"Dengzhan cake, what a puffy and delicious snack. I’m salivating on it, but have no penny in my pocket." This Wenzhou dialect nursery rhyme refers to the famous local snack - "Dengzhan Cake (deep-fried white radish cake)". In this video, Alex visited an old Dengzhan cake shop that has been open for more than 20 years. It’s located at No. 2 Gulou Street, Lucheng District, Wenzhou. 

Dengzhan cake (deep-fried white radish cake) is one of the top 10 famous snacks in Wenzhou. It has a long history and can be traced back to the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty (around the 1460s). Because its shape resembles the ancient oblate oil lamp, it gets the name "Dengzhan Cake". Generally, it is made by grinding rice and soybeans into a thick paste, adding flour, wrapping shredded radish, eggs, meat as fillings, and deep-frying. The Dengzhan Cake tastes best when it is just taken out of the oil pot. So crispy and crunchy, it tastes tender and smooth when you take a bite of it. Your month is inundated with egg scent. How delicious it is. Dengzhan Cake (deep-fried white radish cake) was included in the Wenzhou Intangible Cultural Heritage List as a traditional Yueqing snack making technique on January 10, 2014. 

After the Dengzhan cake was taken out of the oil pot, Alex had a try the first time. He said it was really delicious. This was not the first time for him to eat Dengzhan Cake, but the fragrant aftertaste in his mouth was no different from the previous few times.

(Edited by Ye Ke)