Guangzhou specialties include: Xiaofeng cake, wife cake, walnut cake, wedding girl cake, butterfly cake, abalone cake, sausage, bacon, cured duck, autumn wind, canned dace, water chestnut products, and bee products , tea, ginger milk, turtle paste, dried Lingnan fruit, lotus paste, five kernels, snowskin mooncakes, soy sauce, Zhuhou sauce, vinegar, soybean sauce, oyster sauce, fermented bean curd, Gongli and South Apricot Lean Meat Soup, Luo Han Guo Lean Broth soup, watercress and pork lung soup, bean curd and ginkgo pork tripe soup, etc.
1. Wife Cake
Wife Cake, also known as winter antler cake, is originally created by Guangzhou Lianxianglou. Legend has it that there used to be a loving couple, and the daughter-in-law was willing to sell herself to treat the family member’s illness. The husband who lost his wife was not discouraged and worked hard to develop a delicious cake. He eventually redeemed his wife by selling cakes and lived a happy life again. This delicacy preparation method is still known as "wife cake".
2. Walnut cake
Walnut cake is a famous snack, formerly known as walnut cake. It is produced in both northern and southern China. The taste of walnut cakes produced in different places of origin is different. Among them, the walnut cakes produced in Beijing, Jiangxi, Guangdong, Yunnan and Taiwan are the most famous.
3. Wedding cakes
It is said that the earliest distribution of wedding cakes began in the Three Kingdoms period. At that time, in order to take back Jingzhou, which Liu Bei had lent, Sun Quan accepted Zhou Yu's "beauty trick" and pretended to marry his sister to Liu Bei, who had just been widowed, and took Liu Bei to Soochow to get married.
4. Guangzhou Restaurant (Autumn Wind)
“Guangzhou Restaurant”, “Likoufu”, “Autumn Wind” and other trademarks were rated as “Famous Trademarks of Guangdong Province”. Guangzhou Restaurant (Zhujiang New City Branch) is the name of a restaurant located in Guangzhou City.
5. Good Lingnan Fruits
Guangzhou is located in the subtropics. There are many varieties of tropical and subtropical fruits. Fresh fruits are on the market all year round, so it has a high reputation as the "Hometown of Fruits". Guangzhou's fruits include 40 families, 77 genera, 132 species and varieties, and more than 500 varieties, including 33 imported domestic and foreign excellent varieties. Famous varieties include Zengcheng Gualv lychee, Huangdeng pineapple, Luogang sweet orange, Shixia longan, Fangcun Huadi sweet star fruit, etc.
Reference material: Baidu Encyclopedia-Old Guangzhou Souvenirs
Reference material: Baidu Encyclopedia-Walnut Cake
Reference material: Baidu Encyclopedia-Wedding cake
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Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Lingnan Good Fruit