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What are the specialties in Changzhou?

1, Changzhou sesame cake

Changzhou sesame cake is an oval sesame cake with unique taste and flavor, and it is also the favorite traditional food of Changzhou people. There are two flavors of salty and sweet for buyers to choose from. As soon as the qualified biscuits are baked, they are rich in flavor, yellow and moist in color but not burnt, moderate in salty and sweet but not greasy, crisp and delicious but not crisp, and good in color, smell and taste. ?

2. Crab shell yellow

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

3. Dried radish

People who have been to Changzhou will say, "There is a strange thing in Changzhou. Dried radish is an appetizer. " The difference between authentic Changzhou dried radish and other dried radish lies in that it uses the sweet and tender solid carrots produced by the new gate outside the west gate of Changzhou as raw materials, and the pickled dried radish is yellow and red in color, slightly sweet in salt, crispy and delicious.

4. Sesame candy

Sesame candy is a traditional famous spot in Changzhou, with a long history and unique flavor, such as strip, flat and cylindrical. According to legend, as early as the Tang Dynasty, the local people began to mix sugar and sesame seeds in caramelization to make a kind of hemp candy, called hemp candy. Changzhou sesame candy is milky white in color, bright and crystal clear, sweet and crisp, and has the functions of harmonizing stomach, relieving cough and treating constipation.

5. Changzhou pear paste sugar

Pear cream sugar is also the traditional name of Changzhou. The production technology of Changzhou pear paste sugar has become an intangible cultural heritage in Jiangsu Province. Its components are mostly composed of Chinese herbal medicines, such as invigorating qi and clearing fire, improving eyesight and tonifying kidney, clearing away the sound and relieving sore throat, relieving asthma and moistening lung. Comfortable taste, suitable for all ages.

6. Elonsu ham

Yilongsu ham is a traditional specialty of Changzhou Yilongsu restaurant, which was founded in 1932. Yilongsu ham is fragrant, fresh, tough and soft. Slice and sprinkle with sesame oil. It looks like ham. It is a regular dish for Changzhou people to eat wine and travel abroad ~

7, Tianmu Lake casserole fish head

Casserole fish head was founded in Tianmu Lake Hotel, Jiangsu Province, and has been carefully cooked by Jiangsu famous chef Zhu Shuncai for nearly 30 years. Now it is known as the best traditional dish in Jiangsu. The fish head cooked in Tianmu Lake casserole is made of silver carp head naturally raised in Tianmu Lake as raw material and pure natural Tianmu Lake as soup base, which is highly praised by food lovers for its excellent quality of "fresh but not fishy, fat but not greasy". It's vacuum packed and can be purchased?

8. Liyang Zhagan

Zhagan is a characteristic traditional dish in Liyang, and it is also one of the three treasures in Liyang (meatballs, peeled seeds with sauce, and Zhagan). She Zhu Town Heping Bridge area is the most authentic. A large piece of washed pork belly, pig liver, oily tofu and swollen dried bamboo shoots, and a small piece of pig small intestine. Add ingredients, bring to a boil with high fire, burn for another hour with medium fire, and collect the marinade, and "Liyang Zhagan" will be ready. (Vacuum packaging, available for purchase)

9. Liyang wind Goose

Wind goose is also a famous dish with traditional flavor in Liyang. The curing method of goose is very strange. Liyang has the best production technology. Cooked soup pot is famous for its color, fragrance and taste, fat but not greasy, mellow aftertaste, crisp and tender. It's vacuum packed and can be purchased?