the essentials of buying new year's food & New Year's food. During the Chinese New Year, it is the happiest thing for the whole family to get together and have a delicious New Year's Eve dinner. However, if you want to have a healthy and sumptuous New Year's Eve dinner, you must grasp the selection criteria of new year's or new year's food ingredients. Modern people's eating habits change, not only paying attention to a balanced diet, but also paying attention to low salt, low oil and low sugar. Therefore, when people choose new year's goods, they should focus on fresh ingredients in the season, avoid buying too many processed products, and watch and compare more, so as to avoid eating too many chemical additives and ensure their health.
As the saying goes, "My daughter loves to spend New Year's Eve, but adults make noise" refers to the bustle of shopping for new year's goods during the Chinese New Year. As the Chinese New Year Festival is approaching, every household is preparing to buy new year's goods. However, in the face of endless food safety problems and modern people's emphasis on healthy eating, how should we choose new year's goods? Which new year's dishes are necessary items on the table? Through the analysis and explanation of Professor Ye Naiqi, the founder of Dihua Street's New Year's Goods Street, and Ding Yizhen, the brand public relations manager of the 8-year-old store "Laoxiezhen" in Dihua Street, Mommy can easily buy new year's goods and new year's dishes this year. Part1: New Year's Articles
In the traditional agricultural society, preparations for the New Year began on the 16th of the twelfth lunar month, which was due to insufficient materials and underdeveloped transportation in the early days. However, it is convenient for modern people to shop, especially in the north, middle and south, where there are new year's goods streets. Therefore, mommy only needs to start preparing one week before the New Year's Day. However, at present, there are many food safety problems, and there are new year's goods made by unscrupulous workers infiltrating into the mainland or unqualified factories. How should Mommy choose new year's goods? The following is a description of the shopping of new year's goods: the principle of shopping: seeing, smelling and touching. Manager Ding Yizheng pointed out that people should grasp the principles of "seeing with their eyes", "smelling with their noses" and "touching with their hands" when shopping for new year's goods. Basically, the color of new year's goods should be natural and not too bright; The taste is natural meat or umami, not too fragrant, too sweet or too salty; When touched by hand, the product should be naturally dry and not sticky. In addition, you should also pay attention to whether there are too many chemical additives in the product when purchasing, so as not to endanger your health.
Professor Ye Naiqi added that modern families tend to be small families. Even if the whole family get together during the Chinese New Year, they may not stay at home every day because of their own arrangements for going out to play. Therefore, the consumption of family members should be evaluated first when purchasing, but practitioners can start with large gift boxes that have been packaged, and there are many small gift boxes in them, which will be opened for consumption as appropriate to avoid waste. New Year's Day is coming, and all kinds of new year's goods are coming out one after another. Which ones are necessary for the New Year? What should I pay attention to when shopping?
Mushrooms
Lentinus edodes: Pay attention to gloss and integrity. If it is dull or has been falling off chips, it means that it has been stored for a long time and should not be purchased. Auricularia auricula: Auricularia auricula is divided into white fungus and black fungus. When purchasing, you should choose a single, complete and thick fungus. White fungus must pay attention to whether it has been bleached, while black fungus should observe whether it is black and bright. If the color is dim, it means it is not fresh. Flammulina velutipes made in Taiwan Province are mostly fine, golden in color and tender to the touch; Mainland-made primary colors tend to be brown, and some unscrupulous businessmen will confuse them with dyeing.
