Shiba Jie Mahua is sweet-smelling and crispy. Although
plain in look, this queue-shaped fried dough is by no means easy
to make. Each bar of dough is made with quality flour and then
fried in peanut oil. The bars are usually stuffed with a variety
of fillings, most often the waxy tasting beanpaste (dou sha)
- a taste for only the hardy. Since it can be preserved for
several months, you can take some of this crispy specialty back
home to share with family. 
Goubuli means the infant of a restaurateur; while Baozi means
steamed stuffed bun. Goubuli Baozi has had more than 150 years
of history. It is not an exaggeration to say that Goubuli Baozi
is a food calling card of Tianjin. 
With relatively fine ingredients and a renowned reputation in
Tianjin, Erduoyan Zhagao is almost 100 years old. As one of
the most famous traditional food of Tianjin, Erduoyan glutinous
rice cakes were created by a small restaurant located by Erduoyan
Lane, hence the name. With a history of over 80 years, such
fried, glutinous rice cakes are golden yellow in color, crisp,
soft, sweet and tasty.
A snack of strong local flavour, Guobacai is a sort of pancake
made of millet and mung bean flour. The pancake is sliced and
cooked in the sauce made of sesame oil, chopped ginger, soy sauce,
preserved beancurd and green onion. Guobacai is often served
along with fried dough and sesame cakes.
Tianjin DiningTianjin dining culture is renowned throughout China, and not only the traditional Tianjin snacks, but the cuisines from other regions of China can also be found in Tianjin. Tianjin cuisine places a heavy focus on seafood due to Tianjin's proximity to the sea. Food Street is a fairly good place for you to sample these cross-cultural Chinese dishes. These traditional and famed snacks cannot be missed. For example, Goubuli Buns is a traditional brand of baozi (steamed buns with filling), famous throughout China. Guifaxiang is a traditional brand of mahua (twisted dough sticks). Erduoyan is a traditional brand of fried rice cakes. There also a few great dishes as well. The Eight Great Bowls is a combination of eight mainly meat dishes, which can be further classified into several varieties, including the rough, smooth, and high. Furthermore, the Four Great Stews refers to a very large number of stews, including the ingredients of chicken, duck, seafood, beef, and mutton. If traditional Tianjin taste does not suite you, there are also plenty of western food restaurants in the city as well. Please read below for a sampling of information concerning the various type of cuisine offered in Tianjin.
Shiba
Jie Mahua (Fried Dough Twist) Address: Beilou Hotel, No. 18 Jiashang Road, Tianjin Goubuli Baozi (Steamed
Stuffed Bun) Goubuli's stuffed buns are known for their generous
filling, which is succulent but not greasy. This famous snack
was created during the late Qing Dynasty by a native of Wuqing
County, who had the nickname "Dogy". At the age of
14, Dogy left home and came to Tianjin, where he was apprenticed
to a restaurant specializing in stuffed buns. Today, the Goubuli Bun Shop has developed into a corporation with 89 branch restaurants opened in Tianjin and two dozen other Chinese cities, provinces and regions. In addition to over 90 varieties of stuffed bun, its restaurants also offer more than 200 dishes. Address:No. 77 Shandong Road, Heping District, Tianjin Ear Hole Fried Cake (Erduoyan Zhagao) Address: No. 37 Beimenwai Dajie, Hongqiao District,
Tianjin Chatang Chatang is a traditional Tianjin snack. It is made of baked millet and glutinous millet flour. The soup is made by pouring boiling water to the mixed flour and then adding sugar or brown sugar to it. The way chatang being served at stalls is as attractive as the soup itself. The water is boiled in a big copper pot whose spout is usually fashioned into a dragon's head. While making the soup, the skilled chatang maker holds several bowls in one hand and pours the boiling water into them from quite a distance. Guobaicai Tangdui It is a custom in Tianjin to eat Tangdui on the eve of the Chinese New Year. The most popular tangdui is made of hawthorn berry. Hawthorn berries have their seeds removed and are skewered on a thin bamboo stick, then dipped in hot syrup. When they turn cool, the stringed berries wrapped in crystal sugar look like beautiful stone beans pungently sweet and sour. Sometimes, the hollowed hawthorn berries are filled with red bean paste, walnut and melon seeds. Today, in addition to hawthorn, a wide variety of tangdui has been developed, including water chestnut, tangerine, apple, pear and crab-apple, etc.
The Food Street in Tianjin's Southern Market looks like an ancient walled city enclosed by a circle of neat three-story buildings. There is a crossroads and at the centre of the crossroads is a musical fountain. The entire structure is covered with a glass roof. In Food Street are over 100 eating places, occupying more than 40,000 square meters in floor space and each having its own special dishes of local flavors. There are Chinese restaurants serving Tianjin and other schools of cuisine and Western restaurants. As a large city, Tianjin can indulge you with almost all eight of the classical Chinese cuisines, of which seven types including Shandong, Jiangsu, Sichuan, Anhui, Guangdong, Zhejiang, and Hunan Cuisines can be enjoyed in Food Street. Undoubtedly each cuisine is a feast for your pallet. What's more all the traditional Chinese constructions are also represented in this street making a feast for your eyes as well.
Tianfu Laoma Restaurant Lao Sichuan Yang Shangshu Garden Villa Yue Weixian Yuanmansushilin
TGI Friday's Barcelona Western & Spanish Restaurant Hank's Sports Bar & Grill Richmond Restaurant
Bella Pizza Mr. Pizza Origus The Pizza Box Pizza Hut Pizza King Gino Caf谷 Jimix Italian Restaurant
Brazilian Barbeque (Baxi Kaorou)
Alibaba's Cape of Good Hope
C'est La Vie Le Tube Cristal O'Smile French Restaurant Paris Village Saigon Court (French
Vietnamese Cuisine)
Amigos
Bawarchi
Indian Restaurant The Golden Fork
Furusato Meshiya Mizuho Sakura Seitaro Japanese Restaurant Takenosuke
Yakiniku, Korean Barbeque
Golden Elephant The Green Chili Parkway Caf谷 Y.Y. Beer House
New Saigon Vietnamese Restaurant
Lianwa Jia. Address: Guoxin Building A, No. 103 Second Avenue, TEDA, Tianjin Tel:(8622) 6621-8750 NOTE: Although this information is correct at the time of our web publication, it is still advised that you call the phone number and confirm the address before going to the venue because some venues may have changed their telephone numbers or address locations. |
