Tianjin

1）Fried Dough Twist
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.

2）Goubuli Steamed Stuffed Bun

Although you can find these steamed stuffed buns (Bao zi) almost everywhere in China, Goubuli is still the hardest to make (involving eight steps) and is consequently the most favored one among its peers. It is characterized by its unusual flavor and because it is void of the fatty liquid that is commonly found in other buns. In recent years, buns made with stuffing other than pork meat have caught on, including some interesting vegetarian options.

3）Tianjin Kites

Wei Yuantai is the representative of Tianjin Kites ,and he is called "Kite Wei".
.The outstanding characteristics of Tianjin Kites are the techniques of the framework and fastening and the colors of designs as well .
Based on the traditional sculpture, it tries to be unique and to find something new and fresh on design and painting.

4)Sour Date Kernel

One of the most commonly used sedative/hypnotic in Chinese prescriptions for treating insomnia and neurasthenia is suanzaoren (sour date kernel). It is the dried ripe kernels of Ziziphus jujube Mill. var. spinosa (Bunge) Hu ex H.F. Chow (syn. Ziziphus spinosa Hu). Although first recorded 3000 years ago, this medicinal has only recently been evaluated by modern scientific methods and found to indeed possess sedative and hypnotic effects in various experimental animals (Hong and Cao 1987). Spinosin, a flavonoid glycoside, is only partially responsible for these effects (Li and Zhang 1983, Yuan et al. 1987, Zeng et al. 1987). Other active components in this drug still await further investigations.

5)Tianjin Carpet

Tianjin is the carpet center of Northern China in the modern times and Tianjin carpet industry traces back to the time over 100 years ago, when Tianjin was the largest wool collecting and distributing center and an important city of foreign trade. This unique geographical location and historical conditions made Tianjin carrot industry develop rapidly and become a major carpet production and exporting base. By the year of 1930, there were over 300 carpet producers in Tianjin, exporting 2 million square feet a year, occupying the first place in carpet export business in the country.

6)Ear-Hole Fried Cake
The Ear-Hole Fried Cake is another one of the famous traditional Tianjin snacks. It derived its name from the narrow Ear-Hole Street in Tianjin's Beidaguan, where the shop selling it was located. The Ear-Hole Fried Cake has a history of more than 80 years. lt was introduced by a man named Liu Wanchun, who peddled it on a single-wheel barrow from street to street. When his business prospered, he rented a room and opened Liu's Fried Cake Shop. Because the fried cake he made was of high quality, reasonable in price and had a special flavour, it soon became a popular snack.

7)Guobacai
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.

8)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.