What are the delicious foods in Changzhou?

Famous Banquet with Local Characteristics

Dongpo Banquet in Longcheng

Su Dongpo (a famous poet, Zi Zizhan, named Dongpo Jushi), a native of Meishan, Meizhou, Northern Song Dynasty, is a writer, artist and politician in China, and also a real and out-and-out gourmet. He has been wandering from place to place all his life, and his official career has been ups and downs, and he has forged an indissoluble bond with Changzhou. Changzhou is Dongpo's final resting place and his second hometown. In order to promote national culture and develop tourism, Changzhou Hotel and the Municipal Federation of Literary and Art Circles studied Su Dongpo's food culture and art and developed the "Dragon City Dongpo Banquet".

The first part of the "Dragon City Dongpo Banquet" is Dongpo refreshments. The green tea is "Yangxian Gongcha" which Dongpo liked best at that time, and the black tea is "White Crane Oolong" which Dongpo planted in Lingnan that year. There are eight kinds of refreshments, such as Dongpo Fuling cake, Dongpo velvet cake and Chaoyun Chrysanthemum Crisp. The second part is Dongpo banquet wine. The white wine is LU ZHOU LAO JIAO CO.,LTD, Langjiu and Jinzhu Daqu, which have a long history and are produced in Dongpo's hometown. The sweet wine is Shaoxing aged wine that Dongpo likes to drink in Hangzhou or Tiandongmen wine or Guijiu brewed in Lingnan. The third part is Dongpo banquet dishes, which are divided into four series: Dongpo's life series famous dishes, Dongpo's poetry series famous dishes, Changzhou traditional series famous dishes and Dongpo's named dishes. Such as "Meishan alone", "a thousand miles * * * beautiful", "a grand view of writing", "Dongpo meat" and other * * 32.

Every dish of Dongpo Banquet has been carefully prepared by a famous chef, with light color, fragrant smell, refreshing taste and beautiful form, just like a three-dimensional work of art, giving people beautiful enjoyment.

Special snack

Sanxian wonton

The stuffing is made of shrimp, fresh green fish and fresh pork, so it is called "Sanxian". Wonton skin is made of refined white flour mixed with egg white and rolled, and wonton soup is stewed with fresh hens into chicken soup. Wonton skin is thin and smooth, the stuffing is fresh and tender, and the soup is clear and delicious.

shrimp cake

has a history of nearly 2 years. Yuan Mei, a litterateur in Qing Dynasty, wrote in "Eating List with the Garden": "Shrimp cake, raw shrimp meat, onion, salt, pepper, a little sweet wine, add water and flour, and sesame oil will burn thoroughly." Golden in color, crisp outside and tender inside, fragrant and delicious.

Hemp Cake

Changzhou Hemp Cake is an oval sesame cake with unique taste and flavor, and it is also the favorite traditional food of Changzhou people. When it is made, white flour, high-quality sesame seeds, white sugar, refined salt and other raw materials are selected and refined through multiple procedures such as kneading, stirring, kneading, stuffing, forming and baking. There are salty and sweet flavors for buyers to choose from. As soon as the sesame cake is baked, it is rich in fragrance, yellow in color, moderately salty and sweet, crisp and delicious, and good in color, aroma and taste. In the past, Changzhou hemp cake was often eaten by local people for breakfast. Nowadays, after reform and innovation, Changzhou hemp cake is beautifully packaged and easy to carry, and it has become a necessary gift for people to visit relatives and friends.

Silver noodles

Silver noodles is a special snack in Changzhou with a history of more than 3 years. With exquisite ingredients and strict operation procedures, it has the characteristics of fine noodles, white as silver, soft and smooth, and it won't paste in the pot. It is one of the varieties included in China Snacks Spectrum.

horseshoe cake

After the Taiping Army captured Changzhou in the tenth year of Xianfeng in Qing Dynasty (1961), a kind of shortbread shaped like horseshoe appeared among the people, which was intended to praise the achievements of Taiping Army. Horseshoe crisp is made of refined white flour, soft sugar, soybean oil and other raw materials, and is baked in a traditional furnace. Golden in color, sweet and crisp. It has been included in China Famous Menu.

Dried turnips

People who have been to Changzhou say, "There is a strange thing in Changzhou. Dried turnips are used as a kind of appetizer." Authentic Changzhou dried radish is really different from dried radish elsewhere. It is made of sweet and tender solid carrots produced by Xinzha Gate outside the west gate of Changzhou, washed and cut into strips, moderately dried, and then added with appropriate amount of salt, sugar and various auxiliary materials, and carefully pickled. Because of the excellent selection of materials, unique pickling process and unique seasoning, Changzhou dried radish is red in yellow, slightly sweet in salty, crispy and not spicy, and very delicious. And is inexpensive and convenient to carry. It is not only a side dish for people to eat, but also a snack after drinking and having a meal.

sesame candy

Changzhou sesame candy has a long history and unique flavor. According to legend, as early as the Tang Dynasty, the local people began to make a kind of sesame candy, called sesame candy, with caramel and sesame seeds. By the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, the wolf smoke was everywhere, and the nomads from the army invaded the south on a large scale. Zhao Gou, the King of Kang, fled from the capital city of Bianliang to the south, and was partial to the south of the Yangtze River. He blindly compromised and made peace, and he didn't want to recover the lost land in the north. The people are very resentful about this. At that time, I once wrote a poem: "When will the singing and dancing in the West Lake stop?" The warm wind makes tourists drunk and makes Hangzhou Bianzhou! " To vent their dissatisfaction. The common people in Changwu area use another form to express their desire to resist gold and recover lost land. They changed the spherical hemp candy into a cylindrical shape like a ware, and gave it to Kang Wang to inspire its courage to resist the rejuvenation of the country. It is not known whether Zhao Gou, the King of Kang, was inspired and courageous. However, Changzhou Sesame Sugar was made into a cylindrical shape from then on and continues to this day.

