What should I bring with me when I travel to Beijing?

There are more and more friends visiting Beijing. It is also an essential link to buy local specialties for friends and relatives, but how can we buy the most affordable and authentic specialties? Let's take a look.

liubiju pickles

there is a hutong called liangdian street outside the front door, and there is a shop near the street, which has a long history and is famous far and wide. this is liubiju pickles garden with a history of more than 45 years.

according to historical records, liubiju was founded in the 9th year of jiajing in Ming dynasty (ad 153). At first, it was a hotel. In order to ensure the mellow and sweet taste of wine, this workshop had formulated six operating rules: millet and rice must be neat, Zhan must be clean, ceramics must be good, heat must be good, and water springs must be fragrant. "Six Habitats" got its name.

At present, Liubiju pickles, which are bright red, fragrant and crisp, and have good color and taste, can be bought in all major vegetable markets in the city, so you don't have to bother to find them.

Beijing Crispy Sugar

Beijing Crispy Sugar is one of the three famous sweets in China (Shanghai Milk Sugar, Guangzhou Fruit Sugar and Beijing Crispy Sugar), among which red shrimp Crispy Sugar is the best. Crispy sugar has a long history in China, and crisp sugar in Beijing has always enjoyed a good reputation.

the characteristics of red shrimp crisp can be summarized as "crisp, crisp, fragrant and sweet". In the production, the essence of traditional craft is concentrated, and the materials are exquisite. All of them are made of high-quality Liuhua sugar, high-concentration glucose syrup and "Erba sesame sauce", which are boiled, pulled and folded for many times. This kind of sugar is thin and crisp, with clear layers of sugar stuffing, sweet and delicious to eat, and does not stick to teeth or greasy mouth, leaving no residue after eating. At present, all major supermarkets in Beijing have sales.

tuckahoe cake

tuckahoe cake was originally a court food in the late Qing dynasty.

according to legend, once Empress Dowager Cixi was ill and didn't think about food and drink, which was very difficult to break the imperial kitchen. Chefs racked their brains and selected several kinds of traditional Chinese medicines for invigorating spleen and appetizing, and found that Poria cocos, which is produced in Yunnan-Guizhou area, is sweet and flat, and has the effects of invigorating spleen, calming nerves, promoting diuresis and infiltrating dampness. Therefore, pine nuts, peach kernels, sweet-scented osmanthus and honey are used as the main raw materials, and a proper amount of poria powder is added, and then the crust is baked with fine starch, and the sandwich pancake is made by meticulous work. Cixi was very satisfied after eating. Later, this kind of tuckahoe sandwich cake was introduced to the people and became a popular snack in Beijing.

Daoxiangchun, a well-known flavor store with a history of more than 6 years, specializes in making tuckahoe cakes in Beijing as one of the key self-produced and self-sold varieties in our store. The sandwich cakes produced in this shop are exquisite in material selection and fine in workmanship. The crust baked with high-grade starch is as thin as paper and as white as snow, and the sandwich is made of a variety of nuts, supplemented by osmanthus fragrans, honey, white sugar and pure Yunnan-Guizhou Poria powder, which is sweet and delicious, instant in mouth, refreshing and palatable, and low in price, and can be used as health food for regular consumption.

Beijing preserved fruit

Preserved fruit and candied fruit are made from the imperial palace. In order to ensure that the emperor can eat fresh fruits all the year round, the chefs will classify the fruits produced in each season and soak them in honey so that the emperor can eat them at any time. Later, this production method spread from the palace, and there was a workshop specializing in the production of preserved fruit in Beijing.

Preserved Beijing fruits are moderately sweet and sour, refreshing and smooth, sweet but not greasy, with rich fruit flavor. There are thousands of varieties and hundreds of specifications of preserved apricot, preserved pear and begonia, all of which are recognized as green foods by the Ministry of Agriculture.

Beijing osmanthus aged wine

Osmanthus aged wine has a brewing history of more than 3, years in China.

In the book "Ji Sheng at the Age of Emperor Jing" written by Pan Rongbi in the early Qing Dynasty, it was recorded that his wine "selected the flowers to be released in August when osmanthus flowers were fragrant, and made into wine, which was sealed in the altar for three years before it became a good wine. The wine was sweet and mellow, with appetizing and refreshing effects ...".

Osmanthus fragrans aged wine brewed by Beijing Winery is a kind of high-grade nourishing beverage wine with no medicinal materials, which is based on fine white wine aged for many years and supplemented with Osmanthus fragrans as spice. Golden color, glittering and translucent Ming Che, delicious osmanthus fragrance and mellow wine, harmonious and rich aroma, mellow wine flavor, slightly sour and sweet, sweet and sour, full of fragrance, long aftertaste, elegant and pleasant after drinking, with the effects of relaxing muscles and tendons, promoting blood circulation, increasing calories, helping digestion, stimulating appetite and relieving fatigue.

Dim Sum in Daoxiang Village

In the 21st year of Guangxu in Qing Dynasty (AD 1895), Guo Yusheng, a native of Jinling, who had the unique skills and management strategy of Daoxiang Village, came to Beijing with a few guys and made the name "Daoxiang Village South Goods Store" in Qianmen Kannonji. Since then, Daoxiang Village has settled in Kyoto.

Daoxiang Village pays attention to "four seasons and three festivals", selling zongzi in Dragon Boat Festival, moon cakes in Mid-Autumn Festival, rice cakes in Spring Festival and Yuanxiao in Shangyuan. Pay attention to the authenticity of the materials, and the walnut kernel should be from Fenyang, Shanxi, because the peach kernel there is white and thick, rich in flavor and sweet to chew in the mouth; Roses should be from Miaofeng Mountain in the west of Beijing, because the roses there are thick petals and fragrant, and they must be picked with dew when the sun doesn't come out; Longan should be from Putian, Fujian; Ham should be from Jinhua, Zhejiang, and so on. The workmanship pays attention to "by the eyes" and "by the hands". For example, when the boiled sugar can be taken away depends on the experience of the master. One minute earlier, the heat is not reached, and one minute later, it is called "by the eyes"; "By hand" means cutting the boiled sugar into various shapes, which is all manual work.

Nowadays, not only exquisite cakes, fresh cooked meat, dozens of vegan palace dishes made of bean products, roasted seeds and nuts of dried fruits, but also traditional foods such as glutinous rice wine, rice cakes, fried red fruits, which are rare in other places, are mouth-watering. In addition, there are bright glass counters, small stainless steel clips specially used to collect money and change, and a salesperson is appointed to change it all year round. The business department of Daoxiang Village is crowded every day, which has already become the most lively scene in Beijing's business.

When visiting Beijing, don't forget to bring some snacks from Daoxiang Village to your friends and relatives.