It is said that pear cream candy began in Wei Wei, a famous figure in the Tang Dynasty, with a history of more than 1,300 years. He grinds herbs into powder and decocts them with pear juice for his long-term sick mother. Later, this method became popular and became a therapeutic food, pear cream candy. At present, the Shanghai Pear Paste Store in Shanghai Yuyuan Shopping Mall supplies all kinds of pear paste all the year round, including cough-relieving pear paste made from more than ten kinds of Chinese herbal medicines such as almond, hawthorn, fritillary bulb, platycodon grandiflorum and orange red, as well as various fancy pear paste such as ginger juice, mint, walnut, dried shrimp, dried pork floss and pine nuts.

Chenghuangmiao spiced beans

The spiced beans in Chenghuang Temple are exquisite in materials and suitable in heat. The raw materials used are specially selected from broad beans produced in Yuyao County, Zhejiang Province, and the selection is extremely strict. Neither yellow-skinned beans nor moth-eaten beans can be used. All green-skinned beans should be used, washed and boiled in water. Cooking is done with a binocular cooker with a clear water pot and a sugar water pot on it. When the water temperature in the clear water pot reaches about 60 degrees Celsius, put the washed broad beans in, cook for a while, and fish them in the sugar water pot after they are cooked. However, before fishing beans, a certain proportion of saccharin, vanilla and essence should be put in a sugar pot, and then some salt should be sprinkled on the fished broad beans, which should be turned constantly after being put in the sugar pot. When turning, slowly push it down from around the pot edge with a strainer. This will cook the beans evenly and taste. Half an hour or so, when you see salt flowers on the bean skin, you can take the pot and air the beans in a bamboo container, cool thoroughly and dry them to get spiced beans. The skin is thin and fluffy, the salt and frost are even, and the chewing is soft and waxy. It tastes delicious and sweet in the mouth, and it has no flavor.

"Wufangzhai" cake group

The pastry of Wufangzhai is unique. First, the materials are exquisite and moderate. To make the rice noodles of the cake group, white and tough japonica rice and glutinous rice produced in Suzhou, Wuxi and Changzhou are selected. Accessories such as pine nuts, melon seeds, sesame seeds, etc. are all selected and superior, and sweet-scented osmanthus uses Chen Guihua with rich fragrance. In addition, its production process is also very particular. First, grind the water mill into fine powder, press the powder and drain it. It is necessary to drain it and keep the rice flour soft. Different varieties have different ingredients. Generally, the cake dough is 7 cm flour and 30% japonica rice flour. Qingtuan is 80% glutinous rice flour and 20% japonica rice flour; Sugar rice cakes are made of glutinous rice flour, which makes the cakes unique. In addition, there are hundreds of varieties of this kind of products, including popular red bean cakes and yellow muffins, as well as colored cakes such as Eight Immortals crossing the sea and playing with pearls in Shuanglong. According to local folk customs in the south of the Yangtze River, seasonal snacks such as Yuanxiao (dumpling) eaten on the 15th day of the first lunar month, Qingtuan in the Qingming Festival, Chongyang cake on the 9th of the ninth lunar month, sugar rice cake in the Spring Festival and Baiguosong cake are also produced and supplied.

Canned anchovies

Anchovies, also known as roasted fish, are characterized by flat sides, long tail, silvery white, and large females and small males. Anchovies are valuable economic fish with delicious meat, which can be eaten fresh or canned. Usually people like to fry it, and add auxiliary materials to accompany the meal, which is crispy and delicious. Canned anchovies made from fried anchovies sell well at home and abroad.

Shanghai Pudong chicken

The meat is particularly tender and delicious, and the flavor is very strong. It is often boiled or stewed at banquets. It stands upright with a single crown, a broad chest, a big body, a yellow mouth and yellow feet, and a huge figure. Adult cocks can grow to 9 pounds, so they are called "nine pounds yellow" and hens weigh about 6 pounds.