Beijing Food Tour: 33 Must-try Traditional Snacks

When you think of foods to eat in Beijing, you think Peking duck or Kung Pao Chicken. However, there are like a hundred traditional snacks to try, each with a unique taste and a special story. Old Beijing snacks involve Manchu royal snacks of various dim sum, halal snacks mostly made of mutton or beef and traditional Han snacks with bud-stimulating flavor.
  
Recommended China food tours to Beijing:
10-day Taste of China Top Cuisines
16-day China Culinary Tour

Manchu royal snacks

Lv da gun ( Glutinous Rice Rolls with Sweet Bean Flour) – 驴打滚

Stir fried hawthorn – 炒红果
French bean rolls – 芸豆卷
Sachima (a kind of candied fritter) -萨其马
Old Beijing Cheese – 老北京奶酪
Sesame Cake with Minced Pork – 肉末烧饼
Walnut cheese – 核桃酪

Halal snacks

 
Pea flour cake – 豌豆黄
Aiwowo (Steamed Rice Cakes with Sweet Stuffing) – 艾窝窝
cooked tripe of sheep or swine – 爆肚
Douzhi (a fermented drink made from ground beans) with jiao quan – 豆汁和焦圈
Crisp Thin Fritter Twist – 排叉
Fried dough drops – 炒疙瘩
Tang juan guo (Sugar fruit rolls) – 糖卷果

Han snacks

Baked wheaten cake with sugar – 糖火烧
sugar-coated haws on a stick – 冰糖葫芦
Dalian huo shao – 褡裢火烧
Fried butter cake – 奶油炸糕
Kai kou xiao (fried stuffed bun with sugar) – 开口笑
Zha jiang mian (noodles with soybean paste) – 炸酱面
Fried enema – 炸灌肠
Spiced boiled huo shao – 卤煮火烧
Tofu with Chilled Almond – 杏仁豆腐
Frogs spit honey (Bean stuffing baked wheat cake) – 蛤蟆吐蜜 (豆馅烧饼)
Fried pig's liver of Beijing style – 炒肝
Fried tickle box – 炸咯吱盒
Seasoned millet mush – 面茶
Ma toufu (Fermented Mung Bean Juice Dried) – 麻豆腐
Hu ta zi (old Beijing style pancake) – 糊塌子
Buckwheat cake for summer season – 扒糕
Sweet ears (fried sugar cake) – 糖耳朵
Jiemo dun er (mustard Chinese cabbage) – 芥末墩儿
Xiao diao li tang (pear soup for winter season) – 小吊梨汤