Dongping, an ancient town in northern Fujian, is located in the northwest of Zhenghe County, at the foot of Jinfeng Mountain in the Wuyi Mountains.

The ancient town was built in the Eastern Jin Dynasty and has a history of more than 1,800 years.

The beautiful Jinfeng landscape silently nurtures the people of Dongping.

Here there are outstanding people, beautiful mountains and clear waters, and simple folk customs.

The snacks in the thousand-year-old ancient town are unique. The fragrant wontons, smooth and delicious pancakes, especially the refreshing and sweet dumplings are the most distinctive snacks in the ancient town of Dongping.

No one can tell which dynasty the production history of Dongping Xiaolu originated from, but it must be at least a hundred years old!

The production process of small dumplings is very particular.

Making the stuffing is the key. Chop the meat into a meat sauce, mix it with alfalfa powder and a small amount of sugar in a large wooden basin, and marinate until ready to use.

The second step is to beat the local eggs in a vegetable basin, add an appropriate amount of well water and alkali, and then mix well with chopsticks. Wait until the pot is about 70% hot, moisten the pot with meat oil, and pour the mixed eggs into the iron pot.

Go back and forth to form a round egg with a very even and thin skin. After cooking, spread the egg skin flat on the back of the round grate. In the third step, take a semi-circular bamboo tube about 30 cm long, sprinkle an appropriate amount of starch water on it, and

The egg skin is attached to the bamboo tube, the meat filling is put into the bamboo tube, the egg skin is wrapped, and the small dumpling is formed.

Finally, put the wrapped dumplings into a wooden steamer and steam them over high heat for an hour.

After being released from the cage, the little glutinous rice dumplings are bright in color and attractive in aroma.

Small dumplings are an indispensable first dish when people in Dongping entertain guests and drink. They are indispensable during festivals, weddings and funerals.

In autumn and winter, no matter which family has guests at the banquet, everyone sits around a round table, setting out melon seeds and peanuts and talking about the good harvest year.

A shout: "The little dumplings are here!" The bright orange dumplings were placed on the round table, and a cheerful atmosphere suddenly filled the table.

I remember when I was young, adults would always bring back a small piece of cake when they went to drink.

The villagers are hospitable. After drinking, they always take some small dumplings back to the guests going home. This custom is gone now, but the taste of the small dumplings still remains in the memory.

Dongping dumplings have a smooth, sweet and fragrant taste, high nutritional value, and are said to have beauty effects. Visitors from all over the world love to eat them.

The small dumplings cut into small pieces are placed on the porcelain plate in the shape of plum blossoms. They are orange in color and look very good.

If more alfalfa powder is put into the filling, the dumplings will be chewier and less greasy.

However, the simple Dongping people call this practice "fake dumplings!" Nowadays, everyone thinks that these "fake" dumplings are more delicious than the original "too real" ones, at least not as greasy.

It seems that Xiaoyou doesn’t need to crack down on counterfeiting.

In recent years, Dongping people have made many economic articles in Xiaoyou.

As a special snack, Dongping people recommend Xiaozhou to various places.

Dongping dumplings also appeared at banquets in Fuzhou and Nanping.

Lao Fan, who specializes in specialty snacks in the market, is affectionately called "Bixiang" by Dongping people. The small dumplings he made on-site at the "Chinese Food and Snack Festival and the First Northern Fujian Snack Exhibition" held last year won the "Gourmet Food Award"

"Award"! But the traditional thinking of Dongping people that "the aroma of wine is not afraid of deep alleys" still exists. If we can make the article bigger like Shaxian snacks, make more varieties of small dumplings, improve the preparation of raw materials, and improve health

As a green food with more outstanding functions, I am afraid that today’s Dongping dumplings are not just Dongping dumplings.