The Mid-Autumn Festival is coming. Are the friends ready to buy any moon cakes? In fact, there are still many shops with delicious moon cakes in Shanghai, so you can try them. Later, Xiaobian will introduce you to the taste of moon cakes, and now I still want to know.
For many Shanghainese, it seems that they are not real Shanghainese if they haven't eaten fresh meat moon cakes. Fresh meat moon cakes pay attention to making and eating now. When you walk in the streets and lanes, you can smell the fragrance far away. When you queue up and finally buy one, bite it down, the crispy dough will break when you touch it, and the soft flour will be tough. The plump meat in gravy will slowly seep into the tip of your tongue, which is really enjoyable.
There are a group of fans of fresh meat moon cakes in Shanghai. There are long queues at the gates of restaurants such as Guangming _, Wangjiasha, Dexing Noodle Restaurant and Laodachang all the year round. Among them, Taikang and the real old house are undoubtedly the two benchmarks of Shanghai fresh meat moon cakes. Last year, only these two brands sold more than 11 million fresh meat moon cakes, which is equivalent to nearly half of Shanghai people having eaten these two kinds of fresh meat moon cakes, thus creating a unique Mid-Autumn Festival flavor in Shanghai. Some Shanghainese even call them the originator of Shanghai fresh meat moon cakes. Taikang moon cakes with delicious soup
The raw fried steamed bread that Shanghai people like is because of the fascinating soup. Netizens have praised Taikang moon cakes for eating delicious soup.
Taikang Company was founded in 1914, and its evergreen and biscuits are well-known in Shanghai. In recent years, Taikang's fresh meat moon cakes have sprung up everywhere. The freshly baked Taikang fresh meat moon cake is round and shiny, with a fragrant smell. Layers of crispy skin are wrapped in fresh meat with solid teeth. When you bite it down, the warm and delicious soup soaks into the crispy skin and ripples in your mouth. < P > What's the secret? This is the unique technology of Taikang moon cake. Generally, the crispy fresh meat moon cake feels dry, but Taikang fresh meat moon cake is not only crisp, solid and chewy, but also rich in gravy, which is a rare alternative full of delicious soup.
In Taikang Food Store on Nanjing East Road, the reporter saw that all fresh meat moon cakes were made by hand, thus ensuring thin skin and many fillings. In the factory, a scale is placed beside each production worker to ensure that each moon cake weighs more than 65 grams. Its stuffing is all Eisen fresh sandwich pork, and the ratio of meat stuffing to cake crust is 51% each. At the gate of the store, an old Shanghainese said that one 5 yuan had to wait in line for three hours, but it was worth it to rush at his large piece of meat stuffed with soup.
One month before the Mid-Autumn Festival, Taikang mooncakes provided an average of about 41,111 mooncakes a day. Last year, Taikang Food's sales of fresh meat and moon cakes alone reached about 16 million yuan. The moon cakes in the real old house are brown and crispy
Speaking of the old house, its history can be traced back to 1851, and it is the representative of the Suzhou-style moon cakes in Shanghai. Fresh meat moon cake, eating is a fresh word. The fresh-baked mooncake of the real boss's room has a thin brown crispy shell on the outermost layer, a delicate crisp in the middle layer, and the inner layer of crispy skin soaked in gravy, and the meat filling is firm and fragrant. If you bite it, more gravy will come out, and the taste will be ever-changing. It is really enjoyable to burn your tongue.
The fresh meat moon cake counter located in the real old house on Nanjing East Road and Fujian Road has a long queue all the year round, and on the eve of Mid-Autumn Festival, it can sell 6,111 pieces a day. What is the secret of a fresh meat moon cake?
One-person-high oven, with 32 plates of moon cakes pushed in, the temperature should be 241℃, and the time should be 21 minutes. The baked moon cakes are brown, crisp and fragrant, but the insiders know at a glance that the master's skill in using fire is profound.
