Street food & snacks 街头小吃

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Jiangsu

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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Bowl of sesame-coated pastry balls with one cut open showing the filling
Jiangsu

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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Jiangsu

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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Jiangsu

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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Jiangsu

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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A pile of small round pale wafer-like soybean cakes
Jiangsu

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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Jiangsu

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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Jiangsu

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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Jiangsu

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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