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Jiangxi

Chilli Rice Cakes 辣椒粑

Chilli Rice Cakes (辣椒粑) are a dried snack from Jingdezhen (景德镇), the city in northeastern Jiangxi known as the Porcelain Capital (瓷都), made from chilli and glutinous rice.

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Jiangxi

Leping Crisp Cookies 乐平桃酥

Leping Crisp Cookies (乐平桃酥) are taosu pastries from Leping (乐平), a city under Jingdezhen (景德镇) in Jiangxi, where the Jiangxi Food Factory (江西食品厂) makes them under the An brand (安牌).

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Jiangxi

Sour Jujube Cake 酸枣糕

Sour Jujube Cake (酸枣糕) is a fruit snack of Pingxiang (萍乡), Jiangxi. The Pingxiang Municipal Bureau of Culture, Radio, Television, Press, Publication and Tourism (萍乡市文化广电新闻出版旅游局) features the version from Shangli County (上栗县) and calls it a traditional folk snack of the city, its method handed down from one generation to the next.

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Jiangxi

Jiujiang Osmanthus Tea Cakes 九江茶饼

Jiujiang Osmanthus Tea Cakes (九江茶饼) are small, round, golden pastries from Jiujiang (九江), the old Yangtze port city where Jiangxi meets Anhui and Hubei, filled with sugar, camellia oil, osmanthus and sesame and made to be eaten with tea.

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Jiangxi

Duchang Rice Cakes 都昌米粑

Duchang Rice Cakes (都昌米粑), also called jiaoziba (饺子粑), are a steamed, filled rice snack from Duchang (都昌) in Jiujiang, Jiangxi, which the county government describes as an old county on the shore of Poyang Lake (鄱阳湖).

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Jiangxi

Lamp-Wick Cake 灯芯糕

Lamp-Wick Cake (灯芯糕) from Guixi (贵溪) takes its name from its narrow, wick-like form. China Tourism News also links the name to its oil content, which allows the cake to burn.

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Jiangxi

Ji'an Thin Flaky Pastry 吉安薄酥饼

Ji'an Thin Flaky Pastry (吉安薄酥饼) is a round, baked flaky cake from Ji'an (吉安), Jiangxi, with a lard, sugar and Sichuan-pepper filling, which the Ji'an city government calls a fine mooncake for the Mid-Autumn Festival.

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Jiangxi

Zixi Bread 资溪面包

Zixi Bread (资溪面包) is not one particular loaf but the bread made by bakers from Zixi County (资溪县) in Fuzhou (抚州), Jiangxi, a mountain county at the western foot of the Wuyi Mountains (武夷山脉) on the border with Fujian.

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