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What are the specialties of Xikou?
Fenghua Xikou has three treasures, thousands of cakes, taro and peaches!

Xikou Melaleuca Cake: a specialty of Xikou Town, Fenghua District, Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province, and a landmark product of chinese national geography. Melaleuca cake has the characteristics of fragrance, crispness, crispness and insatiability, and is quite popular among people. Although this kind of cake is only 4-5 cm square and about 2 cm thick, it has 27 layers, hence the name "Melaleuca Cake". Melaleuca cake has a history of 100 years. It is made by mixing flour and taro powder, adding white sugar, refined salt, vegetable oil, sesame and seaweed. Roll it into thin slices, fold it up, cut it into small pieces one inch square and bake it in a special circular furnace made of yellow mud. Chew it, it is crisp and refreshing, and it has a variety of sweet, sour, salty and spicy tastes. It has been rated as one of the three specialty products in Fenghua, Zhejiang. On September 14, 2004, the former AQSIQ approved the protection of the origin of "Xikou Melaleuca Cake".

Fenghua Taro: According to Fenghua County Records, it has been more than 700 years since taro was planted in Song Dynasty. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Wangxiaomiao Qiange area was widely planted, and then it was extended to Paiting, Luocun, Tongshan 'ao, Shiqiao and other villages along the mountains and rivers. 1996, Wang Xiao Temple was jointly named "Hometown of Taro in China" by the State Council Research and Development Center, China Agricultural Society and China Specialty Newspaper. Fenghua taro is a traditional excellent pollution-free agricultural product in Fenghua and Ningbo. It is spherical, brown in appearance, pink at the top, weighing more than 1kg, with big skin and thin powder. It is not only a vegetable, but also a grain. "It can be roasted, steamed, roasted, fried, cut into white, pasted, boiled and boiled." If you cook soup, it will be as smooth as tremella and as waxy as jiaozi. "It is not only delicious, but also a nutritious health food.

Fenghua Peaches: Xikou is the hometown of peaches in China, and Fenghua Peaches is known as "the first in China". It is thin and easy to peel, soft and residue-free, soluble in the mouth, sweet and delicious. August 2nd is the annual Fenghua Peach Festival, from mid-June to late August. Peaches are all top grade these days. Fenghua peaches have a long history, diverse varieties and rich nutrition. The history of peach tree planting can be traced back to the Song Dynasty seven or eight hundred years ago. The unique natural conditions and good cultivation techniques have created the excellent qualities of Fenghua peach, such as beautiful fruit shape, soft meat, sweet juice and instant taste. It is known as "Ganlu" and "the treasure of Yaochi", and it deserves its name.