What are the specialties of Changzhou, Jiangsu Province?

Changzhou specialty 1: Tianmu Lake "casserole fish head"

Tianmu Lake "casserole fish head" was created in Jiangsu Province, Tianmu Lake Hotel, Jiangsu Province, by the Jiangsu Province, the special chef Zhu Shuncai nearly thirty years of careful cooking, is now known as Jiangsu's best traditional dishes, become the world of China's gastronomy of an oddball. Cooking Tianmu Lake casserole fish head, choose Tianmu Lake water body in the natural breeding of big chub fish head as raw materials, pure natural Tianmu Lake water as soup base, coupled with the unique cooking technology processed, due to the mountains and waters of Tianmu Lake not only around the mountains green vegetation filtered lake water, and the bottom of the lake for the sandy rather than silt, this unique natural environment created Tianmu Lake water is clear, sweet, untainted, the growth of which the fish are also There is no earthy odor. Therefore, "Tianmu Lake" casserole fish head with its finished product "fresh and not fishy, fat and not greasy," the excellent quality of the majority of food enthusiasts praise.

Changzhou specialties 2: Changzhou comb

Changzhou comb (referred to as pectus) is one of the eight ancient hair ornaments, popular since the North and South Dynasties, so far has a history of more than 1,500 years, and once enjoyed the "Palace comb famous grate".

Changzhou comb is made of natural materials, exquisite technology, beautiful shape, often used, have a headache, treatment of insomnia, brain, ear, eyesight health care effect, is not only the necessities of life, but also exquisite craft appreciation.

Changzhou comb is famous in China and abroad, over the past hundred years, many times won the international and domestic gold and silver awards, in 1915 won the Panama International Peace Exhibition silver award, in 1926 won the U.S. Philadelphia Expo gold award, in 1979 won the Ministry of Light Industry quality products silver award, 91 years of the front of the National Silver Award, 90 years of longevity phase spell comb to obtain the national patent, in 91 years won the second Beijing International Exhibition gold award, and was named the second Beijing International Expo. In 91 years, it won the gold medal of the 2nd Beijing International Expo, and was awarded as the top ten famous brand products of Changzhou City. The comb products are exported to Southeast Asia, Western Europe and Africa, etc., which are very popular and welcomed by people from all walks of life at home and abroad.

Changzhou Specialty 3: Cloisonne Filigree Crafts

Cloisonne - anciently known as metal tire enamel ware, metal tire filigree enamel ware, is one of the most precious treasures in the treasure trove of the world's arts and crafts works.

Metal tire silk enamel painting is the use of traditional handmade silk enameling process, the metal material on the bottom of the frame, the main color of the screen and the background color using modern new technology and color techniques, the picture is clear, novel, colorful, bright, crystal clear, three-dimensional sense; in the background of the background color, the theme is prominent, the symbolism of a more profound, giving a refreshing sense of

Changzhou specialties 4: Brick engraved screen

Brick engraved screen is a kind of seal engraving art of knife, the Han inscription text, Han painting images engraved in the Ming and Qing dynasties on the ancient bricks, and then with the mahogany carving exquisite and become the seat screen and hanging screen. Brick carving screen light weight, small size, easy to carry, its appearance is simple and elegant, the image of both the Han Dynasty monument and portrait stone of the strong masculine atmosphere, but also the ancient monument of the air of gold and stone, has a high artistic value, the viewer can feel the Han Dynasty culture and art of the profound, to get the enjoyment of the beauty of it.

Changzhou Specialty 5: Messy Needle Embroidery

Pioneered by Professor Yang Shouyu, a famous embroidery artist in China, it combines the art of painting with embroidery techniques, breaking the traditional framework of "connecting its needles closely and lining up its threads", replacing the pen with a needle, replacing the color with a thread, and using long and short intersecting lines to express the depth and breadth of the object. The works have a unique artistic effect, like oil painting or almost like art photography.

