Tangjiawan Tea Cake Making Craft

The Tangjiawan tea-cake craft is the handmade skill of producing 'chaguo'—traditional rice-flour cakes—in the Tangjiawan area, passed down through generations along with local Cantonese festival and hospitality customs.

The craft covers the full process—milling rice into flour, mixing and shaping the wrappers, preparing savory and sweet fillings, forming and wrapping, and steaming—with distinct techniques for each variety and an eye for thin wrappers, ample filling, and pleasing shapes.

As a provincial-level item of intangible cultural heritage, the Tangjiawan tea-cake craft preserves the handmade techniques of traditional Cantonese pastry and its festival food culture, carrying deep local memory.

The craft of making tea cakes can be explored at Tangjiawan's old town and local heritage demonstration and folk-experience venues.