Snacks are a general term for a type of food with specific taste characteristics, which can be used as an embellishment during banquets or as the main food for breakfast or late-night snacks. There are various snacks all over the world, which vary according to local customs, have distinctive characteristics and unique flavors. Snacks are made from local materials, which can highlight the local material culture and social life style. They are an indispensable and important feature of a region, and they are also the main object of nostalgia for their hometown for those who have left their hometown. Modern people usually do not eat snacks to satisfy their hunger. In addition to satisfying their cravings, tasting snacks with exotic flavors can also help them understand local customs. There are also some people who cannot eat too much due to small appetite or illness. Three meals are not enough to supply necessary nutrients, and they need to eat some extra snacks after the main meal. Snacks are usually sold at a low starting point and the price is not high, so ordinary people can afford them

Snacks Close-up 2 (15 photos) The bigger the bigger the snacks, coupled with the work pressure, people began to abandon the main meals and favor snacks. Because there is no need to pay attention to etiquette for snacks, you can easily solve your hunger problem at any time. However, because snacks are not comprehensive in nutrition and are convenient and can be taken at any time, snacks are also a common cause of obesity.

In China, snacks are usually not served as family meals. People will buy them at snack bars or snack stalls. However, in Taiwan, Singapore and other places, snacks are often used as a substitute for meals. Therefore, some people choose to run food stalls as a profession. Some food stalls or stalls that are particularly famous and cater to popular tastes have long queues of diners.

Nanjing snacks

Introduction

Lotus root starch dumplings

Nanjing snacks have a long history and many varieties. They have been spread since the Six Dynasties. It has a history of thousands of years and more than 100 varieties. Famous snacks include meat and vegetables, sweet and salty, and come in various shapes. Among them, the representative snacks are from the Confucius Temple area on the Qinhuai River. Its snacks are one of the four snack groups in China. The snacks in Confucius Temple may have originated from the Qinhuai River in those days. The boat has fine craftsmanship, beautiful shape, exquisite selection of materials and unique flavor. After years of hard work, the snacks produced by seven of the dim sum shops were appraised by experts, and eight sets of Qinhuai-style snacks were officially named "Qinhuai Eight Wonders". In addition to Confucius Temple, relatively concentrated dim sum and snack groups have gradually formed in Hunan Road, Xinjiekou, Chaotian Palace, Changle Road, Shanxi Road, Zhongyangmen, Huimin Bridge, Yanziji and other places.

Confucius Temple Snacks

Nanjing Confucius Temple Snack Group is located on the bank of the prosperous Qinhuai River. The snack vendors here sell fried dried tofu, tofu curd, five-spice braised dried noodles, five-spice tea eggs, turtle seeds, crispy sesame cakes, xiaolongbao dumplings, thousand-layer oil cakes, Huafei Sijiwang hot and sour noodles, and various toppings. Style soup noodles and other varieties are cheap and high-quality, especially the colorful dim sum with matching baskets are most popular among consumers.

Representatives include steamed buns, ramen, pizza, scallion pancakes, tofu dumplings, soup noodle dumplings, vegetable buns, butter sesame cakes, sweet bean paste buns, shredded chicken noodles, spring rolls, sesame cakes, beef soup, and steamed buns. Dumplings, pressed noodles, crab roe noodles, long fish noodles, beef pot stickers, braised dried noodles, braised tea eggs, sugar porridge lotus root, etc.

The Eight Wonders of Qinhuai

The first: Huangqiao Shaobing and Kaiyang Dried Silk in Yonghe Garden

Nanjing Tofu Nao

The second The best: Jiang Youji’s beef soup and beef pot stickers

The third best: Liufengju’s tofu and scallion pancakes

The fourth best: Qifangge’s duck fat crispy pancakes and Assorted vegetable buns

Fifth wonder: Qifangge’s dried shredded sesame oil and shredded chicken noodles

Sixth wonder: Lianhu cake shop’s sweet-scented osmanthus-filled dumplings and five-color dumplings Small cakes

