🍽️ Jinhua Crisp Cake

Preserved mustard sesame biscuit.

Jinhua Crisp Cake is a traditional specialty of Jinhua, Zhejiang, sharing the region with Jinhua ham. It is made from layered, flaky pastry wrapped around preserved mustard greens and diced fat pork, coated with sesame seeds and baked against the wall of an oven. Freshly baked, the crust flakes apart at a touch, balancing savory and sweet with the aged aroma of preserved greens and the richness of pork, all wrapped in a toasty sesame fragrance. It is crisp when cold and soft when hot, served with tea or carried away by visitors as a souvenir. Old Jinhua shops traditionally bake over charcoal to order, and the cakes are most tempting straight from the oven, offering a small window into how Jinhua ham and preserved greens pair in local baking.