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Meat-Stuffed Gluten Puffs 肉酿面筋
Meat-Stuffed Gluten Puffs (肉酿面筋) are a Wuxi (无锡) dish of fried wheat-gluten balls filled with seasoned minced pork and simmered in a soy-sauce broth.
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Wuxi Meat-Stuffed Gluten Puffs 无锡油面筋塞肉
Wuxi Meat-Stuffed Gluten Puffs (无锡油面筋塞肉) are hollow balls of deep-fried wheat gluten filled with seasoned minced pork and braised, a traditional dish of Wuxi (无锡) in Jiangsu.
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Huishan Flaky Pastries 惠山油酥
Huishan Flaky Pastries (惠山油酥) are a Wuxi (无锡) snack from the Huishan (惠山) area, pastries shaped like Chinese chess pieces, with a filling of more than ten ingredients inside a skin of refined flour and sesame.
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Griddle Pancake Rolled with Fried Dough 烙馍卷馓子
Griddle Pancake Rolled with Fried Dough (烙馍卷馓子) is a Xuzhou (徐州) roll in which laomo (烙馍), a single-layer wheat pancake, is wrapped around sanzi (馓子), crisp fried dough.
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Eight-Strand Fried Dough Stick 八股油条
Eight-Strand Fried Dough Stick (八股油条) is a Xuzhou (徐州) breakfast fritter: an oval fried dough stick made from eight pieces of dough, eaten in the city for more than a hundred years according to China.com.cn (中国网).
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Tadpole-Shaped Starch Jelly 蛙鱼
Tadpole-Shaped Starch Jelly (蛙鱼) is a cold starch jelly from Xuzhou (徐州), made mainly from sweet-potato starch. Its local name, "wayu" (literally "frog fish"), comes from the pieces, which look like tadpoles.
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Changzhou Flaky Sesame Cakes 常州麻糕
Changzhou Flaky Sesame Cakes (常州麻糕) are a local speciality of Changzhou (常州) in Jiangsu, known in full as Changzhou large sesame cake (常州大麻糕) and in the city simply as ma gao (麻糕).
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Bean Griddle Cakes 豆斋饼
Bean Griddle Cakes (豆斋饼) are small Changzhou (常州) cakes eaten on their own or cooked with other ingredients in soups and dishes. They have a mild bean fragrance; Changzhou television also describes them as crisp.
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Crab-Shell Sesame Pastries 蟹壳黄
Crab-Shell Sesame Pastries (蟹壳黄) are small, round baked pastries that Chinese Wikipedia lists as a local snack of Zhejiang, Shanghai and Anhui, and as one of the speciality snacks of the area around Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai.
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Clam Cakes 文蛤饼
Clam Cakes (文蛤饼) are small pan-fried cakes of chopped hard clam meat, a well-known snack of Nantong (南通) in Jiangsu.
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Xiting Crisp Layered Biscuits 西亭脆饼
Xiting Crisp Layered Biscuits (西亭脆饼) are flaky baked biscuits from Xiting (西亭) in Tongzhou district (通州区), Nantong (南通), Jiangsu, which the Tongzhou district government describes as an intangible-heritage food.
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Banpu Mung Bean Jelly 板浦凉粉
Banpu Mung Bean Jelly (板浦凉粉) is a snack from Banpu (板浦), a town in Lianyungang (连云港), and is well known across northern Jiangsu.
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