The seventh wonder: Zhanyuan Noodle House’s smoked fish silver noodles and thin-skin dumplings

The eighth wonder: Kuiguang Pavilion’s spiced beans and spiced eggs

Suzhou Xuanmiaoguan snacks have a long history and rich and diverse snack culture. Xuanmiaoguan Snack Group is located on Guanqian Street in downtown Suzhou. It integrates Suzhou dim sum and snacks in one store. The famous ones include Liao Spare Ribs’ five-spice pork ribs, Shengmeizhai’s chicken and duck blood soup, Xiao Youtian’s lotus root starch dumplings, and fried crispy beans. Sugar porridge, etc., in addition to Qianzhang steamed buns, various Soviet-style noodles from Guanzhenxing Noodle House, vegetarian vegetable steamed buns, etc.; in addition, there are also varieties for people to eat after tea and wine: salted cauliflower, pickled huangtou, peeled Youjiu fruit jade, oily soybeans, soy sauce snails, oily stinky tofu, oily rice cakes, baked potatoes, oily rice dumplings, etc. are all cheap, high-quality snacks with a strong Jiangnan flavor.

Representatives include (1) Plum Blossom Cake/Begonia Cake; (2) Glutinous rice balls; (3)

Plum Blossom Cake

Radish Cake; (4) Triangular buns; (5) Shrimp roe fish; (6) Rose melon seeds; (7) Lu Changxing Xianggu noodles; (8) Zhu Hongxing stuffed pork noodles; (9) Songhelou braised duck noodles; (10) Danzi sugar porridge, Eight-treasure porridge; (11) Dried tofu with honey sauce; (12) Pine nut rice dumpling candy; (13) Lamb with books; (14) Huang Tianyuan cake, lard salty cake; (15) Zhenyuan fried, mute fried, Shantang Huangtianyuan Fried; (16) Yichangfu steamed buns, Nanyuan steamed buns; (17) Luyang wontons, Luyang crab roe steamed buns; (18) Date paste sesame cakes; (19) Jasmine tea, Biluochun tea; (20) Osmanthus fermented rice; 21) Lu Gao Jian Sauce Pork (the only time-honored brand with "Lu Gao Jian" as its registered trademark during the Shi and Kangxi years); (22) Yipin Xianglu

There are many famous snacks in Gusu, and they taste sweet, soft, and glutinous. . Pan-fried steamed buns with yellow crab shells and a tiger claw twisted into a stick. Thousand layer cake, egg stone coating, flatbread, deep-fried dough sticks and tofu paste. Scallion pancakes rolled with scallion oil are economical and affordable.

Mushroom and vegetable buns, bean paste buns, and steamed steamed buns with meat. I went to Liuyilou to buy yeast. Be careful when you put a little bit in the oil. Tea eggs, cooked lotus root, large and small wontons and soup dumplings. Tall steamed buns with gingerbread, cheap price and full belly.

Sesame paste, sugared taro and white sugar dumplings. Chicken and duck blood soup, tofu pudding, spring rolls, siomai and eight-treasure rice. The glutinous rice is filled with fillings and you can choose from various toppings. The pot stickers and dumplings are fragrant, and the sweet-scented osmanthus and lotus root colorful crabapple cakes are delicious.

Stinky tofu and dried rice balls, shredded radish cake triangular buns. Honey cake, square cake, tiaotou cake, lard rice cake, sugar rice cake. Rice dumplings, sesame dumplings, rice dumplings, double stuffed dumplings and pumpkin dumplings. The fermented glutinous rice in the wine garden is sweet, and the Dingsheng cake is plum blossom cake.

Tuk-Tuk-Tuk-Tuk sells sugar porridge, so don’t think about running away while eating. Red bean rice dumplings are nutritious, and meat rice dumplings are salty and delicious. Chicken head rice, lotus seed soup, sugar-fried chestnuts and osmanthus fragrant. Date paste sesame cake is a specialty, and marinated dried beans are famous.

Baoding snacks

Dacige sesame oil