According to Yao Songming, deputy manager of the real boss's room, there are two advantages of the real boss's room: long baking time, high temperature, about 21 minutes, and baking temperature of 241℃, while others usually do it at 11 minutes and 221℃. The purpose of this is to make the crust of the moon cake more crisp, crisp and fragrant.
The steps of making fresh meat moon cakes seem simple, which can be divided into making oil crisp, peeling, rolling, pulling and stuffing, but each of them has its own secrets: when rolling the skin, you should wrap the cream crisp, roll it with a rolling pin, then fold it, roll it again and fold it again. There is kung fu hidden in the master's gesture, and wherever the rolling pin is pushed, the butter will follow, the key pastry. And this pastry is naturally the most housekeeping treasure. The pastry in the real boss's room is made of lard and flour, and then blended with the stuffed leather. This is also the secret of its rich and smooth stuffing. Yao Songming said that even in the busiest Mid-Autumn Festival, the rolls of the kitchen in the real boss's room are all made by hand and never entrusted to the machine. Su-style moon cakes pay attention to removing the head, unlike Cantonese-style moon cakes, which have to be rounded up in the end. The moon cakes baked without the head are balanced and crisp at the bottom, and will not be too thick and burnt. These hidden skills can't even be seen by experts, and you have to take a bite to understand them. Time-honored brand online celebrity explodes the circle of friends
Last year, a online celebrity food appeared in the food court on the ground floor of Jiuguang Department Store in Jing 'an Temple, which explodes the circle of friends. It turns out that this is the new moon cake with emerald shrimp and fresh meat with alpine pine mushrooms. Jade shrimp and fresh meat moon cake, bite down, soup comes out, Q-bomb shrimp is mixed with the sweetness of pork, and netizens all say, "It's really delicious to spread it in your mouth." The mountain pine mushroom fresh meat moon cake perfectly combines the unique fresh fragrance of pine mushroom with the crisp fragrance emitted by the dough. According to Yao Songming, these two models of online celebrity are obviously based on delicacies. In order to be delicious, each shrimp moon cake contains two sea shrimps from the South China Sea. The taste is very Q-bomb, and the shrimp is homophonic for "welcome" in Shanghai dialect, which is used to entertain visiting guests during the festive season, showing the elegance and hospitality of the host. September happens to be the fresh Tricholoma matsutake season in Shangri-La, and the raw materials of Tricholoma matsutake moon cakes are in season, which coincides with the old saying that China people don't eat food from time to time.
And this year, the seaweed moon cake newly promoted by the real boss's room is unique. In the market, every moon cake is looking for something new on the stuffing. The real boss has found a new way to get inspiration from the traditional moss-striped moon cakes, and kneaded the seaweed raw materials that young people like into the cake skin of fresh meat moon cakes. The original traditional golden cake skin has a hint of green color at this time, and it also exudes a rich, attractive and special seaweed fragrance when it is just baked. Eating it, there are not only the meat bombs and juices of traditional fresh meat moon cakes, but also the freshness and tiredness of seaweed cakes. Curry egg yolk meat floss shortcake is a hot curry egg yolk meat floss shortcake which is not spicy, considering that some children don't like spicy taste. There are also rose and flower pies. After all, after eating salty, eat something sweet, which makes people appetite.
On the basis of the traditional dim sum making method, Taikang moon cakes are endowed with unique innovations and breakthroughs, so that they are made in the west, and the moon cakes are evenly colored and moist, and each one is printed with a red stamp with the word "Taikang", which makes people feel confident at first sight. Taikang also used German baking equipment, and the baked moon cakes are round and oily, golden and red, which is like a superb handicraft against the backdrop of red paper trays. The bottom of the moon cake is thick and sticky, mostly to make it more crispy.
This year, online celebrity moon cakes in Taikang are also very popular. Crawfish fresh meat moon cakes and prune fresh meat moon cakes have become popular varieties for many young people to buy: crawfish fresh meat moon cakes are slightly spicy and spicy when eaten, and you can eat several at once without being bored. The moon cakes with dried plums always remind people of the taste of roasted meat with dried plums when they were young.