Hot and Sour Soup

Chinese name: ËáÀ±ÌÀ (su¨¡n là t¨¡ng)
Style: Sichuan (Szechuan) Cuisine
Characteristic: Hot and Sour Soup is characterized by being sour, hot, salty and fresh.

Hot and Sour Soup is mainly made of pork shreds, sausage, egg, mushroom, and bean-curd skin. It is usually eaten after the meal, helping to sober one up, g...

Liang Pi(Shaanxi)

This snack is made from wheat flour (or other starch).

Roujiamo(finely chopped pork stuffed in baked pancake)

Roujiamo is the well-known food in Xi'an. It was originated from Warring states. At that time people called it Cold Meat (Hanrou). It is generally called Chinese-style hamburger. The most famous producer of Roujiamo is Fan Fengxiang and his son. Their shop was founded in 1925 with more than 80 years.

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Gaoqiao Shortcake(Shanghai)
The ingredients used for this shortcake are wheat flour, lard, sugar, red beans and osmanthus. It is a rich and easily crumbled pastry, and has become one of the four renowned pastries from the Gaoqiao Bakery. All the products from this bakery can be had at its retail department at the corner of Huaihai Zhong Road and Ruijin Road.

Crab-brown Baked Cake(Shanghai)
The cake is crisp, savoury and aromatic as brown as the colour of a cooked crab. The fillings include green onions with oil, pork, crabmeat, shrimps, sugar, roses, mashed beans, jujube paste. The Wu Yuan Snack House at the corner of Shimen and Weihai Roads is the most famous shop for this pastry.

Fried Mantou(Shanghai)
In Shanghai, people usually call Baozi (bread) to be Mantou, so fried Mantou , in fact, is fried Baozi. The semi-fermented paste is fried on the saucepan with spraying water several times during cooking. You’d better taste it in hot because at that time, the bottom is golden-colored and crispy, while the rest part is white and soft. The wonderful st...

donkey roll about(Beijing)
ludaguan (donkey roll about), is a glutinous rice cake. It is made from steamed glutinous yellow rice flour, which is made into a flat cake, with fried bean flour and brown sugar powder sprayed onto the surface, and rolled up into several layers to make a cake.

Wandouhuang (Pea Flour Cake) (Beijing)
Prepared with white peas, pea flour cake is a typical snack in spring. Pea flour cakes, kidney bean cakes and small corn buns were well-known imperial snacks in ancient China.