When traveling to Beijing, in addition to seeing Beijing's unique attractions, Beijing's gourmet snacks are naturally not to be missed. Even though none of us have been to Beijing, we all know what the food in Beijing is. Common Beijing delicacies include Peking duck, Beijing bean juice, Beijing fried sauce noodles, Beijing hot roast meat, Beijing fried belly, etc., which are all foods we come to Beijing to taste.
After traveling and playing home, it is definitely necessary to take some Beijing specialties home, after all, these specialties represent that you have come to Beijing, and you are also very face-saving in front of your relatives and friends. So what specialties should we bring home in Beijing?
Many people should choose Jingba pieces, Beijing eight pieces are also called "big eight pieces", it is actually eight kinds of different tastes, different shapes of Beijing flavor pastries. Jingba pieces were only popular during the Qing Dynasty, and were first made for the emperor by the Qing court, and later circulated among the people. Kyohachi is mainly filled with eight kinds of raw materials such as date paste, green plum, raisins, roses, bean paste, sugar, bananas, and pretzels, and then uses oil, water and noodles to make skins, and then wraps them with skins and bakes them.
Jingba is a very distinctive traditional cuisine, which is generally used for royalty, royal sacrifices, ceremonial offerings, as well as gifts and supplies that are indispensable in red and white celebrations and even daily life.
At first, Kyohachi was not called "Kyohachi", but at the earliest it was only engraved with the words "Fu", "Shou", "Lu", "Xi", and "Everything is as expected" and other auspicious pastries, and then placed in eight plates, so it was called Kyohachi.
Beijing eight pieces are divided into eight pieces of puff pastry, eight pieces of milk skin, eight pieces of wine skin, the main feature of which is that they are all stuffed pastries, and the main difference lies in the skin. Eight pieces of puff pastry are pastry snacks, while eight pieces of wine skin and milk skin are hard skin snacks. Beijing specialty "Beijing eight pieces", the taste is actually general, foreigners or buy less as well
There is a little brother, his friend traveling in Beijing, specially bought eight pieces of Beijing for him to taste. The little brother had never been to Beijing, let alone eaten The Eight Pieces of Beijing, and he could take this opportunity to taste it.
The little brother first opened a package, inside is a very famous donkey rolling, it is a miniature version of the donkey rolling, there is a separate packaging, bite a bite to taste once, this mini donkey rolling to eat like dry eating tangyuan, a little sweet, and very sticky Next to eat is Ai Wo Wo Wo, eat and donkey roll is very similar, are outside crystal clear, there is filling inside.
Open another package, inside is the golden wire roll, bite, you can eat the taste of the coconut, but the taste inside is still very similar to the donkey rolling, but the outside of a layer of coconut paste, eat will be sweeter and more fragrant. Eat the next one, is the sandwich cake, the sandwich cake is a thin cake, the inside is a relatively transparent yellow glue, it is very chewy to eat, and the dry of the pancake, and the wetness of the yellow glue, with a particularly delicious.
This should be the most familiar food, it is the rock sugar gourd, we usually eat rock sugar gourd is made of fresh hawthorn. And this rock sugar gourd is a mini rock sugar gourd, no bamboo skewers, 3 sugar balls stick together, bite a special soft bite, the hawthorn inside is cooked and then wrapped in syrup.
There is also yokan, which is not very sweet on the palate, slightly bitter, and very similar to the taste of gillian dates. Below is the assorted preserved fruit, which is the taste of ordinary preserved fruit. There is also pea yellow, similar to yokan, but sweeter and stickier.
After eating all the Kyohachi pieces, it doesn't feel very authentic, and if you want to eat authentic things, it is best to go to the local area.