1. jiaozi. Jiaozi is used to eating in northern off-year evenings, which means to see the Kitchen God off and to "see off the windward side of jiaozi". When offering, jiaozi should be put on the platform. In addition, there is a folk saying that "it's delicious but not as good as jiaozi". During the Spring Festival, jiaozi has become an indispensable food.

2. Sticky cakes. There is a folk song "Twenty-three, Sticking Cake Sticking" in Luxi area of Shandong Province. Every year on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, it is the day when every family steamed sticky cakes and ate sticky cakes, which means to stick the mouth of the kitchen king and let him say good things in heaven instead of bad things in the world. Sticky cakes are made of yellow rice and red dates, which are sweet and strong, and the entrance is soft, taking the meaning of "high year after year". In addition, Hainan people use coconuts as ingredients to make coconut cakes for eating and praying, which means "high every year".

3, sesame sugar. There is a saying in the northwest of Shanxi that "if you eat sesame candy for twenty-three, you can't eat sesame candy and chew your fingers". It is said that off-year is the day when the kitchen god goes to heaven, and he will report to the Heaven Emperor about the food and clothing consumption of the world in the past year and other things that the Heaven Emperor wants to know. That's Kitchen God's debriefing day? Eating sesame candy is to make the kitchen god's mouth stuck with sugar, and he can't report the delicious and luxurious scenes of the world to the sky, so as not to punish people who love to eat and drink-the New Year brings famine and hopes for a safe and prosperous year.

4. Rice cakes. On the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, people commonly call it "off-year", and people in Wuxuan, Guiping and other places in Guangxi have the custom of making rice cakes. Rice cake is made of glutinous rice flour as the main ingredient, peanuts, sesame seeds and sugar as the ingredients, put into a mold and made into a round shape, and then steamed at high temperature, which has a unique flavor and a meaning of "round and round".