Food & Drinking Cultures, 5th prize

The Cultural Perspective of Chinese Snack

Liu Wei(China)


  The snack, meaning informal food, is easy to carry and can be eaten at any moment. Most snacks are linked to certain festivals.  
 

 
  2. Toasted pancake is a traditional food in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.  
 

 
  3. Tea soup is a kind of traditional Beijing snack.  
 

 
  4. Fried seafood on iron plank is a Tianjin snack probably inspired by the barbecue.  
 

 
  7. Roasted sweet potatoes can usually be seen on the streets in Beijing.  
   
  10. "Rolling donkeys," a unique Hebei snack.  
   
  12. Sugarcoated haw strings.  

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