Shrimp cake is a delicacy, its’ main ingredients include raw shrimp meat, flour and so on. It is originally popular in the south of the Yangtze River, shrimp cake is best known as the characteristic traditional snack of Changzhou City, Jiangsu Province. In Changzhou, the shape of the shrimp cakes is similar to a drum, therefore, it is also called “copper drum cakes”. Shrimp cake has a history of nearly 200 years. Yuan Mei, an author in Qing dynasty, states in his “Garden Food List”: “shrimp cake, raw shrimp meat, green onions, salt, pepper, a little sweet wine, add water, flour, and burn through with seasame oil.” The color is golden, the outside is crispy and the inside is soft, the smell is fragrant and the taste is delicious.
The old stone slab street, the fried shrimp cake stalls, the old people with white hair, crispy and delicious shrimp cakes come out of the oven. In Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai, shrimp cake is a very famous pastry that accompanies our growth. The classic Changzhou snack is unforgettable to most people who are over 30, and it is reasonable that its flavor will still exist in the city because it’s the taste of Changzhou.
