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Beijing Jiumen Traditional Snack |
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Located in a hutong at Shichahai, Jiumen Xiaochi (Beijing Jiumen Traditional Snack) opened at the end of June 2006, featuring traditional Beijing snacks. Many vendors, each with a tidy stall, offer brand-name Beijing snacks in a traditional courtyard setting. Every stall sells many kinds of snacks. The most popular ones are douzhi (a favourite drink of old Beijingers and good for one's stomach), rice cakes and almond soup.
ludagun (驴打滚donkey roll) is a steamed millet cake with mashed red bean stuffing, rolled in ground soy bean powder.Wandouhuang(豌豆黄pea yellow) is boiled pease jelly. And aiwowo (艾窝窝) is a small, snow-white, round glutinous rice cake with assorted sweet stuffing. Tang'erduo (糖耳朵sugar ear) is brown sugar and flour cake soaked in maltose. Hama tumi (蛤蟆吐蜜toad spit honey) is a cake with red bean stuffing and a crack on the surface.
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aiwowo (艾窝窝) |
lvdagun (驴打滚donkey roll) |
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Tang'erduo (糖耳朵sugar ear) |
Wandouhuang(豌豆黄pea yellow) |
It got the name Beijing Jiumen Traditional Snack from the nine gates in the wall that surrounded Beijing, including Chongwenmen, Xizhimen, Deshengmen, Andingmen and more. Its Chinese name jiumen refers to these nine gates, and in ancient Beijing the name Nine Gates was synonymous with the city. So its name bears the connotation of a place with all the Beijing snacks. Handed down generation by generation, many of these Beijing snacks have a history of 100Ð200 years. Almost every day, it is easy to find an elderly person behind each stall making or instructing others how to make the snacks. They are the inheritors of these Beijing snack brand names.
Walking through its stalls, customers will happen upon a public dining space. For even more peace and quiet, 16 separate rooms have been prepared, each bearing the name of a city gate, such as Fuchengmen or Fuxingmen. One room is especially reserved for Muslims.
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