Speaking of the specialties of Qishuzhuang, the famous ones are "Chess Sesame Cake" and "Guangsheng" honey candy. The "Guangsheng" sesame candy has a history of more than 400 years, which originated in the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty. At that time, people like to use sugar noodles and sesame fried pork chops as holiday food on holidays. This is Tangshan's iconic snack. When I was a child, I was late only for the Spring Festival. After mixing, kneading, rolling, cleaning, chopping, frying, boiling and other processes, the color is light yellow, the slices are as thin as paper, like flowers, crisp and sweet.

Suspension bridge sesame seed cake is the authentic representative of Laoting cylinder furnace sesame seed cake. This brand is registered with a trademark, and the seventh generation descendant of suspension bridge cylinder furnace sesame seed cake, Master Cui Wanxiang, takes charge of the furnace. Crispy sugar has a history of hundreds of years, and it is as famous as Tangshan hemp sugar. This product is made of rice, wheat and other food crops, boiled into syrup by hand, and refined by adding pure peanut powder. Gold bars with golden color and the size of 10 cm long. The entrance is very sweet and crisp.

For the old Tangshan people, as long as the Hongyan restaurant is mentioned, there is almost nothing they don't know. Hongyan Restaurant is the most famous restaurant in Tangshan, which was founded in 1937 and listed as "China's time-honored brand". The signature feature of Hongyan restaurant is Hongyan elbow! Yishengyong Smoked Chicken This is made of special soup with cinnamon, pepper and many other spices. The chicken is also carefully selected, stewed first and then smoked. The smoked chicken is red and tender, and it will be seasoned with some sugar. It is crisp, delicious and fragrant. It is one of the typical representatives of Tangshan cuisine.

There are many ways to cook the baked cakes with baked dumplings, baked dumplings, sweet and sour baked dumplings, baked dumplings with coke, and baked dumplings with meat. They are named after the shape of drums and the size of chess pieces. The famous delicacies in Tangshan are (in no particular order): Wan Li spicy braised chicken, honey and sesame sugar, chess piece baked cake, braised elbow in Hongyan restaurant, crab in Tanghai, shrimp sauce in Luannan, Yutian cabbage, Laoting Liumei roast chicken and so on.