Chaozhou wife cake out of Guangzhou, famous, seems to contradict its name. In fact, as long as you understand its origin, it will not be strange.
Guangzhou Lianxiang teahouse is a century-old store, its dim sum is a household name in Guangzhou. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, one of the pastry chefs employed by Lianxiang Teahouse was from Chaozhou. Chaozhou is far away from Guangzhou, and it was not easy for the dim sum chef to go back to his hometown. One year, he went back to his hometown to visit his relatives, thinking that it was rare for him to go back from the metropolis, so he had to bring some things back with him. He is a pastry chef, the most expert in the pastry, he bought the famous pastry in Guangzhou, and brought it back to his hometown to enjoy the taste.
The pastry chef worked hard to bring the gift home, but his wife ate it and said: "Your Lianxiang Teahouse is a famous old store in Guangzhou, do not do so much as the pastry, not as good as my deep-fried winter melon corner! The dim sum chef was not happy to hear that, thinking that you are a village woman, what can you make delicious, and dare to underestimate the things of Guangzhou, so he said: "What can you do! Make your winter melon horns and taste them, and see if you can compare them with the dim sum of Guangzhou."
Seeing her husband's disbelief, the wife convinced him with practical actions. She will see a pot of winter melon boiled to thin, coupled with sugar and flour, boiled to half-dry and not wet when removed from the pot to do filling, made of winter melon angle, and then down to the frying pan of a deep-fried that is. Husband saw the fried winter melon square charred and oily, eat in the mouth of the skin crispy filling slippery, sweet and savory, can not help but say yes. At the end of the visit, the dim sum master will let his wife make a big bag of winter melon corner to bring back to Guangzhou, so that the masters of the Lianxianglou to taste.
Lianxiang teahouse masters rely on doing dim sum to eat, what kind of exquisite dim sum have not seen, took the Chaozhou master of the winter melon angle at first did not take it seriously, just out of courtesy to taste. Who knows that they ate them all can not help but even said delicious. The boss heard also over to taste a, thought it was where the famous point, busy asking what place is produced, called what name. Chaozhou master originally just wanted to let everyone taste his wife's handiwork, and did not take it as a big deal. See the boss asked, a moment can not answer, had to go back to his hometown to visit his family, his wife gambling to do the winter melon corner of the matter said again. Listen to this, one of the masters proposed: "Since there is no name, simply called Chaozhou wife cake it!"
The owner of Lianxianglou is a businessman, see this Teochew wife cake is so delicious, easy to make, with simple ingredients, why not add a kind of dim sum in this store? The company's business is not bad," he said. Make up your mind, he made Chaozhou wife cake in Lotus House. And let the confectionery master to improve, with materials processed to fine point, the shape into a round, coated with a layer of duck egg white on the surface, people baked into the oven. The boss also smacked the original name is too vulgar, renamed "winter velvet pastry". However, the people prefer although vulgar, but very interesting Chaozhou wife cake.