Jinghai County is a county with a long history. The special humanities and landforms have allowed Jinghai County to produce unique products and distinctive snacks. There are many specialties and snacks in Jinghai County, such as golden jujubes, Duliu old vinegar, green hemp leaf Chinese cabbage, Taitou watermelon, crispy fried rolls, Caoji donkey meat, fried grasshoppers, Wangkou roasted seeds and nuts, etc. There are too many to mention

The following is a general introduction to these special snacks;

Jinghai golden jujube

As one of the most popular Chinese golden jujubes, Township, Jinghai County, Tianjin City, the cultivation history of golden jujube has been more than 600 years. Jinghai Golden Silk Jujube has sweet meat, juicy juice, bright appearance, bright red color, thin skin and lots of flesh. The ripe flesh is often connected with golden threads after being torn open.

Duliu Old Vinegar

Jinghai’s Duliu Old Vinegar is one of the three traditional famous vinegars. It was a tribute to the royal court during the Kangxi period. Duliu old vinegar uses a traditional formula to ferment high-quality red beams, millet, rice, peas, wheat, etc. in a special way. After maturation, it is naturally dried for three years. The old vinegar brewed using traditional techniques has a red color. Yuk, rich and layered taste, natural with no additives, no side effects on the body, and rich in vitamins and trace elements, which can be stored for a long time.

Chinese cabbage with green hemp leaves

The Chinese cabbage grown in Jinghai County is of excellent quality. It not only has delicate leaves, thin sides, less fiber in the leaves, but also has a refreshing and delicious taste. It is also rich in nutrients, with more vitamins, carotene, protein, minerals, etc. Green hemp leaf Chinese cabbage has an excellent taste and can be eaten in a variety of ways, including steaming, cold dressing, pickling, and soup.

Taitou Watermelon

Taitou Town, Jinghai County, Tianjin City, has been known as the "land of plenty" since ancient times. In particular, the abundant watermelon is favored by consumers in Beijing and Tianjin. Taitou watermelon has a history of thousands of years. The clear and sweet Daqing River water, fertile black soil and excellent climatic conditions have cultivated high-quality, green and pollution-free Taitou watermelon. The skin is thin, the flesh is crispy, and the taste is sweet.

Fried vegetarian rings

Use tofu skin as the skin, and mix mung bean vegetables, dried fragrant rice noodles, coriander with sesame paste, fermented bean curd, sesame oil, minced ginger and other condiments to make the filling. Then put the stuffing on the skin, roll it up and cut it into sections, stick the batter on both ends and fry it in a pan. Fried vegetarian rolls, golden in color, crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, light and delicious, are a unique snack in Tianjin.

Cao Ji Donkey Meat

It is named after the founder’s surname Cao and has a history of more than 200 years. It selects fresh and high-quality donkey meat, mixed with a variety of spices, and slowly cooked in a pot for seven to eight hours. It is rich in protein, crispy and easy to chew, delicious and famous far and wide.

Wangkou Roasted Seeds

Wangkou Town, Jinghai, Tianjin is a roasted seed base with many varieties, mainly black and white melon seeds, sunflower seeds, fried broad beans, various peanut products, and dried fruits, such as open pine nuts. , open almonds, large hazelnuts, etc., with a wide range of varieties, and various raw products are wholesale.

Fried grasshopper

is a snack in Jinghai. Grasshoppers, whose scientific name is locusts, are extremely harmful to crops. When a locust plague strikes, in a matter of seconds, the ants covering the sky and the earth will eat up all the crops in the field. In the past, rural areas in the north suffered greatly from it, and people in Tianjin hated it to the point of "peeling its skin and eating its flesh." Over time, the locusts were not eradicated, but they developed a famous snack. It would be a pity not to eat fried grasshoppers while visiting Jincheng.

Every mid-autumn season, grasshoppers eat newly cooked grains and become increasingly plump. This is the time when grasshoppers eat the most. If it's too early, the grasshopper won't be fat and has no seeds; if it's too late, the grasshopper will be old and its skin will be thick and unpalatable.

The specific method of making fried grasshoppers: pull off the wings of live grasshoppers and remove the thighs; when the oil pan is boiling, fry the grasshoppers until they turn yellowish brown and remove the oil. Prepare a clay pot with soy sauce, vinegar, and sesame oil in advance, and put some shredded onions and garlic in it. Soak the fried grasshoppers in a clay pot, scoop them out twice and dry them. When selling, add a little green onion and garlic on the surface. Fried grasshoppers are fat but not greasy, crispy, fragrant and crispy. If sandwiched in freshly cooked hot cakes, it will be full of aroma and taste great. Therefore, there is a popular saying in Tianjin Wei, "Fried grasshoppers rolled in pancakes - eat them at home!

Postscript: Among the many special snacks introduced, only fried grasshoppers are the only one The introduction is more detailed because this snack has disappeared.

Locust plague is the enemy of agriculture. After decades of scientific management, locusts have been basically controlled. The possibility of locust plague is extremely slim. Without the locust plague, the source of raw materials for fried grasshoppers would be cut off, and the hope of eating fried grasshoppers again would be slim. Old people who had eaten this taste when they were young sometimes took a small basket to the wilds of Kaiwa to catch dozens of grasshoppers in order to re-experience the old taste. They came back and fried them for dinner and dinner, which gave them a unique taste and fun.