Lai Tangyuan is soup dumplings, which are also known as Yuanxiao.

Yuanxiao is also called "Tangyuan" and "Yuanzi".

One: the evolution of the name dumplings (Lantern):

Lanterns have a long history in China.

Song Dynasty, the folk that is popular a Lantern Festival to eat the novelty of food. This food, the earliest called "floating Yuanzi" later called "Lantern", the businessman also beautifully called "Yuanbao".

Yuanxiao that "dumplings" to sugar, rose, sesame, bean paste, yellow cinnamon, walnuts, nuts, jujube paste, etc. for the filling, wrapped in glutinous rice flour into a round, meat can be vegetarian, different flavors. It can be boiled in soup, deep-fried or steamed, and has the meaning of reunion. Shaanxi dumplings are not packaged, but in the glutinous rice flour "roll" into, or cook Division or deep-fried, hot fire, reunion.

Two: What is Lai Tangyuan:

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Lai Tangyuan has a history of 100 years.

The owner, Lai Yuanxin, has been cooking and selling soup dumplings along the streets of Chengdu since 1894. His dumplings, which do not rot the skin, reveal the filling, or muddy the soup, and do not stick to the chopsticks, teeth, or mouth when eaten, are moist, sweet, smooth, and sticky, making them the most famous snack in Chengdu, and so they are named Lai Tangyuan (赖汤圆), after the owner of the shop.

Beginning with the famous chicken oil dumplings, the varieties kept increasing, with more than ten kinds of fillings such as black sesame, sesame paste, ice orange, rose, washed sand, eight treasures, cherries, etc., whose shapes are round, pointed, oval, pillow-shaped, and the forms and flavors are different within a bowl. The store also sugar, sesame sauce saucer for guests to eat dumplings dipped in food, a moment of admiration for the diners came in an endless stream, Lai dumplings into the Chengdu dumplings of the gold standard.

The Lai dumplings nowadays maintain the quality of the old famous snacks, with smooth white color, glutinous skin, sweet aroma, heavy oil and rich nutrition.

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