Changzhou Specialty 6: Bamboo Carving

It is a traditional art of engraving on a layer of bamboo with a very thin layer of peony on the surface. Bamboo carving artists in the bamboo peony skillfully all stay, slightly stay, do not stay, more stay, less stay of kung fu, so that the works show the level, light and dark, light and dark, through a strong sense of three-dimensional; and because of the bamboo skin for the yellow, the bamboo muscle for the red, years and years, the bamboo skin and bamboo muscle of the color contrast is very large, the bamboo muscle color is gradually purplish-red, like ripe cherries, polished amber, pleasing to the eye, love.

Changzhou specialties 7: Tianning Temple vegetarian

Tianning Temple vegetarian is a historical tradition, the incense to this mountain incense, tourists to look forward to visit, every like to eat here, one is to take advantage of the occasion of the Buddha's work, feast friends and family, taste the Buddha's fasting flavor, in order to show that the feelings of the joy of the reunion is also the intention of the pious wishes; two to change the taste, or family **** meal, or friends and relatives, is not lost! A popular fashion. Especially hot summer days, people are tired of meat and grease, and most of the vegetarian fasting soy products, fresh vegetables and fruits and mushrooms, fungus, hairy vegetables and other rare seaweed, accompanied by sesame oil cooking, the entrance is light, tasty flavor, coupled with the Buddha's place of purity and solemnity, the environment is elegant, a few times a year to patronize, spice up the life of the fun, to meet the curiosity of the mind, is indeed a thing of pleasure.

In order to comply with the economic development, improve consumption pattern, promote tourism, enrich the food culture, enhance the temple income-generating self-sustaining ability, Tianning Temple in 1988 to restore the opening of the "Ruyi vegetarian restaurant", the museum site temple in the east side of the gate, both the temple building of the simple and solemn, but also with the modern renovation of the era of the grandeur of the pavilion a Holding a pillar joint depicts a fascinating: "Jin Bi Yao Lin Palace, Xi Jing Qing Zhai, the entrance to Ruyi; wide leisure in the blessed land, prolong life, to this meal". Jointly for the people of the famous calligrapher, poet Qian Xiaoshan wrote the title scenarios blend, neatly, monks and laymen **** appreciation, read a relaxed and happy. The dining room in the museum can be divided and separated, and can receive more than a hundred people to eat at the same time. Vegetarian food has a palace vegetarian, folk vegetarian, Buddha vegetarian points, palace vegetarian is the ancient emperor and generals get together when the vegetarian meals; modern folk vegetarian, Buddha vegetarian in many varieties have been among the ranks of famous dishes, most of the chefs here are in Shanghai Jade Buddha Temple and Zhenjiang Jinshan Temple Vegetarian Restaurant training, can cook more than 40 kinds of traditional characteristics of the Buddhist vegetarian and Changzhou local flavor dishes. Vegetarian food with Buddhist colors, such as "Buddha's light", with golden corn as the main symbol of Buddha's light, the plate with turquoise green fresh heart, ochre mushrooms, yellow almonds, a variety of colors, the mouth is soft and fresh, fragrant; there is also "prolonging life", "attracting life", "the", "the", "the", "the", "the", "the", "the" and "the". "Prolonging life", "inviting wealth and treasures", "congratulations on wealth", "abundant harvest" and other dishes to celebrate the auspiciousness and happiness; carefully made Yuanbao, Buddha's hand, Shou Peach, color, aroma, shape, is regarded as a delicate "handicraft" and loved by Chinese and foreign guests.

