The zongzi genre The zongzi in the north, mostly simple white rice, or mixed with adzuki beans, dates, dipped in sugar to eat. Jiangnan's zongzi have the greatest reputation and complex practices, especially the filling, which varies widely. And a major difference between the northern rice dumplings is that the glutinous rice raw materials of Jiangnan rice dumplings, more pre-impregnated with soy sauce, and meat steamed, fragrant. Domestic dumplings, the most famous produced in Jiaxing, Jiangnan. Jiaxing rice dumplings as early as the Qing Dynasty, has enjoyed a great reputation. Food book records Jiaxing zongzi types and practices: "bamboo leaf zongzi": "take the bamboo leaf wrapped in white glutinous rice zongzi cooking, pointed as raw cut diamond angle." "Ai Xiang Zong": "Glutinous rice amalgamation, sandwich dates, chestnuts, green beans, to Ai leaves soaked rice wrapped, into the pot to cook." "Mint rice dumplings": "mint water soaked rice first steamed soft, mixed with sugar, wrapped in Ruo for small dumplings, and then boiled." "Bean paste rice dumplings": "Bean paste, sugar, fat oil diced wrapped in small dumplings to cook." "Lotus Seed Rice Dumplings": "Remove the skin, mix with sugar, and wrap in small dumplings." "Pine nut dumplings": "Peeled and wrapped in small dumplings." "Ham dumplings": "Into the ham block wrapped in rice dumplings, ham should be Jinhua, fine fat appropriate uniform. Also, diced meat can be wrapped in rice dumplings." Jiaxing zongzi, and the most famous to wufangzhai. Jiaxing wu fang zhai fresh meat dumplings seasonal supply, with chopsticks clip four blocks, blocks see meat, fragrant and moist, crispy tender fresh, fat sticky not greasy. Huzhou Zhu boss zongzi to wash the sand sweet dumplings, to bean paste, lard ding for filling is not rare, rare is the bean paste is washing sand - red beans boiled rotten shells, and then add sugar, cooked lard, rose juice stir-fried to black crystal bright strong, this bean paste mouth aroma, moist, fine, slippery. In the Jiangnan area, the Dragon Boat Festival is quite grand, this festival with a strong folklore, is also a variety of dumplings when the food is listed on the best-selling. I remember when I was a child, this festival, my grandmother will hang a string of extremely playful miniature zongzi on my neck, the turquoise zongzi leaves and faintly through the fragrance, but it is a happy topic of small friends get together. Gradually grow, only to know that the dumplings are delicious not for no reason, it turns out, the Jiangnan belt of the dumplings divided into two kinds of Cantonese and Soviet style, as the classification of moon cakes. Canton style, is coconut rice dumplings, lotus seed paste rice dumplings, roast duck dumplings, lard bean paste rice dumplings, barbecue egg yolk rice dumplings. Soviet style, there are white rice dumplings, red bean dumplings, fresh meat dumplings, ham dumplings and so on. Later, I have been to produce rice dumplings famous Jiaxing, only to know this place of meat dumplings really extraordinary, its fragrant sticky and fresh, so far there is no comparison with the type of rice dumplings. More than twenty years ago traveled to Guangdong Shaoguan, see the production of giant rice dumplings, can be said to be full of eyes. The square-shaped dumplings, as long as you eat one, you hold the belly called full, but on the flavor, still common. Older generation said, wrapped zongzong zong Ruo is very delicate, that is a specially planted green reed leaves or special see wide and long bamboo Ruo, to wrap the zongzong and cook, can make it fragrant and not easy to become rancid. As a traditional food, today's dumplings produced around the world can be supplied in all seasons, that is, such as the aforementioned Jiaxing meat dumplings, today, where the tour of Jiaxing Chinese and foreign tourists, are aware of the new taste and buy a few bunches to bring back. In Hong Kong, some stores specializing in the sale of food in Jiangnan, are also year-round supply of homemade salted meat and ham dumplings or fresh meat dumplings, however, in terms of taste, naturally, can not be compared with the local production of Jiaxing also. More famous dumplings are: 1 Wu Fang Zhai dumplings (China Famous Brand, China Famous Trademark, China's long-established) 2 Taoxiangcun dumplings (founded in 1895 (Qing Guangxu 21 years), China's long-established enterprises) 3 Holliday rice dumplings (well-known brand, large-scale pastry chain enterprises) 4 three full dumplings (China Famous Brand, national inspection-free products) 5 Si Nian rice dumplings (Chinese Famous Brand, the national inspection-free products) 6 Likoufu dumplings ( Famous brand, Guangzhou Restaurant Enterprise Group's enterprises) 7 old side of the dumplings (founded in 1829, China's old catering enterprises) 8 rice flag dumplings (1994 Xi'an, a famous brand) 9 Zin Leyuan dumplings (1996 Tianjin, well-known brand) 10 Kung Teh Lin dumplings (founded in 1922 Shanghai, China's old enterprise) dumplings state Domestic: in the different dietary habits in different parts of the world, dumplings The formation of the