What are the specialties of Ningbo? What are the specialties of Ningbo?

1, rock sugar soft-shelled turtle, the first of the top ten famous dishes in Ningbo, has a soft and waxy taste, sweet and sour taste and unique flavor. This dish is a tonic. Soft-shelled turtle is stewed with rock sugar, which has the functions of nourishing yin, harmonizing middle energizer, tonifying deficiency, benefiting qi and clearing heat.

2. Ning-style pastry is a famous traditional pastry in Ningbo with a long history, and it is one of the twelve schools of pastry in China. Ning-style pastry has the characteristics of exquisite selection of materials, rich nutrition, fine processing, unique shape and crisp, soft and crisp. Their varieties can be divided into dry cakes, moist cakes, sugar partners, fried shrimps, cakes, peach cakes, crisp cakes and moon cakes.

Ningbo Tangtuan, which is famous at home and abroad, began in Song and Yuan Dynasties and has a history of more than 700 years. Different from northerners, Ningbo people have the traditional custom of getting together to eat jiaozi on the morning of the Spring Festival. Ningbo Tangyuan is filled with white glutinous rice flour, lard, sugar and black sesame powder. Jiaozi is thin and smooth, white as sheep fat, shiny, waxy but not sticky.