Specialty restaurants often visited by Chengde people

Chengde’s specialty snacks include: Shaomai, noodles, eight-treasure rice, Erxianju bowls, white buckwheat noodles, cakes, donkey rolls, scones, pancake boxes, oatmeal snacks, and Ba Gou scones, mutton soup, rose cakes, Nansha cakes, fruit peony cakes, etc. , with unique local characteristics. Jiantuo Chengde is rich in buckwheat; buckwheat noodles are a traditional local snack in Chengde with a history of more than 200 years. During the Qianlong period, when the emperor inspected Rehe, fried bowls were deeply loved by the accompanying queen. The raw materials of stir-fried bowls include buckwheat noodles, mung bean flour, five-spice noodles, pepper noodles, etc. It is characterized by rich nutrition, sour, spicy, fragrant and smooth. It is an economical and affordable popular food. The taste is unique and increases appetite. Northern Chinese people are accustomed to calling many kinds of noodles "popo". The production methods are divided into steaming, roasting, baking and boiling. Chengde area has a long history of making various pastries. It is said that Kangxi, Qianlong and later emperors came to the summer resort every year and almost all had cakes. In recent years, convenience food has become more and more popular, and most hotels in urban areas are selling cakes. The most popular pastry in Chengde is shortbread, which is characterized by crispy, soft and multi-layered pastries. Baked cake, baked cake is a traditional food made by Chengde people by grinding local rice into flour and then baking it. Together with rice cakes, bean buns and pancakes, they are called the "Four Auspicious Cake". Every household in the Chengde mountainous area makes pastries during the slack farming season of the twelfth lunar month. The baked cake is tender on the outside and fragrant on the inside. Flowers, Roses, Cake Roses are not only famous flowers outside the Great Wall, but also the city flower of Chengde City. Using roses to make snacks has a history of nearly 300 years in Chengde. According to historical records, whenever Kangxi came to Chengde to escape the summer heat or go hunting in the paddocks, he would enjoy this cake as a special food. The rose cake is beautiful in shape, bright in color, soft and crispy, and has an attractive aroma of hungry roses. It is a good gift for relatives and friends. Chengde cuisine is the representative of Forbidden City cuisine. Different from the Forbidden City cuisine in Beijing, Chengde cuisine is mainly based on mountain delicacies and game, including dry stir-fried and fragrant stir-fried. Famous flavor dishes include: Hingquan frozen rabbit meat, Qinglong mandarin fish, spiced venison, fried pheasant rolls, game hot pot, etc. There are also roasted venison, roe deer meat, pheasant meat, etc. , usually around tens of yuan per plate (Chengde restaurants divide the plates into large and small, about one foot large and seven inches small). The cattail venison and fragrant cooked venison skewers in the snacks are both great, and they only cost four or five yuan each, so they are worth a try. There are many specialty restaurants on the street south of the Summer Resort, with simple and elegant decoration, where you can taste local specialties. As a border city close to the dam, Chengde also has a special food, noodles. Oat flour is a coarse grain and is slightly dark in color. Roll the local oat flour into a skin and then roll it into a roll, steam it in a pot, and dip it in some marinade when eating. It will be sticky and slippery in the mouth. Oatmeal dumplings also have their own flavor, especially the dumplings, a kind of pickled cabbage filling, have a unique flavor. There is a stall selling roasted old corn on Chengde Street at night, and the aroma is fragrant. Chengde's specialty steam pot game and eight immortals uses high-quality delicacies from the mountains and seas as raw materials, such as roe deer meat, pheasant breast, hare, winter bamboo shoots, mushrooms, green peppers, etc., based on the characteristics of the pot's good sealing and easy cooking. , put into the pot and steam. When it comes out of the pot, it has the original flavor, the soup is fresh and clear, and the meat is crispy and mellow. Chengde Snack Buckwheat Noodle Lehe is one of the three unique noodle dishes in the north, and is as famous as Beijing Ramen and Sliced ??Noodles. Buckwheat noodles are divided into white buckwheat noodles and black buckwheat noodles. They are a traditional crop in Chengde, especially Bashang area. The pasta made with it is smooth and gluten-free. Chengde specialty dish Yu Tu Lotus Leaf Chicken is derived from "Beggar Chicken" and is made similar to Beggar Chicken. First, take out the internal organs of the slaughtered raw chicken, then wash it, cover it with lotus leaves, paste it with yellow mud, put it on the fire and cook it, throw away the mud, and then the chicken feathers fall off. Because Chengde's unique loess from the palace, Rehe spring water, and lotus leaves from the lake are used as auxiliary materials, it is named "Royal Lotus Leaf Chicken". Lotus seed chicken is delicious, especially the faint, seemingly absent fragrance of lotus leaves, which will whet your appetite and leave you with a long aftertaste.