Rui’an Double-steamed Cake

The Double-steamed Cake, a specialty of Rui’an, tastes fine, soft, tough, fragrant, and sweet. Choose fine glutinous rice flour, add white sugar, screen the mixture, sprinkle dried osmanthus flowers; steam it till the cake is formed, cut it into pieces and steam it again. The delicate softness of glutinous rice is combined with the sweetness of sugar and the fragrance of osmanthus in your mouth. One piece of it is far from enough to satisfy your taste bud.

Yongjia Wheat Cake

Yongjia Wheat Cake originated in Shatou town of Yongjia county, Wenzhou. In the past, Shatou had quays, where passengers used to rest and wait for boats. Owing to the special flavor of the cake, they would buy it as solid food for their journey. Ingredient proportion for one shell of the cake is: 250g wheat flour, 1 egg and 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil. Stir and knead the mixture to a dough, roll it into a flat and round shape. Then fill it with minced fresh meat, pickled cabbage or preserved vegetables, and dried small shrimps, wrap them up and roll it again into a flat and round shape. Now put it in an iron frying pan on fire till both sides turn white. At last, take it to an oven and bake it. The finished cake, crispy outside and soft inside, smells fresh and tastes delicious.

Qiaodun Moon Cake

Qiaodun Moon Cake, named after the place of its production Qiaodun Town, is a famous traditional snack in Cangnan County, Wenzhou. As big and round as a plate, it symbolizes reunion and happiness, thus regarded as a traditional local food for Mid-Autumn Festival. It is a local specialty made of selected materials with complicated processing. Its ingredients are fine flour, peanut, sesame, dried Longan pulp, pork fat, shelled melon seeds, sugared white gourd, preserved fruits, white sugar, spring onion, vegetable oil and so on.

Maqiao

Maqiao, also called “Qiaoshi”, originated from the custom of folk women praying for skillful hands (homophonic to Chinese Pinyin “Qiqiao” ) to the star Vega on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month. That day evolves to Qixi Festival, when, as the tradition goes in Wenzhou, people eat Maqiao (Qiaoshi), wishing to have skillful hands after eating it. It is made of quality flour, cane sugar, lard, salt and soda, which is made into tongue-shape, sprinkled with sesame and baked. It is a local tradition for maternal grandmothers to give Maqiao to their grand-children or maternal uncles to their nephews and nieces on the Qixi Festival.The crispy Maqiao carries the memory of childhood for several generations.

Steamed Rice Cake

Steamed Rice Cake is a famous snack in Wenzhou. Mix quality glutinous rice flour with diced pork fat, osmanthus, sesame, and white sugar/brown sugar, then steam it. Cut it into pieces before serving. It tastes sweet and soft while it is hot, and more chewy when it gets cooler.

Jinfen Dumpling

Jinfen Dumpling, also called Shanfen Dumpling, is a special snack of Yongjia County, Wenzhou. Its skin, made from sweet potato flour, is chewy. And its fillings, consisting of diced pork, winter bamboo shoots and mushrooms, are delicious and fragrant. It is always made into triangular or half-moon shape before being steamed.

Deep-fried Lamp Cake

Deep-fried Lamp cake is a traditional specialty of Wenzhou, whose history can be traced back to the end of Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368) and the beginning of Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). It is made of rice flour and soybean flour, with shredded radish, shredded meat, egg and other fillings inside. Because its appearance is similar to the oil lamp in the past, it is called “Lamp Cake”.

Lard Cake

Wenzhou Lard Cake is also known as Grease Cake. As early as the Qing Dynasty (1616-1912), the famous local chronicle Yuan He Wei Ting Zhi praised it as “a fine snack in Suzhou, Hangzhou and nearby areas”. The cake is made of glutinous rice flour and sugar in a thin and flat round shape. It is fried in lard until its skin becomes slightly crispy, sprinkled with some sugar, and served on bamboo leaf before serving. It tastes oily but not greasy. Being simple and rustic, it has been the local’s favorite for generations.

Jiu Ceng Gao (9-layer Rice Cake)

Jiu Ceng Gao (9-layer Rice Cake) is a special snack that has been enjoyed for a long time in Wenzhou. It is made by steaming and stacking rice slurry for many times. Once done, it has 9 layers on top of one another with rich rice aroma. And the number 9 is quite an auspicious number to the Chinese meaning forever.