Erjie Hongdou (Shuangtong Lane)

Erjie Hongdou is a small dessert and snack shop at No. 3-3 Shuangtong Lane, in Fanluoshan Subdistrict of Wuhu's Jinghu District, Anhui province, China. Shuangtong Lane is one of the city's best-known snack lanes, and this shop is rated 5.0 from 114 Trip.com reviews. The specialty is red-bean fermented-rice dessert, a sweet, lightly alcoholic rice preparation known as jiuniang that is common across the Yangtze delta. The signature dishes on the listing are red bean with fermented rice (chidou jiuniang) and double-skin milk with red beans (hongdou shuangpinai). The fermented rice dessert is served warm or cold, with soft glutinous rice grains in a sweet liquid and red beans cooked until tender. Double-skin milk is a Cantonese-origin dessert of set milk with a thin skin on top, here served with red beans, and it is a popular cool treat in summer. The shop is a simple counter-style venue in a pedestrian lane, so there is little in the way of formal dining-room character; customers order, eat quickly and move on, and the atmosphere is casual, friendly and busy at peak times. There is no dress code and no wine or alcohol programme; the drinks are the desserts themselves. Per-person prices are not published on the listing, but it is in the budget tier, with a typical dessert costing only a few yuan. Reservations are not taken: the listing describes the shop as walk-in. Opening hours on the Trip.com listing are 08:30-21:30, and visitors are advised to confirm on Dianping. The telephone number is +86 553 3854376. The shop works well as a sweet stop after savoury dishes elsewhere in the lane, such as the beef noodles at the junction with Guohuo Road, and it fits an afternoon snack walk through the old part of Jinghu District.