| "With the City God Temple, Shanghai has a history of 700 years; without the City God Temple, Shanghai has only a hundred years of history"
| The Yu Garden in the City God Temple is the most complete preserved, largest and oldest classical garden in Jiangnan in Shanghai so far, which was built in the Jiajing and Wanli years of the Ming Dynasty, and the marks of time are hidden in brick by brick, beam and wood, suddenly, this temple has a history of more than 600 years.
| Baixiang City God Temple, the most important project is to eat, a lot of snacks in front of you, is definitely a happy moment for foodies.
| Nanxiang Xiaolong is already familiar with it, so what other delicious and inexpensive foods are there? Lao Tao recommends the following to everyone:
1. Begonia cake in the Spring Breeze Songyue Building.
It is said that it was created in the Qing Dynasty, so named because the cake resembles a begonia flower, and gradually became one of the Wuxi-style snacks. Like the local plum blossom cake, it is also a long-established flower-colored dim sum, which is sweet and delicious, and the hot food is especially good. The flour, yeast powder with cold water into a pulp, in the special mold brushed with a little water oil, injected into the batter into bean paste, fresh meat, vegetable lard and other fillings, and then cover the noodles with batter, add sugar lard and red, green melon shreds, melon seeds, etc., covered with sugar on the iron plate sprinkled with sugar on the coal stove and baked. Begonia cake is sweet and delicious, especially hot food.
2. Sake stuffed dumplings.
Wine stuffed dumplings are generally small and no filling, but this dumpling is slightly larger, wrapped in hundred fruit filling, rolling rice flour, becoming a small and exquisite hundred fruit dumplings, with high-quality glutinous rice made of sweet wine brewing, is the Shanghai City God Temple Manyuan Spring Snack Bar famous products, its characteristics of hundred fruits fragrance, floral fragrance, wine aroma is more intense.
3. Three silk eyebrow crisp.
The shape is delicate like a curved eyebrow, the outer layer of puff pastry is clearly layered, light and crisp, and the inner filling includes shredded pork, shredded mushrooms, and winter shoot shreds, and when you bite down, the crunchy puff pastry blends with the delicious filling in the mouth.
4. Pear paste sugar.
Xiao Tatsumi often sees a sugar box picking a pear paste candy, an old man picking a tool for singing a small gong book, leaning on his back, and the small copper gong "dang" knocking. Under the crisp and loud call, the children ran over with a smile. In the era of few snacks, a piece of pear paste candy can make Xiao Yuan happy. Today's pear paste candy is as "hard as a brick" in the past, but this is Kotatsu Hikari's forehead!
5. Fresh meat mooncake
Shanghai Ning loves it the deepest, there is almost no seasonality, the City God Temple is also everywhere you can see its traces, see the queue, hear the noisy!
6. Butterfly puff pastry
Butterfly puff pastry is also a classic in memory, with a crispy texture, a cute shape, and a light sweetness with a fragrant puff pastry just right.