar and sesame seeds, and produced a sesame candy shaped like a hemp ball, called hemp ball candy. Changzhou sesame candy is milky white in color, bright and crystal, sweet and crisp, and has the functions of harmonizing the stomach, relieving cough and treating constipation.

5. Changzhou Pear Paste Sugar

Pear cream sugar is also a traditional name in Changzhou. The production technology of Changzhou Pear Paste Sugar has become an intangible heritage in Jiangsu Province. Most of its ingredients are composed of Chinese herbal medicines, such as benefiting qi, clearing away fire, improving eyesight and tonifying kidney, clearing away sound and relieving sore throat, relieving asthma and moistening lung. It is comfortable to taste and suitable for all ages.

6. Yilongsu Ham

Yilongsu ham is a traditional special food in Changzhou Yilongsu Restaurant, which was founded in 1932. Yilongsu ham is fragrant, fresh, tough and soft. It is sliced into thin slices and sprinkled with sesame oil. It looks like ham. It is a regular dish for Changzhou people to eat with wine and travel abroad ~

7, Tianmu Lake casserole fish head

Casserole fish head was founded in Tianmuhu Hotel, Jiangsu Province, and has been carefully cooked by Zhu Shuncai, a famous chef in Jiangsu Province for nearly 30 years. Now it has been praised as the best traditional dish in Jiangsu. Cooking fish head in Tianmu Lake casserole, using silver carp head naturally raised in Tianmu Lake as raw material and pure natural Tianmu Lake as soup base, is highly praised by food lovers for its excellent quality of "fresh but not fishy, fat but not greasy". (It is vacuum packed and can be purchased)?

8. Liyang Zhagan

Zhagan is a characteristic traditional dish in Liyang, and it is also one of the three treasures in Liyang (meatballs, peeled seeds with sauce, and zhagan). Shezhu Town and Pingqiao area are the most authentic. A large piece of washed pork belly, pork liver, oily tofu and swollen dried bamboo shoots, and a small piece of pig's small intestine. Add ingredients, boil over high fire, burn for another hour over medium fire, and collect the marinade, and "Liyang Zhagan" is made. (vacuum packed, available for purchase)

9. Liyang wind Goose

Wind Goose is also a famous dish with traditional flavor in Liyang. The curing method of goose is very peculiar. Liyang area has the best production technology. Cooked and eaten hot pot with soup is famous for its color, fragrance and taste, fat but not greasy, mellow aftertaste, crisp and tender taste. (vacuum packed, available for purchase)

There are also combs, bamboo carvings, needlework, wonton with chicken soup and meat, shrimp cakes, horseshoe cakes, bean dregs cakes, Liyang Baiqin, white tea, blinds and so on.