Chengde's specialty foods include Bowl Tuo, Pingquan mutton soup, snowballing usury, rose cake with flowers, and imperial palace cake.
1: Bowl Tuo
Bowl Tuo is the most common special snack in Chengde, which looks very similar to enema in Beijing and is eaten in a similar way. Bowl Tuo is made of buckwheat flour and pig blood, stirred and kneaded together, then heated and stirred into a paste, cut into a thin triangular shape after cooling, fried in an oil pan, put in a bowl with sesame sauce, garlic paste, monosodium glutamate and other seasonings, and then eaten with bamboo sticks. It tastes slippery, chewy and spicy.
2: Pingquan mutton soup
Pingquan mutton soup is a very famous specialty snack in Chengde area, and friends who like to drink mutton soup will definitely like it. Although many places have the craft of making mutton soup, the method of making mutton soup here in Pingquan is unique and very distinctive. They all choose mutton offal as the main material and cook it with sheep bones and sheep heads, and the unique craft and materials make Pingquan mutton soup more delicious.
three: snowballing usury
Many people think that snowballing usury is just a traditional snack in old Beijing. In fact, snowballing usury is also one of the most popular snacks in Chengde, Hebei. Chengde area is rich in yellow rice, and snowballing usury is made from this yellow rice, so naturally snowballing usury has become a traditional snack in Chengde.
Four: Flower Rose Cake
Flower Rose Cake is a famous specialty in Chengde City. It is made of local specialty roses and glutinous rice by local traditional crafts. It not only tastes sweet and soft, but also looks beautiful and attractive. Many people also give roses cakes as gifts to friends and relatives.
Five: Imperial Palace Cake
This name sounds like a good thing, which is one of the imperial palaces in the Qing Dynasty. The imperial palace cake is made of flour, white sugar, white oil, moss and roses. It looks golden in color and tastes crisp and sweet. Now this snack has been included in the ranks of China's intangible cultural heritage and is worth tasting.