Chong'an Temple Huangting Snack Making Technique
The making skills of Huangting snacks in Chong'an Temple are included in the list of traditional skills of the fourth batch of representative projects of Wuxi's municipal intangible cultural heritage. Chong'an Temple is the core of Wuxi's millennium cultural heritage. It has become a well-known food gathering center on the Shanghai-Nanjing line with Huangting snacks. A hundred years ago, it was listed as one of the four major food gathering places for Chinese people along with Shanghai City God Temple, Nanjing Confucius Temple and Suzhou Xuanmiao Temple. When visiting Chong'an Temple in Wuxi, you must try its Huangting snacks. There are more than 70 kinds of snacks, including rice dumpling with powder, square cakes, honey cakes, mung bean cakes, double-brewed dumplings, green dumplings, sugar porridge, magnolia cakes, knife-cut steamed buns, steamed buns with small cages, beef buns, siomai, three-fresh soup buns, ramen, plum cakes, shredded radish cakes, chicken cakes, crabapple cakes, thousand-layer cakes, vegetarian noodles, vegetarian buns, Huangqiao sesame cakes, beef and mutton vermicelli soup, and hot and sour soup. "One yuan is enough to eat all over Chong'an Temple." For more than 100 years, Chong'an Temple Huangting snacks have been the first choice for tourists and even overseas Jiangnan travelers looking for Jiangnan delicacies. They have a great influence among overseas Chinese. The snack making skills have been passed down for generations by famous shops such as Gongbeilou and Xinwanxing famous chefs Gao Rongjin and Hu Fajin. They are unique and well-known at home and abroad. (No pictures yet, welcome to provide.) (No pictures yet, welcome to provide.)