Travel Strategy: The Authentic Old Tianjin Flavors in Alleys

Speaking of Tianjin flavor, what else do you know except these famous and familiar featured local snacks like Chinese Crepes, Ear-Hole Fried Cakes, 18th Street Fried Dough Twist and Go-believe Steamed Buns? Now, we will introduce some delicious and authentic Tianjin snacks, which are unfamiliar to tourists.

Laochengli Calcium Milk Tangyuan

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Tangyuan is rice dumplings. Among all Tangyuan brands of Tianjin, Laochengli Calcium Milk Tangyuan is the most famous one. The stuffing of Laochengli Tangyuan had been innovated from traditional materials. In winter, especially when it is Lantern Festival, you will be very lucky if you can eat them.

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There are two major series of Laochengli Calcium Milk Tangyuan, Calcium Milk Tangyuan and Fruit Tangyuan. Calcium Milk series includes ten flavors of chocolate, coffee, cream, coconut cream, jackfruit, strawberry, orange, purple yam, cream bean paste and Hami melon; fruit series includes flavors of semen sesami nigrum, white sesame seed, pineapple, haw, five nuts, sweetened bean paste, peanuts and coco.

Fried Chop Rice Cake

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This is one of the traditional snack of Tianjin. Looking at the colorful cake, will you feel hungry? Just take a bite and try the taste yourselves.

The cake is made with three procedures of blank making, stuffing making and shape making. The finished cake is covered with bean flour in golden color, tasting sweet and soft. With unique flavor, the cake has been a traditional snack suitable for people of all ages.

Yangcun Sweetened Rice Flour

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The rice flour is soft, tasty and Easy to digest with the effect of strengthening the spleen and stomach. If you often eat it, the effect will be just like the Chinese medicine poria cocos. Therefore it is also called poria cocos sweetened rice flour.

As a kind of local folk cake snack of Tianjin, Yangcun Sweetened Rice Flour was originally generated during Yongle Period of Ming Dynasty, deriving from white square rice cake. It is the typical product of canal culture.

Braised Beef Granules with Garlic

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It is sort of featured dish of local Tianjin which can be hardly found out in other places.

Tianjin people know how to enjoy a slow life in fast-tempo society. They are very fond of their life and particular about food. They pay great attention on the color, aroma and taste of the food which inherits the memory of every generations.