1, Wufangzhai
On the classics of Zongzi, I'm afraid no brand can surpass Wufangzhai. From washing zongzi leaves to vacuum packaging, almost the whole production process is mechanized. Online supply of quick-frozen rice dumplings and vacuum rice dumplings, quick-frozen rice dumplings have better flavor and cold chain distribution; Vacuum dumplings have a shelf life of 9 months, and are suitable for gifts and self-purchase. Stores can buy fresh zongzi, which tastes better but has a short shelf life.
Wufangzhai has developed more than 30 kinds of zongzi in recent years, and more than half of them are difficult to find the same style. Generally, the high-end gift boxes above 300 yuan are all novel flavors, including black truffle, rattan pepper yak meat, chocolate and other fillings. Also keep up with the trend, launched Disney, Marvel Comics joint dumplings gift box.
The most popular is the bulk zongzi, and most of the salty zongzi are 140g. Salted glutinous rice is seasoned with soy sauce in advance, with moderate salinity, containing large pieces of fresh meat, fat and thin, tender and smooth. ? Sweet rice dumplings are rich in taste, and bean paste dumplings are the most popular. The stuffing tastes fine and the sweetness is moderate.
2, really old
Feng Yueming, the founder of Wufangzhai, was the legal representative of Wufangzhai. After retirement, he became the second largest brand in the zongzi market, and his business included OEM. Some zongzi in Guangzhou Restaurant came from his home. The first automatic filling line for wrapping rice dumplings in the industry was developed. Compared with pure manual wrapping rice dumplings, the efficiency increased by more than 30%.
As an old brand of Jiaxing Zongzi in Nanhu District, Zhenlaolao is mainly made of meat zongzi. The glutinous rice has been seasoned with soy sauce in advance, and its meat zongzi is moderately salty, the meat pieces are crispy and rotten, and the sauce flavor and meat flavor are integrated. In addition to salty dumplings, there are vacuum sweet dumplings such as candied dates and red bean paste dumplings, which are not much different from Wufangzhai in taste. Wufangzhai is soft in taste, but it is really old and sticky, and it is soft and palatable after steaming.
The shelf life of fresh zongzi is generally only 3-5 days, and Zhenzhen always uses patented fresh packaging to extend the shelf life to 15 days. There are two series of fresh rice dumplings, namely, Chuanrensuo fresh rice dumplings and ordinary small gold bags fresh rice dumplings. The former is meat dumplings with rich fillings, and the price of a single dumpling is slightly more expensive than that of vacuum rice dumplings. The latter is single 160g, with low price and higher cost performance.
3, the boss
The bosses are known as the "King of Huzhou Zongzi", which is the first choice of Huzhou Zongzi in Zhejiang Province and the oldest brand of Zongzi that can be tested so far. Backed by Zhejiang Qinglian Food, the most famous meat dumplings are made of black pork. The ace product, the classic black pork dumpling, stands out from many meat dumpling evaluations, with a large amount of meat, good taste and soft glutinous rice.
In the field of sweet rice dumplings, the lard sand-washing rice dumplings pioneered by the bosses are still popular, and the bean paste tastes dense and wrapped in glutinous rice, which is very harmonious. Its sweet dumplings cover the northern and southern tastes, including red bean paste dumplings and jujube dumplings, as well as crystal bubble dumplings with sago as the main ingredient. At present, it has introduced flavors such as red bean, peach oolong and durian cheese.
4. Daoxiang Private House
Daoxiang Private House was originally founded in Daoxiang Village, Suzhou in A.D. 1773. After more than two centuries of precipitation and development, it became a "pastry master". Daoxiang Private House is a high-end brand of rice dumplings owned by Daoxiang Village, and it is also one of the few rice dumplings brands exported abroad.
Dahuangmi red bean paste dumplings and candied jujube dumplings are quite distinctive, with Dahuangmi as the main material, without the aroma of glutinous rice, and the viscosity is relatively high. The popular egg yolk meat dumplings, fresh meat dumplings and red bean paste dumplings are all made of white glutinous rice, and the rice is full of fragrance, each 120g.
There are only vacuum zongzi in Daoxiang private house, and there are many changes in the matching of gift boxes, such as zongzi and salted eggs, mung bean cake, smoked duck, etc., and also a gift box with rice wine and zongzi jointly launched with Cool Guest Wine, and a gift box with coffee chocolate zongzi jointly launched with COSTA. The packaging is relatively exquisite, so giving gifts is a good choice.
5, the emperor in the emperor
Zhaoqing steamed zongzi is a traditional famous spot in South China, with the reputation of "the king of ten thousand zongzi". Huangzhonghuang is a representative brand of steamed rice dumplings, with an annual output value of more than 60 million yuan. It is also a leading enterprise in Guangdong rice dumplings industry.
Huangzhonghuang steamed dumplings are award-winning ones in the Dragon Boat Festival, each weighing about one catty, which is very suitable for a family to share. The leaves of Hiragi, which is unique to Zhaoqing, are fragrant and pleasant, flexible and antiseptic. The pork belly is marinated with Dinghushan spring water, secret gravy and spices. After 8- 12 hours of cooking, the fat pork belly turns into oil and melts into glutinous rice. Because of the mung bean, it is not greasy.
Guishui Zongzi is a traditional feature of Guangdong, also known as Huishui Zongzi. Huangzhong Huangshui Zongzi is golden and transparent, and the rice grains are not sticky or scattered, and the crispy mouth is not greasy. It can be eaten with white sugar or honey, and the other one is filled with Shenshui Dousha Zongzi, which has a unique flavor whether it is eaten hot or cold. Red bean paste and sago rice dumplings are excellent dessert points, and the taste is more refreshing after refrigeration, with a single 50g, so try it.
