What are the famous snacks in Yangzhou?

Shepherd's purse spring rolls, crab roe braised noodles, sandwich buns, thousand-layer oil cake, and jade siomai.

1. Shepherd’s purse spring rolls.

It is made with shepherd's purse as the main raw material. Shepherd's purse spring rolls evolved from the "spring plate" of the Tang Dynasty and the "spring pancake" of the Song Dynasty. "Spring plate with thin lettuce" and "plate with shepherd's purse and spring cake" refer to this.

2. Braised noodles with crab roe.

Yechun’s Crab Roe Noodles is a famous snack. Like the crab roe in Crab Roe Noodles, you must peel the crab roe by hand and fry it with lard to get the aroma and the flavor of the noodles will be in place.

3. Three Ding Bao.

Sanding buns are a famous snack in Yangzhou, famous for their fermented flour and fine filling. The flour used for fermentation is "as white as snow", and the dough is soft and tough, and will not stick to your teeth when eaten.

4. Thousand-layer oil cake.

Thousand-layer oil cake is a famous traditional snack in Yangzhou City, Jiangsu Province. It is made by slow fermentation method and is soft, sweet and tender with clear layers. Diamond-shaped block, hibiscus color, translucent, the cake is divided into 64 layers, with alternating layers of sugar and oil. The surface of the cake is covered with red and green silk. It looks fresh and pleasing to the eye, and is soft and sweet to eat.

5. Jade Siomai.

Jade Siomai is a traditional local snack in Jiangsu Province, pioneered by Chen Buyun, the founder of Fuchun Tea House in Yangzhou City. "If you want sweetness, put salt first." Adding salt adds freshness and sweetness, and can maintain chlorophyll. This is one of Yangzhou’s dim sum specialties. The skin is thin, the filling is green, the color is like jade, the sugar oil fills the mouth, and it is sweet and fragrant.

Baidu Encyclopedia - Fuchun Tea House

People's Daily Online - There are more than 500 kinds of snacks in Yangzhou. There are records of dim sum masters in the Song Dynasty