Zongzi in Jiangnan is the most famous and complicated, especially the stuffing, which is ever-changing. A big difference with the northern rice dumplings is that the glutinous rice raw materials of Jiangnan rice dumplings are mostly soaked in soy sauce in advance and steamed with meat stuffing, which is fragrant.
China's Zongzi is the most famous one in Jiaxing, south of the Yangtze River. [4] Jiaxing Zongzi enjoyed a high reputation as early as the Qing Dynasty. The food book records the types and practices of Jiaxing Zongzi: "Bamboo leaves Zongzi": "Take bamboo leaves and wrap them in white glutinous rice Zongzi and cook them, and their tips are like raw water chestnuts."
"Ai Xiang Zongzi": "The glutinous rice is washed clean, wrapped with dates, chestnuts and mung beans, and boiled in a pot."
Mint-flavored Zongzi: "Mint soaked in rice and steamed until soft, mixed with foreign sugar and wrapped in glutinous rice."
"Red bean paste jiaozi": "Red bean paste, sugar, fat oil, cooked in a small jiaozi."
"Lotus Stuffed jiaozi": "Peel the heart, mix the foreign sugar and wrap the steamed buns."
"Songren Zongzi": "Little Zongzi without a purse"
Jiaozi of Ham: "Put jiaozi in the ham. If the ham is Jinhua, the fine fertilizer should be uniform. Also, diced meat can be wrapped in jiaozi. "
Among Jiaxing Zongzi, Wufangzhai is the most famous. Jiaozi, the fresh meat of Jiaxing Wufangzhai, is supplied in all seasons. They divided it into four pieces with chopsticks. Each piece looks like meat, fragrant and moist, crisp and tender, fat and waxy but not greasy. Huzhou's oldest zongzi, good at sand washing and sweet zongzi. It is not uncommon to fill them with bean paste and diced meat. What is rare is that the red bean paste is washed and shelled, and then fried with sugar, cooked lard and rose juice until it is dark and bright. This red bean paste is delicious, moist, fine and smooth.
In Jiangnan, the Dragon Boat Festival is quite grand. This festival with a strong folk flavor is also the time when all kinds of zongzi foods are on the market. I still remember when I was a child, my grandmother would hang a string of miniature zongzi around my neck every holiday. Green zongzi leaves and faint fragrance are happy topics for my friends to get together. Gradually, I understand that zongzi is delicious for no reason. It turns out that zongzi in the south of the Yangtze River can be divided into Cantonese style and Soviet style, just like the classification of moon cakes. Cantonese dumplings include coconut dumplings, lotus dumplings, roasted duck dumplings, lard bean paste dumplings, barbecued egg yolk dumplings and so on. Su style, there are white dumplings, red bean dumplings, fresh meat dumplings, ham dumplings and so on. Later, I went to Jiaxing, which is famous for producing zongzi, only to know that the meat zongzi here is really extraordinary, its fragrance is delicious, and there is no comparable zongzi so far.
I went to Shaoguan, Guangdong Province more than 20 years ago, and I saw the huge zongzi produced. That kind of big square zongzi, as long as you eat one, you will feel full, but in terms of taste, it is still normal.
The older generation said that the rice dumplings wrapped in rice dumplings are exquisite, a kind of specially planted green reed leaves or bamboo rice dumplings with special width and length. If you cook them in zongzi, you can make them fragrant and not go bad easily.
As a traditional food, zongzi produced in various places can be supplied all year round, which is Jiaxing meat zongzi mentioned above. Today, all Chinese and foreign tourists who come to Jiaxing know how to taste new products and buy some strings to take home. In Hongkong, some shops specializing in selling Jiangnan food also supply homemade bacon ham jiaozi or fresh meat jiaozi all the year round. But in terms of taste, they are naturally inferior to local producers in Jiaxing.
The more famous zongzi is:
1 Wufangzhai Zongzi (China famous trademark, China famous trademark, China time-honored brand)
2 Daoxiang Village Zongzi (founded in 1895 (Guangxu 2 1), a Chinese time-honored enterprise)
Holiland Zongzi (famous brand, large pastry chain enterprise)
4 Sanquan Zongzi (China famous brand)
5 Miss Zongzi (China Famous Brand)
6 Likoufu Zongzi (famous brand, owned by Guangzhou Catering Enterprise Group)
7 Laobian Zongzi (founded in 1829, a Chinese time-honored catering enterprise)
8 Miqi Zongzi (1994 Xi 'an, a famous brand)
9 kg of Paradise Zongzi (1996 a famous brand in Tianjin)
10 Kutokuhayashi Zongzi (founded in 1922, a time-honored enterprise in China)
1 1 Dasanyuan Zongzi (is a well-known enterprise integrating catering and food processing. It is the first authentic advanced Cantonese restaurant opened in Beijing after the reform and opening up. )
12 Xianpinwu Zongzi (Qingdao famous brand)