1. Orchid Cake
The store is located at Zhu’s Western Pastry at the north end of Heping Road. The young owner Zhu Ruoyu has 5 years of experience in making noodles. He not only sells birthday cakes, bread and Western-style snacks, but also sells multi-grain pastries. The pastry chef is making orchid cakes on site, and small sesame pancakes are baking in the oven. When the orchid cake was ready, the sesame cake was just baked and came out of the basket. The smell of sesame attracted many passers-by to stop and watch.
2. Orchid Candy Cake
“Eat Orchid Cake on the Orchid Festival”, this is the slogan of the orchid candy cake stall owner of Pratunam fast food restaurant to attract customers.
Lai Suzhen, who has been in the catering business for many years, is very clever and can make a variety of snacks, but her best one is her sweet-scented osmanthus candy cake. The recipe of her sweet-scented osmanthus sugar cake is taken from Longyou sugar cake, but it also has local characteristics of Lanxi. When she learned that Lanxi was going to hold an orchid festival, she immediately thought of a new idea: Why not make Lanxi candy cakes?
Lai Suzhen’s orchid sugar cake uses red and green silk to create an orchid pattern on the surface of the cake covered with osmanthus, accompanied by green leaves and red flowers. As soon as the orchid sugar cake comes out of the cage, it will be sold immediately Customers gathered around and in just over two hours, 16 cages were sold.
Lai Suzhen said that if customers like it, her orchid candy cake will continue to be a brand after the Orchid Festival. Developing Lanxi culture is also her wish as an ordinary citizen.
3. Phoenix eggs
Phoenix eggs occupy a certain position in the minds of Lanxi people. It is said that phoenix eggs are nutritious and are also a folk remedy for headaches. Therefore, people who like to eat them are Not a few.
It is said that the folk custom of eating phoenix eggs in Jinhua and Lanxi is related to Emperor Qianlong. Emperor Qianlong went down to the south of the Yangtze River and got separated from his entourage in the Jinhua and Lanxi areas. He was hungry and tired while walking alone, so he stopped at a farmhouse by the road to beg for something to satisfy his hunger. The peasant woman's family was so poor that she had nothing else, so she took out a few eggs that were hatching in the chicken coop and cooked them for him to eat. Unexpectedly, Qianlong found it more delicious the more he ate it, and named it "Phoenix Egg".
In the food street, the aroma of freshly cooked phoenix eggs immediately attracted many customers. The owner of Phoenix Eggs is Zheng Jianhua. He is 31 years old this year. He used to sell braised food. Every spring when Phoenix eggs are put on the market in large quantities, he also sells Phoenix eggs. Because of his skill in making braised meat, the phoenix eggs he cooked were particularly delicious, and his business was booming.
4. Youbu Crispy Cake
The freshly baked Youbu Crispy Cake is crispy and fragrant, and it will leave a lasting fragrance on your teeth and cheeks once you take a bite. Nowadays, Youbu shortbread is not only popular in the local area, but also famous. Many Youbu people make money by making shortbread when they go out.
For Zhu Minnan and his wife, they came to Lancheng to make shortbread 4 years ago. At the beginning, they rented a store of more than 10 square meters in the Beimen Market and could sell 200 yuan a day. There are many shortcakes, and business has been good. Last year they bought a storefront in District 4. The shortbread business has grown so much that they are so busy that they even hired a young man to help. This husband and wife shop is branded as "Youbu Crispy Cake". They said they couldn't destroy this brand. For this reason, they always selected fresh meat when making shortbread, and the dried vegetables were dried by the old mother herself. During the "Snacks Festival", their shortbread business was good. They sold two batches of nearly 200 shortbreads in one morning, and they still need to make two or three more batches.
5. Jinlong Beef Noodles
As a blend of northern and southern food cultures, beef noodles have always been popular in Lanxi, and Qingshijing and Qikai were once famous. On the food street of the Orchid Festival this time, the time-honored Jinlong Beef Noodles and Qikai Beef Noodles came to set up stalls to add to the excitement of the food street.
At the Jinlong Beef Noodle stall, the proprietress Jose Jun said that she and her husband have opened a restaurant in Xixi for nine years. The store’s signature is Jinlong Beef Noodles, and its specialty is also beef noodles. Based on the business tenet of being careful about the materials used and being honest, the business is getting more and more prosperous. One of the features of Jinlong Beef Noodles is that the noodles are Lanxi knife-cut noodles, which are soft and have a good texture. The second feature is that they use ingredients and fried beef as toppings for the soup noodles. Therefore, the cooked beef noodles are original and delicious.
6. Moon radish dumplings
On the food street, there are several stalls making radish dumplings, and the moon radish dumplings run by Chun Yinong Restaurant are known for their image. The name attracted us. Roll out the dough into a dough, wrap it in the filling, and then cut off the edge with the mouth of a bowl to form a half-moon shape. It can be made by most families and is the most popular food.
