In addition to the cake dumpling shop, plum blossom cake is popular on the streets of Nanjing as a special snack in the south of the Yangtze River. Plum blossom cake is not only a childhood memory of Nanjing people, but is still popular today. Plum blossom cake shops are mostly window shops or pick-up sales, customers buy and go, no seats, but also become a unique market style. The representative of Nanjing's plum blossom cake industry is the "Zuo Master Plum Blossom Cake" located on the side of Matai Street. Opened in 1986, Chef Zuo's plum blossom cake has been doing well, and in addition to local customers, many tourists from other places have come to taste it.
Plum blossom cake is made with flour, bean paste and white sugar as the protagonists, mixed into a batter and then put into a pot to make a base, and add raisins, red dates, nuts, jam and other ingredients. Chef Zuo has improved on the standard practice of plum blossom cake to bring it closer to the local taste of Nanjing: the plum blossom cake is made with Nanjing's special ingredients such as small lantern festival and preserved fruit, and pearl balls are added at the end of the production, which is unique. The plum blossom cake out of the pot is soft and glutinous and sweet, and the taste is delicate and rich. Master Zuo's plum blossom cake is divided into four flavors: bean paste, fruit, sesame and purple potato, and the price is the same, all of which are five yuan. Among the four flavors, bean paste is the most popular, which is not too sweet and is more suitable for the taste of Nanjing people.