Changzhou Specialty 8: Money Vegetables

The traditional specialty of Changzhou is wu zhou cai (乌塌菜). Because of its slice of vegetables shaped like money, the plant green and angry, and therefore customarily called it "money vegetables", in order to try to four seasons of smooth, auspicious wishes, the old days of Tianning Temple hosted the vegetarian meal hall of the family, when people can also eat this "money vegetables" in the summer season, he studied carefully, he was able to eat the "money vegetables", he was able to eat the "money vegetables", he was able to eat the "money vegetables", he was able to eat the "money vegetables", he was able to eat the "money vegetables". ", he studied seriously, so that the "money dish" has become his specialty good food, they and a river across the peach garden village (now peach garden new village lot) vegetable farmers, there is a no need to sign a contract "gentleman's agreement" --Every year in the winter months, to provide the temple with several thousand pounds of wu collapsed vegetables, washed and dried by the cook, stored in a large container filled with half of the "seven stone jar" soybean oil, do not let the wu collapsed vegetables "breathable! ", to the next year, the day of the great ambrosia take out, for the incense to the temple to do the Buddhist ceremony, or feast guests to eat vegetarian fasting, as a rare and famous dish. "The lack of" season of the heat of the summer, leafy vegetables and not much, can eat "money dishes", cool and refreshing, so that people naturally associated with the snow Hao Hao winter scene, conscious of the coolness of the sudden birth of the interest doubled.

Changzhou Specialty 9: Silver Silk Noodles

Silk noodles are a Changzhou specialty with a history of more than 30 years. The ingredients are well-prepared, and the operation process is strict, with the noodles as thin as silk, white like silver, soft and smooth, full of toughness, and not mushy in the pot and so on, as one of the varieties of "Chinese Snacks Spectrum" collection.

Changzhou specialties 10: hemp cake

In the Qing Dynasty during the Xianfeng years, by the Renyu Bridge Changle Tea House Wang Changsheng snack master creation, has a history of more than 140 years. Its characteristics: golden yellow color, crispy and fluffy, thin and crispy skin, sweet filling mellow, salty filling taste fresh, green onion aroma, fat but not greasy. For the "Chinese snacks spectrum" collection of one of the varieties, in 1983 was named Jiangsu Province, famous food. 1985 was awarded the title of municipal quality products.

Changzhou Specialty 11: Mao Jianhua Hong

According to legend, when Emperor Qianlong went to the south of Jiangsu Province and asked about the local specialties of Liyang, the university scholar Shi Yizhi (a native of Liyang) replied, "Mao Jianhua Hongtangxia Melon." It can be seen that the red flower in Maojian is one of the traditional local specialties of Liyang. The history of producing saffron in Maojian is nearly six years. The old home of saffron tree is in the east dongting mountain by the Taihu Lake. There is a beautiful environment with lakes and mountains, and it is rich in fruits and trees, and there are "loquats in the east mountain" and "prunes in the west mountain", and saffron is also one of the products.

Changzhou Specialty 12: Southern Style Sesame Sugar

Southern Style Sesame Sugar series products are the traditional local specialties of Changzhou, the main varieties of sesame sugar, sugar, Singijeon sugar, peanut sugar, pouring slices and so on. Sesame sugar bright color, taste sweet, fragrant, fluffy, crispy, in 1984 was named Jiangsu Province, quality food; inch gold sugar, also known as Dong sugar, containing crispy heart, sticky white sesame, with fragrant, sweet, fluffy, crispy features, in 1985 was named Jiangsu Province, quality food; food pouring slices is one of the longtime favorite food in Changzhou, with fragrant, sweet, fluffy, crispy features, in 1985 was named Jiangsu Province, quality food.

The food pouring slices are one of Changzhou people's favorite foods for a long time, with the characteristics of fragrant, sweet, fluffy and crispy.

Go and have a look, you may find something new, good luck!

Changzhou Snacks

- Add Crab Xiao Long Bao

During the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty, it was firstly created by the Wanhua Tea House in the south of the floating bridge along the Xiaohe River. Its characteristics: crab oil is golden and shiny, fat but not greasy, crab aroma, fresh juice, thin and strong skin, tender and smooth filling, accompanied by aromatic vinegar and ginger, its taste is very good.