6, wrapped in incense emperor
Wrapped incense emperor is an old brand of steamed rice dumplings in Guangdong Province, which started in 1930. It is located in Dinghu Scenic Area with Huang Zhonghuang and has unique water and soil resources. Wrapped incense emperor won numerous awards, and it was the designated gift of "International Dragon Boat Race" in 201year, and won many awards in the National Zongzi Competition.
Traditional steamed rice dumplings are the same as Huangzhonghuang in the choice of ingredients, and the first-class glutinous rice, mung beans and fat and thin fresh pork belly are selected. Because of their large size, traditional aquatic plants are used to bind them more firmly, and it takes 8- 12 hours to cook with open fire. Steamed rice dumplings with black glutinous rice were also awarded the title of China famous dim sum, and the outside was covered with full black glutinous rice, which increased the chewiness.
The taste and taste of Guishui Zongzi are similar to that of Huang Zhong Huang, and the crisp mouth is not greasy, and the size is a little larger, only one 125g. Longshui red bean paste dumplings are not sweet, and sweet consumers may feel tasteless, which is more suitable for consumers with light taste.
7. Sanzhenzhai
Sanzhenzhai was founded in 1848, located in Wuzhen. It is the king of braised pork in the south of the Yangtze River and is named after the three treasures of "braised pork, sausage and ham". Its zongzi is made of solid materials and has a traditional and classic taste, which has a certain popularity in China. The cooked zongzi is crystal clear in color, full of elasticity and smoothness, and oily but not greasy.
Sanzhenzhai's zongzi tastes less, and they are all common fillings, such as fresh meat zongzi, egg yolk zongzi and chestnut zongzi. Fresh meat dumplings have a high pork content, which is a rare chunk. They are a combination of home-made pot-stewed techniques. The entrance is fragrant and sticky, and the meat is rich. The position of salted egg yolk in zongzi should not be underestimated. It is brown all over, oily but not hard, and moderately salty, and can blend with glutinous rice.
Jujube brown and bean paste dumplings are also the usual collocation of sweet dumplings, with high filling ratio and sweet taste, but they still retain the cereal taste of glutinous rice. Sweet zongzi are single 120g, and the price is 4 yuan, while salty zongzi are single 140g, which is very cost-effective. If a store buys fresh zongzi, the taste and taste will be better.
8. Likoufu (Guangzhou Restaurant)
Guangzhou restaurant started in 1935, and is known as "the first restaurant in Guangzhou". Now it has become a large-scale catering enterprise group with the most Guangzhou characteristics, and has won the title of "Top Ten Restaurants in China". Guangzhou's old brands Taotaoju and Likoufu are both its brands.
At present, the zongzi in Guangzhou restaurant is basically produced by the foundry. The Cantonese-style zongzi such as steamed zongzi and Guishui zongzi are produced by Zhaoqing Huafa Food Co., Ltd. and Zhaoqing Yidinghuang Food Co., Ltd. respectively. Yidinghuang's steamed zongzi won the first prize from the steamed zongzi industry association, and its strength was recognized by the industry.
The other salty and sweet zongzi are produced by a series of Jiaxing Zongzi factories, represented by Zhenzhen Laolao. The methods of making zongzi such as egg yolk zongzi, chestnut zongzi and sauce-flavored ribs zongzi are typical Jiaxing zongzi. The glutinous rice is seasoned with soy sauce in advance, and the sauce has a prominent flavor.
9, Zhiweiguan
Zhiweiguan is a restaurant founded by Mr. Sun Yizhai in 19 13. hangzhou dishes, which is basically famous, can be found here. Its zongzi products have expanded from two kinds of salty meat zongzi in the early days to more than a dozen fillings at present. The taste covers a wide range, except for several traditional meat dumplings, as well as Jiangsu and Zhejiang specialties such as braised pork dumplings with dried plum, Dongpo meat dumplings and Cantonese-style sausage dumplings.
Zhiweiguan meat dumplings are oily and clear. After the pork belly is secretly made, the honey is fresh and slippery, and it is matched with the tender and loose salted duck egg yolk, and the taste is salty. The taste can be comparable to that of the meat dumplings of Wufangzhai, but the scale and popularity are not as good as those of the first-line brands such as Wufangzhai.
Zhiweiguan also uses coarse grains such as grains, millet, barley, mung beans and lilies to produce a variety of sweet dumplings. Sweet-scented osmanthus lotus root was originally a famous dessert in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces. Zhiweiguan creatively introduced sweet-scented osmanthus lotus root dumplings, which are rich in sweet-scented osmanthus, slightly light in taste and sweet in taste, and softer and sticky in taste than other fillings.
10, Sanquan
Sanquan, founded in 1992, is the largest producer of quick-frozen food in China, ranking first in the domestic quick-frozen industry for many years, producing the first quick-frozen zongzi in China. Since 2004, it has been involved in the field of room-temperature food, and vacuum-packed zongzi is one of the representatives.
Sanquan quick-frozen zongzi is only available during the Dragon Boat Festival. The main supply is offline supermarkets, and there are few online purchase channels. The common ones are vacuum zongzi at room temperature. Relying on the online and offline distribution channels and the support of the cold chain system all over the country, sales of several classic zongzi are hot.
Salty dumplings are mainly meat dumplings, egg yolk meat dumplings and chestnut meat dumplings, with glutinous rice from Taihu Lake as the stuffing, and Hebei chestnut and fresh pig hind leg meat as the stuffing. Sweet dumplings are mainly made of golden silk candied dates and eight-treasure dumplings, especially the double-sand dumplings. The fillings are mixed with rich red bean paste and fragrant green bean paste, which are richer in layers. Regardless of the vegetarian diet, each one is 100g, which is relatively small and suitable for breakfast.