Thin and smooth horseshoe cake Pantang Wuxiu is very good
Food in Guangzhou, taste in Xiguan, Pantang horseshoe cake should be one of the most well-known traditional snacks in Xiguan. Horseshoe cake is steamed with sugar water mixed with horseshoe powder, the appearance is crystal clear and attractive amber, the taste is sweet and smooth, and the classic horseshoe cake will also add large horseshoe grains, which is more crisp and has a clear texture. Eating a piece on a hot summer day also has the effect of cooling off. If you're wondering where the most traditional horseshoe cake is, the century-old letter stack on Longjin West Road is worth a try.
Huang Yongrui, a sixty-year-old man who lives in Pantang, is the third generation of the old shop of Xinzhan, "My family has been making horseshoe powder since Grandpa's generation, when I was a child, our old shop was opened next to Lychee Bay, and Venta was across the river. The old house is three stories high, the first floor sells horseshoe flour, and the workers handmade horseshoe flour in the empty space in front of the house, which is the busiest time for business before the Spring Festival every year. In the 1960s, the old house was demolished, and the letter house was moved to the current Longjin West Road. ”
Horseshoe cake is the signature dessert of the Letter Stack, with sufficient ingredients, rich flavor, sweet and smooth entrance, and the fragrance of horseshoe is faintly permeated.
With the progress of the times, the old shop no longer sells horseshoe flour and horseshoe cakes "alone", and has also developed a variety of innovative pastry categories such as red bean cake and sesame cake. No matter which kind of production, the selection of ingredients are very exquisite, take the osmanthus horseshoe cake as an example, in order to choose a satisfactory osmanthus flower, Uncle Rui specially went to Guilin, Guangxi and Jinhua, Zhejiang to buy osmanthus flowers, "the osmanthus flowers in these two places are relatively large, the taste is fragrant, and the osmanthus flowers in autumn are the best." After the osmanthus flowers are blanched with hot water, they are not difficult to make by putting them into the horseshoe powder with a good pulp. ”
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In addition to a variety of pastries, horseshoe powder is still the most important product of Xinzhan, and the bagged and boxed selection is not only loved by local citizens, but also disappeared overseas, bringing the taste of hometown to Guangzhou people in a foreign country. During the visit, the reporter found that the bagged horseshoe powder of 30 yuan a kilogram was most popular among middle-aged and elderly neighbors. An uncle who lives in Haizhu District told reporters, "It is very convenient to steam horseshoe cake yourself, and you can also drop some fresh horseshoe down, which will be more fragrant, and it can not fall." "The horseshoe cool sold in the store is also quite popular with the neighbors, 6 yuan has a large bottle, sweet but not greasy, quenching thirst and heat, you can also eat a large horseshoe."
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Traditional horseshoe powder
Uncle Rui's son returned home to help after graduating from college and inherited the family's century-old business. In the father and son sitting in the Letter Stack, the old number can not only taste the traditional Pantang horseshoe cake, but also buy the elaborate Pantang horseshoe powder, which seems to be a "Pantang Story Meeting", and the old neighbors always like to sit here and reminisce about the past. Uncle Rui is a nostalgic person, and his family treasures old-fashioned handmade horseshoe powder tools. In the early years, he also sorted out the names and information of more than 40 horseshoe powder shops in pantang's heyday, so that history can be traced.
Letter stack old horseshoe powder
Address: No. 198 Longjin West Road
Shop age: more than 100 years
Service Index: ★★★★★
Delicious Index: ★★★★★
Environmental Index: ★★★★
Opening hours: 8:00
【Reporter Li Yuanyuan】
【Photography by Guo Ketang】
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Source: Micro Community e Jia Tong Liwan Changhua (WeChat: xxsbejtchj )