Japan Ramen Museum, Korean Kimchi Museum, Dutch Cheese Museum, French Chocolate Museum, Belgian Fries Museum, Italian Ice Cream Museum, Icelandic Herring Museum, American Lunch Meat Museum... For top foodies, in addition to being able to eat the most authentic local food, it will be a more interesting experience to learn more about the local people's eating habits and culture in the local food museum. Come to Anhui, food culture controllers can not miss this Huizhou cake museum!
Coming to the Huizhou Cake Museum, I believe that everyone, like me, must be attracted by this huge stone mill and cake mold at the entrance, this giant stone mill has been passed down from the Qing Dynasty, with a diameter of 5 meters and a weight of 2500 kilograms, it is also the treasure of the huizhou cake museum, and the stone mill with a history of 200 years has been preserved by the Huizhou cake family - Hu Xingtang.
Is it hard to imagine that this year even the pastry has its own museum? It is not a pretense, nor is it deliberately showed off, when you deeply and fully understand Huizhou, you will find that Huizhou people have an indissoluble relationship with this cake all their lives.
From the time when the mother is still in the belly, the family will prepare the cake and chicken cake, which means "spawn", and the father will send the cake to the whole village, and the more the family receives the more cake, the more face the family will have. At the age of ten, Huizhou people "long tail", pastries are also an indispensable birthday gift. When reading, in order to make the child have more ink in his stomach, the locals will prepare emblem ink crisp. At the age of marriage and the day of blind date, the man needs to visit the door with a four-color ceremony, one of which is hemp crisp candy, and if the woman is satisfied, she is ready to be served in tatar. When Huizhou people celebrate their 567890th birthdays, they will prepare shou peach and rice rice peach.
Huizhou's various pastries not only play an important role in the important time of Huizhou people's lives, but also are indispensable throughout the year, all kinds of festivals, Huizhou cakes. Every New Year, every household must put the top market crisp in the storage plate to entertain guests, at this time must stuff more packs for children, they will excitedly shout "Red paper bags again!" "When you see the top crisp wrapped in red paper, you can feel the quaint charm and the joy of the festival at any time."
Hui ink crisp is the most suitable for the elderly to give to children, Huizhou people attach great importance to reading education, they hope that children can be full of ink learning, so this black sesame seeds as the main material, through the stir-frying, fine grinding, mixing, into the shape and other six procedures to make the emblem ink crisp is given such a meaning, I hope that children have a year of academic success, no wonder the locals call it can taste the emblem ink!
Qingming mugwort, dragon boat mung bean cake, Liqiu taste egg cake, Chongyang eat Chongyang kun, winter solstice ancestor worship with family cake, Laba bei "rice cake", Chinese New Year's Eve "fruit" filled with boxes... From the cakes of Huizhou, you can feel the colorful folk traditions and customs of Huizhou. At the Huizhou Cake Museum, the different seasons of the year are restored on the spot, as if you can feel the state of life of the locals in Huizhou.
In the museum, there is also a transparent emblem cake production line, where you can see the whole process of the chef making cakes. From raw material preparation, to skin filling, to packaging molding, to baking, to cooling packaging inspection, every process is vividly remembered. See a wide variety of cakes, understand the colorful Huizhou cake culture, but also see the whole process of the master to make cakes, in the cake museum, you can also diy Huizhou cake Oh!
Just happened to meet the students who came to study and experience, they are learning to pack Huangshan baked cakes with the cake master on the spot, don't look at this ordinary Huangshan baked cake, the original process is quite elaborate, need to go through the noodles, kneading, kneading, kneading, making blanks, skin making, wrapping filling, closing, rolling cakes, brushing, sprinkling, baking, stewing and other ten crafts and traditional handicrafts can be made. The master who teaches the students to make cakes is a doctor who likes traditional culture!
Coming to Huizhou Cake Museum, it is also very suitable for purchasing Huizhou cakes as souvenirs for friends and relatives! Dingshi crisp, Huangshan baked cake, Mao Feng crisp, black tea crisp, thin gold crisp, mung bean cake... The packaging is particularly cultural, and everything is loved. The Dragon Boat Festival fell, here also launched the long-established Hu Xingtang chopped pepper dumplings, the taste is really very unique, Huizhou chopped pepper spicy with q bomb pork, is too mouth-watering.
Anhui Huangshan Huizhou cake tips:
1. Huizhou Cake Museum is the first cake-themed cultural museum in China. The museum area of 9600 square meters, the museum is divided into three floors, a total of seven exhibition areas, it is a collection of Huizhou all year round cake culture display, Huizhou people a lifetime cake culture display, transparent sightseeing production line, handmade diy cake experience, cake exhibition, leisure water bar as one of the large theme cultural viewing experience center, is the Huizhou cake culture of the grand view garden.
2. Museum address: No. 38, Yingbin Avenue, Tunxi District, Huangshan City, Anhui Province
3. Opening hours: 08:30-17:30
4. Free admission