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What are the special food snacks in Ningbo?
Ningbo Tangyuan 1

Tangyuan is one of the famous snacks in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, and also one of the representative snacks in China. This is the custom of Spring Festival and Lantern Festival. It has a long history. According to legend, Tangyuan originated in the Song Dynasty. At that time, Mingzhou (now Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province) began to eat a novel food, that is, black sesame seeds, pig fat oil and a little sugar were used as fillings, and glutinous rice flour was used to make balls outside. When cooked, it tastes sweet and delicious, which is very interesting. Because this kind of dumplings cooked in a pot will float and sink, it was originally called "floating Zi Yuan", and later it was renamed Yuanxiao in some areas.

2. Fermented rice balls

Fermented glutinous rice balls are made of high-quality white glutinous rice, soaked in water and ground into glutinous rice flour. Knead the ground glutinous rice flour into small balls for later use. After the white glutinous rice is steamed, it is mixed with yeast in a certain proportion, and in a few days it will become a fragrant, sweet and waxy wine. Boil the water and put it in a small round. When it floats to the surface, add the fermented grains, sugar and egg paste, and stir well to thicken. Put it in a bowl and sprinkle with osmanthus. Fermented wine was only used as a snack in Ming dynasty, with white color, rich fragrance, cool and sweet. Sweet osmanthus wine and rice dumplings brewed with wine in Qing Dynasty are both very famous. Fermented Mariko was selected as one of the famous snacks in China.

3. Longfeng Gold Group

Dragon and Phoenix Golden Tuan is a famous traditional scenic spot in urban and rural areas of eastern Zhejiang, and it is also one of the top ten scenic spots in Ningbo. The golden dragon and phoenix ball is as round as the moon, as yellow as gold, and the relief dragon and phoenix symbolizes auspicious reunion. In ancient times, there were many cake shops in Ningbo that made golden balls, but the golden balls made by Zhao were more famous, called "Zhao Golden Ball". Dragon and phoenix golden balls are thin and stuffed, with sweet and glutinous taste, fragrant and delicious, which makes people never tire of eating them. Because of its excellent production, sweet and glutinous entrance, low price and excellent quality, it is deeply loved by the masses.

4, crystal oil package

Crystal oil bag, one of the traditional famous spots in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, belongs to sweet bag. The suet is crystal clear, the filling is full, sweet and delicious. Its production method is that the oil skin should be made of white flour, fermented into dough, added with a proper amount of edible stone alkali, kneaded evenly, and then selected as an agent. The raw materials of the stuffing are exquisite. It is necessary to select the fat pig fat, peel the tendons, mix with refined white sugar, make granules for later use, and process them with various nuts, melon seeds, honeydew melon strips and white sugar to form wrapped sugar; Then wrap the suet particles and the wrapped sugar in the agent, knead it into a flat circle and steam it. It is famous for the cakes made by Zhao's pastry shop. When you take a bite, you will see that the oil particles in the filling are crystal clear, the filling is full, sweet and delicious, and people in urban and rural areas love it.

5. Cicheng rice cake

Cicheng rice cake, produced in Cicheng town, is one of the specialties of Zhejiang famous traditional snack, Ningbo Cicheng. It has a production history of hundreds of years and is famous for its exquisite materials and exquisite production. The special rice producing areas of Cicheng rice cakes are mainly distributed in Minfeng, Buffon, Feng Gong, Wangshan, Shuangdingshan, Sanqin, Wangjiaba, Hong Chen, Yang Chen, Hongxing, Banpu and Qianyang *** 12 villages, and Hero Reservoir and Li Mao Reservoir are high-quality water sources for producing Cicheng rice cakes. With its unique water milling technology, Cicheng rice cake has smooth appearance, no wrinkles, no powder particles, neat incision, uniform size and thickness, white color as jade, smooth taste, non-stick teeth and certain toughness. It doesn't boil well, so it is very convenient to eat.