North and South flavor. Among the more famous zongzi are: Beijing zongzi The representative varieties of zongzi in the north, Beijing zongzi are larger, diagonal quadrangular or triangular. At present, most of the market supply is glutinous rice dumplings. In the countryside, it is still customary to eat rhubarb rice dumplings. Sticky and fragrant, distinctive flavor, Beijing zongzi more dates, bean paste as filling, a few also use dried fruit as filling. Guangdong rice dumplings representative varieties of southern rice dumplings, Guangdong rice dumplings and Beijing rice dumplings, on the contrary, smaller, chic appearance, square front, behind a sharp corner, like a cone. More varieties, in addition to fresh meat zongzi, bean paste zongzi, there are also made of salted egg yolk zongzi, as well as chicken diced, duck diced, barbecued pork, mushrooms, mung beans, etc. Mixed filling zongzi, the flavor is better. Sichuan rice dumplings Sichuan people spicy, so the dumplings also have sweet and spicy points, Sichuan's spicy rice dumplings, due to the production of sophisticated, complex technology, of course, its taste is unique, so it has become one of the famous snacks in Sichuan passed down through the ages. Its method is the first glutinous rice, red beans soaked for 5 to 6 hours, the water will be poured out, put pepper, Sichuan salt, monosodium glutamate and a little bacon, with zongzi leaves wrapped into about 60 grams of a four-cornered zongzi. Cooked and eaten, they are spicy and have a unique flavor. Suzhou Zongzi Suzhou zongzi are long and thin quadrangular shape, with fresh meat, jujube paste, bean paste, lard sand and other varieties, with sophisticated ingredients, fine production and other characteristics. Such as lard sand zongzi, choose the best red beans, boiled and peeled filter sand, and then add a doubling of sugar and the right amount of fat made of filling, wrapping filling also has a piece of fat meat, cooked crystal sweet, oily and fragrant. Jiaxing zongzi Zhejiang Jiaxing zongzi has a long history of famous Chinese, Jiaxing zongzi for rectangular, fresh meat, bean paste, eight treasures, chicken zongzi varieties. Jiaxing rice dumplings when pushing "Wu Fang Zhai" for the most, known as "Jiangnan rice dumplings king". Its dumplings from the selection of materials, production to cooking are unique. Rice should be the best white glutinous rice, meat from the hind leg of the pig selected, dumplings cooked, fat meat oil seeped into the rice, the entrance is delicious, fat but not greasy. Many friends at home and abroad know the name of Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province, only after tasting the dumplings. Hainan rice dumplings Hainan rice dumplings and northern rice dumplings are different, it is wrapped by banana leaves into a square cone, weighing about half a kilogram or so, glutinous rice with salted egg yolks, barbecued pork, bacon, braised chicken wings, etc., hot rice dumplings peeled open, the first banana and glutinous rice fragrance, after the meat, eggs, a strong aroma. Fragrance both thick and light, taste meat and vegetarian, so that the appetite of the eater. Shandong rice dumplings in many varieties of rice dumplings, the largest generation, the oldest qualifications, when the first Shandong yellow rice dumplings. Selection of yellow sticky rice wrapped in sticky rice dumplings, sandwiched between red dates, products with a unique flavor, when eating, according to the habits of diners, accompanied by sugar, to increase the sweetness. Sichuan dumplings wrapped mustard greens Sichuan Fuling mustard greens world famous, so the mustard greens wrapped dumplings have become China's unique one of the best. Hunan dumplings afraid of not spicy Xiangxi chili smoked fish dumplings, because of the local high mountains and dense air humidity, people love to use red pepper plus smoked fish packaged dumplings, eat a zongzi will be spicy out of a sweat. Inner Mongolia dumplings milk thick Inner Mongolia herders over the Dragon Boat Festival, with just milking the fresh milk stirring glutinous rice package dumplings, its dumplings overflowing milk, quite unique. Qinghai dumplings wrapped lamb Qinghai Province farmers and herdsmen, like fresh lamb wrapped dumplings, fat and not greasy very tasty. This way of eating, more popular in the northwestern part of China. Xinjiang dumplings with raisins Xinjiang people in the Dragon Boat Festival, with good raisins package dumplings, the snow-white shiny dumplings as if inlaid with countless green jade gemstone general, the food of the fruit overflow people. Buro zongzi Hunan Buro legend is the birthplace of zongzi, Buro zongzi traditionally more varieties, exquisite production and known in the world. International Dragon Boat Festival during the *** launch of traditional and newly developed dozens of zongzi, and the use of beautiful shape of the vacuum plastic packaging and canned packaging, sterile and hygienic, loved by consumers at home and abroad. Southern Fujian rice dumplings Xiamen, Quanzhou's burnt meat dumplings, alkaline rice dumplings are famous at home and abroad. Burnt