-Marijuana cake

Changzhou marijuana cake is a large oval-shaped cake with a unique taste and flavor, and it is also the favorite home-cooked traditional food of Changzhou people. It is made of white flour, high-quality sesame, sugar, salt and other raw materials, and is refined through a number of processes, such as mixing, stirring, kneading, stuffing, shaping, baking and so on. There are two flavors, salty and sweet, for buyers to choose. Qualified hemp cake out of the oven, the aroma is rich and pungent, color and lustre yellow and not burnt, salty and sweet moderate and not greasy, crispy and delicious and not brittle, color, aroma and taste are all good. In the past, Changzhou marijuana cake for the local people for breakfast to eat. Nowadays, after reform and innovation, carefully packaged, beautiful appearance, and easy to carry, become a necessary gift for people visiting friends and relatives.

-Crab shell yellow

Crab shell yellow is a local flavor of Changzhou snacks, commonly known as small hemp cake, often matched with marijuana cake for gifts. It is filled with four kinds of shellfish, green onion oil, sugar, and soybean paste. Its characteristics: shape like crab shells, golden color, more oil is not greasy, crispy and fluffy, sweet sugar filling, salty filling taste fresh.

-Chicken and Vegetable Wonton

Chicken and Vegetable Wonton is a Changzhou specialty with a history of more than 40 years. Its characteristics: smooth skin, fragrant filling, fat but not greasy, delicious flavor.

-Wine Stuffed Lanterns

Wine Stuffed Lanterns is one of the special snacks of Changzhou, and it is a custom to eat Lanterns during the Spring Festival. 100 years ago, Pei Yugao added wine stuffing to the traditional Lanterns and created the Wine Stuffed Lanterns. Its characteristics: the ball like jade grain, wine fragrance, unique flavor, sweet and refreshing.

-Silver Silk Noodles

Silver Silk Noodles is a specialty of Changzhou with a history of more than 30 years. The ingredients are exquisite, the operation process is strict, with a thin noodle like silk, color white like silver, soft and smooth, full of toughness, not paste in the pot, etc., for the "Chinese Snacks Spectrum" collection of one of the varieties.

-Sesame Sugar

Changzhou sesame sugar has a long history and unique flavor. Legend has it that as early as in the Tang Dynasty, the local people began to caramel, sesame, making a production of sesame sugar in the shape of doughnut, called doughnut sugar. To the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, the smoke of wolves, the Jin soldiers invaded the south. Kang Wang Zhaojiu fled from the capital of Bianliang, Jiangnan, a compromise and seek peace, do not want to recover the lost land in the north. The people were very angry about this. At that time, some people wrote a poem saying: "Beyond the mountains, beyond the green hills, beyond the buildings, when will the West Lake songs and dances stop? Warm wind smoked tourists drunk, straight Hangzhou for Bianzhou!" to vent their dissatisfaction. Changwu area of the people, is another form to express the desire to recover the lost land against the gold. They changed the round ball-shaped hemp ball candy into a cannon like cylinder, sent to the King of Kang, in order to inspire his courage to fight against the gold to restore the country. As for the Kang King Zhao Gong has not been inspired by and get the courage, do not know, but, Changzhou sesame sugar from this made into a cylindrical shape, continue to this day.

Changzhou sesame candies are made with fine materials. Requirements for sesame seeds are full of not exposed skin, the two ends of the seal does not leak filling. Sugar layer up the hole is not stiff, taste sweet and crispy not sticky teeth, color white and bright very uniform, thick and thin length of the general Qi, a catty just twenty sticks. Indeed is a good gift for home travel, gifts to friends and relatives.

-Dried radish

Those who have been to Changzhou will say, "Changzhou has a strange, dried radish as a drink." Authentic dried radish in Changzhou is indeed different from dried radish elsewhere. It is made from sweet and tender solid red radish produced in Xinzha outside the west gate of Changzhou, washed and cut into strips, moderately dried, and then added with appropriate amount of salt, sugar and a variety of auxiliary materials, carefully pickled. Due to the excellent selection of materials, the use of unique pickling process, and with the flavor of the chic condiments. Therefore, Changzhou dried radish has a reddish color in yellow, salty but not quam, slightly sweet in salty, crispy and not spicy, very tasty. Moreover, it is inexpensive and convenient to carry. It is not only a small dish for people's meals, but also a pastime food for drinking and after meals. If you buy the authentic Changzhou products, customers will be very happy.

