Taigu County's delicacies include Taigu cake, Huping jujube, Taigu smoked pigeon, Taigu roll, Taigu Ba film and so on. 1. Taigu cake: This cake is eaten cold, crisp but not hard, soft but not skinned, and has a long storage time, and the taste remains unchanged for a long time. It can be used as a refreshment or for traveling. 2. Huping Jujube: It is mainly produced in Taigu County, Jinzhong City. Its jujube is famous for its large fruit, thin skin, thick meat and sweet flavor.
Taigu County food includes Taigu cake, Huping jujube, Taigu smoked pigeon, Taigu roll and so on.
1. Taigu Cake: Taigu Cake is a solid cake baked in a flour oven, which is commonly called "Gan Cake" and "Sesame Cake" locally. The cake is round, with a diameter of 11.65 cm and a thickness of about six points. The thickness of the edge and the heart is even, and the skin is tawny with peeled sesame seeds. Cold eating this cake is crisp but not hard, soft but not peeling, and it has a long storage time and the taste remains unchanged for a long time. It can be used as a refreshment or for traveling. Therefore, Taigu cake is a good gift for people to give to each other.
2. Huping Jujube: Taigu Huping Jujube, a specialty of Taigu County, Shanxi Province, is a symbol product of chinese national geography. Huping Jujube is one of the best jujube varieties in China, mainly produced in Taigu County, Jinzhong City. Its jujube is large, thin-skinned, thick-fleshed, sweet in flavor and enjoys a high reputation.
3. Taigu smoked pigeon: Taigu smoked pigeon is well-known at home and abroad. Taigu smoked pigeon is a traditional local famous product in Taigu County, which has a history of more than 1 years. It was founded in Qing Dynasty. In the old days, this famous product was a Zhuang dish for Shanxi merchants to entertain domestic and foreign merchants, and it was also an excellent gift for Shanxi merchants to communicate with local officials and dignitaries. It has the reputation of "Shanxi historical and cultural food" and "one of the four famous smoked pigeons in Shanxi".
4. Taigu roll: Taigu roll is divided into meat roll and vegetarian roll, and the most popular one is meat roll. Juanjuan is a famous dish in Taigu local banquet, and it is also a must-have New Year dish for every household in the New Year. There are two ways to eat the rolls: one is to eat them hot, and then boil them out of the pot or steam them twice, and then cut them into one-inch cubes and serve them directly on the table; the other is to eat them cold, and then cut them into thin slices and serve them on the table.
5. Taiguba slice: Taiguba slice is to roll the white dough into a round cake the size of a pancake, but twice as thick as a pancake, put it on the half-baked pebbles in a special roller for beating bread, and then bury the half-baked pebbles in the prepared strainer on the dough cake, and cover it until the cake is cooked. This kind of small hole formed on the cake surface due to pebbles is still like a scar, hence the name Ba cake.