What should a friend buy for his visit to Shanghai?

There are silk flower in Shanghai, Rufu in Beijing, Pear Cream Sugar, City God Temple Spiced Bean, Shanghai Gao Qiao Muffin, etc.

1, Shanghai silk flower

Silk flower, also known as Jinghua 'er, is a traditional handicraft with a long history and strong decorative color in China. 1700 years ago, China used silk to make flowers.

In the Tang Dynasty, silk flower was the main ornament for women. The picture of a lady wearing flowers by Zhou Fang, a painter in the Tang Dynasty, vividly reproduced the scene of women wearing flowers and colorful clothes in the palace.

2. Go to Beijing for milk rot

Beijing Rufu, also known as Beijing Nanqiao Rufu, is one of the characteristics of Shanghai. It is made of soybean and glutinous rice, and fermented after being made into tofu. Mainly divided into red milk rot, white milk rot and color milk rot.

Beijing-flavor milk rot, represented by Ding Feng's milk rot, flourished in Tongzhi period in the late Qing Dynasty. In 2007, Ding Feng fermented milk technology was included in the first batch of Shanghai intangible cultural heritage list (ⅷ-7).

3, pear cream sugar

Shanghai pear paste sugar is a traditional famous spot in Shanghai, one of the time-honored products in China, and a famous specialty.

Pear cream sugar is made of pure white sugar (excluding maltose, essence and pigment) and four kinds of domestic fine medicinal materials (such as almond, Fritillaria cirrhosa, Pinellia tuber and Poria) 14.

Taste as sweet as honey, loose and crisp, not greasy and sticky, fragrant and palatable, neat in blocks and beautiful in packaging. Because of its excellent quality and remarkable curative effect, it enjoys a good reputation at home and abroad and is deeply loved by men, women and children. Ordinary candy: it is made of white sugar, maltose, essence, pigment and so on.

4. City God Temple Spiced Bean

City God Temple spiced bean is a traditional snack in Shanghai. It is produced in China City God Temple, with exquisite materials and proper cooking. The raw materials used are specially selected from broad beans produced in Yuyao County, Zhejiang Province.

"If you don't taste the spiced beans of the Old Town God Temple, it won't be too big in Shanghai!" This is the unanimous evaluation of all Chinese and foreign tourists who come to Chenghuang Temple. The spiced bean skin of Chenghuang Temple is thin and fluffy, with even salt and frost, soft and chewy. It tastes delicious, tastes sweet and has no flavor.

5, Shanghai Gao Qiao muffins

Shanghai Gao Qiao muffin is a delicious and famous dish, which belongs to Shanghai cuisine. Produced in Gao Qiao Town, China. It is made of refined white powder, cooked lard, soft sugar, red beans and osmanthus. It tastes sweet and fat, crisp and refreshing. It is one of the four famous cakes in Gao Qiao (muffin, muffin, crisp and crisp). ?

Named after the crispy entrance. Also, because of the distinct layers of cakes, each layer is as thin as paper, so it is called Melaleuca Cake.