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Quanzhou meat dumplings, but also for the ancient Quanzhou should be one of the famous points, the old calendar Dragon Boat Festival, almost universally to eat meat dumplings and alkaline dumplings. This article is only about meat dumplings. Meat dumplings of raw materials, is based on glutinous rice, followed by a half lean and fat three layers of pork, and other ingredients, wrapped in bamboo leaves, fastened with fine hemp rope. Meat dumplings of the ingredients, in addition to the top quality of the pork, there are fragrant Ru, chestnuts, shrimp, lotus seeds, chicken, ham, snow bamboo shoots, etc., very elaborate. Meat dumplings production method is: first cut the pork into square pieces, and then placed in the pot halogen to "sugar Wu", add some five spices until cooked, before the pork fish up, will be fried in the marinade to pre-washed top quality glutinous rice, to all the marinade are absorbed by the glutinous rice until it is placed in a bamboo frame, one by one with a bamboo leaf wrapped into a quadrangular dumplings. During the wrapping process, the ingredients are put into the dumplings one by one, and at the end of the process, the dumplings are put into a big pot to be stewed, which is called "kang meat dumplings" in the dialect. The time of kang meat dumplings, generally about half a day, the meat dumplings can be out of the gum, the flavor is overflowing, and then take out a string of hanging up. When eating, and then a string to the bowl to "stew hot", so that cold food does not hurt the stomach, but also to make the meat dumplings itself more flavor. (Quanzhou)