Palm leaves can not be used to wrap dumplings. Palm leaves are small, not suitable for palm leaves.

The zongzi leaves are divided into a variety of kinds, in China and even around the world use different kinds, common reed leaves, Ruo leaves; and a wide variety of other zongzi leaves, such as: gui bamboo leaves, moon peach leaves, banana leaves, lotus leaves, zongba leaves, bamboo shoots shells and so on.

Reed leaves, the northern region with the most. Northern reed leaves leaves fresh, make the dumplings fragrant, people in the north can be locally sourced, inexpensive, the disadvantage is that the leaves are narrower, wrapped up the dumplings to be slightly more difficult.

Southern bamboo leaves leaves are wider, wrapped up to save trouble, more suitable for beginners to wrap the dumplings with.

Guangzhou people pack zongzi mostly use Ruo leaves, choose the surface smooth soft and tough better. Shantou people pack rice dumplings with bamboo leaves, rice dumplings have a bamboo leaf flavor, but to cook soft and then use. Shanghai and other places to use every year from Anhui Huangshan Ruo leaves, containing a special flavor, commonly known as "Huizhou Ruo".

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Worried about buying back to green zongzhuang leaves, experts teach you to identify the green zongzhuang leaves, identification of green zongzhuang leaves to:

A look: the original color zongzhuang color dark yellow, back to the green zongzhuang leaves were uniform lime green, and the surface of the bright;

The second cook, the color is dark green, and the surface of the green zongzhuang leaves, and the surface of the green zongzhuang leaves;

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Second cooking: original color zongzi leaves after boiling, will show light yellow, and back to the green zongzi leaves after heating, cooking water will show light green;

Third smell: by the original color zongzi leaves wrapped zongzi after cooking exudes zongzi leaves fragrance, back to the green zongzi after cooking but zongzi flavor is not strong, but instead of a faint sulfur flavor.

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