Lianshui chicken cake is a traditional cake specialty of Lianshui area. Chicken cake is delicate, elegant in shape, rich in nutrition, and is deeply loved by the elderly. Chicken cake is made with chicken breast meat as the main ingredient, accompanied by an appropriate amount of fresh shrimp, eggs, yam, bean flour, green onion and ginger juice and other accessories, plus more than 10 kinds of condiments
Chicken cake, also known as "vegetarian chicken", is not only related to the legend of the Qianlong Emperor, but also takes its taste and bright color. And because it is as tender as crisp, delicate and delicious, people also call it crispy chicken. As an original traditional dish in Lianshui City and Countryside, it has a history of more than 200 years. Every New Year's Festival, friends from all over the world come to Lianshui, with a taste of Lianshui chicken cake as a blessing, especially Lianshui's overseas wanderers, do not hesitate to travel thousands of miles, or return to their hometowns, or carry letters, with "food is lucky", there is a great "perch can be" the wonder. In the mid-1980s, Gu Zhutong, a famous Lianshui celebrity who lived in Taiwan, once asked people to return to their hometown to carry two specialties, one of which was Lianshui chicken cake.