It has been open since 8 o'clock in the morning, and the business is good. In less than an hour, Moon Radish Tan sold fifty or sixty pieces. It took two large basins for the radish filling and kimchi filling, and the flour was also used. Made peace 4 times.
7. Guangming Steamed Buns
In the 1970s and 1980s, when it came to Guangming Dim Sum Shop, almost everyone knew about it.
The person who launched the "Guangming Baozi" brand on the food street is Wang Aidi, a veteran employee of the original Guangming Snack Bar. She mainly made wontons back then. She still remembers that after the Cultural Revolution, the county held a technical competition in the beverage and service industry at the lighting stadium, and she won the prize by making 500 wontons in 5 minutes. After retiring, she opened a Guangming snack bar on Heping Road, and hired Zhu Lanfang, a master chef from the original Guangming dim sum restaurant, and Li Liren, a second-level pastry chef from the former city beverage and service company, for guidance. Zhu Lanfang is 73 years old. He was famous for making steamed buns and chicken dumplings. Her fried chicken has thin, crispy skin and a unique flavor.
8. New Century Tangyuan
Wu Suxian, 47, has been making Tangyuan for 7 years. Her New Century Tangyuan uses exquisite ingredients, is fragrant and delicious, and enjoys a certain reputation among customers. reputation.
Wu Suxian said that her mother has good cooking skills and she has been influenced by her since she was a child. She was born in a farmer's family, grew up in a farmer's family, and married into a farmer's family. Tangyuan is the most traditional snack of the Lanxi farmer's family, and it is also what she is best at. Using the same raw materials, the taste she makes is more delicious than others.
Seven years ago, she came to the city to open a shop specializing in glutinous rice balls, and later added dumplings.
The filling of glutinous rice balls is made of traditional raw materials, including dried tofu and meat. In addition, the soup greens or radish or bamboo shoots or celery are added. The filling of the soup greens or celery is not soaked in water, but directly Chop it into pieces, mix with salt, squeeze out the bitter water, and wash it to maintain its unique fragrance. Wu Suxian said that she has very high requirements for raw materials and would rather buy better, more expensive ones and make less money than lose the brand. She now uses more than 500 tons of glutinous rice flour a year. She buys the glutinous rice and processes it herself, never buying ready-made rice.
9. Xiaozhou’s special wontons
Can small wontons make a big deal? The answer is yes. The "Xiaozhou Special Wonton" store located on the first floor of No. 41 Heping Road is determined to make wontons bigger.
The "Xiaozhou Special Wonton" store currently has nearly 20 varieties of wontons and Maigotas. The most expensive shrimp wontons are 8 yuan a bowl, and the cheapest fresh meat wontons are 1.5 yuan a bowl. Since the store opened on September 24, it has sold three to four hundred bowls of wontons every day, and business has been surprisingly good. The city has organized a "snack street", and the business of small shops has been booming these two days: they did the same business as the previous day in one noon.
Shop owner Cheng Yueming said that even though they are small wontons, the ingredients are very particular. In order to make the wonton meat filling suitable for the taste of local customers, he went to Hangzhou and Shanghai to learn the craftsmanship, and repeatedly explored the mixture, so that he could constantly innovate the patterns. He said that there is a Jixiang Wonton shop in Shanghai that has as many as 108 varieties of wontons, and he is preparing to gradually increase the variety of wontons. In order to let more people eat his special wontons, he plans to open multiple chain stores in Lancheng next! ! 10. Pontoon Claypot Restaurant
The Pontoon Claypot Restaurant, which opened in July this year, is currently the leader among many clay pot restaurants. First, because it has many varieties, there are currently 8 varieties including local dog pot, fish head pot, dragon and phoenix pot, rooster pot, carcass pot, pork chop pot, duck pot, and black fish pot. Among them, dragon and phoenix pot and rooster pot are orchid. It is the first original creation in the city; secondly, it has complete ingredients, with more than 20 kinds of ingredients and seasonings, rich aroma, thick juice and rich ingredients. Therefore, the Pontoon Claypot has captured most of Lancheng's market share as soon as it opened. On the pontoon, it has a cruise ship, more than 10 yurts, and up to 20 tables, which can accommodate more than 200 customers.
On the food street, the owner of Pontoon Claypot told reporters that he was confident to participate in the "Top Ten Famous Snacks in Lancheng".
11. Huizhou Bean Yellow Cake
Huizhou Bean Yellow Cake, which was rated as one of the "Top Ten Famous Snacks of Lanxi", has become a new highlight of the Orchid Festival Food Festival this time. Wu Hexiang, owner of the Huizhou Douhuang Cake stall, said that Huizhou Douhuang Cake was originally a famous snack in Huizhou. As a place where Huizhou merchants live, Lanxi, this snack has become a favorite of the people in Lanxi.