Bengdou Zhang excels in making multi-flavor-coated legume snacks. The chain of stores dates back 200 years.

The snack's inventor, Zhang Decai, used to be a cook who made imperial dishes during the Qing Dynasty .

In the stores, you can find nuts, peas, beans and seeds of lotus, melon, pumpkin and sunflowers coated in innumerable ways and flavors.