Famous snacks in Chengdu include: Egg Baked Cake, Tangyou Guozi, Yeerba, Fat Rice Roll + Juntun Pot Helmet, and Egg Baked Cake is the most delicious.
1. Egg Baked Cake is the favorite snack in Chengdu. As long as you find a cart with two stoves and two small iron pans, you can eat authentic Chengdu Egg Baked Cake.
The outer shell is made of eggs and milk, and there are many filling options.
If you like sweetness, choose cream and white sugar filling, if you like Sichuan flavor, choose kohlrabi and shredded potatoes filling, and if you like salty, you can choose pork floss and ham sausage filling.
If you don’t care about the price, you can go to Kuanzhai Alley or Jinli to eat for 3 yuan each.
If you want to try your luck, you can go around Taisheng Road, Wenshu Monastery, Jianshe Road, and People’s Park. The pushcart stalls are 1.5 yuan each.
2. Fried glutinous rice flour with sugar and oil, wrapped in caramel and sprinkled with sesame seeds.
It is best to be half hollow and half solid, half crispy and half sticky when bitten.
There are many snack streets in Chengdu. Jinli, Kuanzhai Alley, and Wenshu Monastery are more expensive.
Cheap ones can be found in the vegetable markets near Qingshi Bridge and Shuinian River.
3. Friends who like savory flavors cannot miss Ye'er cake. The outer shell is made of glutinous rice, and the inside is filled with stir-fried bean sprouts and pork fillings. There are also white sugar fillings, wrapped with mugwort leaves, and has a unique flavor.
4. Fatty Rice Roll + Juntun Guokui is a must-try snack in Chengdu. It is full of hot and sour flavor, and with the addition of knot, it is very delicious with the soup in one bite.
It is recommended that you order the vegetarian hot and sour noodles with 1-2 knots, which is very satisfying.
Guokui is made by frying the flour cakes filled with meat fillings in oil, and then baking them in the fire. It tastes very crispy and delicious.
It is a perfect match with fat rice rolls. The half-eaten Guokui is soaked in the rice noodle soup. Only those who have eaten it will know the taste.
The most classic one is Shuangliu Baijia Fei Rice Roll Rice Roll, but there are several good shops around the People’s Park and Wuhou Temple in Chengdu.