China's food culture has a long history. Chinese dim sum, as a part of Chinese catering, is generally used as a dessert on the table in China. Chinese dim sum is not only given to people, but also often given as holiday gifts by relatives and friends during festivals, which is also the main way for China people to realize their affection.

In China, the most frequent and well-known traditional snack is moon cake. Moon cakes, including Cantonese moon cakes and Soviet moon cakes. Suzhou-style moon cakes, which originated in Suzhou in the south of the Yangtze River, are deeply loved by people in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces. They have crisp skin, beautiful color, fat but not greasy stuffing and crisp taste. Cantonese-style moon cakes, with exquisite materials and exquisite craftsmanship, have the characteristics of thin and soft skin, beautiful shape, exquisite patterns and clear patterns, and are deeply loved by people in Guangdong, Guangxi and Jiangxi.

In addition to the widely circulated moon cakes, there are many special snacks such as cakes, balls, rolls, cakes and cakes in China. Among them, cakes and crispy snacks, as representatives of China snacks, enjoy supreme honor in the international food industry. This is perfectly reflected in China's large-scale food documentary China on the Tip of the Tongue.

Characteristics of Chinese dim sum

Chinese dim sum is mainly made of various foods, livestock, fish, shrimp, eggs, milk, vegetables and fruits. Mixed with various condiments, various nutritious foods with good color, fragrance, taste, shape and quality are processed.

In daily life, Chinese dim sum includes rice and flour as the staple food for dinner, breakfast and refreshments for breakfast, seats for feasts, cakes and snacks for tourism and diet adjustment, and gifts and snacks for festivals or festivals.

Chinese dim sum has fine ingredients and various patterns. In addition to the typical delicious and refreshing Osmanthus Jelly, soft and delicate mung bean cake, crispy and delicious peach cake, crispy skin, sweet and delicious jujube paste cake, there are also famous snacks in Hang Cheng, and lotus cakes made of crispy skin are crispy and sweet with unique flavor. The most traditional dim sum in Hangzhou, osmanthus Ding Sheng cake, is made of excellent glutinous rice from the south of the Yangtze River, with plum blossom and insect fish shapes. It is dark red and chews lightly. The glutinous rice is soft and mixed with fine and even particles, and the rice fragrance exudes bean fragrance and osmanthus fragrance, which is sweet but not greasy and full of autumn breath.

Japanese dim sum

If Chinese dim sum is a good taste in childhood memory, then Japanese dim sum brings more warmth and simplicity, and it is exquisite carved in the bones, which makes people feel comfortable and natural, and it is empty.

If you are not a friend who bakes the West Point Circle, you probably know very little about Japanese-style pastry. In fact, Japanese dim sum is collectively called Kazuo in Japan.

Fruit, traditional Japanese snacks and adzuki beans are the main raw materials for making and fruit. Cook adzuki beans, make bean stuffing, and mix with sweet sugar. Bean stuffing is usually wrapped in rice cakes and made into various exquisite snacks. Its forms are different, such as jiaozi, potato, steamed bread, gong and so on.

"Hehuozi" is not so much a snack as a traditional Japanese artwork. Its exquisite modeling perfectly expresses Japanese people's pursuit of food aesthetics and becomes one of the symbols of Japanese food culture. The Japanese people have closely integrated the fruits of harmony with their culture and national spirit. Take their national flower, cherry blossom, for example, many inspirations for making harmonious fruits come from this, such as the harmonious fruit shaped like cherry blossoms, the color of cherry blossoms, the shape of cherry petals, and even the material of cherry petals or salted cherry leaves.

And the characteristics of fruits.

Moreover, the shape of the fruit basically imitates the flowers and birds, romantic flowers and the moon that change in four seasons, so it is beautiful, more like a delicate work of art, warm spring, scarlet cherry cakes like early cherry blossoms on the branches, dotted with streets and alleys; In the hot summer, the wind-bell-shaped steamed bread is as refreshing as the cool wind; In the cool autumn, everyone eats maple leaves, enjoys the flowers and the moon, and enjoys the Qiu Guang. In the cold winter, a bowl of hot white jade is good, and the whole body is cold. The best creation comes from life, right around us.

As one of the most peculiar fruits, water-based Xuan cake is crystal clear, light and smooth, and people who see it for the first time will never associate it with eating.

Water-based rice cake looks like a crystal dew from a distance, with very traditional black syrup and cooked soybean powder on the side. Gently scoop a piece and dip it in brown sugar sauce. When you first enter, you will have the illusion of eating ice powder. But this is by no means ice powder, it seems to contain a hint of mint coolness.

Whether it's Chinese snacks or fruits, every country and every nation has its own unique food culture and traditional customs. As modern people, we should be grateful. It is these craftsmen who have created exquisite food works for people to appreciate and taste, and it is their firm belief and unyielding spirit that have passed on their exquisite skills to this day, so that future generations have the honor to see food crafts like works of art.