"Only food can be worthy of it." We travel to a strange city, not only to see its city scenery, but also to find the most distinctive food in this city. Eating goods has the most say in discovering the special food of a city. Sometimes they will run all over the alleys of the city for a snack, just to find the "taste" passed down by local people. Even if we are not foodies, we will go to a city to taste the local flavor, so as to better remember the "taste" of the city.

If we go to Tiantai, Zhejiang, we won't miss the most distinctive local food-jiaozi Tube. Tangyuan is one of the common meals of villagers in Tiantai, and it is also a must-try snack when they come to Tiantai. Just hearing this name, it is estimated that it is hard for everyone to imagine what kind of food this is. Why jiaozi, a cake and a tube? In fact, as long as the names are separated, it is clear at a glance, that is, like jiaozi, the stuffing is rich, and then it is wrapped in a cake, which is tubular. Is this very specific?

First of all, let's talk about the rich stuffing inside like jiaozi. Jiaozi cake is usually made of pork, pork liver, egg skin, tofu, day lily, fungus, vermicelli and shredded bamboo shoots. Of course, the vegetables here can change according to the changes of seasonal vegetables, but other parts will remain basically the same. Then, let's talk about cakes. In fact, this kind of cake is very elegant and thin, but it is not easy to break. Because the stuffing mentioned above should be included, although the cake is very thin, it must not be broken, otherwise the stuffing will fall out. The last tube is to wrap the stuffing in the tube with cake.

In fact, it is not difficult to make dumpling wrappers. After the stuffing and cake are made, the sliced meat, pork liver, egg skin, fish and tofu are put on the cake together with day lily, auricularia auricula, vermicelli, shredded bamboo shoots and vegetable stems in a certain order and rolled into a tube. Locals call it "five tigers catch sheep". China, Huang Cancan: Bake the wrapped tubular jiaozi pipe with oil until oil comes out on both sides. After high-temperature oil and gas fumigation, all kinds of delicious food in jiaozi tube are no longer loose and complete, and will not be scattered when eating. Not only that, the delicious flavors of meat and vegetables permeate each other, and the umami flavor blends with each other to form an absolutely special taste.

As we know, jiaozi tube is the most distinctive food unique to the rooftop. We also know that every household on the rooftop will pack jiaozi as a traditional holiday food during Tomb-Sweeping Day, July 30th, winter solstice and China New Year, just like northerners pack jiaozi for the New Year, which has become a must-eat snack for foreigners visiting the rooftop. But few people know the origin of jiaozi receiver. There is an interesting legend about its origin. According to legend, when Jigong, a living Buddha, became a monk at Tiantai National Temple in Zhejiang Province, he was very sorry to see that every vegetarian meal in the temple would be left over, so he thought of a good way to wrap the remaining vegetarian meal in a cake for the next meal. The rest of the monks tasted it and it tasted good. At that time, this new diet was very popular and spread in Tiantai.

Now we can taste dumpling wrappers in all restaurants in Taizhou, Zhejiang. However, more people will look for the dumpling skin in the old alley, because the dumpling skin here is the original flavor of the Tiantai dumpling skin. So when you go to the rooftop, will you look for dumpling wrappers in the old alley?