Taste Beijing: Snacks

 Do you taste some Beijing Snacks during your Beijing travel? Here is something about Beijing local foods.
Snacks of Beijing can fall into three varieties: Han, Hui and imperial snacks, which are generally prepared by steaming, deep frying, frying in shallow oil, and instant boiling. Some people regard snacks of Beijing as "living fossils." Now snack restaurants can be found all over Beijing, such as Longfusi and Huguosi snack counters. Quick boiled Tripe Man, Chatang Li and Wonton Hou.

Typical Beijing snacks:

1. Quick-Fried Tripe (Bao Du)

A kind of soup, eating with sesame cake. It is seasoned by chili oil, sesame paste, garlic spread and caraway.
Yummy!!

2. Donkey Rolling

Rolling Donkey is a kind of cake made of bean-flour and is a famous Islamic snack in Beijing. It is made from steamed glutinous millet or sticky rice, scattered with fried bean-flour and filled with red pea. After being cut into blocks, it is rolled in soya bean-flour, which is why this snack gets the name, Lv Da Gun. When you roll it in soya bean-flour, it looks like a donkey rolling on the ground, raising dusts.

3、Douzhi (Mung Bean Milk)

Beijing has a long history of making mung bean milk. As early as in the Liao (907-1125) and Song (960-1279) dynasties, mung bean milk was very popular. Local people of Beijing love to drink mung bean milk, because it is rich in protein, vitamin Cand rough fiber and helps drive away summer heat, invigorate the function of the spleen and whet the appetite. It consider as the Chinese Yogurt.
 
4、Pea-Flour Cake (Wan Dou Huang)

It is a traditional snack in Beijing. Pea-Flour Cake, which is made of white pea, is a snack people usually eat in spring. Wan Dou Huang is served in the third day of March in Chinese lunar calendar. Wang Dou Huang is served throughout the spring. It is also a popular snack in annual temple fair in Beijing. Wan Dou Huang was originally mentioned in the novel far back in the Ming Dynasty and became listed in the loyal cuisine in the early reign of Qianlong, Qing Dynasty. You will enjoy the sweet and smooth texture when the Pea-Flour Cake in your mouth.
 
5、Fried Bread Circle

It is welcomed by all the people, male or female, old or young. When people in Beijing have clay oven rolls or mung bean milk, they generally like to enjoy them with the fried bread circle. The flour is made into a paste with added salt, alkali and alum. The paste strips are then fried in the hot cooking oil. It is crisp and yellow in color; which makes it irresistible. This snack can be preserved for up to ten days or so without going bad in taste.
 
6、 Fried Filled Sausage (Guan Chang)

To make the sausage, flour or starch is firstly mixed with flavorings, and the paste is stuffed into prepared pigs' intestine. The long sausage will then be boiled and be cut into cubes to be fried. After mashed garlic is poured on it, the delicious sausage is ready. Usually, diners may use little bamboo sticks for a better convenience.
 
7、Fried Liver（Chao Gan）

People in Beijing take this traditional snack as a breakfast. The name is a bit misleading, for the liver is one third of the diet while the intestines of pigs are main ingredient. Unexpectedly, liver and intestine that are fried with soy sauce, garlic and bone soup are not greasy but very light. No wonder it has been a favorite breakfast since early times. If you are interested in it, kindly remember we can not find them in Islamic restaurant.

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