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Yau Wai

Yau Wai is the traditional fine flavor snack in Jinan. It gets this name for its shape looks like a screw with a golden yellow smooth surface. It is crunchy outside and tender inside, loose and multi- layers with a smell of green onion oil. It is said that it has a history of over 100 years. Three brothers of Xu, who came from Nanjing, first brought Yau Wai into Jianan. To cater for the taste of the people in Jinan, they improved the ingredients so that the taste has become salty which is the popular taste with people in the north part of China.

Edible Vegetable Oil Offers Silk Pie

Edible vegetable oil offers silk pie is fried by peanut oil that is compared by lard. It is a kind of refined pasta that developed on the basis of hand-pulled noodles. When making it, the cook must pulled the noodles into thousands of white threads as thin as hair and put them in a shape of a round cake in a plate, then put them into the peanut oil to fry. At last, scatter the fried noodles and put them in a plate with white sugar and green and red threads. It is crisp outside and tender inside, golden threads are evenly scattered with little sweet flavor.