For the old Beijing, the two most famous things are "Quanjude Roast Duck" and "Zhangji Ice Candy Gourd". And my favorite is still "Zhang Ji - ice sugar gourd", that is called a "great".

In that "hundred years old", there are all kinds of ice sugar gourds. There are fruit banana, it is wrapped in a layer of thick dark chocolate, chocolate outside the icing sugar, inside the banana, banana up and down each embedded with a hawthorn, like standing in the black mud in the land of the two roses; there are walnuts and bean paste, it is above the hawthorn was cut a large part of the doll, like an open-mouthed doll, the doll's

mouth contains a large piece of bean paste, bean paste inlaid with half of a walnut kernel, the string of about five or six above, there are a variety of ice candy. A string above about five or six of them, each little doll is wearing an ethereal gauze; there are also raisin persimmon cake, its first string of hawthorn, dotted with some sesame seeds, like a face full of pockmarked babies, the second string of persimmon cake, a thin persimmon cake, wrapped in icing sugar, the persimmon cake has a lot of lines, like a flower, but the difference is that this is a separated "Fog" to see the flowers, the third string is the Green Tee, under the icing sugar, Green Tee is more like a glass box in the jade beads; and ...... is really full of, let a person look at the mouth-watering!

When eating ice sugar gourds, I like to run down the stick to the hawthorn, and then a hawthorn in the mouth, slowly let the sugar melt in the mouth, the sweetness straight into the heart. When the sugar water flow down after the belly, and then the hawthorn bite, contained in the mouth, sucking that sour flavor, such as the teeth to the acid "down", and then quickly swallowed the hawthorn belly. If you eat walnuts or grapes, I will bite it all, and then put it in the mouth, taste the strange sweet flavor.

According to legend, the ice candy gourd originated from the end of the Sui Dynasty, flourished in the Ming and Qing dynasties. Since then, it has become a traditional snack. "Yanjing Times" recorded: "ice sugar gourd, is a bamboo stick, through the red, begonia fruit, grapes, yam, walnuts, etc., dipped in icing sugar, sweet and crisp and cool." The development so far, the formation of dozens of characteristic patterns of fashionable snacks.

When you bite through the transparent sugar coating, the first thing you hear is the crisp rupture of the sugar coating, and then the soft hawthorn with the core removed. The sugar and hawthorn together in the mouth slowly taste, sweet, sour.

It is said that the ice sugar gourd is sour, it is wrapped in sweetness inside the sour,

It is said that the ice sugar gourd is sweet, it is wrapped in sourness inside the sweet,

The sugar gourd looks good when it is worn by the bamboo sticks to symbolize the happiness and the reunion,

It is said that the happiness and the reunion is linked together in a string, there is no worry to have no worries,

It is also said that the sugar gourd is a good thing when the sugar gourd is worn by the bamboo sticks. ......