Jianhu lotus root starch dumpling is a famous specialty snack in Yancheng City, Jiangsu Province. It was carefully made by a royal chef who was born in the middle of the Qing Dynasty, and the emperor praised it after eating it. The main raw materials of lotus root starch dumplings are lotus root starch, candied dates, pine nuts, peach kernels, melon seeds, almonds, red and green silk, kumquat, sesame seeds and sugar. Lotus root starch glutinous rice balls are rich in nutrition and have the function of strengthening bones and benefiting blood, which has become a special dish for Chinese and foreign guests in Jiangsu Province.

Funing cake, also known as jade belt cake, is a good traditional cake in Funing area. Mainly refined from glutinous rice flour. Cake slices are as white as snow, as thin as paper, as soft as cotton and as sweet as honey. They can be rolled up and put away. They are sweet and moist, and are deeply loved by people. Funing, Sheyang and surrounding areas will pray with Funing cake in New Year and wedding festivals, which means good luck and success. Moreover, there is a custom in Chinese New Year that you can't talk without eating big cakes.

Yancheng Cao pancake, also known as yellow sesame cake, is a special snack in Shanggang area of Jianhu Lake. Cao Luobing's stove is to knock off the bottom of a big sand pot and use it as the oven door. The cylinder mouth is glued to the wall with cement and fixed with sand around. Around the jar is a place to paste cakes. It is said that the history of grass-grass cake can be traced back to AD 5, and it is named after being made of reed grass and sand bottom furnace. With the gradual change of people's eating habits, grass robing is now facing the problem of how to protect it.