In the bustling Dongmen Pedestrian Street Renmin North Road Style Street, near the side of Dongmen Cultural Square, a long-established cake shop with nearly a century-old heritage is quietly located here, surrounded by clothing stores and snack bars that shout all kinds of special discounts, but this shop has always been decorated with bronze-colored storefronts, the fresh fragrance of seafood cabinets at the door, and a variety of local cakes, attracting the attention of the past crowds.
This shop is called "Tongshunxing Old Cake Home", founded in 1993, the descendants began to operate a Guangdong, Shenzhen specialty cakes in Dongmen Pedestrian Street in 2004, including the well-known Zhongshan almond cake, Guangzhou chicken cake, Shenzhen Four Treasure Soft Cake, etc., including a variety of seafood, dried fish, pastries, dried fruits, shortbread and the like. Walk into the East Gate, walk into Tong Shun Xing, this is the old taste that belongs to the East Gate.
Let generations remember the taste of childhood
Every New Year's Festival, many people will ask: What is "Shenzhen specialty"? Tong Shunxing, who has experienced nearly a hundred years of changes, has been silently answering "what is the most Shenzhen" in his own way.
"Almond cakes, chicken cakes, husband cakes, and wife cakes are the 'four famous cakes in Guangdong' that everyone is familiar with, and they are all available in our shop!" The store manager Gao Xiuhong pointed to the shelves and said that in addition to inheriting lingnan-style cakes, more than a dozen types of cakes with "Shenzhen specialties" written on them all contain the familiar taste of "old Shenzhen".
For many Shenzhen people, the most unforgettable memory of childhood must be to follow the footsteps of their parents at the end of the year and buy "New Year goods" in the cake shop. The seaweed-flavored egg rolls, cashew nut cookies, almond crisps, tangerine cakes, etc. on the street range from snacks to large flavors. In the same Shunxing old cake home, these flavors are placed at the entrance of the store, the surrounding shelves are lower, whether adults or children, can easily get.
Shenzhen is near the sea. As a result, all kinds of seafood often appear on the tables of Shenzhen families, and different flavors of seafood snacks have also become the taste of shenzhen people from generation to generation. The sweeter the squid shredded, the slightly spicy sardines, the Malaysian-style satay jerky... The seafood snacks in the cupboard at the entrance of Tongshunxing attracted many passing citizens to stop and shout to the clerk, "Hello, this, come 20 yuan." ”
Walking around Tongshunxing, it is not difficult to find that the specialties such as pastries, crisp candy, and jerky in the store are arranged in accordance with the prompts of nameplates such as "Ancient Charcoal Grilled Chicken Cake" and "Ancient Fresh Grilled Meat" on the shelves. In addition, every citizen who enters the store can look up and see that the traditional pastry molds that have been smoothed due to long-term use hanging on the walls of the store are born from this piece of mold.
Low oil and low sugar can also make a good taste
"Hello, try our specialty." In Tongshunxing, next to each specialty, a small box is used to put it in a tasting package. After each citizen enters the store, the clerk will introduce the product characteristics while handing over the specialties from the tasting box for everyone to try.
"It doesn't matter if you don't buy it when you enter the store, we just want more people to know the flavor of this time-honored brand." When it comes to the specialties in the store, Gao Xiuhong is like a number of family treasures, she said, with the traditional quality that Tong shunxing has adhered to for many years, and the taste that continues to adjust according to the consumer market, she does not worry about customers not "paying".
In recent years, the food market has paid more and more attention to health as a dietary habit, and Tongshunxing has long ago taken the principle of making low-oil and low-sugar cakes as a health check for consumers. In order to ensure the health of cake customers, Tongshunxing not only requires fresh materials and rigorous process, but also pays more attention to the taste of cakes. "Generally speaking, heavy oil and heavy sugar pastries feel more delicious, but we want to continue to study how to use as little oil and sugar as possible to make cakes that taste good."
"My family and I planned to send some souvenirs to relatives, and when we went shopping at the East Gate, we saw this quaintly decorated shop, and we wanted to come in and stroll around, but we didn't expect to fill a basket of specialties at once." Mr. Zhang, who just came to Shenzhen, took his family out shopping on the first weekend of coming to Shenzhen, he said that he felt that there were many types of specialties in this store, the taste and price were very real, and then he brought souvenirs to relatives and friends, and he would choose this one.
Author: Chen Xinghua