Dry goods
Abalone: Abalone is divided into dried abalone and canned abalone. Dried abalone is plump, oval and ingot-shaped; Canned abalone, also known as Haliotis diversicolor, comes from Mexico and Australia. Top abalone comes from Japan, South Africa and other places. Due to its high price, other shellfish have been mixed in recent years. Scallop: The appearance should be dry and complete, it should smell faint seafood, not fishy, and it should be dry to the touch. If it is wet and sticky, don't buy it. Radix Codonopsis: Radix Codonopsis with short, fat and short appearance, solid meat and more, longer and denser thorns is better. When purchasing, you can touch it gently to see if it is salty. If it is salty, it means that the manufacturer wants to increase the weight and add some additives and should avoid buying. Mullet roe: dry, without serious fishy smell, with yellow-orange or reddish color. It is transparent under light irradiation. When lightly pressed by hand, the eggs should be dense and there should be no finger marks on the surface. Bird's nest: the color should be white or light yellow, if it is unnatural white, it may be bleached; There are tiny black spots and impurities in the bird's nest, and the taste is better with a faint protein aroma. Squid: The ranking of producing areas is Argentina, New Zealand and Falklands, with thick meat quality and delicious taste as the best.
cured meat
cured meat: it is better to have a dry appearance, clear fat and lean meat, not too bright color and a natural meat flavor. Sausage: the color is not too bright, it is legally registered, the packaging is complete, and the chemical additives, such as nitrite content, are indicated.
Snacks
Healthy fruits: including cashew nuts, walnuts, green grapes, medlar, pine nuts, sunflower seeds, dark melon seeds, etc., which provide rich and fresh vegetable oils and nutrients and are excellent health food. However, this kind of food is prone to moisture and corruption, so you should try it first when buying it. If the taste is too soft, it is not suitable to buy it. At the same time, all kinds of dried fruits need different dry humidity, so it is best to keep them according to the category if they are not eaten for a long time. Candy: whether the packaging is complete, avoid buying bulk candy, and confirm the origin and shelf life to ensure the quality.
New Year's Street In Taipei, Dihua Street, Huayin Street and Yongle Market, which are the largest new year's streets in the non-Dadaocheng area, not only sell all kinds of New Year's gifts and ingredients, but also have all kinds of north and south groceries and tea. The central region is dominated by Tianjin Road, Yizhong Street and Jiguang Street in Taichung. Besides all kinds of new year's goods, there are also many festivals tailored for the New Year. In the southern region, Sanfeng Middle Street in Kaohsiung is the famous wholesale center of North and South goods in the south. There are also many local markets in other counties and cities, so people can have a good year by going to the New Year Street or traditional markets on the eve of the New Year. New year's goods & New Year's food shopping essentials Part2: New Year's food articles
As the saying goes, "If you want to sleep in June, you should eat for 29 nights." It means that the New Year's Eve dinner must be expanded, and the whole family will enjoy it slowly during the Chinese New Year. Due to the rising health awareness of modern people, emphasizing the dietary concept of low oil, low sugar, low salt and low calorie, and the change of lifestyle, only the tradition of gathering on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day is retained, and New Year's dishes may not be eaten for several days in a row. Therefore, when preparing New Year's dishes, Mommy should not only pay attention to the balance of weight, but also buy fresh and seasonal ingredients to eat healthy. Classic New Year's Dishes Since ancient times, Chinese culture has paid the most attention to peace and smoothness. In the rich New Year's Eve dinner, there are even more auspicious New Year's Dishes. The following is an introduction to the reunion New Year's Dishes that must be eaten in the New Year.
The Buddha jumps over the wall as a symbol of family reunion. There is a poem that says, "The altar is full of meat and fragrance, and the Buddha smells it and abandons Zen to jump over the wall", which means that this dish is so fragrant that even monks want to give up practicing and taste it. The Buddha Leaping Wall is rich in ingredients, and it takes a lot of time from preparation to cooking. Therefore, most families only eat it once a year to celebrate the time when the whole family is reunited during the New Year. Fotiaoqiang is rich in ingredients, including taro, chicken, ribs, sea cucumber, chestnuts, scallops, abalone, shark's fin, mushrooms, winter bamboo shoots, red dates, etc. Mommy can increase or decrease the ingredients that her family likes to eat according to the situation.
