In ancient times, green glutinous rice balls were popular food with sacrificial function in Tomb-Sweeping Day, and now they are especially suitable as snacks for spring outing. Usually, the juice of wheat straw or wormwood is mixed into glutinous rice flour, and then wrapped into stuffing, which is mostly bean paste stuffing, sesame stuffing or lotus seed paste stuffing. After steaming, the soft skin is green and oily, fragrant, soft, sweet and delicate, with a faint but long grass fragrance. Now green meatballs are made in the shop, and other green leafy vegetable juices and glutinous rice flour are also used and stuffed into bean paste. Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces are still quite popular.
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Plum Blossom Cake Plum Blossom Cake is the most famous traditional snack in Wuxi. At first sight, it is easy to be fascinated by its colorful appearance. According to legend, when Emperor Qianlong went down to the south of the Yangtze River, he saw that it was plum blossom in shape and attractive in color. He tasted it at the entrance and found it sweet but not greasy, soft and crisp, with endless aftertaste. It was specially named plum blossom cake, which has been passed down to this day.
Plum blossom cake is made by mixing fine flour, yeast powder and water into slurry, injecting it into plum blossom mold, filling it with bean paste, fresh meat, vegetable lard, roses, etc., then filling it with sizing, sprinkling white sugar, red and green melons, covering it with hot iron plate, and baking. It is soft and delicious, suitable for all ages.
China on the Tip of the Tongue recommended that the best shop to make plum blossom cakes is a young couple near nanzenji, Xinsheng Road. The tastes of plum cake are meat, bean paste, lard and sesame, which are affordable. Personally, I prefer plum cake with meat filling.
Begonia Cake Begonia Cake is another beautiful traditional snack in Wuxi, which was created in the Qing Dynasty and named after the cake looks like a begonia flower. People in Wuxi eat plum blossom cakes, but Haitang cakes are also delicious. Brush a little oil in a special mold, pour the batter into the stuffing of bean paste, fresh meat and vegetable lard, then cover the surface with the batter and add diced sugar lard, red and green melon seeds, etc. Cover the iron plate with sugar and bake it on the stove. Begonia cake is sweet and delicious, so it's best to eat it while it's hot. This kind of delicious food is sold in Canghe North Street, Dangkou Ancient Town.
Yulan Cake Yulan Cake is an original creation of Wuxi Ji Sun Cake Group Store 1850, which is an authentic traditional snack in Wuxi. Magnolia cake is named because it is in the flowering season of magnolia. Yulan cake with vegetable lard, bean paste, fresh meat, rose cheese and so on. It's fried in a pot with glutinous rice flour. Golden yellow, crisp outside and soft inside, sweet and salty, with attractive flavor. Breakfast in Jiangnan area is often accompanied by soybean milk.
The magnolia cakes in Sanfengqiao Lounge and Qingyang Road Hua Mao Store are the best in Wuxi!
Fresh meat magnolia cake:
The rest are all Wuxi old cakes recommended online. Although it is not completely unique to Wuxi, it is also unique. You can find shops in Wuxi, so I won't introduce them here, depending on your personal taste.
Peach Crisp (Yuan Xifu):
Osmanthus Jelly:
Muffins:
Coconut chips:
Hemp potato:
Crab shell yellow sesame seed cake:
Among the traditional cuisines in China, delicious cakes have always been an important snack in China, and even been patented by royalty and nobles in various costume dramas. I still remember that the young and middle-aged couple in the Duke of Lushan loved to eat Osmanthus Jelly, and the spring nobleman in Zhen _ Chuan loved to eat cakes, so I couldn't help searching everything for food. At this time, it is a royal enjoyment to dig out a delicious cake. With the improvement of living standards, various western-style pastry shops have flooded into the domestic market, but we have gradually forgotten our traditional Chinese cakes, and we can't even name all kinds of colorful cakes. While answering these questions, I found that the cakes in China are actually more diverse and healthier than the cream cakes in the West.