What are the special snacks in Songjiang, Shanghai?

Shanghai is a municipality directly under the central government of China, and it is also the central city and economic center of China. Shanghai has its own unique Shanghai style culture, and its food is also quite unique. It is located in Songjiang District, the "root of Shanghai" in the southwest of Shanghai, and its food flavor is even richer. If you want to know more about the food in Songjiang District, let's take a look at it together with this food culture.

Manongkou Dried Bean Curd

Manongkou Dried Bean Curd is a traditional local product of Songjiang, an ancient city. It has a history of more than 111 years, and is full of toughness, elasticity, delicious chewing, fresh aftertaste, cold salad, diced, sliced and shredded with Malan and celery, and has a unique flavor. It is a good product for traveling abroad. Ingredients: high-quality soybeans, sugar, specially brewed bean paste, yellow wine, refined salt and spices.

Jiuting pickles

Songjiang Jiuting time-honored pickles are produced in Songjiang, the root of Shanghai, and its "refreshing heart and endless aftertaste" is well-known in Shencheng. And with "Songjiang orchid" and "Songjiang orchid eggplant", it is called the "three treasures" in Songjiang local dishes.

pickles use traditional production technology and scientific formula concept, and on the basis of the original, it highlights the characteristics of "fragrance" and "crispness". A new series of packaged products, integrating environmental protection and leisure. No additives, reflecting its natural taste. It is an ideal product for tourists to commemorate and give gifts to relatives and friends.

peasant soil cake

Songjiang has been a famous land of fish and rice in the south of the Yangtze River since ancient times. The climate here is pleasant and the rainfall is abundant, which is very suitable for the growth of various crops. Therefore, the high-quality rice is famous all over the world. In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Songjiang Cang Qiao area became the center of official grain storage and transportation and grain trading, and became a veritable "granary under the world" at that time.

Every Spring Festival, farmers living in Songjiang have a custom, that is, they use high-quality glutinous rice, a local specialty, to grind it into a unique earth cake to eat, and it becomes an auspicious thing to give to relatives and friends, which means "cake" will make them rich, hoping to bring good luck to everyone in the new year.

The farmer's earth cake is made of high-quality glutinous rice, which is made by hand through ancient procedures such as digging, grinding, drying, rubbing and steaming. The cake is white and transparent in color, smooth and waxy in mouth, sweet and elastic, and contains a variety of trace elements needed by human body. It is extremely rich in nutrition and unique in taste, so it has been widely circulated for thousands of years. Its strong local flavor has created a unique local product and has become a gift today.