Hotpot Hotpot symbolizes family reunion and auspiciousness. When eating hot pot, you should avoid high oil, high sugar and high sodium, and try to choose fresh vegetables, such as Chinese cabbage, tomatoes and carrots, as a soup, which is refreshing and healthy.
Chicken soup sounds like home in Taiwanese, which means "starting a family". During the Chinese New Year, the whole chicken must be served, with a head and a tail, symbolizing the whole family. Chickens that choose chicken soup should be just mature hens, which are quite good in freshness, fragrance or meat quality. When cooking, you may wish to put some mushrooms to enhance the flavor.
the whole fish symbolizes that there is more than enough food every year, whether it is steamed, braised in brown sauce or sweet and sour, but it must be whole fish, and it can't be eaten on the same day. It is reserved for the New Year's Day to continue eating, which symbolizes that wealth is left over every year. When picking fish, you should pay attention to whether the gills are bright red, whether the eyes are bright and not turbid, and whether there is a smell of medicine with your nose, so as to prevent unscrupulous operators from adding chemicals or other growth promoters.
assorted vegetarian dishes symbolize everything goes well. When cooking this dish, you will take ten kinds of vegetarian dishes, and the sound of "what" is similar to "thing", indicating that everything is going well. Basically, ten kinds of vegetarian dishes include ginger, celery, shredded konjac, bean sprouts, fungus, Flammulina velutipes, mushrooms, carrots, edamame, winter bamboo shoots, etc., and the ingredients are not fixed, so you can follow your family's favorite taste.
Long-term vegetables are also called mustard greens, which means long life and longevity. When eating this dish, you must eat it all at once, and you can't cut it off in order to prolong your life. Mustard can be divided into big mustard and small mustard. Mustard is mostly used in Chinese New Year. The whole plant should be selected with no spots, thick stem, straight and long petiole shape, complete leaves, green color and no yellowing.
jiaozi, jiaozi, because it looks like a gold and silver ingot, has a "new year's fortune", and the ingot rolls in. The meaning of ". In order to get lucky during the Spring Festival, many families will wrap red dates when wrapping jiaozi, symbolizing the early birth of a baby, or put coins in it, which means that whoever eats it will get rich. Dumpling skin is mainly made of high-gluten flour, while stuffing is varied, mostly pork stuffing and shrimp stuffing, mainly lean meat, not too much fat, and vegetarians can pack vegetarian dishes.
The new year cake "Gao" has the same sound as "Gao", which means "rising year by year"; In addition, because of its sweet taste, it has the meaning of "eat sweet and live a good year". The main component of rice cake is glutinous rice, and the auxiliary materials are sugar, red beans or peanuts. The selection should be based on pure glutinous rice flour and dry and moisture-proof auxiliary materials.
Preservation and cooking Because the New Year's Eve is the day to eat, Mommy doesn't have to buy the ingredients too early, just prepare them about 2-3 days before. Fresh foods should be put into the refrigerator immediately after they are bought back to avoid meat spoilage. When thawing, they can be washed by microwave oven or tap water or warm water. Dry goods should be placed in a dark and dry place to avoid direct sunlight.
when cooking, mommy should grasp the cooking principle of "three lows and one high", which means "low in oil, low in sugar, low in salt and high in fiber". Don't add too much oil and seasoning to keep the original flavor of the ingredients, which can not only preserve more nutrition, but also eat healthily. In addition, modern people tend to enjoy New Year's Eve and New Year's Day, so there is no need to prepare too much weight. Mommy can decide the purchase amount of ingredients according to the number of family members and eating habits, so as to eat skillfully and not waste.
Ye Naiqi
Education: Ph.D. experience in Institute of Architecture and Urban-Rural Development, Taiwan Province University: one of the founders of New Year Street in Dihua Street, consultant of National Cultural Assets Preservation Center, director and director of Architecture Department of Huafan University. Present position: full-time assistant professor of Architecture Department of Huafan University.
Ding Yizheng Education: Master of Statistics Institute of Central University. Present position: Lao Xiezhen brand public relations manager.