Food Combination

1. Tang Huo Shao (sweetened backed wheaten cake) vs. Brownie

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Tang Hou Shao is one of the favorable local snacks in Beijing. Its origin is traced back as far as 300 years ago. The tastes of Tang Huo Shao is sweet and with sesame flavor inside. It also has a crunchy, nutty outer shell.  As you can see from figure#1, Tang Huo Shao is kinda the same as chocolate brownie. I mean, from the taste and the look; moreover, they are all served as dessert.

2. Lv Da Gun (Soybean-flour Cake) vs. Roll Cake

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Lv Dagun or bean-flour cake is one of the long-established snacks in Beijing. It is mainly made of soybean flour. At the end of preparation, the bean-flour cake rolls in the soybean flour at the end, which looks like a donkey rolling over in dust. It is featured smelly, sweet and glutinous and it has thick smell of soybean flour. combining with Roll Cake in figure#2 is just showing their looks are the same. Actually, they also named likely, the reason for that is Lv DaGun has a funny nickname, which is Rolling Donkey.

3. Bing Tang Hulu (Candied Haw in a Stick) vs. Candy Apple

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Bing Tang Hulu is a types of candy and commonly available in Beijing. It is part of my childhood and also part of the history of Beijing City. Bintang Hulu could be a primitive but traditional candy, which is made of fresh fruit, particularly wild fruit like hawthorn. Looks the same with Candy Apple? The technique they used is even the same.

4. Bai Yu tofu (a kind of tofu but more tender than the regular one) vs. Puding

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Looks the same right? But one is tofu, the other one is puding~

5. Xian Bing (Chinese meat pies) vs. Pizza 

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Actually the techniques are pretty much the same, the only different is that Xian Bing have two sides, the top and the bottom~ they all are delicious! If you want to try making one Xian Bing of your own, here is an post that teaches you how to make one step by step. http://stiwyd.blogspot.com/2009/03/xian-bing-chinese-meat-pies.html

Bing Tang Hulu!!!!