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Today, we will introduce Changzhou's landmark food - shrimp cake.
Changzhou shrimp cake has a history of nearly 200 years, authentic Changzhou shrimp cake, the crust is fluffy enough to be crisp enough, the flour is wrapped in radish shreds and chives, of course, there are protagonist river shrimp, the color is golden, crisp on the outside and soft on the inside, fresh and delicious. Changzhou people like to call shrimp cakes "copper drum cakes", the tin mold of shrimp cakes, the side of the folded wooden ears like a copper drum, named "copper drum cake".
Shrimp cakes should be delicious, and the ingredients are the most important. Shredded and marinated fresh radish. Radish can only get rid of its characteristic spicy taste after 4 hours of water. Then beat the flour, it takes 1 hour, and it takes a long time to ensure that the fried shrimp cake crust is loose and tough. As for the river shrimp, they are naturally live shrimp purchased on the same day, although they are not large, but they are only alive and fresh.
The freshly fried shrimp cake stall owner will wrap it in two pieces of oil paper, a little hot, but in front of the delicious, even if it is not hot, he can't wait to bite it, and the fried crispy dough cake bites in the mouth, and there is a little hot oil splashing around. The outer ring of the cake is extremely crispy, but the inside is fragrant and soft, especially when biting into the part with shrimp in the middle, the shrimp brain and shrimp shell are fried thoroughly, which is very fragrant.
The small shrimp cake spread the nostalgia and smoke in Changzhou, so that the diners who followed the trail lined up while regaining the old things.