The top ten delicacies in Shaoxing include: Xinchang spring cake, Shaoxing fragrant cake, Shaoxing tanhuang, fried stinky tofu, braised pork with dried plums and vegetables, butter pancake, Yue goose, Yue chicken, Shaoxing tribute melon, Keqiao Dried tofu.
1. Xinchang spring cake.
Xinchang spring cake is shaped like a full moon, as thin as paper, white and yellow, slightly salty, crispy and delicious. Buy a fried dough stick and roll it up to eat. It is both loose and fragrant, with a unique flavor. Put small spring rolls with fresh meat filling or green onion filling in a pan and fry them to become golden, crispy and delicious spring rolls. When making Xinchang spring pancake noodles, the noodles must be mixed to a moderate consistency and the heat must be appropriate. The technique is also very important because it is not easy to damage and can be used as dry food.
2. Shaoxing fragrant cake.
Shaoxing fragrant cake is a characteristic traditional pastry in Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province. Grind refined white japonica rice into rice flour, add an appropriate amount of traditional Chinese medicine cloves, Amomum villosum, Angelica dahurica, cardamom, anise and powdered edible spices, then mix with pure white sugar, mix into the powder and bake it on a white charcoal fire. The baked fragrant cake is yellow but not burnt, hard but not hard, crispy and sweet, and has the functions of relieving depression, neutralizing, appetizing, and strengthening the spleen. There are various varieties of Shaoxing fragrant cakes, among which the refined osmanthus fragrant cake is the best.
3. Keqiao dried tofu.
Keqiao dried tofu is one of the traditional local delicacies in Shaoxing, Zhejiang. It is famous both inside and outside the province for its long history, fine production and unique flavor. Keqiao dried tofu was originally called "five-spice dried tea". There are many auxiliary materials and exquisite workmanship. It uses high-quality soybeans as the main raw material, and is refined with more than a dozen auxiliary ingredients such as anise, cumin, cinnamon, cloves, kaempferol, rice wine, sweet noodle sauce, and rock sugar.