Throw into the boiling water to cook, cook until the surface of the dumplings without white, translucent, floating in the pot can be.

Soup dumplings, also known as "Lantern", "dumplings", "floating Yuanzi", is one of the representatives of the traditional Chinese snacks, is made of glutinous rice flour and other ball-shaped food. It is a ball-shaped food made of glutinous rice flour, etc. It is usually stuffed and cooked with soup. It is also the most characteristic food of Lantern Festival with a very long history.

According to legend, soup dumplings originated in the Song Dynasty. At that time, Mingzhou (now Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province) rose to eat a novelty food, that is, with black sesame seeds, lard filling, adding a little sugar, the outside of the glutinous rice flour rolled into a round, cooked, eat sweet and savory, interesting.

However, the soup dumplings symbolize the reunion of the family is better, eating soup dumplings means a new year of family happiness, reunion, so it is the first month of the fifteenth Lantern Festival essential food. And in some areas of the South, people in the Spring Festival will also be accustomed to eating soup dumplings, rather than dumplings.