meat dumplings are made with exquisite workmanship, the glutinous rice must be chosen as the best, the pork is chosen as the three layers of blocks, first brined to be fragrant and rotten, then added with mushrooms, shrimps, lotus seeds and brined meat soup, sugar, etc., and then dipped in a variety of ingredients such as garlic paste, mustard chili, red chili sauce, radish acid, etc., which is sweet, tender and slippery and is not oily and greasy. In southern Fujian, the words "hot" and "burn" have the same meaning, and the so-called "burnt meat dumplings" are dumplings that should be eaten while they are hot, and hot food is more flavorful. Taiwan rice dumplings with a strong flavor of southern Fujian, many varieties of white rice dumplings, green bean dumplings, barbecued pork dumplings, eight treasures dumplings, roasted meat dumplings. Roasted meat dumplings are the most popular, its "content" colorful, including pork, dried scallops, taro, dried clams, duck eggs, etc., into a year-round visible traditional snacks. Hsinchu's "Chengjia Meat Rice Dumplings", Changhua's "Meat Rice Dumplings" and Tainan's "Re-Fa No. Meat Rice Dumplings" are all very famous. Eight treasures dumplings are also representative of the species, it is a variety of materials, will be pork legs, fat, chestnuts (or peanut kernels), dried radish, squid were cut into cubes, the pot is hot, the first under the end of the onion, plus the above ingredients and wine, soy sauce, sesame oil, stir-fry, and mix with the glutinous rice, wrapped in a steam, a strong flavor. The famous singer Teresa Teng has become very popular with her song "Roasted Pork Rice Dumpling" in Taiwanese, which shows the status of Taiwanese rice dumplings in Taiwan's food culture. In addition, the famous rice dumplings are Guizhou's "pickled vegetable dumplings", Xi'an's "honey cold rice dumplings", Xiamen's "burnt meat dumplings", the north of Jiangsu's "salted egg dumplings ", Shanghai's "savory rice dumplings", Yunnan's "ham rice dumplings" and other unique features. Overseas: Duanwu Festival to eat rice dumplings is a traditional Chinese custom, but in some countries and regions of the world, there is also the custom of eating rice dumplings. Rice Dumplings in Vietnam Rice Dumplings in Vietnam are wrapped in banana leaves and come in both round and square shapes. They believe that round dumplings represent heaven and square dumplings represent earth, and that heaven and earth are united for great luck. Eating rice dumplings at the Dragon Boat Festival is a good way to pray for good weather and a good harvest. Rice Dumplings in Myanmar Myanmar people love to eat rice dumplings, but they are not associated with the Dragon Boat Festival. The dumplings are made of glutinous rice as the main ingredient and filled with ripe bananas and coconut. The aroma of these dumplings is intoxicating. Cambodian Rice Dumplings Cambodian rice dumplings are called "cloth bag rice dumplings", which are not wrapped in plant leaves, but a cloth bag, stuffed with glutinous rice, adzuki beans, red dates and so on one layer after another, and then steamed by tightening the pocket. When eating, the bag is peeled off and cut with a knife. Thailand's dumplings Thai people wrapped dumplings as small as an egg, because it is wrapped in green dumpling leaves, so after steaming was light green, the flavor is very fragrant. Japanese dumplings In Japan, people wrapped dumplings not with glutinous rice, but with ground rice flour, the shape of its dumplings is also different from China's, they are used to wrapping hammer-shaped dumplings. Dumplings in North Korea Dumplings in North Korea are called "wheel cakes". People add fresh mugwort leaves into the rice flour after boiling and then make it into the shape of a wheel, which tastes delicious when eaten. Zongzi in the Philippines Filipinos like to wrap long zongzi, the flavor is different from the zongzi around Zhejiang Province in China. The flavor is different from that of Chinese dumplings in Zhejiang Province. Dumplings are also an essential food for Filipinos at Christmas. Indonesia's rice dumplings Indonesian people on the dumplings filled with special attention, commonly used fresh minced meat with mushrooms, green onions to do dumplings filled. Eat smooth and delicious, eat more not tired. Costa Rica's rice dumplings Costa Rica's rice dumplings are specially processed with sticky cornstarch as the main raw material, with chicken, beef, carrots, potatoes, etc., and some also poured with beef juice, and then wrapped into a flat square with fresh banana leaves. Mexican tamales Mexicans also have the custom of eating tamales, they call tamales "Damal". The main ingredient is coarse cornmeal, stuffed with sliced meat and chili peppers, and wrapped in corn or banana leaves, which has a unique flavor. Peruvian rice dumplings Peruvians are eating rice dumplings at Christmas, the whole family sitting around together, while celebrating Christmas, while eating rice dumplings, and even married daughters also rushed back to her mother's home, and then tasted the flavor of her mother's rice dumplings.