Changzhou sesame candy has fine selection of materials and exquisite production. Sesame is required to be covered with no skin, sealed at both ends without stuffing leakage, the sugar layer is not stiff, the taste is sweet and crisp, and it is not sticky to teeth. The color is white and bright, and the thickness and length are generally uniform, with just 2 sticks per catty. It is indeed a good gift for home travel and giving to relatives and friends.

Fermented Yuanxiao

Fermented Yuanxiao is one of the special snacks in Changzhou. People have the custom of eating Yuanxiao during the Spring Festival. More than 1 years ago, Pei Yugao added wine to the traditional Yuanxiao, creating the Yuanxiao with wine. Its characteristics: the dough is like jade grains, the wine is full of fragrance, the flavor is unique, and it is sweet and refreshing.

Crab shell yellow

Crab shell yellow is a local flavor snack in Changzhou, commonly known as Xiaoma cake, which is often used as a gift with hemp cake. There are four kinds of stuffing: shepherd's purse, onion oil, white sugar and bean paste with bright oil. Its characteristics: it is shaped like a crab shell, golden in color, oily but not greasy, crisp and crisp, sweet and mellow in sugar filling, and fresh in salty filling.

steamed buns with crabs

It was initiated by Wanhua Tea House in the south of Xiaoheyan pontoon bridge in the light-year period. Its characteristics: fat but not greasy, crab fragrant, delicious juice, thin and strong skin, tender, smooth and refreshing stuffing, accompanied by balsamic vinegar and ginger, and its taste is very good.

specialty catering enterprise

Daniang Dumplings

Jiangsu Daniang Dumplings Catering Co., Ltd. was founded in April 1996. It is a Chinese fast food chain enterprise that mainly produces dumplings, integrates the western fast food concept, and devotes itself to the popularization of prices, standardization of quality, modernization of management and internationalization of brands.

after more than eight years' efforts, the company has successively opened more than 12 chain stores in Jiangsu, Shanghai, Anhui, Beijing, Shandong, Zhejiang and Guangdong, and opened two chain stores in Jakarta, Indonesia. In 23, it invested more than 2 million yuan to set up a quick-frozen food production enterprise.

was listed as "Top Ten Famous Brand Enterprises of Chinese Fast Food Chain" by the Fast Food Committee of China Cuisine Association, and the trademark "Wu Auntie" was rated as a famous trademark in Jiangsu Province. "Auntie Dumplings" has now become the largest chain enterprise in China.

Lihua Fast Food

Lihua Fast Food Co., Ltd. was established in Changzhou, Jiangsu Province on April 8, 1993. It is a fast food enterprise different from traditional catering. She specializes in fast food delivery by means of technology and innovation. The product characteristics of Lihua fast food, such as "health, nutrition and quickness" and the quality service of "one delivery", have become the image symbol of Lihua enterprise and won wide praise from consumers.

Lihua fast food originated in Changzhou, took root in Beijing, marched into Dalian, rushed to Shanghai, and expanded the markets in Yangtze River Delta, Central Plains and Central South China. Now it has more than 8 fast food chain stores and has become the largest professional food delivery company in China, ranking among the top 1 catering enterprises in China and the top 1 Chinese fast food enterprises. Now it is the vice-president enterprise of China Fast Food Association.

Caigenxiang

Changzhou Caigenxiang Restaurant Co., Ltd., a famous Chinese restaurant and Jiangsu restaurant, is headquartered at No.541 Tongjiang Avenue in the new district. After several years of continuous development, it has now formed a large-scale enterprise focusing on catering and diversified management methods. The company has four formats: brand restaurant, fast food delivery, staff meals and lunch chain.

in order to carry forward Huaxia's catering culture and revive Huaiyang's cuisine, Caigenxiang Catering Co., Ltd. has been devoted to the development and innovation of local flavor and special dishes, and has created a number of gold-medal famous dishes with the characteristics of Caigenxiang, represented by China famous spots-Jiangnan Babao porridge and Changzhou Douzhai cake, a famous Chinese snack. Internal management was strengthened, production technology was strict, mechanized and standardized production and processing were implemented, and a production and processing center was established. Passed the examination and approval of four Chinese food standards and the certification of ISO 9: 2 international quality standard system. And many times by the provincial and municipal consumer associations as "integrity units."

through years of exploration, hard work and continuous innovation in the traditional catering industry, in order to deliver the delicious food of Caigenxiang's hometown to thousands of households in Longcheng, and realize the modernization goal of "family kitchen project" that Caigenxiang is your kitchen, Caigenxiang bento restaurants all over Changzhou business district and residential areas organically combine the three business models of eating in the hall, taking out food and sending out food, attracting people with unique Changzhou local flavor. The scene that Caigenxiang bento restaurant is full every day has become a beautiful landscape of Changzhou catering industry.