A Bite of Tianjin – Those Snacks on Ancient Cultural Street With Tianjin Flavor.

With business features of “Chinese, Tianjinese, Cultural and Ancient”, Ancient Cultural Street is mainly on business of cultural articles. There are nearly one hundred stores on the street where is an intensive area for stores of time-honored brands and folk handicrafts of Tianjin.

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Speaking of Tianjin flavor, many non-local people only know the 18th Street Fried Dough Twists, Go-believe Steamed Buns and Ear-Hole Fried Cakes, etc. Today, let’s see and taste those authentic traditional snacks with Tianjin flavor on Ancient Cultural street.

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Tianjin Fried Mung Beans Menzi

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Fried Menzi is made by mung bean flour and fried with flavorings. It is one of the local snack of Tianjin that rarely heard by non-local people. Because of the typical features, it gradually becomes snacks made and sold on the street.
 

Big Sugar Cake

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This is a classic snack of Tianjin. Among all snacks loved by children, Big Sugar Cake is big and tastes specially. For naïve children, the snack is not only tastes good but also very cheap.
 

Tianjin Honey Soft Cake

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You Yidao White Square Rice Cake is also known as Honey Soft Cake. It is a featured snack originated from Anhui. In order to make it tasty, honey is added into traditional White Square Rice Cake to be the new type Honey Soft Cake of Tianjin.
 

Tianjin Cha Tang with Copper Pot

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This is the specialty snack of Tianjin which is sweet, tasty and refreshing. With a specially made big red copper pot with dragon style spout, masters is making Cha Tang with a bowl in one hand and the pot in the other. The pot is lifted and the spout is sloped down. A stream of boiling water is flung into the bowl then the Cha Tang is done in a twinkling.
 

Tianjin Beng Dou Zhang

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“Beng Dou Zhang” is a time-honored brand of Tianjin founded in Jiaqing Period of Qing Dynasty. The founder Zhang Decai was a cook worked in the imperial kitchen at the end of Jiaqing Period. “Beng Dou Zhang” is a store specially made all kinds of dried food and snacks of beans. As one of the featured snacks of Tianjin, it enjoys equal popularity with Tianjin Nuts Zhang.
 

Tianjin Rice Cake

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Rice Cake (Shuli Cake) is a featured folk snack of Tianjin. The finished rice cakes are put on paper for sale. Some stallholders even initiate unique styles to run a long term development of this small business. Thus, a local and authentic Tianjin flavor snack has been gradually formed.
 

Dougen Candy

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Dougen Candy is a traditional snack of Han nationality. As a famous sweetmeats of Tianjin, it is made by soybean flour. The candy looks very common but tastes very good.
 

Balong Candy

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Balong Candy, also known as Ba Candy, is a local featured candy snack of Tianjin. It is made by malt sugar with the shapes of melon or pole. For the pole shape candy, Tianjin people call it as “Balong Candy”.

Tourists in Tianjin must try some local snacks on Ancient Cultural Street and take some back to share the authentic Tianjin flavor with friends and family.