Small wontons, wonton noodles, old hemp copious hand, many people on the three names of the snacks can not tell the difference, in fact, originally they are a tree on the fruit of three, originally is the same kind of food, there is no need to distinguish. Only to be passed on to different regions, based on different types of local dietary structure to make the corresponding changes, so that the package filling, eating methods and even the name has changed, but in the end they were originally or the same thing.
Small wontons is the most primitive name, many areas in the northern region so far in the extension, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai around the so-called, this is a long history of ingredients, the ancients felt that this is a closed small dumplings, and there is no seven orifices, called the "chaotic", contained in the book according to the rules of China's creation of the word, announced that the written as "small wontons", at first small wontons = dumplings, only after the Tang Dynasty gradually distinguish small wontons and dumplings.
The essential difference between small wontons and dumplings in the northern region is: thin skin of wontons, thick skin of dumplings, less filling for wontons, more filling for dumplings, small wontons can be filled with meat, and dumplings are filled with a variety of fillings.
Northeasterners day often eat "foam small wontons", wonton skin is basically transparent color, especially thin, after boiling as if a small balloon floating on the surface of the frying, the soup is a large bone broth boiled big bone soup, will be added to shrimp skin, sea vegetables, etc., to enhance the flavor of the package filling is very little, less to eat the taste but can not see the type of food is the key to eat is a rhyme! A catty of dumpling filling wrapped hundreds of small wontons is not a problem, did not say who eat wontons can eat enough to eat wontons is not over to eat the filling, basically drinking soup to eat rolled out, in the eyes of northeasterners to eat the filling is dumplings.
Lao Ma copious hand is the name of the southwest region, why call Lao Ma copious hand? One theory is to describe the cooked fast, winter cooking old hemp copied hands, two hands to the sleeves of a copy, wait a little bit on the cooked. There is also a saying that the last step of the package when the two sides to the center and together, there is the meaning of clamping and together.
Sichuan's red oil copra is more well-known, the sauce and the northern white soup is not the same, will be added to a large number of oil and chili, and even have a dry fishing method of eating, filling in addition to raw pork, but also beef and mutton and other fillings, copra skin is thicker, and the dumpling skin is generally the same, to be able to better digest and absorb the mellow chili oil.
Wonton noodle itself is "small wontons" of the Cantonese harmony, small wontons to Guangdong production suddenly meticulous up, the traditional wonton filling is three parts fat and seven parts Soul raw pork, and the most popular trade in the most or a "high match": fresh shrimp + meat filling. Guangdong's wonton noodle is focusing on thin skin soup fresh, but with small wontons is not the same, wonton noodle is really eat filling, thin skin filling but also mellow, bite down full of happiness.
The soup of wonton noodles is more focused on, using the earth fish, river shrimp and pig bones to simmer, the earth fish is a kind of halibut, affordable, but delicious, used to simmer the soup base is excellent, roasted and fragrant earth fish steamed out of the soup to have the flavor of Guangdong wonton noodles.
Eating wonton noodles also need to be accompanied by noodles, that is also a feature of Guangdong, it is the famous boat congee, this side of the practice of the book is more focused on the kneading of the noodles do not use water, only with goose eggs and wheat flour, with bamboo poles repeatedly suppressed into the, also known as the "bamboo rising noodles", made out of fine noodles golden yellow temptation, four wonton noodles, a pair of noodles, these portions are called "wonton noodles," and then the noodles, the noodles, the noodles, the noodles, the noodles, the noodles, the noodles, the noodles, the noodles, the noodles, the noodles, the noodles, the noodles, the noodles. A pair of noodles, this kind of portion is called "fine hibiscus", a few mouthfuls swallowed, to relieve the hunger very much.