Go home | Send a Guangzhou souvenir to your relatives and friends. Guangzhou souvenirs are always not about the price, but about the heart.

Souvenirs are small gifts that people usually give to their loved ones when they return from a long trip.

My friends in Guangqingyuan have all gone home one after another recently. Let’s take some small gifts back to Guangzhou to give to your relatives and friends in your hometown!

Now, let’s take stock of the top five souvenirs from Guangzhou!

undefined 01 Cantonese-style cake: Chicken Cake Guangzhou's famous cake, Chicken Cake, was originally called "Xiao Feng Cake".

Mix flour/sugar/pork/terminal nuts/dried pickled vegetables and make it into the shape of a chicken. After roasting, the cake will be golden in color, crispy and soft, with a mixture of salty and sweet, and a strong sweet flavor.

Before leaving Guangzhou, you can buy some to use as snacks on the way home or as gifts to relatives and friends.

Where to buy: Time-honored cake shops "Lianxianglou" and "Taotaoju" 02 Guangzhou local specialties: water chestnut powder and products. In the memories of old Guangzhou people, there were thousands of acres of water chestnut fields a long time ago, but now, you can eat it in Guangzhou

Water chestnut cakes (also known as water chestnut cakes) made from water chestnuts are mostly produced at the Pantang Horseshoe Cake Shop on Zhongshan 8th Road. This is a famous snack in Guangzhou.

Take a sip and it's delicious, and you'll get to know the taste of Pantang.

Its appearance is crystal clear and it tastes sweet and smooth.

It’s also good to take home ready-made products or water chestnut powder and DIY it (the preparation method is quite simple) and make it for your family!

Where to buy: Pantang Horseshoe Cake Shop, next to No. 152, Longjin West Road, by Liwan Lake. 03 Cantonese-style cured meats: sausages, bacon. There is a saying in Guangdong: when the autumn wind blows, eat cured meats.

Every autumn, the cured meat shops on the streets of Guangzhou are always crowded with people.

According to legend, during the Xia Dynasty, people worshiped the gods together in the twelfth month of the lunar calendar, which was called "La", so December was also called the twelfth month.

As a traditional food of Cantonese people, cured meat was actually created by the ancients in order to enjoy meat during long journeys. Therefore, cured sausages have the advantages of being easy to carry, rich in flavor and easy to cook.

There are many kinds of cured food. In principle, all meats can be cured. The cured meat has a rich aroma, sweet and salty taste. Cured meat has become a part of Chinese food culture.

Purchase location: Emperor, Guangzhou Restaurant 04 Cantonese snacks: Chicken Gong Lan Chicken Gong Lan is a traditional snack. It is actually the Guangdong specialty white olive. It is made of fine white olives and is pickled and processed through complex techniques.

Some are sweet, some are salty, and some are spicy.

The sweet one is Heshun olives, the salty one is licorice olives, and the spicy one is chili peppers.

Jigonglan is sweet and crispy in the mouth and has an endless aftertaste. It is a traditional candy widely loved by Guangzhou people.

In fact, the name of Jigong Olive originated from the fact that in order to attract the attention of customers, olive sellers put a colorful paper-made big rooster model on their body, blew the suona and sold olives through the streets.

Chicken Gong Lan is perfect as a souvenir.

Where to buy: 05 Cantonese-style herbal tea along Shangxiajiu Road Guangdong’s soil and water are hot and humid. Whenever the seasons change or you occasionally eat fried food, you will inevitably get angry.

Therefore, many Cantonese people have the habit of drinking herbal tea.

Guangzhou herbal tea has a long history.

It is formulated with many Chinese herbal medicines, including honeysuckle, wild chrysanthemum, frangipani, mulberry leaves, kapok, etc.

There are many varieties, including the famous Wanglaoji herbal tea and Huang Zhenlong herbal tea.

There are herbal tea shops in many places in Guangzhou, such as Ping'an Tang, Huang Zhenlong Herbal Tea Shop, Li Xuezhen Herbal Tea Shop, Deng Lao Herbal Tea and so on.

It is sold in cans, so you can take a few bottles back as souvenirs.

Where to buy: Available in various places undefined Well, the inventory ends here.

The weekend is here too. Young people can taste Guangzhou’s authentic delicacies and visit the “Guangzhou Time-honored Street” in Liwan District. Don’t forget to send souvenirs to your relatives and friends.