Snacks near Fahua Pagoda in Jiading are covered with sesame cakes.
A snack near Fahua Pagoda, Jiading, with sesame seeds all over it is a sesame sugar cake. Sesame sugar cake is a kind of snack with crisp taste and moderate sweetness. It is round in shape and covered with sesame seeds. Sesame sugar cake is a traditional snack in Shanghai. Its main raw materials are sesame sugar and flour, and the production process includes stirring, kneading, rolling, stuffing, baking and so on. Sesame sugar cake needs to be baked many times in the production process, so that its surface is covered with layers of golden sesame seeds, and its taste is crisp and its aroma is overflowing.