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Culture/Regional
Chinese Local-flavor Light Refreshments
During the history of Chinese cuisine, many light refreshments with local characteristics have been created making use of particular local products and customs. Below is a list of places giving some of the most famous local pastries and light refreshments to be found there:
Beijing
- Jiaoquan (slightly browned dough ring)
- Mimahua (honeyed, twisted fried dough)
- Wandouhuang (peaflour cake)
- Aiwowo (steamed corn bread flavored with atomatic herbs)
- Quick-fried pig's liver and stomach
Shanghai
- Xiekehuang(fried ovary and digestive glands of a crab)
- Shaoxing chicken porridge
Tianjin
- Gabacai(a kind of crisp cake with vegetables)
- Goubuli steamed stuffed buns
- Ear-shaped fried cake
- Bread stewed with minifish
- Bangchui pancake
- Guifaxiang
- twisted fried dough
- Spiced donkey meat
Taiyuan
- Kaolao
- Knife-shaved noodles
- Jiupian.
Xi'an
- Dried bread soaked in mutton (or beef)soup
- Qianzhou cake
Lanzhou
- Hand-stretched noodles
- oil-fried large pancake
Xinjiang
- roast pancake of wheat or corn flour
- roast mutton ( or beef) slices
- rice to be eaten with the fingers.
Shandong
Jiangsu
- Baked wheaten cake with sesame and chopped scallion
- Steamed stuffed buns filled with three kinds of diced delicacies
- shaomai with the ovary and digestive glands of a crab
Zhejiang
- Buttered pancake
- Double Ninth chestnut cake
- Zhongzi stuffed with fresh meat
- Ninbo glutinous rice dumpling
- Eight treasures in black rice
Anhui
- Nuts and dried fruit laba porridge
- Huizhou cake
- Rice with bean curd peel
Fujian
- Oyster pancake
- Noodles to be eaten with the fingers
- Spiced pork trotters
- Dingbian thick paste
Taiwan
- Du Xiaoyue Danzai noodles
- Noodles with sliced eel
- Jinzhao rice-flour noodles
Hainan
Henan
- Bread with jujube
- Bread browned with white sugar
- Budai with egg, xue tea
- Shredded chicken roll
Hubei
- Bean curd peel with three delicacies
- Yunmeng fried noodles with fish flavor
- Hot dried noodles
- Dongpo cake.
Hunan
- Rice-flour noodles
- Eight treasure soup with tortoise and mutton
- Huo Palace strong smelling bean curd
Guangdong
- Chicken cake, preserved egg shortbread
- One-thousand-layer shortbread with frozen meat
- Guangdong mooncake
- lotus seed paste in crisp pastry
- Steamed hedgehog stuffed bun
- Dumpling with fresh shrimp filling
- examination success porridge
- steamed shaomai with the ovary and digestive glands of a crad
- White rabbit shaped dumpling
Guangxi
- Guilin rice-flour noodles with horse meat
- pyramid shaped meat dumpling wrapped in bamboo leaves
- fried earthworm-shaped noodles
Sichuan
- Roast cake with egg
- Long's chaoshou
- Dandan noodles (a kind of noodles with peppery
sauce)
- Lai's tangyuan (glutinous rice dumpling)
- Dold noodles with shredded chicken
- Transparent shaomai
- Yibing ran-noodles
- Fuqi(meaning "hushand and wife" sliced pig's lung
- Steamed beef with corn powder
- Dengying(meaning "shade of a lamp")beef
Guizhou
- Noodles with intestines
- Siwa wa
- Yelang dough fish
- Steamed ( or fried) glutinous rice paste wrapped in lotus leaves
Yunnan
- Guoqiao rice-flour noodles
- Pot stewed beef with pastry
Apart from those enumerated above, many light refreshments with national minority
characteristics have been introduced into the daily food of the ordinary Chinese to greatly
enrich the contents of Chinese culinary science.
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