Northerners regard jiaozi as a staple food, while southerners regard jiaozi as a snack. In the north, there are sayings that "jiaozi drinks wine, and the more you drink it, the more you have it" and "It's comfortable but it's upside down, but it's delicious but it's not as good as jiaozi". Even if you have a big table of dishes, you have to eat some staple food in the end. In northern jiaozi, you can cook and steam, and all of them are served without water. In southern jiaozi, besides steamed dumplings, cooking jiaozi is served in a bowl with jiaozi and soup. There is a large quantity of jiaozi in the north, and even after a table of dishes, it is a big plate of food in jiaozi. Jiaozi in the south is small, with 3-5 drawers in a cage, and each person only eats a few.

Jiaozi in the north is atmospheric, and jiaozi in the south is exquisite. Although there will be many varieties, the appearance of jiaozi in the north is basically the same, and jiaozi in the south, especially all kinds of steamed dumplings, will be very exquisite. Jiaozi in the north has certain symbolic significance. "Get on the bus and get off at jiaozi" reflects the respect and blessing for the guests. South jiaozi doesn't have many meanings.

Southerners don't often package jiaozi. They think it's tedious and complicated to package jiaozi. It takes a day or two to package, so southerners think it is very formal to package jiaozi. Northerners pack jiaozi very casually. It's almost noon. If you want to eat jiaozi, you can chop the stuffing and knead the noodles immediately. You can eat jiaozi in an hour, and it's better than jiaozi in the south.

In the north, jiaozi is usually cooked or steamed, and then fished out, drained and dipped in vinegar, but in the south, you can eat it with soup, that is, jiaozi eats it together in soup. Is it so that you won't choke? Moreover, southerners eat a few pieces of jiaozi at a time, but it is very common for a person to eat a dozen or twenty pieces at a time in the north. The key is that jiaozi is the staple food in the north, so be sure to eat enough.

In the north, when it comes to jiaozi, people begin to prepare dough early, especially on holidays, the dumpling skin must be rolled by themselves, and the dumpling stuffing is also prepared by themselves. Every time the stuffing is mixed, it must be fragrant. Xiao Bian thinks that the essence of jiaozi is stuffing, so the stuffing determines whether jiaozi is delicious or not. In the south, dumpling wrappers are usually bought directly in grain and oil stores. Different details also make jiaozi different.