-Shrimp cake

has a history of nearly 200 years. Yuan Mei, a Qing Dynasty writer, wrote in his "Food List in the Garden", "Shrimp Cake, raw shrimp meat, green onion, salt, pepper, sweet wine feet a little, add water and noodles, sesame oil burned through." The color is golden, crispy outside and soft inside, fresh and delicious.

-Horseshoe Cake

After the capture of Changzhou by the Taiping Army in the Qing Dynasty in the 10th year of the reign of Emperor Xianfeng, there appeared a kind of shortcake shaped like a horse's hoof, which was meant to glorify the achievements of the Taiping Army. Horseshoe pastry selection of fine white flour, cotton sugar, soybean oil and other raw materials production, extended the traditional oven baking. The color is golden, sweet and fluffy. Has been included in the "Chinese famous dishes recipe".

-Three Fresh Wontons

The filling is made of shrimp, fresh mackerel and fresh pork, so it is called "Three Fresh". The wonton skin is made of white flour mixed with egg white, and the wonton soup is simmered in chicken broth by fresh hens. The wonton skin is thin and smooth, the filling is tender, and the soup is clear and flavorful.

-Yilong Vegetarian Ham

Yilong Vegetarian Ham was founded in 1932 and is famous for making vegetarian snacks. Yilong Vegetarian Ham is a traditional specialty of Changzhou Yilong Vegetarian Restaurant. This product is made of excellent materials, advanced formula, scientific production process, supplemented by a variety of natural precious spices and natural coloring refined. The product is aromatic, dry and fresh, tough and soft, flavorful and refreshing, cut into thin slices, drizzled with sesame oil, similar to ham meat, is a good meal, wine, travel, but also a gift to friends and relatives. 1989 won the Ministry of Commerce quality food "Golden Tripod" award, is one of the top ten famous points of Changzhou City.

-Tianmu Lake Fish Head in Casserole

Tianmu Lake Fish Head in Casserole: It was first created in Tianmu Lake Hotel in Jiangsu Province, and has been carefully prepared by Zhu Shuncai, a famous chef of Jiangsu Province, for nearly thirty years, and is now regarded as Jiangsu's best traditional dish, and has become an oddball in the world of Chinese cuisine. Cooking Tianmu Lake casserole fish head, choose Tianmu Lake water body in the natural breeding of big chub fish head as raw materials, pure natural Tianmu Lake water as soup base, coupled with the unique cooking technology processed, due to the mountains and waters of Tianmu Lake not only around the mountains green vegetation filtered lake water, and the bottom of the lake for the sandy rather than silt, this unique natural environment created Tianmu Lake water is clear, sweet, untainted, the growth of which the fish are also There is no earthy odor. Therefore, Tianmu Lake casserole fish head with its finished product "fresh and not fishy, fat and not greasy" excellent quality by the majority of food enthusiasts praise.

Changzhou snack bar

Changzhou snack bar has a lot of but now because of the demolition of the relocation everywhere, now scattered in all corners of the unfamiliar people are not good to find. More concentrated in the center of the city next to the New Century Mall, there are De Taiheng (now moved to the east of the city, Chuanliang food city, Changzhou cake dumpling store, Qingxiangyuan branch, Jin Sanxian, etc., by the way, there is also the Jin Dali (also Changzhou specialties are generally not available in May-July) and the leisure of a small station is also in the vicinity. Of course, there are three fresh wonton point, Yi Long vegetarian restaurant, silver silk noodle restaurant, Ying Gui steamed buns point and so on these centuries-old store is not concentrated distribution, after the demolition and relocation of the temporary facade are also less conspicuous, if you and the interest and time, you may wish to look for.

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