Soup dumplings are not the same as yuan-yuan (元宵).

The difference between soup dumplings and lanterns:?

1, the difference in geography: the north over the Lantern Festival are eating yuanxiao, while the south is eating soup dumplings.?

2, the difference between the practices: the practice of Lantern Festival, are the first to make the filling, cut into small pieces, and then glutinous rice together in a "sieve" one of the things like a child, so that the filling and glutinous rice constantly impact, will become a one by one Lantern Festival round. The practice of dumplings, just like dumplings, first adjust the glutinous rice, and then put the filling out separately, one by one package.

3, the taste is different. Soup dumplings have more water content than Lanterns, so the dumplings taste, very soft, very smooth, very glutinous.?

Specialty soup dumplings:

Suzhou Five Color Soup Dumplings

Located in Suzhou's Wu Men Rice Vermicelli Shop, the dumplings are made with glutinous and round-grained polished rice flour set in a package with a filling made of five preparations, including fresh meat, rose lard, bean paste, sesame seeds and osmanthus lard. The dumplings are both sweet and salty, and are a popular Jiangnan flavor. Created in the Republic of China!

Shandong jujube dumplings

First big red dates cooked core wipe mud, lard to remove the membrane with a knife, the two plus white sugar rubbed into the filling, and water-ground glutinous rice flour made into small dumplings, sesame seeds and white sugar into fine powder into fried noodles, will be boiled small dumplings in the fried noodles can be rolled in a circle to eat when the oil moist and soft. Created in the 20th century

Guangdong four styles of dumplings

First green beans, red beans, sugar melon, taro were boiled or steamed, peeled, respectively, add sugar, sesame, cooked lard and other condiments made of four sweet fillings, dumplings skin were wrapped into the four different fillings, marking. Put the four kinds of dumplings into the water with sugar and cook them. Each bowl contains one dumpling with different fillings. Characterized by soft, smooth and delicate, the four flavors are different. Built in the late Qing Dynasty.