The history of the development of the temple snacks

In 1956, the government department organized more than ten stallholders, such as the famous tea soup Ying, the cake year, the king of white potatoes, and the Zhang Dada who operated the sheep's intestines, in the 93rd current address adjacent to the Temple of the Protector of the State (the People's Theatre, opposite) to start the Temple of the State Snacks Shop, which gathered the essence of the Beijing snacks, and operated the traditional Beijing snacks of more than 100 varieties, including Ai Wo Wo, pea butter, bean noodle cakes, honey twists, soybean sauce, burnt rings, and noodle teas, and so on. More than 100 varieties of traditional Beijing snacks are available.

For 50 years, the Guoguoji Snack Bar has retained the traditional varieties of Beijing flavor of the old store, but the appearance of the store with the urban renewal of Beijing and the dining environment has undergone new changes, and the sale of snacks to maintain the flavor of old Beijing, but also to adjust to the changing tastes of the needs of modern people. Special to hire the old technician Yang Boru into the store to teach skills, will be the original big, black, coarse, bad food changed to small and exquisite snacks. Although the environment has changed, but the purpose of affordable service for the people has not changed. Due to the changes in the dining environment, snacks of superior quality and variety, attracting a large number of Chinese and foreign diners. 2001, the Guoguoji Snack Bar further renovation and remodeling, not only to highlight the characteristics of the old Beijing style, but also to allow customers to taste the old Beijing snacks at the same time, to appreciate the old Beijing style. The store will be decorated around the roof of the green tile eaves, walls hung on the Temple of Guoguoji Temple Fair picture frame, the four pillars of the house hung with snacks allusions and celebrity photos, dedicated to the old Beijing noodle man Zhang's plastic exhibition frame.

In addition, the Huatian Catering Group also gave its snack bar special policies, including spending on snack bar face, environment, unified decoration, unified logo, etc., and continue to dig, improve the traditional varieties: pea butter over the basket plus fine, donkey rolls plus layers, screw turn, Sachima, toad spit honey standardized procedures, precision quasi-materials do not go out of taste. Snacks pay attention to seasonal, so the spring pea yellow children, Ai Wo Wo, summer "ice bowl" steak cake, leakage of fish, the fall of the cattle tendon nest, crispy sesame flowers, winter pot cake, bowl cake, fruit cake, snacks, etc. are seasonal market. At the same time, according to the customer's changing tastes so that snacks also catch up with the "fashion", butter mouth of the glutinous rice cake, assorted fried pimples, spicy chicken noodles, cow's eye package, cream fried cake, ginger pork chop, mandarin ducks, butterfly rolls, beef burrito, orchids, such as dry, thin, sweet, salty, non-vegetarian and vegetarian all available. After excavation, introduction and innovation, the varieties of snacks in Guiguo Temple have reached 100, which can be described as a wide range of exciting.

1999 Spring Festival in Singapore held in the "thirteenth spring to the riverside Beijing Folklore Exhibition", Guoguo Temple snacks more than a dozen varieties of classic snacks masterpieces a light, Singaporean eyes "light up". The day of the radio, television's top news: Beijing snacks are wonderful! Singapore Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong attended the event, immediately booked 100 "donkey rolls" on the state banquet. In the following years, the snacks of Guoguo Temple gradually became more famous. But where Beijing held a large international, politically significant activities, are specially invited Huatian Guoguo Temple special snacks.

Beijing Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection List--Guoguo Temple Halal Beijing Snacks

Guoguo Temple Halal Beijing Snacks is a collection of concepts, which is the main varieties of JuDe Huatian's Guoguo Temple Snacks Division. Guoguo Temple Snacks has 9 chain stores such as Di'anmen and Xi'anmen with Guoguo Temple Snack Shop as the leader, which has become the largest Beijing snack chain enterprise in the capital.

The Guoguo Temple is located in the north of Xisi Pailou in Xicheng, starting from Deshengmennei Street in the east and ending at Xinjiekou South Street in the west. The total length of more than 580 meters. Guiguo Temple Halal snacks because of the Guiguo Temple Temple Fair and the name.

Snacks are commonly known as tea food or "bumper food". It was first described by Qu Yuan. Gan Bao of the Jin Dynasty also recorded snacks in his book So Shen Ji, but called them snacks. Beijing snacks can be categorized into three series: halal, hanmin and palace. The Beijing snacks of the Temple of the Protector of the Kingdom are the essence of the Temple Fair of the Protector of the Kingdom in the early years. In the old Beijing, the temple fair is a combination of Buddhist and Taoist religious festivals and open, people go to the temple, mainly for incense, seeking blessings and praying for good luck. But after burning incense, shopping, entertainment, tired, hungry always have to rest, pad pad pad. Temple snacks and therefore the prevalence of 1956, the Government Temple on the operation of tea soup, steak cake, white potatoes and other famous "big" stalls and merchants to organize, opened the Temple of the Protector of the Snacks Shop.

For the inheritance and development of national snacks, display of food culture, so that internal and external guests to savor the flavor characteristics of snacks, a taste of the old Beijing style, Guoguo Temple Snacks Shop created an exclusive set of snacks and Halal specialties in a feast of "Snacks Banquet."" Snacks Banquet" is known for its rich variety and chic banquet style.